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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 206 158
Rank change year-on-year -44 -48 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 140 233 623
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.61% 2.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.60% 5.95% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 93 142 501
10th Percentile £32,550 £40,620 £39,586
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,206 £57,501
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +6.44% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £79,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,000 £89,542 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +10.26% -6.40%

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 2,122 3,915 7,066
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.76% 27.09% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,467 6,053
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,042
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £44,558
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 March 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 (3.57%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.57%) CMS
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) Mendix
5 1 (0.71%) Drupal
5 1 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.57%) AWS
2 40 (28.57%) Azure
3 19 (13.57%) Pulumi
4 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (9.29%) GitHub
6 10 (7.14%) GCP
7 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.00%) dbt
9 6 (4.29%) Boomi
9 6 (4.29%) SaaS
9 6 (4.29%) Serverless
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%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.14%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) Broadband
2 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.57%) DNS
4 4 (2.86%) DHCP
4 4 (2.86%) VPN
4 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.71%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (21.43%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.29%) NoSQL
4 24 (17.14%) MySQL
5 20 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.00%) Metadata
6 7 (5.00%) Power BI
7 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.86%) FileMaker
9 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (18.57%) Git
2 19 (13.57%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.00%) JIRA
4 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.86%) Selenium
6 3 (2.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.71%) Mockito
8 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.57%) Finance
4 18 (12.86%) Law
5 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.43%) Legal
7 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.57%) Retail
9 4 (2.86%) Banking
9 4 (2.86%) Marketing
10 3 (2.14%) Front Office
11 2 (1.43%) Back Office
11 2 (1.43%) German Language
12 1 (0.71%) Aviation
12 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Electronics
12 1 (0.71%) French Language
12 1 (0.71%) Local Government
12 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Developer
2 25 (17.86%) Lead
3 19 (13.57%) Data Engineer
4 18 (12.86%) Analyst
4 18 (12.86%) Senior
5 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Architect
8 9 (6.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.71%) Team Leader
9 8 (5.71%) Web Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Applications Developer
10 7 (5.00%) IT Analyst
11 6 (4.29%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Junior
11 6 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.29%) CSS
2 26 (18.57%) HTML
3 23 (16.43%) .NET
4 22 (15.71%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (15.71%) React
5 19 (13.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (13.57%) REST
6 16 (11.43%) Node.js
7 15 (10.71%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.71%) Vue
8 11 (7.86%) SOAP
9 10 (7.14%) .NET Core
9 10 (7.14%) JSON
9 10 (7.14%) RESTful
9 10 (7.14%) Web Services
10 9 (6.43%) Laravel
11 7 (5.00%) Spring
11 7 (5.00%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.00%) XML
12 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.71%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.86%) CCTV
5 4 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.14%) Blog
6 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.14%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.43%) CMDB
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.57%) Linux
2 24 (17.14%) Unix
3 10 (7.14%) Windows
4 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.57%) Agile
2 49 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (34.29%) DevOps
4 37 (26.43%) Containerisation
5 30 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 30 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 26 (18.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (17.14%) Data Modelling
8 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 21 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.00%) High Availability
9 21 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 19 (13.57%) Budget Control
11 19 (13.57%) GitOps
11 19 (13.57%) Product Management
11 19 (13.57%) Resource Management
11 19 (13.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.14%) JavaScript
2 65 (46.43%) SQL
3 56 (40.00%) Python
4 43 (30.71%) Java
5 27 (19.29%) C#
6 22 (15.71%) Go
7 19 (13.57%) Bash
8 18 (12.86%) PHP
9 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.29%) Delphi
12 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.86%) Pascal
14 2 (1.43%) Bicep
14 2 (1.43%) Ruby
14 2 (1.43%) Scala
14 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.71%) Dart
15 1 (0.71%) Groovy
15 1 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 17 (12.14%) Degree
3 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.29%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.29%) QA
3 12 (8.57%) GDPR
4 3 (2.14%) HL7
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.43%) Terraform
3 21 (15.00%) Ansible
3 21 (15.00%) Argo
4 20 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 19 (13.57%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.14%) Grafana
7 2 (1.43%) SCCM
8 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.71%) Google
3 16 (11.43%) Oracle
4 6 (4.29%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.29%) SAP
5 5 (3.57%) Dell
5 5 (3.57%) Epicor
5 5 (3.57%) IBM
5 5 (3.57%) IFS
5 5 (3.57%) Infor
5 5 (3.57%) Informatica
5 5 (3.57%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.57%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.57%) Software AG
5 5 (3.57%) Talend
5 5 (3.57%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.57%) Workday
6 4 (2.86%) Databricks
7 2 (1.43%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.43%) OutSystems