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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

relational databases

381 live US technical postings name relational databases in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 381 postings naming relational databases that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.4%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer9.4%
  3. 3Backend Engineer5.5%
  4. 4Data Engineer5%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5%
  6. 6Data Scientist3.1%
  7. 7Data Analyst2.6%
  8. 8AI Engineer1.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where relational databases is named
n = 219
10th
$122k
25th
$150k
Median
$188k
75th
$212k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY14.2%
  2. 2Remote12.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA10.5%
  4. 4Boston, MA5.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.7%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.6%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.4%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.