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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 271 199
Rank change year-on-year +8 -72 -37
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 204 167 399
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.01% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.50% 5.42% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 151 139 261
10th Percentile £36,500 £38,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -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 3,139 3,083 5,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.82% 18.56% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 2,062 3,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £38,113
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 14 August 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 6 (2.94%) Apache
2 5 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
4 1 (0.49%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.98%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.49%) Finacle
3 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (29.41%) Azure
2 59 (28.92%) AWS
3 26 (12.75%) GitHub
3 26 (12.75%) Power Platform
4 18 (8.82%) GCP
5 17 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (8.33%) Serverless
6 12 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.43%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.43%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Broadband
2 3 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.98%) DHCP
3 2 (0.98%) DNS
3 2 (0.98%) Intranet
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (34.80%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (26.47%) SQL Server
3 38 (18.63%) MySQL
4 24 (11.76%) Power BI
5 23 (11.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (7.84%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.86%) Oracle Database
8 13 (6.37%) RDBMS
9 12 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (4.41%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.94%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.94%) Tableau
12 5 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.96%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.96%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.96%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 61 (29.90%) Git
2 7 (3.43%) GitLab
2 7 (3.43%) JIRA
3 6 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.98%) Bower
5 2 (0.98%) JUnit
5 2 (0.98%) MSTest
5 2 (0.98%) NUnit
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) CMake
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
6 1 (0.49%) Mocha
6 1 (0.49%) Mockito
6 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.49%) Valgrind
General
1 57 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.69%) Finance
4 22 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.31%) Law
7 11 (5.39%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.90%) Marketing
9 9 (4.41%) Retail
10 6 (2.94%) Banking
10 6 (2.94%) Social Housing
11 5 (2.45%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.45%) Legal
12 4 (1.96%) Back Office
13 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.47%) Front Office
13 3 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.98%) Aviation
14 2 (0.98%) Games
14 2 (0.98%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 78 (38.24%) Developer
2 51 (25.00%) Senior
3 33 (16.18%) Data Engineer
4 31 (15.20%) Senior Developer
5 27 (13.24%) Analyst
6 24 (11.76%) Lead
7 22 (10.78%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.86%) Data Analyst
9 12 (5.88%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.90%) Senior C# Developer
11 10 (4.90%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.90%) Systems Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Applications Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.92%) Consultant
12 8 (3.92%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.43%) .NET Developer
13 7 (3.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.06%) React
2 42 (20.59%) CSS
2 42 (20.59%) REST
3 39 (19.12%) HTML
4 31 (15.20%) .NET
5 23 (11.27%) Node.js
6 21 (10.29%) AngularJS
7 16 (7.84%) Spring
8 14 (6.86%) .NET Core
8 14 (6.86%) Kafka
9 13 (6.37%) FastAPI
9 13 (6.37%) PySpark
9 13 (6.37%) RESTful
10 12 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 12 (5.88%) Entity Framework
10 12 (5.88%) jQuery
11 11 (5.39%) Flask
11 11 (5.39%) Vue
11 11 (5.39%) Web Services
12 10 (4.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.94%) CUDA
6 6 (2.94%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.98%) CCTV
10 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.43%) Linux
2 6 (2.94%) Windows
3 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (39.22%) CI/CD
2 60 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 54 (26.47%) Agile
3 54 (26.47%) Analytics
4 50 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 47 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (18.14%) DevOps
9 35 (17.16%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (16.18%) Decision-Making
11 32 (15.69%) Microservices
12 31 (15.20%) Clean Code
12 31 (15.20%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (14.71%) AI
14 29 (14.22%) ETL
15 27 (13.24%) Data Architecture
16 25 (12.25%) Data Engineering
16 25 (12.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (51.47%) SQL
2 55 (26.96%) JavaScript
3 54 (26.47%) Python
4 34 (16.67%) Java
5 32 (15.69%) C#
6 28 (13.73%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.90%) PHP
8 6 (2.94%) VBA
9 4 (1.96%) R
9 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.47%) Scala
11 2 (0.98%) Bash
11 2 (0.98%) C
11 2 (0.98%) Dart
11 2 (0.98%) Delphi
11 2 (0.98%) Pascal
11 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (17.65%) Degree
2 18 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.98%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 27 (13.24%) GDPR
3 24 (11.76%) QA
4 5 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (21.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.80%) Terraform
3 5 (2.45%) Ansible
4 3 (1.47%) Grafana
4 3 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.49%) SCCM
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.22%) Oracle
3 16 (7.84%) Databricks
4 4 (1.96%) Google
4 4 (1.96%) IBM
4 4 (1.96%) Informatica
4 4 (1.96%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.47%) SAP
6 2 (0.98%) Sage
6 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.49%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.49%) FIS
7 1 (0.49%) Foundry
7 1 (0.49%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir
7 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.49%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.49%) Temenos