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

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 296 180
Rank change year-on-year +24 -116 -23
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 199 132 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 0.81% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.23% 4.79% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 148 111 206
10th Percentile £39,047 £39,000 £41,228
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,565 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.48% -11.10% -2.34%
75th Percentile £73,656 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,193 2,758 4,863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.32% 16.98% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,514 1,929 3,365
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £142,500
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 11 September 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 (2.01%) Apache
2 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.51%) IIS
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
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%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) 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
2 2 (1.01%) 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 61 (30.65%) AWS
2 55 (27.64%) Azure
3 29 (14.57%) GitHub
3 29 (14.57%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (9.55%) Serverless
6 17 (8.54%) GCP
7 14 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.53%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (3.52%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.52%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.02%) SaaS
12 5 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.51%) Datadog
12 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) 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 68 (34.17%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (26.13%) SQL Server
3 38 (19.10%) MySQL
4 27 (13.57%) Power BI
5 19 (9.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.53%) RDBMS
8 9 (4.52%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 8 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.52%) Tableau
11 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.01%) Ataccama
12 4 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.01%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (2.01%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 59 (29.65%) Git
2 8 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.52%) GitLab
3 7 (3.52%) JIRA
4 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.51%) JUnit
5 2 (1.01%) Bower
5 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.01%) Maven
5 2 (1.01%) Mockito
5 2 (1.01%) MSTest
5 2 (1.01%) NUnit
5 2 (1.01%) Selenium
5 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.50%) CMake
6 1 (0.50%) Mocha
6 1 (0.50%) Valgrind
General
1 61 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Finance
3 22 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.55%) Law
6 15 (7.54%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.53%) Marketing
8 9 (4.52%) Retail
9 7 (3.52%) Banking
10 6 (3.02%) Social Housing
11 5 (2.51%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.51%) Legal
12 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.51%) Back Office
12 3 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.01%) Aviation
13 2 (1.01%) Front Office
13 2 (1.01%) Games
13 2 (1.01%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 83 (41.71%) Developer
2 49 (24.62%) Senior
3 29 (14.57%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.56%) Data Engineer
4 25 (12.56%) Software Engineer
5 24 (12.06%) Analyst
6 23 (11.56%) Lead
7 13 (6.53%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.03%) C# Developer
8 12 (6.03%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.03%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.03%) Senior C# Developer
9 10 (5.03%) Systems Developer
10 9 (4.52%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.52%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.02%) Consultant
11 8 (4.02%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.52%) Applications Support
13 6 (3.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.12%) CSS
2 46 (23.12%) React
3 44 (22.11%) HTML
4 41 (20.60%) REST
5 32 (16.08%) .NET
6 26 (13.07%) Node.js
7 23 (11.56%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.05%) Spring
9 17 (8.54%) .NET Core
9 17 (8.54%) .NET Framework
9 17 (8.54%) Entity Framework
9 17 (8.54%) RESTful
10 16 (8.04%) Terraform
11 15 (7.54%) jQuery
12 13 (6.53%) Spring Boot
12 13 (6.53%) Web Services
13 12 (6.03%) Kafka
13 12 (6.03%) PySpark
14 11 (5.53%) Flask
14 11 (5.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.01%) CUDA
7 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.51%) CMDB
9 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.01%) Replication
10 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.02%) Linux
1 8 (4.02%) Windows
2 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.70%) CI/CD
2 65 (32.66%) Agile
3 63 (31.66%) Software Engineering
4 50 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.61%) Analytics
7 42 (21.11%) Data Modelling
8 40 (20.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (19.60%) DevOps
10 37 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (18.09%) AI
12 34 (17.09%) Microservices
13 29 (14.57%) Clean Code
13 29 (14.57%) Decision-Making
13 29 (14.57%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (13.07%) Mentoring
14 26 (13.07%) Scrum
15 24 (12.06%) Test Automation
16 23 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (11.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 106 (53.27%) SQL
2 56 (28.14%) JavaScript
3 51 (25.63%) Python
4 34 (17.09%) Java
5 33 (16.58%) C#
6 32 (16.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.52%) PHP
8 6 (3.02%) VBA
9 5 (2.51%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.51%) R
10 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.01%) Bash
11 2 (1.01%) C
11 2 (1.01%) Dart
11 2 (1.01%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (16.08%) Degree
2 21 (10.55%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.57%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.07%) QA
3 24 (12.06%) GDPR
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 46 (23.12%) Docker
2 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.51%) Ansible
3 4 (2.01%) Grafana
4 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.50%) Kibana
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.56%) Oracle
3 15 (7.54%) Databricks
4 4 (2.01%) IBM
4 4 (2.01%) Informatica
4 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.01%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.51%) Google
5 3 (1.51%) Sage
5 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.51%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.01%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.50%) FIS
7 1 (0.50%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.50%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.50%) TippingPoint
593 Relational Database jobs Nationwide