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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 176 157
Rank change year-on-year -120 -19 -39
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 134 460 528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.83% 1.97% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.88% 9.50% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 112 201 436
10th Percentile £38,325 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,283 £62,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% -2.34% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Database and 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 2,745 4,844 6,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.90% 20.75% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 3,275 5,164
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%

Relational Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Relational Database trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Relational Database
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Relational Database salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Luigi
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.75%) SAS
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.24%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.75%) FastStats
2 1 (0.75%) FastStats PeopleStage
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.33%) Azure
2 26 (19.40%) AWS
3 19 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.21%) SaaS
6 10 (7.46%) GitHub
7 7 (5.22%) GCP
8 5 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.99%) Boomi
9 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.99%) OCI
10 3 (2.24%) dbt
11 2 (1.49%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.49%) Pulumi
11 2 (1.49%) Serverless
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Broadband
1 2 (1.49%) DNS
1 2 (1.49%) Firewall
1 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) Internet
2 1 (0.75%) SAN
2 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.88%) SQL Server
2 30 (22.39%) RDBMS
3 26 (19.40%) MySQL
4 22 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (13.43%) Power BI
6 17 (12.69%) MongoDB
7 16 (11.94%) NoSQL
8 13 (9.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.99%) DB2
10 4 (2.99%) Metadata
10 4 (2.99%) Power Query
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.24%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (2.24%) MS Access
11 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.24%) Redis
11 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (21.64%) Git
2 14 (10.45%) JIRA
3 5 (3.73%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.24%) Moq
4 3 (2.24%) Postman
4 3 (2.24%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.49%) GitLab
5 2 (1.49%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.49%) JUnit
5 2 (1.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.75%) Gatling
6 1 (0.75%) JMeter
6 1 (0.75%) Mockito
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.75%) Subversion
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Finance
4 13 (9.70%) Retail
5 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.22%) Marketing
8 5 (3.73%) Advertising
8 5 (3.73%) Health Technology
8 5 (3.73%) Law
8 5 (3.73%) Legal
9 3 (2.24%) Back Office
9 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Games
10 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (35.07%) Developer
2 22 (16.42%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) Analyst
4 14 (10.45%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) DBA
8 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.22%) .NET Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.48%) Lead
10 6 (4.48%) SQL DBA
11 5 (3.73%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.73%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) .NET
2 16 (11.94%) XML
3 15 (11.19%) CSS
3 15 (11.19%) HTML
3 15 (11.19%) REST
4 14 (10.45%) JSON
4 14 (10.45%) Web Services
5 13 (9.70%) React
6 11 (8.21%) ASP.NET
6 11 (8.21%) Spring
6 11 (8.21%) Spring Boot
7 10 (7.46%) RESTful
8 9 (6.72%) Vue
9 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (5.97%) Kafka
10 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.22%) Node.js
11 6 (4.48%) OAuth
12 5 (3.73%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.99%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.99%) Clustering
4 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 12 (8.96%) Windows
3 7 (5.22%) Unix
4 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.49%) CentOS
5 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.75%) Debian
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.55%) Agile
2 35 (26.12%) DevOps
3 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (17.91%) Microservices
5 23 (17.16%) Software Engineering
6 18 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (13.43%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.69%) Test Automation
8 16 (11.94%) Data Modelling
8 16 (11.94%) ETL
9 15 (11.19%) Analytics
9 15 (11.19%) Scrum
10 14 (10.45%) Computer Science
10 14 (10.45%) Mentoring
11 13 (9.70%) Code Quality
11 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.70%) Data Analysis
12 12 (8.96%) Migration
13 11 (8.21%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (8.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.69%) SQL
2 35 (26.12%) Python
3 33 (24.63%) Java
4 23 (17.16%) C#
4 23 (17.16%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.70%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.97%) T-SQL
7 6 (4.48%) Bash
7 6 (4.48%) C++
7 6 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (4.48%) Go
7 6 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.73%) PHP
8 5 (3.73%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.24%) C
10 2 (1.49%) Fortran
10 2 (1.49%) Scala
10 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.49%) VBA
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (10.45%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (5.22%) DBS Check
3 6 (4.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.48%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.24%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) PhD
7 1 (0.75%) OCP
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 11 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.97%) GDPR
4 3 (2.24%) CDISC
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) HL7
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (18.66%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.24%) Ansible
3 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.49%) Argo
4 2 (1.49%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.75%) Kibana
5 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.75%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.96%) Oracle
3 5 (3.73%) Informatica
3 5 (3.73%) RedGate
3 5 (3.73%) Talend
4 4 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.24%) Adobe
5 3 (2.24%) DocuSign
5 3 (2.24%) Google
5 3 (2.24%) iManage
5 3 (2.24%) Intapp
5 3 (2.24%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.49%) Databricks
6 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.49%) Splunk
6 2 (1.49%) VMware
7 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.75%) Apteco
7 1 (0.75%) Guidewire