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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 210 158
Rank change year-on-year -36 -52 -14
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 140 220 602
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.52% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.53% 5.68% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 93 129 482
10th Percentile £31,500 £41,124 £39,509
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,250 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,250 £57,547
% change year-on-year -10.51% +11.65% -7.92%

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 2,145 3,876 6,792
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.85% 26.70% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 2,375 5,820
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 5 March 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 (3.57%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.57%) CMS
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) Mendix
5 1 (0.71%) Drupal
5 1 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.57%) AWS
2 42 (30.00%) Azure
3 19 (13.57%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (9.29%) GitHub
7 10 (7.14%) GCP
8 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.00%) dbt
10 6 (4.29%) Boomi
10 6 (4.29%) SaaS
10 6 (4.29%) Serverless
11 5 (3.57%) iPaaS
11 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.57%) Workato
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.86%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.14%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (2.14%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) Broadband
2 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.57%) DNS
4 4 (2.86%) DHCP
4 4 (2.86%) VPN
4 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.71%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (21.43%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.29%) NoSQL
4 24 (17.14%) MySQL
5 21 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.00%) Metadata
6 7 (5.00%) Power BI
7 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.86%) FileMaker
8 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (19.29%) Git
2 19 (13.57%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.00%) JIRA
4 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.86%) Selenium
6 3 (2.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.71%) Mockito
8 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.57%) Finance
3 19 (13.57%) Law
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Legal
6 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.57%) Retail
8 4 (2.86%) Banking
8 4 (2.86%) Marketing
9 3 (2.14%) Front Office
10 2 (1.43%) Back Office
10 2 (1.43%) German Language
11 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.71%) French Language
11 1 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Developer
2 25 (17.86%) Lead
3 18 (12.86%) Analyst
3 18 (12.86%) Data Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) Senior
5 11 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (7.86%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.71%) Team Leader
8 8 (5.71%) Web Developer
9 7 (5.00%) IT Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.29%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Junior
10 6 (4.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.29%) CSS
2 26 (18.57%) HTML
3 23 (16.43%) .NET
4 22 (15.71%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (15.71%) React
5 19 (13.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (13.57%) REST
6 16 (11.43%) Node.js
6 16 (11.43%) Vue
7 15 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.86%) SOAP
9 10 (7.14%) .NET Core
9 10 (7.14%) JSON
9 10 (7.14%) RESTful
9 10 (7.14%) Web Services
10 9 (6.43%) Laravel
11 7 (5.00%) Spring
11 7 (5.00%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.00%) XML
12 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.71%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.86%) CCTV
6 4 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.14%) Blog
7 3 (2.14%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.14%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.43%) CMDB
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.57%) Linux
2 24 (17.14%) Unix
3 10 (7.14%) Windows
4 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (50.00%) Agile
2 49 (35.00%) DevOps
2 49 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (26.43%) Containerisation
4 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
5 30 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 25 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (16.43%) Data Modelling
9 22 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
10 21 (15.00%) High Availability
10 21 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 20 (14.29%) Scrum
11 20 (14.29%) Task Automation
12 19 (13.57%) Budget Control
12 19 (13.57%) GitOps
12 19 (13.57%) Product Management
12 19 (13.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.43%) JavaScript
2 64 (45.71%) SQL
3 55 (39.29%) Python
4 42 (30.00%) Java
5 27 (19.29%) C#
6 22 (15.71%) Go
7 19 (13.57%) Bash
8 18 (12.86%) PHP
9 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.29%) Delphi
12 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.86%) Pascal
14 2 (1.43%) Bicep
14 2 (1.43%) Ruby
14 2 (1.43%) Scala
14 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.71%) Dart
15 1 (0.71%) Groovy
15 1 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 17 (12.14%) Degree
3 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.00%) ISTQB
6 7 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 14 (10.00%) QA
2 12 (8.57%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) HL7
4 1 (0.71%) IFRS
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.43%) Terraform
3 21 (15.00%) Ansible
3 21 (15.00%) Argo
4 20 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 19 (13.57%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.14%) Grafana
7 2 (1.43%) SCCM
8 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Google
1 22 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.43%) Oracle
3 6 (4.29%) MuleSoft
3 6 (4.29%) SAP
4 5 (3.57%) Dell
4 5 (3.57%) Epicor
4 5 (3.57%) IBM
4 5 (3.57%) IFS
4 5 (3.57%) Infor
4 5 (3.57%) Informatica
4 5 (3.57%) Jitterbit
4 5 (3.57%) SnapLogic
4 5 (3.57%) Software AG
4 5 (3.57%) Talend
4 5 (3.57%) TIBCO
4 5 (3.57%) Workday
5 3 (2.14%) Databricks
6 2 (1.43%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.43%) OutSystems