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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 213 172
Rank change year-on-year -44 -41 -19
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 133 200 622
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.54% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.11% 5.69% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 146 486
10th Percentile £31,450 £40,935 £39,418
25th Percentile £40,375 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +11.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £64,063 £80,000 £72,094
90th Percentile £81,500 £89,375 £83,759
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 2,175 3,518 7,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.89% 27.07% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 2,429 6,119
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,496 £66,367 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +15.42% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £92,600
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 25 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 (3.76%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.76%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.26%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) Mendix
5 1 (0.75%) Drupal
5 1 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (45.11%) AWS
2 36 (27.07%) Azure
3 19 (14.29%) Pulumi
4 13 (9.77%) GCP
4 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (9.02%) GitHub
6 11 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.26%) dbt
9 6 (4.51%) SaaS
9 6 (4.51%) Serverless
10 5 (3.76%) Boomi
10 5 (3.76%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.76%) Workato
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.01%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.26%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.26%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) Broadband
2 5 (3.76%) DNS
2 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.01%) DHCP
3 4 (3.01%) VPN
3 4 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
4 1 (0.75%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.80%) RDBMS
3 26 (19.55%) NoSQL
4 22 (16.54%) MySQL
5 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.02%) Oracle Database
7 7 (5.26%) Metadata
7 7 (5.26%) Power BI
8 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.26%) FileMaker
10 3 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Git
2 19 (14.29%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.26%) JIRA
4 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.01%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.01%) Selenium
6 3 (2.26%) JUnit
7 2 (1.50%) GitLab
7 2 (1.50%) Postman
7 2 (1.50%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.75%) Mockito
8 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (14.29%) Finance
4 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.03%) Law
5 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.26%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Retail
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Aviation
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) French Language
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Lead
3 24 (18.05%) Data Engineer
4 15 (11.28%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Analyst
6 11 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Architect
9 8 (6.02%) Data Architect
9 8 (6.02%) Team Leader
10 7 (5.26%) Applications Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Web Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Junior
12 5 (3.76%) Applications Support
12 5 (3.76%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.29%) CSS
1 23 (17.29%) HTML
2 22 (16.54%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (15.79%) React
4 20 (15.04%) REST
5 19 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (12.78%) .NET
7 15 (11.28%) Node.js
8 13 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 13 (9.77%) Vue
9 10 (7.52%) SOAP
10 9 (6.77%) Laravel
10 9 (6.77%) Web Services
11 8 (6.02%) JSON
11 8 (6.02%) RESTful
12 7 (5.26%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.26%) Spring
12 7 (5.26%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.51%) Kafka
13 6 (4.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.02%) Low-Code
2 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.01%) CCTV
4 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.01%) Legacy Code
4 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.26%) Blog
5 3 (2.26%) CUDA
5 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.26%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.81%) Linux
2 24 (18.05%) Unix
3 7 (5.26%) Windows
4 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) Agile
2 46 (34.59%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (32.33%) DevOps
4 37 (27.82%) Containerisation
5 29 (21.80%) Data Modelling
5 29 (21.80%) Mentoring
6 28 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (18.80%) Performance Optimisation
8 23 (17.29%) Analytics
8 23 (17.29%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
10 20 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (15.04%) ETL
10 20 (15.04%) High Availability
10 20 (15.04%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.04%) Task Automation
11 19 (14.29%) Budget Control
11 19 (14.29%) Product Management
11 19 (14.29%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.11%) JavaScript
2 57 (42.86%) Python
3 56 (42.11%) SQL
4 42 (31.58%) Java
5 21 (15.79%) C#
5 21 (15.79%) Go
6 19 (14.29%) Bash
7 18 (13.53%) PHP
8 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.51%) Delphi
11 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.01%) Pascal
13 2 (1.50%) Bicep
13 2 (1.50%) Ruby
13 2 (1.50%) Scala
13 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.75%) Dart
14 1 (0.75%) R
14 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (15.04%) AWS Certification
2 19 (14.29%) Degree
3 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.01%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.03%) GDPR
3 9 (6.77%) QA
4 2 (1.50%) HL7
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 33 (24.81%) Terraform
3 21 (15.79%) Ansible
3 21 (15.79%) Argo
4 20 (15.04%) Prometheus
5 19 (14.29%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.54%) Google
3 20 (15.04%) Oracle
4 6 (4.51%) SAP
5 5 (3.76%) Databricks
5 5 (3.76%) Dell
5 5 (3.76%) Epicor
5 5 (3.76%) IBM
5 5 (3.76%) IFS
5 5 (3.76%) Infor
5 5 (3.76%) Informatica
5 5 (3.76%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.76%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.76%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.76%) Software AG
5 5 (3.76%) Talend
5 5 (3.76%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.76%) Workday
6 2 (1.50%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.50%) OutSystems