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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 212 168
Rank change year-on-year -43 -44 -12
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 144 208 627
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.61% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.22% 6.15% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 99 155 478
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,274 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,750 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,100 £89,500 £83,759
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 2,314 3,383 7,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.43% 26.17% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 2,434 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,825 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,813 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 9 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 6 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.47%) Anypoint
2 5 (3.47%) CMS
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.08%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.39%) Confluence
5 2 (1.39%) Mendix
6 1 (0.69%) Drupal
6 1 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.69%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.06%) AWS
2 41 (28.47%) Azure
3 19 (13.19%) Pulumi
4 17 (11.81%) GCP
5 14 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.33%) GitHub
7 9 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.86%) dbt
9 6 (4.17%) Serverless
10 5 (3.47%) Boomi
10 5 (3.47%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.47%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.47%) SaaS
10 5 (3.47%) Workato
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.19%) Broadband
2 5 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.78%) DHCP
3 4 (2.78%) DNS
3 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) Firewall
4 1 (0.69%) LAN
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.47%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (21.53%) RDBMS
3 26 (18.06%) NoSQL
4 20 (13.89%) MySQL
5 19 (13.19%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.94%) Oracle Database
7 9 (6.25%) Power BI
8 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (4.86%) Metadata
10 5 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.78%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.78%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.08%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.39%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (20.14%) Git
2 19 (13.19%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.86%) JIRA
4 6 (4.17%) Selenium
5 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.08%) JUnit
8 2 (1.39%) GitLab
8 2 (1.39%) MSTest
8 2 (1.39%) Postman
8 2 (1.39%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.69%) Mockito
9 1 (0.69%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (15.97%) Finance
4 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.64%) Law
6 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.17%) Legal
8 5 (3.47%) Banking
8 5 (3.47%) Retail
9 4 (2.78%) Marketing
10 3 (2.08%) Aviation
10 3 (2.08%) Front Office
11 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.69%) Electronics
12 1 (0.69%) French Language
12 1 (0.69%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.69%) Police
12 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (27.08%) Developer
2 33 (22.92%) Data Engineer
3 27 (18.75%) Lead
4 17 (11.81%) Senior
5 12 (8.33%) Analyst
6 11 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Team Leader
10 7 (4.86%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.86%) Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Web Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Junior
12 5 (3.47%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.97%) REST
2 22 (15.28%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (13.89%) CSS
3 20 (13.89%) HTML
3 20 (13.89%) React
4 19 (13.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (11.11%) .NET
6 15 (10.42%) Node.js
7 12 (8.33%) Vue
8 11 (7.64%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.94%) SOAP
10 9 (6.25%) Laravel
10 9 (6.25%) Web Services
11 8 (5.56%) Django
11 8 (5.56%) JSON
11 8 (5.56%) PySpark
11 8 (5.56%) RESTful
12 7 (4.86%) Kafka
12 7 (4.86%) Spring
12 7 (4.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.86%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.17%) CUDA
6 5 (3.47%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.78%) CCTV
7 4 (2.78%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.08%) Blog
8 3 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.39%) Replication
10 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.92%) Linux
2 24 (16.67%) Unix
3 7 (4.86%) Windows
4 4 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.89%) Agile
2 44 (30.56%) DevOps
2 44 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (25.69%) Containerisation
3 37 (25.69%) Data Modelling
4 34 (23.61%) Analytics
4 34 (23.61%) CI/CD
5 29 (20.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 28 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 26 (18.06%) ETL
9 23 (15.97%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (15.28%) Cost Optimisation
10 22 (15.28%) Data Engineering
10 22 (15.28%) Software Engineering
11 20 (13.89%) Data Architecture
11 20 (13.89%) High Availability
11 20 (13.89%) Roadmaps
11 20 (13.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (45.14%) Python
1 65 (45.14%) SQL
2 58 (40.28%) JavaScript
3 43 (29.86%) Java
4 21 (14.58%) Go
5 20 (13.89%) C#
6 19 (13.19%) Bash
7 18 (12.50%) PHP
8 8 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.86%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.17%) Delphi
11 5 (3.47%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.78%) Pascal
12 4 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.39%) Bicep
13 2 (1.39%) Ruby
13 2 (1.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.69%) R
14 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (15.97%) Degree
2 20 (13.89%) AWS Certification
3 14 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.28%) Data Quality
2 19 (13.19%) GDPR
3 10 (6.94%) QA
4 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.39%) HL7
4 2 (1.39%) WCAG
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (30.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (28.47%) Kubernetes
2 36 (25.00%) Terraform
3 21 (14.58%) Ansible
3 21 (14.58%) Argo
3 21 (14.58%) Prometheus
4 19 (13.19%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.78%) Grafana
6 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.69%) SCCM
6 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.97%) Oracle
3 22 (15.28%) Google
4 9 (6.25%) Databricks
5 6 (4.17%) SAP
6 5 (3.47%) Dell
6 5 (3.47%) Epicor
6 5 (3.47%) IBM
6 5 (3.47%) IFS
6 5 (3.47%) Infor
6 5 (3.47%) Informatica
6 5 (3.47%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.47%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.47%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.47%) Software AG
6 5 (3.47%) Talend
6 5 (3.47%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.47%) Workday
7 2 (1.39%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.39%) OutSystems
145 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs