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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 293 179
Rank change year-on-year +30 -114 -28
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 210 128 412
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 0.77% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 4.90% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 147 104 172
10th Percentile £38,450 £36,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,875 £70,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%

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 3,132 2,612 4,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.59% 15.72% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 1,788 2,954
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,854 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.32%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 11 October 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 4 (1.90%) Apache
1 4 (1.90%) IIS
2 3 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.43%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Moodle
4 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Notion
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (0.95%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.48%) Finacle
2 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 72 (34.29%) AWS
2 50 (23.81%) Azure
3 34 (16.19%) GitHub
4 33 (15.71%) Power Platform
5 22 (10.48%) Serverless
6 21 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.71%) GCP
10 10 (4.76%) SaaS
11 7 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.33%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.33%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) Broadband
2 2 (0.95%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.38%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (24.29%) SQL Server
3 39 (18.57%) MySQL
4 31 (14.76%) Power BI
5 18 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.19%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.24%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.81%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.33%) Tableau
11 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.38%) Redis
12 5 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.90%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.90%) ClickHouse
13 4 (1.90%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.90%) Metadata
13 4 (1.90%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 61 (29.05%) Git
2 9 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.29%) JIRA
3 8 (3.81%) GitLab
4 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.43%) JUnit
5 2 (0.95%) Bower
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Mockito
5 2 (0.95%) NUnit
5 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.48%) CMake
6 1 (0.48%) Mocha
6 1 (0.48%) Valgrind
General
1 75 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (18.10%) Finance
4 25 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (9.05%) Law
5 19 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.24%) Marketing
8 8 (3.81%) Retail
9 7 (3.33%) Banking
10 5 (2.38%) Legal
10 5 (2.38%) Social Housing
11 4 (1.90%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.95%) Back Office
13 2 (0.95%) Front Office
13 2 (0.95%) Games
13 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 94 (44.76%) Developer
2 50 (23.81%) Senior
3 28 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.86%) Analyst
4 27 (12.86%) Senior Developer
5 24 (11.43%) Lead
6 19 (9.05%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.10%) Software Developer
8 16 (7.62%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.67%) C# Developer
9 14 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.19%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Senior C# Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Systems Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Consultant
12 8 (3.81%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
14 6 (2.86%) Java Engineer
14 6 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.29%) React
2 49 (23.33%) CSS
3 45 (21.43%) HTML
4 40 (19.05%) REST
5 39 (18.57%) .NET
6 26 (12.38%) AngularJS
6 26 (12.38%) Node.js
7 22 (10.48%) RESTful
8 21 (10.00%) Spring
9 20 (9.52%) .NET Core
9 20 (9.52%) .NET Framework
9 20 (9.52%) Entity Framework
10 17 (8.10%) Vue
11 16 (7.62%) jQuery
12 14 (6.67%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.67%) Web Services
13 13 (6.19%) PySpark
13 13 (6.19%) Terraform
14 11 (5.24%) Tailwind CSS
15 10 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.90%) PMI
9 3 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.43%) CMDB
9 3 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.43%) NHS
10 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.95%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.95%) Replication
11 1 (0.48%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.81%) Linux
1 8 (3.81%) Windows
2 5 (2.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.95%) Android
3 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 76 (36.19%) Software Engineering
3 71 (33.81%) Agile
4 52 (24.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (20.95%) Data Modelling
7 41 (19.52%) AI
8 40 (19.05%) Analytics
9 39 (18.57%) DevOps
10 37 (17.62%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (15.71%) Microservices
12 32 (15.24%) Decision-Making
13 28 (13.33%) Mentoring
14 27 (12.86%) Clean Code
14 27 (12.86%) Code Quality
14 27 (12.86%) Collaborative Working
14 27 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (12.86%) Scrum
15 26 (12.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 117 (55.71%) SQL
2 62 (29.52%) JavaScript
3 48 (22.86%) Python
4 38 (18.10%) C#
4 38 (18.10%) Java
5 31 (14.76%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.76%) PHP
7 5 (2.38%) R
7 5 (2.38%) VBA
8 4 (1.90%) Clojure
8 4 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.90%) Haskell
8 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.90%) Lisp
8 4 (1.90%) OCaml
8 4 (1.90%) Rust
9 2 (0.95%) Bash
9 2 (0.95%) Dart
9 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (17.14%) Degree
2 22 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.95%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.95%) QA
3 18 (8.57%) GDPR
4 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.95%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (24.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.86%) Ansible
3 4 (1.90%) Grafana
4 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.48%) Kibana
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.57%) Oracle
3 16 (7.62%) Databricks
4 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.90%) Google
5 4 (1.90%) IBM
5 4 (1.90%) Informatica
5 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.43%) Sage
6 3 (1.43%) SAP
7 2 (0.95%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.95%) Telerik
8 1 (0.48%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.48%) FIS
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Solace
8 1 (0.48%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.48%) TippingPoint