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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 250 176
Rank change year-on-year -6 -74 -22
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 161 196 582
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.35% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.45% 6.08% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 110 147 456
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,050 £89,250 £88,125
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 2,497 3,223 7,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.10% 22.20% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 2,125 6,234
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,050 £100,000
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 27 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 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) CMS
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) Drupal
5 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.62%) JBoss
5 1 (0.62%) Moodle
5 1 (0.62%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.65%) AWS
2 39 (24.22%) Azure
3 18 (11.18%) Pulumi
4 17 (10.56%) GCP
4 17 (10.56%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.59%) GitHub
6 8 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.97%) Serverless
7 7 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.73%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.11%) dbt
10 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.86%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.53%) Broadband
2 5 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.48%) DHCP
3 4 (2.48%) DNS
3 4 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) Firewall
4 1 (0.62%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
4 1 (0.62%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.22%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 28 (17.39%) RDBMS
3 26 (16.15%) SQL Server
4 20 (12.42%) MySQL
5 17 (10.56%) Power BI
6 16 (9.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (8.70%) MongoDB
8 12 (7.45%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.73%) Metadata
11 5 (3.11%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.11%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.24%) FileMaker
14 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (23.60%) Git
2 18 (11.18%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.86%) JIRA
5 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.24%) MSTest
5 2 (1.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.62%) CMake
6 1 (0.62%) JUnit
6 1 (0.62%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.62%) Valgrind
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.15%) Finance
3 25 (15.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.21%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) Law
7 6 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.11%) Banking
8 5 (3.11%) Social Housing
9 4 (2.48%) Front Office
9 4 (2.48%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.48%) Legal
9 4 (2.48%) Marketing
9 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.86%) Aviation
10 3 (1.86%) Back Office
11 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.62%) French Language
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (31.68%) Developer
2 37 (22.98%) Data Engineer
3 27 (16.77%) Lead
4 26 (16.15%) Senior
5 21 (13.04%) Analyst
6 15 (9.32%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.83%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Systems Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Applications Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.35%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.73%) Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Applications Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Applications Support
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.53%) CSS
2 23 (14.29%) HTML
3 21 (13.04%) REST
4 19 (11.80%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (11.80%) React
5 18 (11.18%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (9.32%) Node.js
7 13 (8.07%) .NET
7 13 (8.07%) Kafka
8 10 (6.21%) jQuery
8 10 (6.21%) PySpark
9 9 (5.59%) FastAPI
10 8 (4.97%) HTML5
10 8 (4.97%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (3.73%) Classic ASP
11 6 (3.73%) Flask
11 6 (3.73%) Vue
12 5 (3.11%) Django
12 5 (3.11%) SQLAlchemy
12 5 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.73%) CUDA
3 6 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.73%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.48%) CCTV
5 4 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.86%) Blog
6 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.24%) Replication
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.25%) Linux
2 18 (11.18%) Unix
3 9 (5.59%) Windows
4 4 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.95%) CI/CD
2 43 (26.71%) Agile
3 42 (26.09%) Data Modelling
4 41 (25.47%) Analytics
5 40 (24.84%) DevOps
6 37 (22.98%) Containerisation
7 36 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (20.50%) ETL
9 32 (19.88%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (18.63%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (18.01%) Software Engineering
13 27 (16.77%) Data Engineering
14 26 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (15.53%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (15.53%) Data Architecture
15 25 (15.53%) GitOps
16 24 (14.91%) Mentoring
17 22 (13.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (44.10%) SQL
2 57 (35.40%) Python
3 53 (32.92%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.50%) Java
5 19 (11.80%) Bash
5 19 (11.80%) Go
6 14 (8.70%) C#
7 13 (8.07%) PHP
7 13 (8.07%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.11%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.48%) Delphi
10 4 (2.48%) Pascal
11 3 (1.86%) R
12 2 (1.24%) Bicep
12 2 (1.24%) Scala
12 2 (1.24%) VBA
13 1 (0.62%) ABAP
13 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.42%) Degree
2 18 (11.18%) AWS Certification
3 13 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (13.66%) GDPR
3 16 (9.94%) QA
4 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.24%) WCAG
6 1 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.62%) HL7
6 1 (0.62%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (24.84%) Kubernetes
2 35 (21.74%) Terraform
3 21 (13.04%) Ansible
3 21 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 18 (11.18%) Argo
4 18 (11.18%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.86%) Grafana
6 1 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.66%) Google
2 22 (13.66%) Oracle
3 11 (6.83%) Databricks
4 1 (0.62%) Foundry
4 1 (0.62%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.62%) Palantir
4 1 (0.62%) Perforce
4 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.62%) SAP
4 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.62%) Solace