Hybrid/Remote Relational Database Job Trends

Relational Database
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 200 171
Rank change year-on-year -58 -29 -13
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 141 209 638
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.58% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.09% 6.25% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 98 155 480
10th Percentile £36,025 £41,599 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,069 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +11.28% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,500 £72,375
90th Percentile £79,750 £86,668 £83,759
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -11.54%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,316 3,344 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.20% 25.35% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 2,431 6,247
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.98%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Relational Database job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Relational Database
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Relational Database salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.55%) Anypoint
3 4 (2.84%) CMS
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.13%) Apache
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.42%) Confluence
5 2 (1.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.71%) Drupal
6 1 (0.71%) Mendix
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 58 (41.13%) AWS
2 42 (29.79%) Azure
3 19 (13.48%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.06%) GCP
5 14 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.80%) GitHub
8 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.96%) dbt
10 5 (3.55%) Boomi
10 5 (3.55%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.55%) Workato
11 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.84%) SaaS
12 3 (2.13%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.13%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.48%) Broadband
2 5 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.84%) DHCP
3 4 (2.84%) DNS
3 4 (2.84%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.84%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) Firewall
4 1 (0.71%) LAN
4 1 (0.71%) Network Security
4 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.82%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (21.99%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.15%) NoSQL
4 21 (14.89%) SQL Server
5 16 (11.35%) MySQL
6 11 (7.80%) Oracle Database
7 9 (6.38%) Power BI
8 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (4.96%) Metadata
10 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.55%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.13%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.42%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.71%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (18.44%) Git
2 19 (13.48%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.26%) Selenium
4 5 (3.55%) JIRA
5 4 (2.84%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.42%) GitLab
6 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.42%) JUnit
6 2 (1.42%) MSTest
6 2 (1.42%) Postman
6 2 (1.42%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.31%) Finance
2 23 (16.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Law
5 6 (4.26%) Legal
5 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Banking
6 5 (3.55%) Retail
7 4 (2.84%) Front Office
8 3 (2.13%) Aviation
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
9 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) Data Engineer
2 34 (24.11%) Developer
3 28 (19.86%) Lead
4 18 (12.77%) Senior
5 12 (8.51%) Analyst
6 11 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Team Leader
10 7 (4.96%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.96%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Junior
11 6 (4.26%) Web Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.60%) REST
2 21 (14.89%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (13.48%) CSS
3 19 (13.48%) HTML
3 19 (13.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (12.77%) React
5 16 (11.35%) .NET
6 12 (8.51%) Node.js
7 10 (7.09%) Vue
8 9 (6.38%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.38%) Kafka
8 9 (6.38%) PySpark
8 9 (6.38%) SOAP
9 8 (5.67%) Django
9 8 (5.67%) JSON
9 8 (5.67%) RESTful
10 7 (4.96%) FastAPI
10 7 (4.96%) Laravel
10 7 (4.96%) Web Services
11 6 (4.26%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.96%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.26%) CUDA
4 6 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.55%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.84%) CCTV
6 4 (2.84%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.13%) Blog
7 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.13%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.42%) Replication
9 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.40%) Linux
2 24 (17.02%) Unix
3 7 (4.96%) Windows
4 4 (2.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.30%) Agile
2 41 (29.08%) DevOps
2 41 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (26.95%) Containerisation
4 37 (26.24%) Data Modelling
5 36 (25.53%) Analytics
6 32 (22.70%) CI/CD
7 31 (21.99%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (20.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 28 (19.86%) ETL
10 27 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (18.44%) Mentoring
12 23 (16.31%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (16.31%) Data Architecture
12 23 (16.31%) Data Engineering
13 22 (15.60%) Cost Optimisation
14 20 (14.18%) High Availability
14 20 (14.18%) Roadmaps
14 20 (14.18%) Task Automation
15 19 (13.48%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.23%) SQL
2 64 (45.39%) Python
3 54 (38.30%) JavaScript
4 41 (29.08%) Java
5 21 (14.89%) Go
6 20 (14.18%) C#
7 19 (13.48%) Bash
8 16 (11.35%) PHP
9 7 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.96%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.26%) Delphi
11 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.84%) Pascal
12 4 (2.84%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.42%) Bicep
13 2 (1.42%) Ruby
13 2 (1.42%) Scala
14 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.71%) R
14 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) AWS Certification
1 20 (14.18%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.18%) GDPR
3 10 (7.09%) QA
4 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.42%) HL7
4 2 (1.42%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (30.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (29.08%) Kubernetes
2 35 (24.82%) Terraform
3 22 (15.60%) Prometheus
4 21 (14.89%) Argo
5 19 (13.48%) Ansible
5 19 (13.48%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.71%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.02%) Oracle
3 22 (15.60%) Google
4 10 (7.09%) Databricks
5 6 (4.26%) SAP
6 5 (3.55%) Dell
6 5 (3.55%) Epicor
6 5 (3.55%) IBM
6 5 (3.55%) IFS
6 5 (3.55%) Infor
6 5 (3.55%) Informatica
6 5 (3.55%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.55%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.55%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.55%) Software AG
6 5 (3.55%) Talend
6 5 (3.55%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.55%) Workday
7 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce