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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 292 178
Rank change year-on-year +32 -114 -19
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 204 134 461
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 0.82% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.39% 4.88% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 150 111 200
10th Percentile £39,050 £38,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £89,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,193 2,746 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.12% 16.83% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 1,915 3,284
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £38,825
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -5.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,100 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

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 18 September 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 4 (1.96%) Apache
1 4 (1.96%) IIS
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
4 1 (0.49%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.98%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.49%) Finacle
3 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 65 (31.86%) AWS
2 55 (26.96%) Azure
3 30 (14.71%) GitHub
4 29 (14.22%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (9.31%) Serverless
7 17 (8.33%) GCP
8 14 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (3.43%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.43%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.43%) SaaS
13 5 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) Intranet
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) LAN
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.49%) WAN
3 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (25.98%) SQL Server
3 38 (18.63%) MySQL
4 27 (13.24%) Power BI
5 19 (9.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.35%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.39%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.92%) Oracle Database
8 8 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.43%) Tableau
10 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.96%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.96%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.96%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (29.41%) Git
2 8 (3.92%) GitLab
2 8 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.43%) JIRA
4 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.47%) JUnit
5 2 (0.98%) Bower
5 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.98%) Maven
5 2 (0.98%) Mockito
5 2 (0.98%) MSTest
5 2 (0.98%) NUnit
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
5 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.49%) CMake
6 1 (0.49%) Mocha
6 1 (0.49%) Valgrind
General
1 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (18.14%) Finance
3 22 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.31%) Law
6 15 (7.35%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.39%) Marketing
8 9 (4.41%) Retail
9 8 (3.92%) Banking
10 6 (2.94%) Social Housing
11 5 (2.45%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.45%) Legal
12 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.47%) Back Office
12 3 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.47%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.98%) Aviation
13 2 (0.98%) Front Office
13 2 (0.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 87 (42.65%) Developer
2 49 (24.02%) Senior
3 29 (14.22%) Senior Developer
4 26 (12.75%) Software Engineer
5 25 (12.25%) Data Engineer
6 24 (11.76%) Analyst
6 24 (11.76%) Lead
7 13 (6.37%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.37%) Software Developer
8 12 (5.88%) C# Developer
9 11 (5.39%) .NET Developer
9 11 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.90%) Senior C# Developer
10 10 (4.90%) Systems Developer
11 9 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Consultant
12 8 (3.92%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.43%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.94%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.02%) CSS
2 46 (22.55%) React
3 45 (22.06%) HTML
4 41 (20.10%) REST
5 34 (16.67%) .NET
6 26 (12.75%) Node.js
7 24 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.80%) Spring
9 18 (8.82%) .NET Core
9 18 (8.82%) .NET Framework
9 18 (8.82%) Entity Framework
9 18 (8.82%) RESTful
10 16 (7.84%) jQuery
11 15 (7.35%) Terraform
12 13 (6.37%) Spring Boot
12 13 (6.37%) Web Services
13 12 (5.88%) Kafka
13 12 (5.88%) PySpark
13 12 (5.88%) Vue
14 11 (5.39%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.47%) CMDB
9 3 (1.47%) CUDA
10 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.98%) NHS
10 2 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.41%) Windows
2 8 (3.92%) Linux
3 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.69%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 67 (32.84%) Agile
4 51 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.08%) Data Modelling
7 42 (20.59%) Analytics
7 42 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (19.12%) DevOps
9 38 (18.63%) AI
10 36 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (16.67%) Microservices
12 29 (14.22%) Decision-Making
13 28 (13.73%) Clean Code
13 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (12.75%) Scrum
15 25 (12.25%) Mentoring
16 24 (11.76%) Code Quality
16 24 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
16 24 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (53.92%) SQL
2 59 (28.92%) JavaScript
3 51 (25.00%) Python
4 35 (17.16%) Java
5 34 (16.67%) C#
6 32 (15.69%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.43%) PHP
8 6 (2.94%) VBA
9 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.96%) R
11 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.98%) Bash
12 2 (0.98%) C
12 2 (0.98%) Clojure
12 2 (0.98%) Haskell
12 2 (0.98%) Lisp
12 2 (0.98%) OCaml
12 2 (0.98%) Scala
12 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (18.14%) Degree
2 21 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 26 (12.75%) QA
3 24 (11.76%) GDPR
4 5 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (23.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.45%) Ansible
3 4 (1.96%) Grafana
4 3 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.78%) Oracle
3 15 (7.35%) Databricks
4 4 (1.96%) Google
4 4 (1.96%) IBM
4 4 (1.96%) Informatica
4 4 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.96%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.47%) Sage
5 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.47%) SAP
6 2 (0.98%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.98%) Telerik
7 1 (0.49%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.49%) FIS
7 1 (0.49%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.49%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.49%) TippingPoint