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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 212 163
Rank change year-on-year -37 -49 -7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 140 206 630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.58% 1.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.06% 6.14% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 97 153 477
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,198 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +11.28% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £79,500 £72,375
90th Percentile £77,200 £87,084 £83,759
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 2,310 3,356 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.33% 25.79% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 2,436 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £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 11 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.57%) Anypoint
3 4 (2.86%) CMS
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.43%) Confluence
5 2 (1.43%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.71%) Drupal
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.14%) AWS
2 41 (29.29%) Azure
3 19 (13.57%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.14%) GCP
5 14 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.86%) GitHub
8 9 (6.43%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.00%) dbt
10 5 (3.57%) Boomi
10 5 (3.57%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.57%) Workato
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.86%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.86%) SaaS
11 4 (2.86%) Serverless
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) Broadband
2 5 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.86%) DHCP
3 4 (2.86%) DNS
3 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) Firewall
4 1 (0.71%) LAN
4 1 (0.71%) Network Security
4 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.14%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.29%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 17 (12.14%) MySQL
6 11 (7.86%) Oracle Database
7 9 (6.43%) Power BI
8 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.00%) Metadata
10 6 (4.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.57%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.14%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.43%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.71%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Git
2 19 (13.57%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.29%) Selenium
4 5 (3.57%) JIRA
5 4 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.43%) JUnit
6 2 (1.43%) MSTest
6 2 (1.43%) Postman
6 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (16.43%) Finance
4 17 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Law
6 6 (4.29%) Legal
6 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.57%) Banking
7 5 (3.57%) Retail
8 3 (2.14%) Aviation
8 3 (2.14%) Front Office
8 3 (2.14%) Marketing
9 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 34 (24.29%) Developer
3 27 (19.29%) Lead
4 18 (12.86%) Senior
5 12 (8.57%) Analyst
6 11 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Team Leader
10 7 (5.00%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.00%) Architect
10 7 (5.00%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Web Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Junior
12 5 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
1 21 (15.00%) REST
2 19 (13.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (12.86%) CSS
3 18 (12.86%) HTML
4 17 (12.14%) React
5 15 (10.71%) .NET
6 12 (8.57%) Node.js
7 11 (7.86%) Vue
8 10 (7.14%) SOAP
9 8 (5.71%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.71%) Django
9 8 (5.71%) JSON
9 8 (5.71%) Kafka
9 8 (5.71%) Laravel
9 8 (5.71%) PySpark
9 8 (5.71%) Web Services
10 7 (5.00%) FastAPI
10 7 (5.00%) RESTful
11 6 (4.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.71%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.29%) CUDA
6 5 (3.57%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.86%) CCTV
7 4 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.14%) Blog
8 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.14%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.43%) Replication
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.57%) Linux
2 24 (17.14%) Unix
3 7 (5.00%) Windows
4 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.57%) Agile
2 41 (29.29%) DevOps
2 41 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (27.14%) Data Modelling
4 37 (26.43%) Containerisation
5 35 (25.00%) Analytics
6 30 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 30 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (20.71%) Performance Optimisation
8 28 (20.00%) ETL
9 27 (19.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (18.57%) Mentoring
11 24 (17.14%) Data Engineering
12 23 (16.43%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (15.71%) Cost Optimisation
13 22 (15.71%) Data Architecture
14 20 (14.29%) High Availability
14 20 (14.29%) Roadmaps
14 20 (14.29%) Task Automation
15 19 (13.57%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.14%) Python
1 66 (47.14%) SQL
2 53 (37.86%) JavaScript
3 40 (28.57%) Java
4 21 (15.00%) Go
5 19 (13.57%) Bash
5 19 (13.57%) C#
6 17 (12.14%) PHP
7 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.29%) Delphi
9 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.86%) Pascal
10 4 (2.86%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.43%) Bicep
11 2 (1.43%) Ruby
11 2 (1.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 20 (14.29%) Degree
2 13 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.29%) GDPR
3 10 (7.14%) QA
4 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.43%) HL7
4 2 (1.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.00%) Terraform
3 22 (15.71%) Prometheus
4 21 (15.00%) Argo
5 19 (13.57%) Ansible
5 19 (13.57%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.57%) Grafana
7 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.71%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.14%) Oracle
3 22 (15.71%) Google
4 9 (6.43%) Databricks
5 6 (4.29%) SAP
6 5 (3.57%) Dell
6 5 (3.57%) Epicor
6 5 (3.57%) IBM
6 5 (3.57%) IFS
6 5 (3.57%) Infor
6 5 (3.57%) Informatica
6 5 (3.57%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.57%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.57%) Software AG
6 5 (3.57%) Talend
6 5 (3.57%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.57%) Workday
7 2 (1.43%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.43%) Red Hat