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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 209 167
Rank change year-on-year -37 -42 -14
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 138 198 617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.54% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.11% 5.77% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 93 147 474
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,774 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,250 £79,750 £72,094
90th Percentile £77,400 £89,250 £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 2,260 3,432 7,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.41% 26.71% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 2,426 6,143
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £119,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 2 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 5 (3.62%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.62%) CMS
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.17%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (1.45%) Mendix
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.20%) AWS
2 38 (27.54%) Azure
3 19 (13.77%) Pulumi
4 16 (11.59%) GCP
5 14 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (8.70%) GitHub
7 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.07%) dbt
10 6 (4.35%) Serverless
11 5 (3.62%) Boomi
11 5 (3.62%) iPaaS
11 5 (3.62%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.62%) SaaS
11 5 (3.62%) Workato
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Broadband
2 5 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.90%) DHCP
3 4 (2.90%) DNS
3 4 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) Firewall
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.46%) RDBMS
3 25 (18.12%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.49%) MySQL
5 17 (12.32%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.52%) Oracle Database
6 9 (6.52%) Power BI
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (5.07%) Metadata
9 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.17%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.17%) FileMaker
11 3 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (20.29%) Git
2 19 (13.77%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.07%) JIRA
4 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.62%) Selenium
5 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.17%) JUnit
7 2 (1.45%) GitLab
7 2 (1.45%) Postman
7 2 (1.45%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.72%) Mockito
8 1 (0.72%) MSTest
8 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (17.39%) Finance
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.97%) Law
6 6 (4.35%) Legal
6 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 5 (3.62%) Retail
8 4 (2.90%) Marketing
9 3 (2.17%) Front Office
10 2 (1.45%) Aviation
10 2 (1.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.72%) Electronics
11 1 (0.72%) French Language
11 1 (0.72%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Police
11 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (27.54%) Developer
2 28 (20.29%) Data Engineer
3 26 (18.84%) Lead
4 15 (10.87%) Senior
5 12 (8.70%) Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.52%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Architect
8 8 (5.80%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.80%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.07%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.07%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Web Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Junior
11 5 (3.62%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.67%) REST
2 22 (15.94%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (14.49%) CSS
3 20 (14.49%) HTML
3 20 (14.49%) React
4 19 (13.77%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (10.87%) .NET
5 15 (10.87%) Node.js
6 12 (8.70%) Vue
7 11 (7.97%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.25%) SOAP
9 9 (6.52%) Laravel
9 9 (6.52%) Web Services
10 8 (5.80%) Django
10 8 (5.80%) JSON
10 8 (5.80%) RESTful
11 7 (5.07%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.07%) Spring
11 7 (5.07%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.80%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.07%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.35%) CUDA
6 5 (3.62%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.90%) CCTV
7 4 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.17%) Blog
8 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.17%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.45%) Replication
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.91%) Linux
2 24 (17.39%) Unix
3 7 (5.07%) Windows
4 4 (2.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.13%) Agile
2 44 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (31.16%) DevOps
4 37 (26.81%) Containerisation
5 34 (24.64%) Data Modelling
6 33 (23.91%) CI/CD
7 31 (22.46%) Analytics
8 28 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (20.29%) Mentoring
8 28 (20.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 23 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (15.94%) Cost Optimisation
10 22 (15.94%) ETL
11 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.49%) Data Engineering
12 20 (14.49%) High Availability
12 20 (14.49%) Roadmaps
12 20 (14.49%) Task Automation
13 19 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (44.93%) Python
2 61 (44.20%) SQL
3 58 (42.03%) JavaScript
4 43 (31.16%) Java
5 21 (15.22%) Go
6 19 (13.77%) Bash
6 19 (13.77%) C#
7 18 (13.04%) PHP
8 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.35%) Delphi
11 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.90%) Pascal
12 4 (2.90%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.45%) Bicep
13 2 (1.45%) Ruby
13 2 (1.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Degree
2 20 (14.49%) AWS Certification
3 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.97%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 18 (13.04%) GDPR
3 9 (6.52%) QA
4 2 (1.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (31.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (29.71%) Kubernetes
2 36 (26.09%) Terraform
3 21 (15.22%) Ansible
3 21 (15.22%) Argo
4 20 (14.49%) Prometheus
5 19 (13.77%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.94%) Google
2 22 (15.94%) Oracle
3 7 (5.07%) Databricks
4 6 (4.35%) SAP
5 5 (3.62%) Dell
5 5 (3.62%) Epicor
5 5 (3.62%) IBM
5 5 (3.62%) IFS
5 5 (3.62%) Infor
5 5 (3.62%) Informatica
5 5 (3.62%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.62%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.62%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.62%) Software AG
5 5 (3.62%) Talend
5 5 (3.62%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.62%) Workday
6 2 (1.45%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.45%) OutSystems