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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 271 172
Rank change year-on-year -1 -99 -7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 200 153 468
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.93% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 5.28% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 151 126 231
10th Percentile £39,818 £38,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £72,000 £70,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -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 3,139 2,898 5,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.45% 17.55% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,503 2,056 3,663
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £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 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £135,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 5 (2.50%) Apache
2 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Moodle
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.00%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.50%) Finacle
3 1 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
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
3 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.50%) AWS
2 57 (28.50%) Azure
3 29 (14.50%) Power Platform
4 27 (13.50%) GitHub
5 19 (9.50%) GCP
5 19 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (9.00%) Serverless
7 13 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.50%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Broadband
2 2 (1.00%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) LAN
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
3 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (34.50%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (25.50%) SQL Server
3 37 (18.50%) MySQL
4 27 (13.50%) Power BI
5 20 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.50%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.50%) Oracle Database
7 11 (5.50%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.00%) Tableau
11 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.00%) Ataccama
12 4 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.00%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (2.00%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 61 (30.50%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) GitLab
2 7 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.00%) Bower
4 2 (1.00%) JUnit
4 2 (1.00%) MSTest
4 2 (1.00%) NUnit
4 2 (1.00%) 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%) Mocha
5 1 (0.50%) Mockito
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) Valgrind
General
1 61 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.00%) Finance
4 22 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.50%) Law
7 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.00%) Marketing
9 8 (4.00%) Retail
10 7 (3.50%) Banking
11 6 (3.00%) Social Housing
12 5 (2.50%) Health Technology
12 5 (2.50%) Legal
13 3 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.50%) Back Office
13 3 (1.50%) Front Office
13 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.00%) Aviation
14 2 (1.00%) Games
14 2 (1.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 79 (39.50%) Developer
2 49 (24.50%) Senior
3 29 (14.50%) Senior Developer
4 28 (14.00%) Data Engineer
5 24 (12.00%) Analyst
5 24 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Lead
7 13 (6.50%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) C# Developer
9 11 (5.50%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
10 10 (5.00%) Systems Developer
11 8 (4.00%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.00%) Applications Support
11 8 (4.00%) Consultant
11 8 (4.00%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.00%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.00%) CSS
1 46 (23.00%) React
2 43 (21.50%) REST
3 42 (21.00%) HTML
4 30 (15.00%) .NET
5 25 (12.50%) Node.js
6 22 (11.00%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.50%) Terraform
8 18 (9.00%) Spring
9 15 (7.50%) .NET Core
10 14 (7.00%) .NET Framework
10 14 (7.00%) Entity Framework
10 14 (7.00%) PySpark
10 14 (7.00%) RESTful
11 13 (6.50%) FastAPI
11 13 (6.50%) jQuery
11 13 (6.50%) Kafka
11 13 (6.50%) Web Services
12 11 (5.50%) Flask
12 11 (5.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.50%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.00%) CUDA
7 5 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.00%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.50%) CMDB
9 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.00%) Replication
11 1 (0.50%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.50%) CI/CD
2 63 (31.50%) Software Engineering
3 61 (30.50%) Agile
4 50 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (24.50%) Analytics
6 47 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (23.00%) Data Modelling
8 39 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (18.50%) DevOps
11 34 (17.00%) AI
12 33 (16.50%) Microservices
13 32 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (15.00%) Decision-Making
15 29 (14.50%) Clean Code
16 27 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 25 (12.50%) Scrum
18 24 (12.00%) Data Architecture
19 22 (11.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 105 (52.50%) SQL
2 55 (27.50%) JavaScript
3 54 (27.00%) Python
4 33 (16.50%) Java
5 31 (15.50%) C#
5 31 (15.50%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.50%) PHP
7 6 (3.00%) VBA
8 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.50%) R
9 3 (1.50%) Scala
9 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.00%) Bash
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) Dart
10 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.50%) Go
11 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.50%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.00%) GDPR
3 24 (12.00%) QA
4 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (22.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) Ansible
3 3 (1.50%) Grafana
3 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.50%) Oracle
3 17 (8.50%) Databricks
4 4 (2.00%) IBM
4 4 (2.00%) Informatica
4 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.00%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.50%) Google
5 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.50%) SAP
6 2 (1.00%) Sage
7 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.50%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.50%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.50%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.50%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) Temenos
7 1 (0.50%) TippingPoint