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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 247 180
Rank change year-on-year -2 -67 -28
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 172 206 587
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.39% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 6.30% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 114 157 455
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,400 £87,500 £88,250
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 2,526 3,271 7,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.17% 22.03% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,178 6,255
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,864 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 3 June 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 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.74%) Apache
3 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.74%) CMS
4 2 (1.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) Drupal
5 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Moodle
5 1 (0.58%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.63%) AWS
2 41 (23.84%) Azure
3 18 (10.47%) Power Platform
3 18 (10.47%) Pulumi
4 17 (9.88%) GCP
5 9 (5.23%) GitHub
5 9 (5.23%) Serverless
6 8 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.07%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.91%) dbt
9 5 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.91%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.53%) Broadband
2 5 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.33%) DHCP
3 4 (2.33%) DNS
3 4 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.58%) Firewall
4 1 (0.58%) LAN
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.42%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (17.44%) RDBMS
3 29 (16.86%) NoSQL
4 26 (15.12%) SQL Server
5 21 (12.21%) MySQL
6 18 (10.47%) Power BI
7 17 (9.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (8.14%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.98%) Oracle Database
10 8 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.49%) Metadata
12 5 (2.91%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.91%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.74%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.16%) FileMaker
14 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (22.67%) Git
2 18 (10.47%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.07%) GitLab
4 4 (2.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.16%) MSTest
5 2 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) CMake
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Valgrind
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (15.12%) Finance
4 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.40%) Retail
6 10 (5.81%) Law
7 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.49%) Social Housing
8 5 (2.91%) Banking
8 5 (2.91%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.91%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Front Office
9 4 (2.33%) Marketing
10 3 (1.74%) Aviation
10 3 (1.74%) Back Office
11 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (32.56%) Developer
2 37 (21.51%) Data Engineer
3 32 (18.60%) Lead
4 28 (16.28%) Senior
5 26 (15.12%) Analyst
6 16 (9.30%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.98%) Systems Developer
8 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Data Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.65%) Architect
12 7 (4.07%) Applications Support
12 7 (4.07%) Team Leader
13 6 (3.49%) Data Architect
13 6 (3.49%) Senior Applications Developer
13 6 (3.49%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.12%) CSS
2 25 (14.53%) HTML
3 23 (13.37%) REST
4 22 (12.79%) React
5 19 (11.05%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (10.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 15 (8.72%) Kafka
7 15 (8.72%) Node.js
8 13 (7.56%) .NET
9 11 (6.40%) FastAPI
9 11 (6.40%) jQuery
10 10 (5.81%) PySpark
11 9 (5.23%) HTML5
12 8 (4.65%) Flask
12 8 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (4.65%) Vue
13 7 (4.07%) Spring
14 6 (3.49%) Classic ASP
14 6 (3.49%) Web Services
15 5 (2.91%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.49%) CUDA
4 6 (3.49%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.33%) CCTV
6 4 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.74%) Blog
7 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.16%) Replication
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.02%) Linux
2 18 (10.47%) Unix
3 8 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.07%) CI/CD
2 46 (26.74%) Analytics
3 45 (26.16%) Agile
4 44 (25.58%) Data Modelling
5 40 (23.26%) DevOps
6 39 (22.67%) Containerisation
7 37 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (19.19%) ETL
9 33 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (17.44%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (16.86%) Decision-Making
12 29 (16.86%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.86%) Software Engineering
13 27 (15.70%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (15.70%) Data Engineering
14 26 (15.12%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (14.53%) Data Architecture
15 25 (14.53%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.77%) SQL
2 64 (37.21%) Python
3 55 (31.98%) JavaScript
4 36 (20.93%) Java
5 19 (11.05%) Bash
5 19 (11.05%) Go
6 15 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.14%) C#
8 13 (7.56%) PHP
9 6 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.91%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.33%) Delphi
11 4 (2.33%) Pascal
12 3 (1.74%) R
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Scala
13 2 (1.16%) VBA
14 1 (0.58%) ABAP
14 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (12.21%) Degree
2 18 (10.47%) AWS Certification
3 14 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.86%) Data Quality
2 23 (13.37%) GDPR
3 16 (9.30%) QA
4 5 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.16%) WCAG
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (29.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.93%) Terraform
3 21 (12.21%) Ansible
3 21 (12.21%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.47%) Argo
4 18 (10.47%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.58%) SCCM
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.37%) Oracle
3 22 (12.79%) Google
4 11 (6.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.16%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.58%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.58%) Palantir
6 1 (0.58%) Perforce
6 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) Solace