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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 214 176
Rank change year-on-year -46 -38 -21
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 135 205 590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 1.52% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 6.29% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 91 154 464
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,512 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £79,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,876 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -11.54%

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 2,300 3,260 7,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.70% 24.21% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,405 6,222
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 30 April 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 7 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.22%) Apache
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.22%) CMS
4 2 (1.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.74%) Drupal
5 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.74%) AWS
2 36 (26.67%) Azure
3 19 (14.07%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.59%) GCP
5 10 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.93%) GitHub
7 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.19%) dbt
9 5 (3.70%) Serverless
10 4 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.22%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) Broadband
2 5 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.96%) DHCP
3 4 (2.96%) DNS
3 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.74%) Firewall
4 1 (0.74%) LAN
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.74%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (20.74%) RDBMS
3 27 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.37%) MySQL
6 12 (8.89%) Oracle Database
7 9 (6.67%) Power BI
8 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.19%) Metadata
9 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (4.44%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.70%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.70%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.22%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.48%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (17.78%) Git
2 19 (14.07%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.44%) Selenium
4 4 (2.96%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.22%) JUnit
6 2 (1.48%) GitLab
6 2 (1.48%) JIRA
6 2 (1.48%) MSTest
6 2 (1.48%) Postman
6 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (15.56%) Finance
4 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Law
6 5 (3.70%) Banking
6 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Front Office
8 3 (2.22%) Aviation
9 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.48%) Back Office
9 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.48%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Data Engineer
2 34 (25.19%) Developer
3 28 (20.74%) Lead
4 18 (13.33%) Senior
5 11 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.41%) Analyst
7 9 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.93%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.19%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.19%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.44%) Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.70%) Senior Applications Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.70%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.30%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (14.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 17 (12.59%) REST
4 15 (11.11%) HTML
4 15 (11.11%) React
5 14 (10.37%) CSS
6 13 (9.63%) .NET
7 11 (8.15%) Kafka
8 10 (7.41%) PySpark
9 9 (6.67%) Node.js
10 8 (5.93%) Django
11 7 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.19%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.19%) Vue
12 6 (4.44%) Flask
13 5 (3.70%) Classic ASP
13 5 (3.70%) Laravel
13 5 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.70%) SOAP
13 5 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.44%) CUDA
3 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.70%) Legacy Code
3 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.96%) CCTV
4 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.96%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.22%) Blog
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.22%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.48%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.48%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.48%) Linux
2 20 (14.81%) Unix
3 7 (5.19%) Windows
4 4 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.81%) Agile
2 40 (29.63%) DevOps
3 38 (28.15%) Data Modelling
4 37 (27.41%) Analytics
5 36 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 34 (25.19%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (24.44%) CI/CD
8 32 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (22.22%) ETL
10 29 (21.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (21.48%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (18.52%) Data Architecture
11 25 (18.52%) Data Engineering
12 24 (17.78%) Mentoring
13 23 (17.04%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (16.30%) Cost Optimisation
15 20 (14.81%) High Availability
15 20 (14.81%) Roadmaps
15 20 (14.81%) Task Automation
16 19 (14.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) Python
2 62 (45.93%) SQL
3 45 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 37 (27.41%) Java
5 21 (15.56%) Go
6 19 (14.07%) Bash
7 14 (10.37%) PHP
8 13 (9.63%) C#
9 6 (4.44%) Delphi
9 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.44%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.96%) Pascal
10 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.48%) Bicep
11 2 (1.48%) Ruby
11 2 (1.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.74%) Dart
12 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 18 (13.33%) Degree
3 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.22%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.26%) Data Quality
2 17 (12.59%) GDPR
3 11 (8.15%) QA
4 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.74%) HL7
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (29.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (28.15%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.93%) Terraform
3 22 (16.30%) Prometheus
4 21 (15.56%) Argo
5 20 (14.81%) Ansible
6 19 (14.07%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.70%) Grafana
8 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.74%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.56%) Google
3 20 (14.81%) Oracle
4 11 (8.15%) Databricks
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.74%) Dell
6 1 (0.74%) Epicor
6 1 (0.74%) Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) IFS
6 1 (0.74%) Infor
6 1 (0.74%) Informatica
6 1 (0.74%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.74%) Perforce
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Software AG
6 1 (0.74%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.74%) Workday