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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 298 172
Rank change year-on-year +32 -126 -18
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 215 131 446
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.79% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.76% 4.93% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 155 109 191
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £74,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.38%

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 3,182 2,657 4,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.81% 16.05% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 1,831 3,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £139,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 29 September 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 4 (1.86%) Apache
1 4 (1.86%) IIS
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (0.93%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.47%) Finacle
2 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.88%) AWS
2 56 (26.05%) Azure
3 34 (15.81%) GitHub
4 31 (14.42%) Power Platform
5 23 (10.70%) Serverless
6 21 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.98%) GCP
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.65%) SaaS
11 9 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (3.26%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.26%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (33.49%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (25.12%) SQL Server
3 38 (17.67%) MySQL
4 29 (13.49%) Power BI
5 20 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.12%) RDBMS
8 10 (4.65%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.19%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.26%) Tableau
11 6 (2.79%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.33%) Redis
12 5 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.86%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.86%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.86%) Metadata
13 4 (1.86%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 63 (29.30%) Git
2 9 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.72%) GitLab
3 8 (3.72%) JIRA
4 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Bower
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) MSTest
5 2 (0.93%) NUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.47%) CMake
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 74 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (17.67%) Finance
4 23 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 19 (8.84%) Law
7 15 (6.98%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.12%) Marketing
9 9 (4.19%) Retail
10 7 (3.26%) Banking
11 6 (2.79%) Social Housing
12 5 (2.33%) Health Technology
12 5 (2.33%) Legal
13 4 (1.86%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.40%) Back Office
14 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.93%) Aviation
15 2 (0.93%) Front Office
15 2 (0.93%) Games
Job Titles
1 95 (44.19%) Developer
2 54 (25.12%) Senior
3 29 (13.49%) Senior Developer
4 28 (13.02%) Software Engineer
5 26 (12.09%) Lead
6 25 (11.63%) Analyst
7 23 (10.70%) Data Engineer
8 17 (7.91%) Software Developer
9 14 (6.51%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.05%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.58%) .NET Developer
12 10 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.65%) Senior C# Developer
12 10 (4.65%) Systems Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Consultant
13 8 (3.72%) SQL Developer
14 6 (2.79%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.79%) Technical Leader
14 6 (2.79%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.72%) React
2 49 (22.79%) CSS
3 45 (20.93%) HTML
4 41 (19.07%) .NET
4 41 (19.07%) REST
5 26 (12.09%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.09%) Node.js
6 22 (10.23%) RESTful
7 21 (9.77%) Spring
8 20 (9.30%) .NET Core
8 20 (9.30%) .NET Framework
8 20 (9.30%) Entity Framework
9 17 (7.91%) Vue
10 16 (7.44%) jQuery
11 14 (6.51%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.51%) Terraform
11 14 (6.51%) Web Services
12 12 (5.58%) Kafka
12 12 (5.58%) PySpark
13 11 (5.12%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.26%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.33%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.86%) PMI
8 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.40%) CMDB
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.40%) NHS
9 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Linux
1 8 (3.72%) Windows
2 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.93%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.40%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.28%) Software Engineering
3 73 (33.95%) Agile
4 55 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (23.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (20.93%) Data Modelling
8 43 (20.00%) Analytics
9 42 (19.53%) AI
10 41 (19.07%) DevOps
11 37 (17.21%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (16.74%) Microservices
13 29 (13.49%) Code Quality
13 29 (13.49%) Collaborative Working
13 29 (13.49%) Decision-Making
14 28 (13.02%) Clean Code
14 28 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.56%) Mentoring
15 27 (12.56%) Scrum
16 26 (12.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 117 (54.42%) SQL
2 63 (29.30%) JavaScript
3 51 (23.72%) Python
4 40 (18.60%) C#
5 39 (18.14%) Java
6 32 (14.88%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.65%) PHP
8 5 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.33%) R
8 5 (2.33%) VBA
9 3 (1.40%) Clojure
9 3 (1.40%) Haskell
9 3 (1.40%) Lisp
9 3 (1.40%) OCaml
9 3 (1.40%) Rust
10 2 (0.93%) Bash
10 2 (0.93%) Dart
10 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (17.67%) Degree
2 24 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.72%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.88%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.63%) QA
3 21 (9.77%) GDPR
4 7 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.93%) WCAG
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 54 (25.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.79%) Ansible
2 6 (2.79%) Grafana
3 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.30%) Oracle
3 15 (6.98%) Databricks
4 5 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.86%) Google
5 4 (1.86%) IBM
5 4 (1.86%) Informatica
5 4 (1.86%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.86%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.40%) Sage
6 3 (1.40%) SAP
7 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.93%) Telerik
8 1 (0.47%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.47%) FIS
8 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Solace
8 1 (0.47%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.47%) TippingPoint