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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 241 176
Rank change year-on-year -9 -65 -20
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 152 207 588
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.38% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 6.10% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 104 157 457
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,188 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,105 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,875 £88,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.20% +12.61% -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 2,432 3,394 7,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.95% 22.64% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 2,278 6,228
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,425 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,151 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,208
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
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 21 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 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.97%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.97%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Drupal
5 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.18%) AWS
2 38 (25.00%) Azure
3 18 (11.84%) Pulumi
4 14 (9.21%) GCP
4 14 (9.21%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.26%) GitHub
6 7 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.61%) Serverless
7 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.29%) dbt
7 5 (3.29%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.97%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.45%) Broadband
2 5 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.63%) DHCP
3 4 (2.63%) DNS
3 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.66%) Firewall
4 1 (0.66%) LAN
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.66%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.66%) WAN
4 1 (0.66%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (18.42%) RDBMS
3 26 (17.11%) NoSQL
4 23 (15.13%) SQL Server
5 21 (13.82%) MySQL
6 15 (9.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (9.21%) Power BI
8 13 (8.55%) MongoDB
9 12 (7.89%) Oracle Database
10 8 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.95%) Metadata
12 5 (3.29%) Data Lake
12 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.97%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.97%) FileMaker
13 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (23.03%) Git
2 18 (11.84%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.61%) GitLab
4 3 (1.97%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.32%) MSTest
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
2 23 (15.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Retail
5 7 (4.61%) Law
6 5 (3.29%) Banking
6 5 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.63%) Front Office
7 4 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.63%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.97%) Aviation
8 3 (1.97%) Back Office
8 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) French Language
10 1 (0.66%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (30.26%) Developer
2 37 (24.34%) Data Engineer
3 28 (18.42%) Lead
4 22 (14.47%) Senior
5 20 (13.16%) Analyst
6 12 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Systems Developer
8 9 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.95%) Architect
11 6 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Applications Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Applications Support
12 5 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.13%) CSS
2 21 (13.82%) HTML
3 20 (13.16%) REST
4 19 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (11.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (11.18%) React
7 13 (8.55%) .NET
8 12 (7.89%) Node.js
9 11 (7.24%) Kafka
10 10 (6.58%) PySpark
11 8 (5.26%) jQuery
12 7 (4.61%) FastAPI
12 7 (4.61%) HTML5
13 6 (3.95%) Classic ASP
13 6 (3.95%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
14 5 (3.29%) Django
14 5 (3.29%) Laravel
14 5 (3.29%) SQLAlchemy
14 5 (3.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.95%) CUDA
3 6 (3.95%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.63%) CCTV
5 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Blog
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.32%) Replication
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.66%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.76%) Linux
2 18 (11.84%) Unix
3 7 (4.61%) Windows
4 4 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.63%) Agile
2 41 (26.97%) Data Modelling
3 40 (26.32%) DevOps
4 39 (25.66%) Analytics
4 39 (25.66%) CI/CD
5 35 (23.03%) Containerisation
6 33 (21.71%) ETL
6 33 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (18.42%) Performance Optimisation
10 26 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (17.11%) Data Engineering
10 26 (17.11%) Software Engineering
11 25 (16.45%) Data Architecture
11 25 (16.45%) GitOps
12 24 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (15.13%) Mentoring
14 21 (13.82%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (44.74%) SQL
2 53 (34.87%) Python
3 50 (32.89%) JavaScript
4 31 (20.39%) Java
5 18 (11.84%) Bash
5 18 (11.84%) Go
6 13 (8.55%) C#
7 12 (7.89%) PHP
8 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.63%) Delphi
10 4 (2.63%) Pascal
10 4 (2.63%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.32%) Bicep
11 2 (1.32%) Scala
11 2 (1.32%) VBA
12 1 (0.66%) Dart
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.66%) Rust
12 1 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 19 (12.50%) Degree
2 12 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.97%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 18 (11.84%) GDPR
3 14 (9.21%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.66%) HL7
System Software
1 45 (29.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (25.66%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.71%) Terraform
3 21 (13.82%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.16%) Ansible
5 18 (11.84%) Argo
5 18 (11.84%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.97%) Grafana
7 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.66%) SCCM
7 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.47%) Oracle
3 20 (13.16%) Google
4 11 (7.24%) Databricks
5 1 (0.66%) Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.66%) Palantir
5 1 (0.66%) Perforce
5 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.66%) Solace