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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 189 146
Rank change year-on-year -68 -43 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 131 271 618
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.76% 2.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.11% 6.74% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 86 125 503
10th Percentile £31,875 £42,274 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,188 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,875 £91,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -7.14%

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 2,143 4,019 6,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.07% 26.15% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,548 2,420 5,782
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 21 February 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 (3.82%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.82%) CMS
2 3 (2.29%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) Mendix
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.56%) AWS
2 36 (27.48%) Azure
3 19 (14.50%) Pulumi
4 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.69%) GitHub
7 10 (7.63%) GCP
8 7 (5.34%) dbt
8 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.58%) Boomi
9 6 (4.58%) SaaS
9 6 (4.58%) Serverless
10 5 (3.82%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.82%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.82%) Workato
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.29%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.29%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.50%) Broadband
2 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.05%) DNS
4 3 (2.29%) DHCP
4 3 (2.29%) VPN
4 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.76%) Firewall
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.95%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (22.90%) RDBMS
3 27 (20.61%) NoSQL
4 25 (19.08%) MySQL
5 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.58%) Metadata
6 6 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.58%) Power BI
7 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.05%) FileMaker
7 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.29%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
10 1 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Git
2 19 (14.50%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.05%) Selenium
6 3 (2.29%) JUnit
7 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.53%) GitLab
7 2 (1.53%) Postman
7 2 (1.53%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (14.50%) Law
4 18 (13.74%) Finance
5 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.63%) Legal
6 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.82%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Marketing
9 3 (2.29%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Front Office
10 2 (1.53%) German Language
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
11 1 (0.76%) Electronics
11 1 (0.76%) French Language
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Developer
2 25 (19.08%) Lead
3 18 (13.74%) Analyst
4 16 (12.21%) Senior
5 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Architect
7 9 (6.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Team Leader
8 8 (6.11%) Web Developer
9 7 (5.34%) IT Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.58%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Junior
10 6 (4.58%) Tester
11 5 (3.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.61%) CSS
2 26 (19.85%) HTML
3 22 (16.79%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (16.79%) React
4 21 (16.03%) .NET
5 19 (14.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 18 (13.74%) REST
7 16 (12.21%) Node.js
7 16 (12.21%) Vue
8 15 (11.45%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.40%) JSON
9 11 (8.40%) SOAP
9 11 (8.40%) Web Services
10 10 (7.63%) .NET Core
10 10 (7.63%) RESTful
11 9 (6.87%) Laravel
12 8 (6.11%) XML
13 7 (5.34%) Spring
13 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
14 6 (4.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.11%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.29%) Blog
7 3 (2.29%) CCTV
7 3 (2.29%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.29%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.53%) CMDB
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.19%) Linux
2 24 (18.32%) Unix
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.44%) Agile
2 48 (36.64%) DevOps
3 47 (35.88%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (28.24%) Containerisation
5 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
5 30 (22.90%) Mentoring
6 25 (19.08%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (18.32%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (16.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (16.79%) High Availability
9 21 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (16.03%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.27%) Cost Optimisation
10 20 (15.27%) Scrum
10 20 (15.27%) Task Automation
11 19 (14.50%) Budget Control
11 19 (14.50%) GitOps
11 19 (14.50%) Product Management
11 19 (14.50%) Resource Management
12 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.09%) JavaScript
2 59 (45.04%) SQL
3 54 (41.22%) Python
4 40 (30.53%) Java
5 25 (19.08%) C#
6 22 (16.79%) Go
7 19 (14.50%) Bash
8 17 (12.98%) PHP
9 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
10 8 (6.11%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.82%) Delphi
11 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.29%) Pascal
13 2 (1.53%) Ruby
13 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.76%) Dart
14 1 (0.76%) Groovy
14 1 (0.76%) R
14 1 (0.76%) Rust
14 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (15.27%) AWS Certification
2 16 (12.21%) Degree
3 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.40%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.34%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.34%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (32.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (27.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (22.14%) Terraform
3 21 (16.03%) Ansible
3 21 (16.03%) Argo
4 20 (15.27%) Prometheus
5 19 (14.50%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.29%) Grafana
7 2 (1.53%) SCCM
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) Google
2 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.40%) Oracle
4 6 (4.58%) Informatica
4 6 (4.58%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.58%) SAP
4 6 (4.58%) Talend
5 5 (3.82%) Dell
5 5 (3.82%) Epicor
5 5 (3.82%) IBM
5 5 (3.82%) IFS
5 5 (3.82%) Infor
5 5 (3.82%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.82%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.82%) Software AG
5 5 (3.82%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.82%) Workday
6 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 2 (1.53%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat