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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 169 136
Rank change year-on-year -89 -33 +14
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 116 331 551
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 2.03% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.52% 7.99% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 84 119 414
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,057 £39,750
25th Percentile £38,625 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +2.01% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% +2.01% -4.00%

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 2,101 4,141 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.70% 25.42% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,561 2,452 4,701
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 20 January 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 (4.31%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.72%) CMS
3 2 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.72%) Mendix
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.86%) Confluence
4 1 (0.86%) Luigi
4 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
4 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.38%) AWS
2 39 (33.62%) Azure
3 19 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.07%) Pulumi
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub
5 12 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.03%) GCP
6 7 (6.03%) Serverless
7 6 (5.17%) Boomi
7 6 (5.17%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.17%) SaaS
8 5 (4.31%) iPaaS
8 5 (4.31%) Workato
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.59%) dbt
10 3 (2.59%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.86%) Internet
3 1 (0.86%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (20.69%) SQL Server
3 23 (19.83%) RDBMS
4 21 (18.10%) MySQL
5 20 (17.24%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.31%) Metadata
6 5 (4.31%) Power BI
6 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.72%) FileMaker
9 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.86%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 21 (18.10%) Git
2 14 (12.07%) Jaeger
3 8 (6.90%) JIRA
4 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.45%) JUnit
5 4 (3.45%) Selenium
6 3 (2.59%) GitLab
7 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.72%) Mockito
7 2 (1.72%) Postman
7 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 18 (15.52%) Law
4 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.62%) Legal
6 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.17%) Retail
8 5 (4.31%) Marketing
9 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.72%) Banking
10 2 (1.72%) Electronics
10 2 (1.72%) Front Office
10 2 (1.72%) German Language
10 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.86%) Advertising
11 1 (0.86%) Back Office
11 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Local Government
11 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) Analyst
2 15 (12.93%) Lead
3 14 (12.07%) Senior
4 13 (11.21%) Software Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.17%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.17%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) Team Leader
6 6 (5.17%) Tester
7 5 (4.31%) .NET Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Architect
7 5 (4.31%) Development Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Development Support Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.41%) CSS
2 25 (21.55%) HTML
3 23 (19.83%) React
4 22 (18.97%) REST
5 20 (17.24%) .NET
6 19 (16.38%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (14.66%) JSON
8 16 (13.79%) AngularJS
9 14 (12.07%) Node.js
9 14 (12.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 14 (12.07%) Vue
9 14 (12.07%) XML
10 13 (11.21%) Web Services
11 12 (10.34%) RESTful
11 12 (10.34%) SOAP
12 10 (8.62%) .NET Core
13 9 (7.76%) Spring
14 8 (6.90%) Spring Boot
15 6 (5.17%) .NET Framework
15 6 (5.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.90%) Low-Code
1 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.59%) CMDB
4 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.72%) Semantic Web
6 1 (0.86%) Clustering
6 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.86%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.97%) Linux
2 19 (16.38%) Unix
3 6 (5.17%) Windows
3 6 (5.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Agile
2 47 (40.52%) DevOps
3 41 (35.34%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (25.86%) CI/CD
5 28 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 24 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 21 (18.10%) Software Engineering
8 20 (17.24%) Scrum
9 19 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (16.38%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (16.38%) Performance Optimisation
10 17 (14.66%) High Availability
10 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
11 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (12.93%) Code Quality
12 15 (12.93%) Data Modelling
12 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.93%) Resource Management
13 14 (12.07%) Budget Control
13 14 (12.07%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.55%) JavaScript
1 54 (46.55%) SQL
2 47 (40.52%) Python
3 37 (31.90%) Java
4 25 (21.55%) C#
5 19 (16.38%) Go
6 15 (12.93%) Bash
7 9 (7.76%) PHP
7 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.59%) Ruby
11 2 (1.72%) Delphi
11 2 (1.72%) Scala
11 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.72%) VBA
12 1 (0.86%) Bicep
12 1 (0.86%) Groovy
12 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) AWS Certification
1 15 (12.93%) Degree
2 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.03%) ISTQB
4 7 (6.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.59%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (6.03%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) HL7
5 1 (0.86%) IFRS
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.38%) Terraform
3 17 (14.66%) Ansible
4 16 (13.79%) Argo
5 14 (12.07%) Kustomize
5 14 (12.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.72%) Grafana
6 2 (1.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.86%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (12.93%) Google
2 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.34%) Oracle
4 7 (6.03%) SAP
5 6 (5.17%) Informatica
5 6 (5.17%) MuleSoft
5 6 (5.17%) Talend
6 5 (4.31%) Dell
6 5 (4.31%) Epicor
6 5 (4.31%) IBM
6 5 (4.31%) IFS
6 5 (4.31%) Infor
6 5 (4.31%) Jitterbit
6 5 (4.31%) SnapLogic
6 5 (4.31%) Software AG
6 5 (4.31%) TIBCO
6 5 (4.31%) Workday
7 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.72%) HubSpot