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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 185 150
Rank change year-on-year -87 -35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 132 370 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.86% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 8.14% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 112 139 390
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £86,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 2,373 4,547 5,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 22.89% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 2,743 4,426
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,325 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £81,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.83%

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 8 November 2025.

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 (3.79%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.52%) CMS
3 2 (1.52%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.52%) Mendix
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Luigi
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Shopify
2 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.76%) FastStats
3 1 (0.76%) FastStats PeopleStage
Cloud Services
1 55 (41.67%) Azure
2 35 (26.52%) AWS
3 22 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.36%) GitHub
5 13 (9.85%) Power Platform
6 11 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.58%) SaaS
8 6 (4.55%) Boomi
8 6 (4.55%) GCP
8 6 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.79%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.79%) Serverless
9 5 (3.79%) Workato
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.27%) Figma
10 3 (2.27%) Firebase
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Broadband
1 2 (1.52%) DNS
1 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) SAN
2 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.03%) SQL Server
2 32 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (19.70%) MySQL
4 22 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 13 (9.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (9.09%) Power BI
7 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 10 (7.58%) MongoDB
9 8 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.27%) DB2
10 3 (2.27%) Power Query
10 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (23.48%) Git
2 13 (9.85%) JIRA
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.03%) JUnit
6 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.27%) GitLab
6 3 (2.27%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.52%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.52%) Mockito
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Finance
4 19 (14.39%) Law
5 14 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.09%) Legal
7 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 11 (8.33%) Retail
8 6 (4.55%) Marketing
9 5 (3.79%) Advertising
9 5 (3.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.52%) Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Games
10 2 (1.52%) German Language
10 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Front Office
11 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (38.64%) Developer
2 21 (15.91%) Analyst
3 16 (12.12%) Senior
4 15 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.82%) DBA
7 8 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.30%) Junior
9 6 (4.55%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.55%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.79%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.79%) Development Support Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) IT Analyst
10 5 (3.79%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.45%) .NET
2 25 (18.94%) CSS
3 24 (18.18%) HTML
4 21 (15.91%) REST
5 20 (15.15%) React
6 19 (14.39%) JSON
7 17 (12.88%) Web Services
7 17 (12.88%) XML
8 16 (12.12%) RESTful
9 14 (10.61%) Spring
10 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
10 13 (9.85%) Node.js
10 13 (9.85%) Spring Boot
10 13 (9.85%) Vue
11 12 (9.09%) .NET Core
12 11 (8.33%) ASP.NET
13 10 (7.58%) SOAP
14 7 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (5.30%) Next.js
15 6 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.03%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.03%) Clustering
6 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.27%) CMDB
7 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Windows
3 9 (6.82%) Unix
4 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.21%) Agile
2 44 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (30.30%) DevOps
4 30 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
6 25 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (15.15%) Scrum
8 19 (14.39%) Code Quality
9 16 (12.12%) SDLC
10 15 (11.36%) Clean Code
10 15 (11.36%) Data Modelling
10 15 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 15 (11.36%) Web Development
11 14 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.61%) ETL
11 14 (10.61%) Microservices
11 14 (10.61%) OOP
12 13 (9.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.82%) SQL
2 41 (31.06%) JavaScript
3 39 (29.55%) Python
4 32 (24.24%) C#
5 31 (23.48%) Java
6 10 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.06%) PHP
8 7 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.30%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.55%) Go
9 6 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.03%) Bash
10 4 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.52%) Delphi
11 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.52%) Scala
11 2 (1.52%) VBA
12 1 (0.76%) C++
12 1 (0.76%) COBOL
12 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (12.12%) Degree
2 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.30%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) QA
2 12 (9.09%) GDPR
3 9 (6.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.52%) HL7
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.30%) Terraform
3 5 (3.79%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Argo
4 2 (1.52%) Grafana
4 2 (1.52%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.76%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Oracle
3 10 (7.58%) Informatica
3 10 (7.58%) Talend
4 6 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.55%) SAP
5 5 (3.79%) Dell
5 5 (3.79%) Epicor
5 5 (3.79%) IBM
5 5 (3.79%) IFS
5 5 (3.79%) Infor
5 5 (3.79%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.79%) RedGate
5 5 (3.79%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.79%) Software AG
5 5 (3.79%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.79%) Workday
6 3 (2.27%) Google
6 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.52%) HubSpot