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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 263 194
Rank change year-on-year +8 -69 -36
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 192 182 555
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.12% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.40% 5.55% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 130 145 416
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,872 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £68,438 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £86,000 £91,250
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 2,999 3,282 7,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.19% 20.19% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 2,198 5,851
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,765 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 8 July 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 (2.60%) Apache
1 5 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.56%) CMS
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Moodle
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.38%) AWS
2 48 (25.00%) Azure
3 24 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.42%) GCP
5 12 (6.25%) Pulumi
6 11 (5.73%) GitHub
6 11 (5.73%) Serverless
7 9 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.65%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.60%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.60%) dbt
11 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.90%) Broadband
2 5 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.08%) DHCP
3 4 (2.08%) DNS
3 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.08%) VPN
4 2 (1.04%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.60%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 28 (14.58%) MySQL
3 28 (14.58%) RDBMS
4 24 (12.50%) Power BI
5 23 (11.98%) NoSQL
5 23 (11.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (9.90%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.29%) Oracle Database
8 10 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.08%) Tableau
11 3 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.56%) Metadata
12 2 (1.04%) Ataccama
12 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.04%) IBM InfoSphere
12 2 (1.04%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 45 (23.44%) Git
2 12 (6.25%) Jaeger
3 7 (3.65%) GitLab
4 6 (3.13%) JIRA
5 5 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.04%) Bower
6 2 (1.04%) JUnit
6 2 (1.04%) MSTest
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) CMake
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 49 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.02%) Finance
5 11 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.73%) Retail
6 10 (5.21%) Law
6 10 (5.21%) Marketing
7 8 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.13%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.60%) Banking
9 5 (2.60%) Health Technology
9 5 (2.60%) Legal
10 3 (1.56%) Aviation
10 3 (1.56%) Back Office
10 3 (1.56%) Front Office
11 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.04%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (34.38%) Developer
2 37 (19.27%) Senior
3 35 (18.23%) Data Engineer
4 32 (16.67%) Lead
5 29 (15.10%) Analyst
6 19 (9.90%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.85%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.29%) Data Analyst
10 12 (6.25%) Systems Developer
11 8 (4.17%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.17%) Consultant
11 8 (4.17%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.65%) Architect
12 7 (3.65%) SQL Developer
13 6 (3.13%) Marketing Analyst
13 6 (3.13%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
13 6 (3.13%) Senior Applications Developer
13 6 (3.13%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) CSS
2 31 (16.15%) HTML
3 29 (15.10%) React
4 28 (14.58%) REST
5 21 (10.94%) Node.js
6 17 (8.85%) Kafka
7 14 (7.29%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.77%) .NET
8 13 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (6.77%) Vue
9 12 (6.25%) jQuery
9 12 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (5.73%) Flask
10 11 (5.73%) Spring
11 9 (4.69%) HTML5
11 9 (4.69%) PySpark
11 9 (4.69%) RESTful
11 9 (4.69%) Web Services
12 8 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (3.13%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.13%) CUDA
4 6 (3.13%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.08%) CCTV
5 4 (2.08%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.56%) Blog
6 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.56%) Replication
7 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.58%) Linux
2 12 (6.25%) Unix
3 8 (4.17%) Windows
4 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.77%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.04%) Analytics
3 44 (22.92%) Agile
3 44 (22.92%) Data Modelling
4 43 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (20.83%) DevOps
6 38 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (19.27%) Software Engineering
8 33 (17.19%) Containerisation
9 32 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 32 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 31 (16.15%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (16.15%) ETL
10 31 (16.15%) Microservices
11 30 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (14.06%) Data Engineering
13 24 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (11.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 92 (47.92%) SQL
2 61 (31.77%) Python
3 58 (30.21%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.83%) Java
5 19 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.33%) PHP
7 14 (7.29%) Bash
7 14 (7.29%) C#
8 13 (6.77%) Go
9 6 (3.13%) VBA
10 5 (2.60%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.08%) Delphi
11 4 (2.08%) Pascal
11 4 (2.08%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.56%) R
13 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.02%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.10%) Data Quality
2 22 (11.46%) GDPR
3 21 (10.94%) QA
4 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (26.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 34 (17.71%) Terraform
3 16 (8.33%) Ansible
3 16 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.25%) Argo
4 12 (6.25%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.06%) Oracle
3 17 (8.85%) Google
4 9 (4.69%) Databricks
5 2 (1.04%) IBM
5 2 (1.04%) Informatica
5 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.04%) SAP
5 2 (1.04%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.52%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.52%) Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir
6 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.52%) Solace
6 1 (0.52%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.52%) TippingPoint