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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 169 139
Rank change year-on-year -89 -30 +11
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 119 329 506
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.98% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.62% 7.91% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 94 119 379
10th Percentile £34,125 £41,948 £38,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £50,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +2.01% -
75th Percentile £67,188 £79,125 £77,750
90th Percentile £84,625 £85,000 £88,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -4.00%

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 2,118 4,157 5,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.96% 24.98% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 2,498 4,160
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -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 7 January 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 (4.20%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) CMS
3 2 (1.68%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.68%) Mendix
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Luigi
4 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.84%) SAS
4 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.82%) Azure
2 40 (33.61%) AWS
3 21 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.92%) GitHub
5 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.88%) Pulumi
6 7 (5.88%) Serverless
7 6 (5.04%) Boomi
7 6 (5.04%) GCP
7 6 (5.04%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.04%) SaaS
8 5 (4.20%) iPaaS
8 5 (4.20%) Workato
9 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.52%) dbt
10 3 (2.52%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) Broadband
2 2 (1.68%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
3 1 (0.84%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.21%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 22 (18.49%) MySQL
4 17 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 13 (10.92%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (5.04%) Power BI
8 5 (4.20%) Metadata
9 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.52%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.68%) FileMaker
11 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.84%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 23 (19.33%) Git
2 9 (7.56%) JIRA
3 7 (5.88%) Jaeger
4 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.36%) JUnit
5 4 (3.36%) Selenium
6 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.52%) GitLab
7 2 (1.68%) Mockito
7 2 (1.68%) Postman
7 2 (1.68%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (14.29%) Law
4 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.40%) Legal
6 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.88%) Retail
8 5 (4.20%) Marketing
9 3 (2.52%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.68%) Advertising
10 2 (1.68%) Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Electronics
10 2 (1.68%) Front Office
10 2 (1.68%) German Language
10 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.84%) Back Office
11 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (35.29%) Developer
2 14 (11.76%) Analyst
2 14 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 13 (10.92%) Senior
4 10 (8.40%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.56%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.04%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.04%) C# Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Junior
8 6 (5.04%) Tester
9 5 (4.20%) Architect
9 5 (4.20%) DBA
9 5 (4.20%) Development Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Development Support Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.69%) CSS
2 26 (21.85%) HTML
3 24 (20.17%) React
4 22 (18.49%) REST
5 21 (17.65%) .NET
5 21 (17.65%) JSON
6 18 (15.13%) XML
7 17 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 15 (12.61%) Node.js
8 15 (12.61%) Web Services
9 14 (11.76%) Vue
10 12 (10.08%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (10.08%) RESTful
10 12 (10.08%) SOAP
11 11 (9.24%) .NET Core
12 9 (7.56%) Spring
13 8 (6.72%) Spring Boot
14 7 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (5.04%) .NET Framework
15 6 (5.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.72%) Data Structures
1 8 (6.72%) Low-Code
1 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) CMDB
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.68%) Clustering
5 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.68%) Semantic Web
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Linux
2 12 (10.08%) Unix
3 6 (5.04%) Windows
3 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.46%) Agile
2 44 (36.97%) DevOps
2 44 (36.97%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (26.89%) CI/CD
4 23 (19.33%) Software Engineering
5 22 (18.49%) Containerisation
6 21 (17.65%) Scrum
7 20 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 16 (13.45%) Data Modelling
10 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (11.76%) Clean Code
12 12 (10.08%) Computer Science
12 12 (10.08%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (10.08%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (10.08%) Regression Testing
12 12 (10.08%) SDLC
12 12 (10.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 61 (51.26%) SQL
2 49 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 44 (36.97%) Python
4 30 (25.21%) Java
5 26 (21.85%) C#
6 12 (10.08%) Go
7 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.56%) PHP
9 8 (6.72%) Bash
10 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.20%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.52%) Ruby
12 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.68%) Delphi
13 2 (1.68%) Scala
13 2 (1.68%) VBA
14 1 (0.84%) Bicep
14 1 (0.84%) Groovy
14 1 (0.84%) LookML
14 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.61%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
2 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) AWS Certification
3 8 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.36%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) QA
2 10 (8.40%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.88%) GDPR
4 3 (2.52%) HL7
5 1 (0.84%) IFRS
5 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (20.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.92%) Terraform
3 10 (8.40%) Ansible
4 9 (7.56%) Argo
5 7 (5.88%) Kustomize
5 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.68%) Grafana
6 2 (1.68%) SCCM
7 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.84%) Puppet
7 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle
3 8 (6.72%) Google
4 7 (5.88%) Informatica
4 7 (5.88%) SAP
4 7 (5.88%) Talend
5 6 (5.04%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.20%) Dell
6 5 (4.20%) Epicor
6 5 (4.20%) IBM
6 5 (4.20%) IFS
6 5 (4.20%) Infor
6 5 (4.20%) Jitterbit
6 5 (4.20%) SnapLogic
6 5 (4.20%) Software AG
6 5 (4.20%) TIBCO
6 5 (4.20%) Workday
7 3 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.68%) RedGate