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

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 247 185
Rank change year-on-year +3 -62 -30
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 180 193 598
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.26% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.78% 5.89% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 118 150 447
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,187 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.65% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,150 £87,500 £89,750
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 2,654 3,277 7,509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.29% 21.35% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,055 2,194 6,262
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,864 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £106,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 17 June 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.22%) Apache
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.67%) CMS
4 2 (1.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Moodle
5 1 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.56%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.11%) AWS
2 41 (22.78%) Azure
3 21 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 17 (9.44%) GCP
6 10 (5.56%) Serverless
7 9 (5.00%) GitHub
8 8 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.89%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.78%) dbt
11 5 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.89%) Broadband
2 5 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.22%) DHCP
3 4 (2.22%) DNS
3 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (18.33%) RDBMS
3 30 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 28 (15.56%) SQL Server
5 21 (11.67%) Power BI
6 20 (11.11%) MySQL
6 20 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (7.78%) MongoDB
8 13 (7.22%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.78%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.78%) Metadata
10 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.67%) Tableau
12 2 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (22.22%) Git
2 18 (10.00%) Jaeger
3 7 (3.89%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.11%) MSTest
6 2 (1.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Bower
7 1 (0.56%) CMake
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Valgrind
General
1 47 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.33%) Finance
5 11 (6.11%) Retail
6 10 (5.56%) Law
7 7 (3.89%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.89%) Marketing
7 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.33%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.78%) Banking
9 5 (2.78%) Health Technology
9 5 (2.78%) Legal
10 3 (1.67%) Aviation
10 3 (1.67%) Back Office
10 3 (1.67%) Front Office
11 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.11%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (33.89%) Developer
2 35 (19.44%) Data Engineer
3 32 (17.78%) Lead
4 30 (16.67%) Senior
5 27 (15.00%) Analyst
6 18 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.67%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.67%) Systems Developer
9 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Architect
10 9 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.89%) Team Leader
13 6 (3.33%) Data Architect
13 6 (3.33%) Senior Applications Developer
13 6 (3.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.56%) CSS
2 27 (15.00%) HTML
3 26 (14.44%) React
4 23 (12.78%) REST
5 19 (10.56%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (8.89%) Kafka
8 15 (8.33%) Node.js
9 14 (7.78%) FastAPI
10 12 (6.67%) .NET
11 11 (6.11%) Flask
11 11 (6.11%) jQuery
11 11 (6.11%) Vue
12 9 (5.00%) HTML5
12 9 (5.00%) PySpark
13 8 (4.44%) Spring
13 8 (4.44%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (3.89%) Web Services
15 6 (3.33%) Classic ASP
16 5 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.33%) CUDA
4 6 (3.33%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.22%) CCTV
6 4 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.67%) Blog
7 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.11%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.11%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.78%) Linux
2 18 (10.00%) Unix
3 8 (4.44%) Windows
4 4 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.44%) CI/CD
2 48 (26.67%) Analytics
3 47 (26.11%) Agile
4 45 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 41 (22.78%) DevOps
6 39 (21.67%) Containerisation
6 39 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (17.22%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (17.22%) Decision-Making
9 31 (17.22%) ETL
10 29 (16.11%) Mentoring
10 29 (16.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 29 (16.11%) Software Engineering
11 28 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (15.00%) Data Engineering
13 26 (14.44%) Microservices
14 25 (13.89%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.56%) SQL
2 65 (36.11%) Python
3 55 (30.56%) JavaScript
4 37 (20.56%) Java
5 19 (10.56%) Bash
5 19 (10.56%) Go
6 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.78%) PHP
8 13 (7.22%) C#
9 5 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.22%) Delphi
10 4 (2.22%) Pascal
10 4 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.22%) VBA
11 3 (1.67%) R
12 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) ABAP
13 1 (0.56%) Dart
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
13 1 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (12.22%) Degree
2 18 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.89%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (12.22%) GDPR
3 18 (10.00%) QA
4 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.11%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.11%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (28.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 37 (20.56%) Terraform
3 21 (11.67%) Ansible
3 21 (11.67%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.00%) Argo
4 18 (10.00%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.33%) Oracle
3 22 (12.22%) Google
4 9 (5.00%) Databricks
5 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.56%) Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Solace
6 1 (0.56%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.56%) TippingPoint
427 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs