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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 262 189
Rank change year-on-year +14 -73 -33
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 188 184 577
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.17% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.53% 5.67% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 127 146 433
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,935 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £85,625 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 2,881 3,248 7,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.96% 20.63% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 2,181 6,071
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £43,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 29 June 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 (2.66%) Apache
1 5 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.60%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.53%) Drupal
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Moodle
5 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (33.51%) AWS
2 46 (24.47%) Azure
3 24 (12.77%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.57%) GCP
5 12 (6.38%) Pulumi
6 10 (5.32%) GitHub
6 10 (5.32%) Serverless
7 8 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.72%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.66%) dbt
10 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.66%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.11%) Broadband
2 5 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.13%) DHCP
3 4 (2.13%) DNS
3 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.13%) VPN
4 2 (1.06%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (26.60%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.96%) SQL Server
3 28 (14.89%) RDBMS
4 25 (13.30%) MySQL
5 24 (12.77%) Power BI
6 23 (12.23%) NoSQL
6 23 (12.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (9.57%) MongoDB
8 14 (7.45%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.13%) Metadata
11 4 (2.13%) Tableau
12 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.06%) FileMaker
13 2 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (22.87%) Git
2 12 (6.38%) Jaeger
3 7 (3.72%) GitLab
4 6 (3.19%) JIRA
5 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.06%) Bower
6 2 (1.06%) JUnit
6 2 (1.06%) MSTest
6 2 (1.06%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) CMake
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Valgrind
General
1 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (13.30%) Finance
4 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.85%) Retail
5 10 (5.32%) Law
6 9 (4.79%) Marketing
7 8 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.19%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.66%) Banking
9 5 (2.66%) Health Technology
9 5 (2.66%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Aviation
10 3 (1.60%) Back Office
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
11 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (34.57%) Developer
2 35 (18.62%) Data Engineer
3 32 (17.02%) Senior
4 30 (15.96%) Lead
5 29 (15.43%) Analyst
6 18 (9.57%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.45%) Data Analyst
10 12 (6.38%) Systems Developer
11 8 (4.26%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.26%) Architect
11 8 (4.26%) Consultant
11 8 (4.26%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.72%) SQL Developer
13 6 (3.19%) Data Analytics Analyst
13 6 (3.19%) Marketing Analyst
13 6 (3.19%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
13 6 (3.19%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.02%) CSS
2 31 (16.49%) HTML
3 28 (14.89%) React
4 25 (13.30%) REST
5 19 (10.11%) Node.js
6 16 (8.51%) Kafka
7 14 (7.45%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.91%) .NET
8 13 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (6.38%) jQuery
9 12 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (6.38%) Vue
10 11 (5.85%) Flask
11 10 (5.32%) Spring
12 9 (4.79%) HTML5
12 9 (4.79%) PySpark
13 8 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.26%) Web Services
14 7 (3.72%) RESTful
15 6 (3.19%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.19%) CUDA
4 6 (3.19%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.13%) CCTV
5 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.60%) Blog
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.60%) Replication
7 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.06%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.89%) Linux
2 12 (6.38%) Unix
3 8 (4.26%) Windows
4 4 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.32%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.60%) Analytics
3 45 (23.94%) Data Modelling
4 43 (22.87%) Agile
5 40 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.21%) DevOps
6 38 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (18.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (18.09%) Software Engineering
8 33 (17.55%) Containerisation
9 32 (17.02%) Decision-Making
10 31 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (16.49%) ETL
11 30 (15.96%) Microservices
12 29 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (15.43%) Mentoring
13 27 (14.36%) Data Engineering
14 24 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (12.77%) Data Architecture
15 23 (12.23%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 89 (47.34%) SQL
2 61 (32.45%) Python
3 57 (30.32%) JavaScript
4 38 (20.21%) Java
5 18 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.98%) PHP
7 14 (7.45%) Bash
7 14 (7.45%) C#
8 13 (6.91%) Go
9 6 (3.19%) VBA
10 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.13%) Delphi
11 4 (2.13%) Pascal
11 4 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.53%) Dart
13 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.53%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.30%) Degree
2 16 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.72%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.66%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 22 (11.70%) GDPR
3 21 (11.17%) QA
4 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.06%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (19.68%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.02%) Terraform
3 16 (8.51%) Ansible
3 16 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.38%) Argo
4 12 (6.38%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.53%) SCCM
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.36%) Oracle
3 17 (9.04%) Google
4 9 (4.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.53%) Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.53%) Palantir
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.53%) Solace
6 1 (0.53%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.53%) TippingPoint