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

 6 months to
12 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 237 176
Rank change year-on-year -16 -61 -18
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 153 205 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.41% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.32% 5.86% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 102 153 464
10th Percentile £36,275 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,749 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,800 £86,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 2,419 3,500 7,281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.10% 24.06% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,839 2,373 6,211
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £95,700
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 12 May 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 7 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.96%) CMS
4 2 (1.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Drupal
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.65%) JBoss
5 1 (0.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.95%) AWS
2 39 (25.49%) Azure
3 18 (11.76%) Pulumi
4 16 (10.46%) GCP
5 13 (8.50%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.88%) GitHub
8 7 (4.58%) dbt
8 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.92%) Serverless
10 5 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.61%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.96%) DigitalOcean
13 2 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.34%) Broadband
2 5 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.61%) DHCP
3 4 (2.61%) DNS
3 4 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.65%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 26 (16.99%) NoSQL
4 21 (13.73%) MySQL
4 21 (13.73%) SQL Server
5 13 (8.50%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.50%) Power BI
6 12 (7.84%) Oracle Database
6 12 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (5.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (4.58%) Metadata
9 5 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.27%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.96%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.96%) FileMaker
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.31%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.65%) GIS
Development Applications
1 34 (22.22%) Git
2 18 (11.76%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.58%) GitLab
4 4 (2.61%) Selenium
5 3 (1.96%) JIRA
6 2 (1.31%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.31%) MSTest
6 2 (1.31%) Postman
6 2 (1.31%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Finance
3 23 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.23%) Retail
6 6 (3.92%) Law
7 5 (3.27%) Banking
7 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.61%) Front Office
8 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.96%) Aviation
9 3 (1.96%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.96%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.31%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
11 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 46 (30.07%) Developer
2 39 (25.49%) Data Engineer
3 28 (18.30%) Lead
4 24 (15.69%) Senior
5 19 (12.42%) Analyst
6 14 (9.15%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Applications Developer
8 9 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.23%) Systems Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.92%) Architect
11 6 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Applications Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Applications Support
11 6 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.27%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.03%) CSS
2 22 (14.38%) HTML
3 21 (13.73%) REST
4 19 (12.42%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (12.42%) React
5 18 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (9.80%) .NET
7 13 (8.50%) Node.js
8 11 (7.19%) Kafka
9 10 (6.54%) PySpark
10 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
10 8 (5.23%) Vue
11 7 (4.58%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.92%) Classic ASP
12 6 (3.92%) Django
12 6 (3.92%) jQuery
13 5 (3.27%) HTML5
13 5 (3.27%) Laravel
13 5 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.27%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.92%) CUDA
3 6 (3.92%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.27%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.61%) CCTV
5 4 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.96%) Blog
6 3 (1.96%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.31%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.65%) Linux
2 18 (11.76%) Unix
3 7 (4.58%) Windows
4 4 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.41%) Agile
2 44 (28.76%) DevOps
3 42 (27.45%) CI/CD
4 41 (26.80%) Data Modelling
5 40 (26.14%) Analytics
6 36 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 34 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (20.92%) ETL
8 32 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (20.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (18.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 27 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (17.65%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.34%) Data Architecture
12 25 (16.34%) GitOps
13 24 (15.69%) Software Engineering
14 23 (15.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (15.03%) Mentoring
15 22 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (13.73%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (45.10%) SQL
2 59 (38.56%) Python
3 50 (32.68%) JavaScript
4 35 (22.88%) Java
5 20 (13.07%) Go
6 18 (11.76%) Bash
7 14 (9.15%) C#
7 14 (9.15%) PHP
8 9 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.61%) Delphi
10 4 (2.61%) Pascal
10 4 (2.61%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.31%) Bicep
11 2 (1.31%) Ruby
11 2 (1.31%) Scala
11 2 (1.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.65%) R
12 1 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.07%) Degree
2 19 (12.42%) AWS Certification
3 13 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.54%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.31%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 18 (11.76%) QA
3 17 (11.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (30.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.22%) Terraform
3 21 (13.73%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.07%) Ansible
4 20 (13.07%) Argo
5 18 (11.76%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.65%) SCCM
7 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.73%) Oracle
3 20 (13.07%) Google
4 11 (7.19%) Databricks
5 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.65%) Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.65%) Palantir
6 1 (0.65%) Perforce
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) SAP
6 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.65%) Solace
102 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs