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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 248 185
Rank change year-on-year +5 -63 -34
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 177 199 593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.32% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.90% 6.06% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 116 154 450
10th Percentile £36,375 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £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 £77,250 £86,375 £89,000
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 2,564 3,283 7,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.18% 21.72% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 2,199 6,274
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 £79,336 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 10 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 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.26%) Apache
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.13%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Moodle
5 1 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.56%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.72%) AWS
2 42 (23.73%) Azure
3 19 (10.73%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.17%) Pulumi
5 17 (9.60%) GCP
6 10 (5.65%) Serverless
7 9 (5.08%) GitHub
8 8 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.82%) dbt
10 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.12%) Broadband
2 5 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.26%) DHCP
3 4 (2.26%) DNS
3 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.86%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (18.08%) RDBMS
3 29 (16.38%) NoSQL
4 27 (15.25%) SQL Server
5 21 (11.86%) MySQL
6 19 (10.73%) Power BI
7 18 (10.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (7.91%) MongoDB
9 13 (7.34%) Oracle Database
10 8 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.39%) Metadata
12 5 (2.82%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.69%) Tableau
14 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.13%) FileMaker
14 2 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (22.60%) Git
2 18 (10.17%) Jaeger
3 7 (3.95%) GitLab
4 5 (2.82%) JIRA
5 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.13%) MSTest
6 2 (1.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Bower
7 1 (0.56%) CMake
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Valgrind
General
1 47 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (14.69%) Finance
4 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Retail
6 10 (5.65%) Law
7 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.39%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.82%) Banking
9 5 (2.82%) Health Technology
9 5 (2.82%) Legal
9 5 (2.82%) Marketing
10 4 (2.26%) Front Office
11 3 (1.69%) Aviation
11 3 (1.69%) Back Office
12 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.13%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (32.77%) Developer
2 37 (20.90%) Data Engineer
3 32 (18.08%) Lead
4 30 (16.95%) Senior
5 26 (14.69%) Analyst
6 17 (9.60%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Systems Developer
8 11 (6.21%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Data Analyst
10 9 (5.08%) Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.95%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.95%) Team Leader
13 6 (3.39%) Data Architect
13 6 (3.39%) Senior Applications Developer
13 6 (3.39%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.25%) CSS
2 26 (14.69%) HTML
3 24 (13.56%) React
3 24 (13.56%) REST
4 19 (10.73%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (10.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (9.04%) Kafka
7 15 (8.47%) Node.js
8 12 (6.78%) .NET
8 12 (6.78%) FastAPI
9 11 (6.21%) jQuery
10 10 (5.65%) PySpark
11 9 (5.08%) Flask
11 9 (5.08%) HTML5
11 9 (5.08%) Vue
12 8 (4.52%) Spring
12 8 (4.52%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (3.95%) Web Services
14 6 (3.39%) Classic ASP
15 5 (2.82%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.39%) CUDA
4 6 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.39%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.26%) CCTV
6 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Blog
7 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.13%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.08%) Linux
2 18 (10.17%) Unix
3 8 (4.52%) Windows
4 4 (2.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) CI/CD
2 47 (26.55%) Agile
2 47 (26.55%) Analytics
3 46 (25.99%) Data Modelling
4 41 (23.16%) DevOps
5 40 (22.60%) Containerisation
6 38 (21.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (18.64%) ETL
10 32 (18.08%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (17.51%) Decision-Making
12 30 (16.95%) Performance Optimisation
13 29 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (16.38%) Mentoring
13 29 (16.38%) Software Engineering
14 27 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (15.25%) Data Engineering
15 25 (14.12%) Data Architecture
15 25 (14.12%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.20%) SQL
2 65 (36.72%) Python
3 55 (31.07%) JavaScript
4 37 (20.90%) Java
5 19 (10.73%) Bash
5 19 (10.73%) Go
6 16 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.91%) PHP
8 13 (7.34%) C#
9 6 (3.39%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.26%) Delphi
11 4 (2.26%) Pascal
12 3 (1.69%) R
13 2 (1.13%) Bicep
13 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.13%) Scala
13 2 (1.13%) VBA
14 1 (0.56%) ABAP
14 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 22 (12.43%) Degree
2 18 (10.17%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.95%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.38%) Data Quality
2 23 (12.99%) GDPR
3 16 (9.04%) QA
4 5 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.13%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 53 (29.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (24.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (20.90%) Terraform
3 21 (11.86%) Ansible
3 21 (11.86%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.17%) Argo
4 18 (10.17%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.56%) Oracle
3 22 (12.43%) Google
4 11 (6.21%) Databricks
5 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.13%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.56%) Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Solace
6 1 (0.56%) TippingPoint