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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 276 182
Rank change year-on-year +20 -94 -18
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 199 153 470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 0.93% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.33% 5.33% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 151 126 231
10th Percentile £39,818 £38,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £72,000 £70,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +3.33% -7.69%

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 3,146 2,873 5,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.48% 17.47% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 2,040 3,664
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,854 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £135,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 1 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 (2.01%) Apache
2 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Moodle
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.01%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.50%) Finacle
3 1 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.65%) AWS
2 55 (27.64%) Azure
3 28 (14.07%) Power Platform
4 27 (13.57%) GitHub
5 19 (9.55%) GCP
5 19 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (9.05%) Serverless
7 13 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.03%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (3.52%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.52%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) LAN
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
3 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (34.67%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (25.13%) SQL Server
3 37 (18.59%) MySQL
4 26 (13.07%) Power BI
5 20 (10.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.53%) RDBMS
8 10 (5.03%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.52%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.02%) Tableau
12 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.01%) Ataccama
13 4 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.01%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (2.01%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 61 (30.65%) Git
2 7 (3.52%) GitLab
2 7 (3.52%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.52%) JIRA
3 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.01%) Bower
4 2 (1.01%) JUnit
4 2 (1.01%) MSTest
4 2 (1.01%) NUnit
4 2 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) CMake
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) Mocha
5 1 (0.50%) Mockito
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) Valgrind
General
1 61 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.09%) Finance
4 22 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.55%) Law
7 15 (7.54%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.03%) Marketing
9 8 (4.02%) Retail
10 7 (3.52%) Banking
11 6 (3.02%) Social Housing
12 5 (2.51%) Health Technology
12 5 (2.51%) Legal
13 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.51%) Back Office
13 3 (1.51%) Front Office
13 3 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.01%) Aviation
14 2 (1.01%) General Ledger
14 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 80 (40.20%) Developer
2 49 (24.62%) Senior
3 29 (14.57%) Senior Developer
4 26 (13.07%) Data Engineer
5 24 (12.06%) Analyst
5 24 (12.06%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.56%) Lead
7 13 (6.53%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.03%) C# Developer
8 12 (6.03%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.03%) Senior C# Developer
10 10 (5.03%) Systems Developer
11 8 (4.02%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.02%) Applications Support
11 8 (4.02%) Consultant
11 8 (4.02%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.02%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.12%) CSS
1 46 (23.12%) React
2 42 (21.11%) HTML
2 42 (21.11%) REST
3 31 (15.58%) .NET
4 25 (12.56%) Node.js
5 22 (11.06%) AngularJS
6 18 (9.05%) Spring
6 18 (9.05%) Terraform
7 15 (7.54%) .NET Core
7 15 (7.54%) .NET Framework
7 15 (7.54%) Entity Framework
8 14 (7.04%) RESTful
9 13 (6.53%) FastAPI
9 13 (6.53%) jQuery
9 13 (6.53%) PySpark
9 13 (6.53%) Web Services
10 12 (6.03%) Kafka
11 11 (5.53%) Flask
11 11 (5.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.02%) CUDA
7 5 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.51%) CMDB
9 3 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.51%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.01%) Replication
11 1 (0.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.02%) Linux
2 7 (3.52%) Windows
3 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.20%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.16%) Software Engineering
3 62 (31.16%) Agile
4 50 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (23.62%) Analytics
5 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (22.11%) Data Modelling
7 39 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (18.09%) DevOps
10 34 (17.09%) AI
11 33 (16.58%) Microservices
12 31 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (14.57%) Clean Code
13 29 (14.57%) Decision-Making
14 26 (13.07%) Scrum
15 25 (12.56%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (12.56%) Mentoring
16 23 (11.56%) Code Quality
16 23 (11.56%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (52.76%) SQL
2 55 (27.64%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.63%) Python
4 33 (16.58%) Java
5 32 (16.08%) C#
6 31 (15.58%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.52%) PHP
8 6 (3.02%) VBA
9 4 (2.01%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.51%) R
10 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.01%) Bash
11 2 (1.01%) C
11 2 (1.01%) Dart
11 2 (1.01%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.09%) Degree
2 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.56%) Data Quality
1 25 (12.56%) GDPR
2 24 (12.06%) QA
3 5 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (1.01%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (22.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.51%) Ansible
3 3 (1.51%) Grafana
3 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.06%) Oracle
3 16 (8.04%) Databricks
4 4 (2.01%) IBM
4 4 (2.01%) Informatica
4 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.01%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.51%) Google
5 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.51%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.01%) Sage
6 2 (1.01%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.50%) FIS
7 1 (0.50%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.50%) TippingPoint
255 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs