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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 211 179
Rank change year-on-year -60 -32 -28
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 138 208 611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.54% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.94% 6.29% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 94 155 473
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,599 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £86,668 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 2,323 3,306 7,230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.91% 24.47% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 2,413 6,232
10th Percentile £37,350 £37,500 £37,004
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 25 April 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 7 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.17%) CMS
4 2 (1.45%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.58%) AWS
2 38 (27.54%) Azure
3 19 (13.77%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.32%) GCP
5 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.52%) GitHub
6 9 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.07%) dbt
8 5 (3.62%) Serverless
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.17%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (2.17%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.45%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Broadband
2 5 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.90%) DHCP
3 4 (2.90%) DNS
3 4 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) Firewall
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.01%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.57%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.49%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.14%) MySQL
6 12 (8.70%) Oracle Database
7 9 (6.52%) Power BI
8 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.07%) Metadata
9 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (4.35%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.62%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.17%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Git
2 19 (13.77%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.35%) Selenium
4 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.17%) JUnit
6 2 (1.45%) GitLab
6 2 (1.45%) JIRA
6 2 (1.45%) MSTest
6 2 (1.45%) Postman
6 2 (1.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (15.94%) Finance
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Law
6 5 (3.62%) Banking
6 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.62%) Retail
7 4 (2.90%) Front Office
8 3 (2.17%) Aviation
8 3 (2.17%) Legal
9 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.45%) Back Office
9 2 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
9 2 (1.45%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.72%) French Language
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Data Engineer
2 34 (24.64%) Developer
3 28 (20.29%) Lead
4 19 (13.77%) Senior
5 11 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.25%) Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Python Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.07%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Architect
10 6 (4.35%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Applications Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Applications Support
11 5 (3.62%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.94%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (13.77%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (13.04%) REST
4 16 (11.59%) HTML
5 15 (10.87%) CSS
5 15 (10.87%) React
6 14 (10.14%) .NET
7 11 (7.97%) Kafka
8 10 (7.25%) Node.js
8 10 (7.25%) PySpark
9 8 (5.80%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.80%) Django
10 7 (5.07%) FastAPI
10 7 (5.07%) Vue
11 6 (4.35%) Flask
11 6 (4.35%) SOAP
12 5 (3.62%) RESTful
12 5 (3.62%) Spring
12 5 (3.62%) SQLAlchemy
12 5 (3.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.35%) CUDA
2 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.62%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.90%) CCTV
4 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.90%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.17%) Blog
5 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.17%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.45%) Replication
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.74%) Linux
2 21 (15.22%) Unix
3 7 (5.07%) Windows
4 4 (2.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.23%) Agile
2 41 (29.71%) DevOps
3 38 (27.54%) Data Modelling
4 37 (26.81%) Analytics
4 37 (26.81%) Containerisation
5 34 (24.64%) CI/CD
5 34 (24.64%) Data Pipeline
6 33 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (21.74%) ETL
8 29 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (21.01%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (18.12%) Data Architecture
9 25 (18.12%) Data Engineering
10 24 (17.39%) Mentoring
11 23 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (15.94%) Cost Optimisation
13 20 (14.49%) High Availability
13 20 (14.49%) Roadmaps
13 20 (14.49%) Task Automation
14 19 (13.77%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.10%) SQL
2 64 (46.38%) Python
3 46 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 39 (28.26%) Java
5 21 (15.22%) Go
6 19 (13.77%) Bash
7 15 (10.87%) C#
8 14 (10.14%) PHP
9 6 (4.35%) Delphi
9 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.90%) Pascal
10 4 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.45%) Bicep
11 2 (1.45%) Ruby
11 2 (1.45%) Scala
11 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) AWS Certification
2 18 (13.04%) Degree
3 12 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.84%) Data Quality
2 18 (13.04%) GDPR
3 11 (7.97%) QA
4 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.45%) WCAG
5 1 (0.72%) HL7
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (29.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.36%) Terraform
3 22 (15.94%) Prometheus
4 21 (15.22%) Argo
5 20 (14.49%) Ansible
6 19 (13.77%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.62%) Grafana
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.72%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.22%) Google
2 21 (15.22%) Oracle
3 11 (7.97%) Databricks
4 3 (2.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.45%) Dell
5 2 (1.45%) Epicor
5 2 (1.45%) IBM
5 2 (1.45%) IFS
5 2 (1.45%) Infor
5 2 (1.45%) Informatica
5 2 (1.45%) Jitterbit
5 2 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.45%) SnapLogic
5 2 (1.45%) Software AG
5 2 (1.45%) Talend
5 2 (1.45%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.45%) Workday
6 1 (0.72%) Palantir
186 Relational Database jobs Nationwide