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

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 269 205
Rank change year-on-year +9 -64 -43
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 199 167 399
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.02% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 5.37% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 149 139 263
10th Percentile £37,100 £38,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,630 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +8.33% -7.69%

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 3,141 3,109 5,056
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.85% 18.93% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,527 2,077 3,919
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £38,225
25th Percentile £45,081 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 12 August 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 6 (3.02%) Apache
2 5 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Moodle
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.15%) Azure
2 57 (28.64%) AWS
3 25 (12.56%) GitHub
3 25 (12.56%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.05%) GCP
5 17 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (8.04%) Serverless
7 11 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (4.02%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (3.02%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.02%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.51%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Broadband
2 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) Intranet
3 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (33.67%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (25.13%) SQL Server
3 36 (18.09%) MySQL
4 24 (12.06%) Power BI
5 23 (11.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (8.04%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.04%) Oracle Database
8 13 (6.53%) RDBMS
9 12 (6.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (4.52%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.02%) Tableau
12 5 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.01%) Ataccama
13 4 (2.01%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (2.01%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (1.51%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 58 (29.15%) Git
2 7 (3.52%) GitLab
3 6 (3.02%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.02%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Bower
4 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.01%) JUnit
4 2 (1.01%) MSTest
4 2 (1.01%) NUnit
4 2 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) CMake
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) Mockito
5 1 (0.50%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) Valgrind
General
1 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.08%) Finance
4 20 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.54%) Law
7 11 (5.53%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.03%) Marketing
9 9 (4.52%) Retail
10 6 (3.02%) Social Housing
11 5 (2.51%) Banking
11 5 (2.51%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.51%) Legal
12 4 (2.01%) Back Office
13 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.51%) Front Office
13 3 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.01%) Aviation
14 2 (1.01%) Games
14 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (37.69%) Developer
2 49 (24.62%) Senior
3 33 (16.58%) Data Engineer
4 29 (14.57%) Senior Developer
5 26 (13.07%) Analyst
6 24 (12.06%) Lead
7 21 (10.55%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.53%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.03%) Systems Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Applications Support
12 8 (4.02%) Consultant
12 8 (4.02%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (4.02%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.02%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.11%) React
2 40 (20.10%) REST
3 39 (19.60%) CSS
4 36 (18.09%) HTML
5 28 (14.07%) .NET
6 23 (11.56%) Node.js
7 19 (9.55%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.04%) Spring
9 14 (7.04%) Kafka
10 13 (6.53%) FastAPI
10 13 (6.53%) PySpark
10 13 (6.53%) RESTful
11 12 (6.03%) jQuery
12 11 (5.53%) .NET Core
12 11 (5.53%) Flask
12 11 (5.53%) Vue
12 11 (5.53%) Web Services
13 10 (5.03%) .NET Framework
13 10 (5.03%) Entity Framework
13 10 (5.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.02%) CUDA
6 6 (3.02%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.01%) CCTV
9 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) Replication
10 1 (0.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Windows
3 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.70%) CI/CD
2 56 (28.14%) Software Engineering
3 54 (27.14%) Analytics
4 51 (25.63%) Agile
5 47 (23.62%) Data Modelling
5 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (18.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (18.09%) DevOps
9 35 (17.59%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (16.58%) Decision-Making
11 32 (16.08%) Microservices
12 31 (15.58%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (15.08%) AI
13 30 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (14.57%) Clean Code
15 28 (14.07%) ETL
16 27 (13.57%) Data Architecture
17 25 (12.56%) Data Engineering
17 25 (12.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 103 (51.76%) SQL
2 53 (26.63%) Python
3 51 (25.63%) JavaScript
4 33 (16.58%) Java
5 29 (14.57%) C#
6 27 (13.57%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.03%) PHP
8 6 (3.02%) VBA
9 4 (2.01%) R
9 4 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.51%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.51%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) Bash
11 2 (1.01%) Delphi
11 2 (1.01%) Pascal
12 1 (0.50%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.09%) Degree
2 16 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.54%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 27 (13.57%) GDPR
3 24 (12.06%) QA
4 5 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (21.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.55%) Terraform
3 4 (2.01%) Ansible
4 3 (1.51%) Grafana
4 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.50%) SCCM
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.07%) Oracle
3 16 (8.04%) Databricks
4 4 (2.01%) Google
4 4 (2.01%) IBM
4 4 (2.01%) Informatica
4 4 (2.01%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.51%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.50%) Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.50%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.50%) Palantir
7 1 (0.50%) Sage
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.50%) TippingPoint
218 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs