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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 250 179
Rank change year-on-year +3 -71 -21
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 150 202 592
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.33% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.20% 5.87% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 100 151 461
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,749 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,625 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 2,420 3,442 7,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.96% 22.73% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 2,318 6,225
10th Percentile £38,300 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 18 May 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 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.00%) CMS
4 2 (1.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Drupal
5 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.00%) AWS
2 38 (25.33%) Azure
3 18 (12.00%) Pulumi
4 14 (9.33%) GCP
5 13 (8.67%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.33%) GitHub
8 7 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.00%) Serverless
10 5 (3.33%) dbt
10 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.00%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.67%) Broadband
2 5 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.67%) DHCP
3 4 (2.67%) DNS
3 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.00%) RDBMS
3 26 (17.33%) NoSQL
4 22 (14.67%) SQL Server
5 20 (13.33%) MySQL
6 14 (9.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (8.67%) MongoDB
7 13 (8.67%) Power BI
8 12 (8.00%) Oracle Database
9 8 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.67%) Metadata
11 5 (3.33%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.33%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.00%) FileMaker
13 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.33%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (23.33%) Git
2 18 (12.00%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.67%) GitLab
4 3 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.33%) MSTest
5 2 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) JUnit
6 1 (0.67%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Finance
2 23 (15.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Retail
5 7 (4.67%) Law
6 5 (3.33%) Banking
6 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.67%) Front Office
7 4 (2.67%) Social Housing
8 3 (2.00%) Aviation
8 3 (2.00%) Back Office
8 3 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.00%) Legal
8 3 (2.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (30.67%) Developer
2 37 (24.67%) Data Engineer
3 28 (18.67%) Lead
4 25 (16.67%) Senior
5 19 (12.67%) Analyst
6 15 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Systems Developer
8 8 (5.33%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.33%) Applications Support
9 7 (4.67%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.00%) Architect
10 6 (4.00%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.00%) Senior Applications Developer
10 6 (4.00%) Senior Applications Support
11 5 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.67%) CSS
2 21 (14.00%) HTML
3 20 (13.33%) REST
4 19 (12.67%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 18 (12.00%) React
6 14 (9.33%) .NET
7 12 (8.00%) Node.js
8 11 (7.33%) Kafka
9 10 (6.67%) PySpark
10 7 (4.67%) FastAPI
11 6 (4.00%) Classic ASP
11 6 (4.00%) HTML5
11 6 (4.00%) jQuery
12 5 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.33%) Django
12 5 (3.33%) Laravel
12 5 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
12 5 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.00%) CUDA
3 6 (4.00%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.67%) CCTV
5 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.00%) Blog
6 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.33%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.67%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.00%) Linux
2 18 (12.00%) Unix
3 7 (4.67%) Windows
4 4 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.67%) Agile
2 41 (27.33%) DevOps
3 40 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 40 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 38 (25.33%) Analytics
5 34 (22.67%) Containerisation
6 32 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (21.33%) ETL
6 32 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (18.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 26 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (16.67%) Data Architecture
10 25 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 25 (16.67%) GitOps
10 25 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (15.33%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (14.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.67%) SQL
2 53 (35.33%) Python
3 49 (32.67%) JavaScript
4 31 (20.67%) Java
5 18 (12.00%) Bash
5 18 (12.00%) Go
6 13 (8.67%) C#
7 12 (8.00%) PHP
8 10 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.67%) Delphi
10 4 (2.67%) Pascal
10 4 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.33%) Bicep
11 2 (1.33%) Scala
11 2 (1.33%) VBA
12 1 (0.67%) Dart
12 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) AWS Certification
1 19 (12.67%) Degree
2 12 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.67%) Data Quality
2 18 (12.00%) GDPR
3 16 (10.67%) QA
4 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.33%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.67%) HL7
System Software
1 45 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.67%) Terraform
3 21 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.33%) Ansible
5 18 (12.00%) Argo
5 18 (12.00%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.67%) SCCM
7 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.00%) Oracle
3 20 (13.33%) Google
4 11 (7.33%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.67%) Palantir
5 1 (0.67%) Perforce
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.67%) SAP
5 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.67%) Solace