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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 260 198
Rank change year-on-year +10 -62 -38
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 194 185 510
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.12% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.47% 5.74% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 138 149 382
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,620 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.31%
75th Percentile £69,688 £77,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £88,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,501
% 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 2,998 3,221 6,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.91% 19.53% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,401 2,161 5,261
10th Percentile £36,631 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,672 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £59,063
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.85% -5.50%

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 19 July 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 (2.58%) Apache
1 5 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.55%) CMS
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Moodle
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.96%) AWS
2 48 (24.74%) Azure
3 24 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.31%) GCP
5 14 (7.22%) GitHub
6 12 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.19%) Serverless
7 9 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.61%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.09%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.09%) Pulumi
9 6 (3.09%) SaaS
10 5 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.58%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Broadband
2 5 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.06%) DHCP
3 4 (2.06%) DNS
3 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.06%) VPN
4 2 (1.03%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.41%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (18.04%) SQL Server
3 30 (15.46%) MySQL
4 24 (12.37%) Power BI
5 23 (11.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (11.34%) RDBMS
7 19 (9.79%) MongoDB
8 17 (8.76%) NoSQL
9 14 (7.22%) Oracle Database
10 11 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.58%) Tableau
12 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.55%) Ataccama
13 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.55%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.55%) Metadata
13 3 (1.55%) TIBCO EBX
14 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (24.74%) Git
2 7 (3.61%) GitLab
3 6 (3.09%) Jaeger
3 6 (3.09%) JIRA
4 5 (2.58%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.03%) Bower
5 2 (1.03%) JUnit
5 2 (1.03%) MSTest
5 2 (1.03%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) CMake
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.52%) Maven
6 1 (0.52%) Mockito
6 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 51 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.92%) Finance
3 26 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.15%) Marketing
6 10 (5.15%) Retail
7 9 (4.64%) Law
8 8 (4.12%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.09%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.58%) Legal
11 4 (2.06%) Back Office
11 4 (2.06%) Banking
12 3 (1.55%) Aviation
12 3 (1.55%) Front Office
13 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.03%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (35.57%) Developer
2 40 (20.62%) Senior
3 34 (17.53%) Data Engineer
4 29 (14.95%) Analyst
4 29 (14.95%) Lead
5 20 (10.31%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (6.70%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.19%) Systems Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.12%) Consultant
11 8 (4.12%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.61%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.61%) Architect
13 6 (3.09%) Data Analytics Analyst
13 6 (3.09%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
13 6 (3.09%) Marketing Analytics Data Analyst
13 6 (3.09%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.01%) REST
2 32 (16.49%) CSS
3 31 (15.98%) HTML
3 31 (15.98%) React
4 23 (11.86%) Node.js
5 16 (8.25%) Kafka
6 14 (7.22%) FastAPI
6 14 (7.22%) Vue
7 13 (6.70%) .NET
8 12 (6.19%) jQuery
8 12 (6.19%) RESTful
8 12 (6.19%) Spring
9 11 (5.67%) Flask
10 10 (5.15%) Web Services
11 9 (4.64%) HTML5
11 9 (4.64%) PySpark
11 9 (4.64%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.61%) Laravel
13 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.09%) CUDA
5 6 (3.09%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.58%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.06%) CCTV
7 4 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.55%) Replication
9 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.03%) Blog
9 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.82%) Linux
2 8 (4.12%) Windows
3 6 (3.09%) Unix
4 4 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.05%) CI/CD
2 51 (26.29%) Analytics
3 44 (22.68%) Data Modelling
4 43 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (21.13%) Agile
6 40 (20.62%) Software Engineering
7 39 (20.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (18.04%) DevOps
9 33 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (16.49%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (16.49%) Decision-Making
11 31 (15.98%) ETL
11 31 (15.98%) Microservices
12 30 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (15.46%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
13 28 (14.43%) Mentoring
14 26 (13.40%) Data Engineering
15 24 (12.37%) AI
16 23 (11.86%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (48.45%) SQL
2 56 (28.87%) Python
3 53 (27.32%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.56%) Java
5 22 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.76%) PHP
7 14 (7.22%) C#
8 8 (4.12%) Bash
9 7 (3.61%) Go
10 6 (3.09%) VBA
11 5 (2.58%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.06%) Delphi
12 4 (2.06%) Pascal
12 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.55%) R
14 1 (0.52%) ABAP
14 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.52%) Scala
14 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (12.89%) Degree
2 16 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 23 (11.86%) GDPR
3 21 (10.82%) QA
4 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.03%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (24.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.01%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.95%) Terraform
3 10 (5.15%) Ansible
3 10 (5.15%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.09%) Argo
4 6 (3.09%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.06%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.43%) Oracle
3 11 (5.67%) Google
4 10 (5.15%) Databricks
5 3 (1.55%) IBM
5 3 (1.55%) Informatica
5 3 (1.55%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (0.52%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.52%) Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Solace
7 1 (0.52%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.52%) TippingPoint