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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 276 206
Rank change year-on-year +6 -70 -42
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 193 168 408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.01% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.23% 5.30% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 141 138 288
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,840 £74,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 3,100 3,170 5,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 19.11% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 2,123 4,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £37,880
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -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 2 August 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 6 (3.11%) Apache
1 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Drupal
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Moodle
4 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.52%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.98%) AWS
1 54 (27.98%) Azure
2 26 (13.47%) Power Platform
3 18 (9.33%) GCP
4 17 (8.81%) GitHub
5 14 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.22%) Serverless
7 9 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.15%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.11%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.11%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.59%) SaaS
11 4 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Broadband
2 4 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.55%) DHCP
3 3 (1.55%) DNS
3 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.55%) VPN
4 2 (1.04%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.61%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (23.83%) SQL Server
3 33 (17.10%) MySQL
4 25 (12.95%) Power BI
5 23 (11.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (8.81%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.25%) Oracle Database
7 14 (7.25%) RDBMS
8 12 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (5.18%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.11%) Tableau
11 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.07%) Ataccama
12 4 (2.07%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.07%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (2.07%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 55 (28.50%) Git
2 7 (3.63%) GitLab
2 7 (3.63%) JIRA
3 6 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) Bower
4 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.04%) JUnit
4 2 (1.04%) MSTest
4 2 (1.04%) NUnit
4 2 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) CMake
5 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.52%) Maven
5 1 (0.52%) Mockito
5 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 51 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.51%) Finance
4 17 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.22%) Law
7 10 (5.18%) Marketing
8 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
8 9 (4.66%) Retail
9 6 (3.11%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.59%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.59%) Legal
11 4 (2.07%) Back Office
12 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.55%) Banking
12 3 (1.55%) Front Office
12 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.04%) Aviation
13 2 (1.04%) Games
13 2 (1.04%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 71 (36.79%) Developer
2 42 (21.76%) Senior
3 33 (17.10%) Data Engineer
4 28 (14.51%) Analyst
5 24 (12.44%) Lead
5 24 (12.44%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.33%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.74%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.22%) Systems Developer
9 10 (5.18%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Applications Developer
10 8 (4.15%) Consultant
10 8 (4.15%) SQL Developer
11 7 (3.63%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.63%) C# Developer
12 6 (3.11%) Marketing Analyst
12 6 (3.11%) Senior Applications Developer
12 6 (3.11%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.17%) CSS
1 37 (19.17%) React
1 37 (19.17%) REST
2 35 (18.13%) HTML
3 23 (11.92%) .NET
4 21 (10.88%) Node.js
5 15 (7.77%) Kafka
6 14 (7.25%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.25%) RESTful
7 13 (6.74%) FastAPI
7 13 (6.74%) Spring
8 12 (6.22%) jQuery
8 12 (6.22%) PySpark
8 12 (6.22%) Vue
9 11 (5.70%) Flask
10 10 (5.18%) Web Services
11 9 (4.66%) HTML5
11 9 (4.66%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (4.15%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.11%) CUDA
5 6 (3.11%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.07%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.55%) CCTV
7 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.55%) Replication
8 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.18%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.46%) Analytics
3 48 (24.87%) Software Engineering
4 46 (23.83%) Data Modelling
5 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.24%) Agile
7 38 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (18.13%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (17.10%) DevOps
10 31 (16.06%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (15.54%) Decision-Making
12 29 (15.03%) ETL
12 29 (15.03%) Microservices
13 28 (14.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (13.47%) AI
14 26 (13.47%) Data Architecture
15 25 (12.95%) Data Engineering
16 24 (12.44%) Clean Code
17 23 (11.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.81%) SQL
2 51 (26.42%) JavaScript
2 51 (26.42%) Python
3 29 (15.03%) Java
4 24 (12.44%) C#
5 22 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.74%) PHP
7 6 (3.11%) VBA
8 4 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.07%) R
8 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.55%) Delphi
9 3 (1.55%) Pascal
9 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.04%) Bash
10 2 (1.04%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (16.58%) Degree
2 16 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.22%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.54%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.95%) GDPR
3 24 (12.44%) QA
4 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 39 (20.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.36%) Terraform
3 4 (2.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Grafana
4 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.51%) Oracle
3 14 (7.25%) Databricks
4 4 (2.07%) Google
4 4 (2.07%) IBM
4 4 (2.07%) Informatica
4 4 (2.07%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.52%) Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir
6 1 (0.52%) Sage
6 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.52%) Solace
6 1 (0.52%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.52%) TippingPoint