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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 209 171
Rank change year-on-year -53 -38 -17
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 139 209 611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.57% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 6.24% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 95 156 473
10th Percentile £36,350 £41,687 £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% -7.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £72,375
90th Percentile £82,000 £84,585 £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 2,337 3,348 7,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.08% 25.09% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,436 6,205
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
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 £81,250 £90,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,625 £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 21 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 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) CMS
4 2 (1.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) Mendix
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.01%) AWS
2 40 (28.78%) Azure
3 19 (13.67%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.23%) GCP
5 12 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.19%) GitHub
6 10 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.04%) dbt
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.88%) Serverless
10 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.16%) Boomi
10 3 (2.16%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (2.16%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.16%) SaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.67%) Broadband
2 5 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.88%) DHCP
3 4 (2.88%) DNS
3 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) Firewall
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.18%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (20.86%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.42%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.39%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.79%) MySQL
6 12 (8.63%) Oracle Database
7 8 (5.76%) Power BI
8 7 (5.04%) Metadata
8 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.16%) FileMaker
11 3 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.72%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Git
2 19 (13.67%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.32%) Selenium
4 4 (2.88%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) JIRA
5 3 (2.16%) JUnit
6 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 2 (1.44%) MSTest
6 2 (1.44%) Postman
6 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.83%) Finance
2 22 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.04%) Law
5 5 (3.60%) Banking
5 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.60%) Retail
6 4 (2.88%) Front Office
7 3 (2.16%) Aviation
7 3 (2.16%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) French Language
9 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.72%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (27.34%) Data Engineer
2 33 (23.74%) Developer
3 28 (20.14%) Lead
4 18 (12.95%) Senior
5 11 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Analyst
6 10 (7.19%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.04%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.32%) Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Junior
11 5 (3.60%) Senior Applications Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.60%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.83%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (14.39%) REST
3 19 (13.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (12.23%) CSS
4 17 (12.23%) HTML
5 15 (10.79%) .NET
5 15 (10.79%) React
6 12 (8.63%) Node.js
7 11 (7.91%) Kafka
8 10 (7.19%) PySpark
9 9 (6.47%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.47%) Vue
10 8 (5.76%) Django
10 8 (5.76%) SOAP
11 7 (5.04%) FastAPI
12 6 (4.32%) Flask
12 6 (4.32%) Laravel
12 6 (4.32%) RESTful
12 6 (4.32%) Web Services
13 5 (3.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.32%) CUDA
3 6 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.60%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.60%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.88%) CCTV
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.16%) Blog
6 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.16%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.44%) Replication
8 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.30%) Linux
2 22 (15.83%) Unix
3 7 (5.04%) Windows
4 4 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.41%) Agile
2 42 (30.22%) DevOps
3 38 (27.34%) Containerisation
3 38 (27.34%) Data Modelling
4 37 (26.62%) Analytics
5 35 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (24.46%) CI/CD
7 33 (23.74%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (20.86%) ETL
8 29 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (20.86%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (17.99%) Data Architecture
9 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
10 24 (17.27%) Data Engineering
11 23 (16.55%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (15.83%) Cost Optimisation
13 20 (14.39%) High Availability
13 20 (14.39%) Roadmaps
13 20 (14.39%) Task Automation
14 19 (13.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.76%) Python
1 65 (46.76%) SQL
2 48 (34.53%) JavaScript
3 40 (28.78%) Java
4 21 (15.11%) Go
5 19 (13.67%) Bash
6 17 (12.23%) C#
7 15 (10.79%) PHP
8 6 (4.32%) Delphi
8 6 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.88%) Pascal
9 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.44%) Bicep
11 2 (1.44%) Ruby
11 2 (1.44%) Scala
12 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) AWS Certification
2 17 (12.23%) Degree
3 12 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.47%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 18 (12.95%) GDPR
3 11 (7.91%) QA
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.72%) HL7
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (30.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (28.78%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.18%) Terraform
3 22 (15.83%) Prometheus
4 21 (15.11%) Argo
5 20 (14.39%) Ansible
6 19 (13.67%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.72%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.83%) Oracle
3 21 (15.11%) Google
4 11 (7.91%) Databricks
5 4 (2.88%) SAP
6 3 (2.16%) Dell
6 3 (2.16%) Epicor
6 3 (2.16%) IBM
6 3 (2.16%) IFS
6 3 (2.16%) Infor
6 3 (2.16%) Informatica
6 3 (2.16%) Jitterbit
6 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.16%) SnapLogic
6 3 (2.16%) Software AG
6 3 (2.16%) Talend
6 3 (2.16%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.16%) Workday
7 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce