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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 172 145
Rank change year-on-year -82 -27 -2
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 128 312 630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 2.01% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.94% 7.68% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 83 121 516
10th Percentile £32,550 £42,123 £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 £67,500 £80,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £87,250 £90,000 £84,528
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,547
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.61% -11.47%

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 2,156 4,061 6,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 26.13% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,411 5,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £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 £93,750 £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 17 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 (3.91%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.91%) CMS
2 3 (2.34%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (1.56%) Mendix
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Drupal
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.88%) AWS
2 36 (28.13%) Azure
3 19 (14.84%) Pulumi
4 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.16%) GitHub
7 10 (7.81%) GCP
8 7 (5.47%) dbt
8 7 (5.47%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.69%) Boomi
9 6 (4.69%) SaaS
9 6 (4.69%) Serverless
10 5 (3.91%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.91%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.91%) Workato
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.34%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.34%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.84%) Broadband
2 4 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.34%) DNS
4 2 (1.56%) DHCP
4 2 (1.56%) VPN
4 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.78%) Internet
5 1 (0.78%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.22%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (22.66%) RDBMS
3 26 (20.31%) NoSQL
4 24 (18.75%) MySQL
5 18 (14.06%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.47%) Metadata
7 6 (4.69%) Power BI
8 5 (3.91%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.13%) FileMaker
10 3 (2.34%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.78%) Apache Arrow
12 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
2 19 (14.84%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.47%) JIRA
4 5 (3.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.13%) Selenium
6 3 (2.34%) JUnit
7 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.56%) GitLab
7 2 (1.56%) Postman
7 2 (1.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.78%) Mockito
8 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (15.63%) Finance
4 19 (14.84%) Law
5 10 (7.81%) Legal
6 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.91%) Marketing
7 5 (3.91%) Retail
8 3 (2.34%) Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Electronics
9 2 (1.56%) Front Office
9 2 (1.56%) German Language
9 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Advertising
10 1 (0.78%) Back Office
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Local Government
10 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (35.16%) Developer
2 24 (18.75%) Lead
3 16 (12.50%) Analyst
3 16 (12.50%) Senior
4 11 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (8.59%) Software Engineer
5 10 (7.81%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.03%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Architect
7 8 (6.25%) Team Leader
7 8 (6.25%) Web Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.47%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.69%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.69%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.69%) Junior
9 6 (4.69%) Tester
10 5 (3.91%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) CSS
2 25 (19.53%) HTML
3 23 (17.97%) React
4 22 (17.19%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (15.63%) .NET
6 19 (14.84%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (14.06%) REST
8 17 (13.28%) Node.js
9 16 (12.50%) Vue
10 15 (11.72%) AngularJS
11 12 (9.38%) JSON
12 11 (8.59%) RESTful
12 11 (8.59%) SOAP
12 11 (8.59%) Web Services
13 10 (7.81%) .NET Core
14 9 (7.03%) Laravel
14 9 (7.03%) XML
15 7 (5.47%) Spring
15 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
16 6 (4.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.47%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.13%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.34%) Blog
7 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.56%) CCTV
8 2 (1.56%) CMDB
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.56%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.78%) Linux
2 24 (18.75%) Unix
3 7 (5.47%) Windows
4 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.47%) Agile
2 48 (37.50%) DevOps
3 44 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 31 (24.22%) Mentoring
6 30 (23.44%) CI/CD
7 26 (20.31%) Performance Optimisation
8 24 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (17.97%) High Availability
10 22 (17.19%) Roadmaps
11 21 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (15.63%) Cost Optimisation
12 20 (15.63%) Task Automation
13 19 (14.84%) Budget Control
13 19 (14.84%) GitOps
13 19 (14.84%) Product Management
13 19 (14.84%) Resource Management
13 19 (14.84%) Scrum
13 19 (14.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.44%) JavaScript
2 58 (45.31%) SQL
3 54 (42.19%) Python
4 39 (30.47%) Java
5 24 (18.75%) C#
6 23 (17.97%) Go
7 19 (14.84%) Bash
8 16 (12.50%) PHP
9 10 (7.81%) TypeScript
10 8 (6.25%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.13%) Delphi
13 2 (1.56%) Pascal
13 2 (1.56%) Ruby
13 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.78%) Bicep
14 1 (0.78%) Dart
14 1 (0.78%) Groovy
14 1 (0.78%) Rust
14 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 15 (11.72%) Degree
3 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.47%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.47%) GDPR
4 3 (2.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (32.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (22.66%) Terraform
3 21 (16.41%) Ansible
3 21 (16.41%) Argo
4 20 (15.63%) Prometheus
5 19 (14.84%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.34%) Grafana
7 2 (1.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (16.41%) Google
2 14 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.59%) Oracle
4 7 (5.47%) SAP
5 6 (4.69%) Informatica
5 6 (4.69%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.69%) Talend
6 5 (3.91%) Dell
6 5 (3.91%) Epicor
6 5 (3.91%) IBM
6 5 (3.91%) IFS
6 5 (3.91%) Infor
6 5 (3.91%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.91%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.91%) Software AG
6 5 (3.91%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.91%) Workday
7 2 (1.56%) Databricks
7 2 (1.56%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.56%) Red Hat