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Which roles ask for Relational Databases at tech companies · 117 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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117 roles counted that list Relational Databases, one per company, title and level; 225 postings in the window.

In short

Relational Databases: listed in 117 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 106 and preferred in 11. The largest group is software engineer roles: 81 of 117 (69%).

Required
106 of 117 (91%)
Of the roles that list Relational Databases
Preferred
11 of 117 (9%)
Of the roles that list Relational Databases
Largest group
81 of 117 (69%)
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Relational Databases

Roles listing Relational Databases, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer8181 of 719 (11%)
Data engineer1212 of 99 (12%)
Data analyst44 of 47
Data scientist33 of 112 (3%)
QA engineer33 of 63 (5%)
Software architect33 of 32
Analytics engineer22 of 28
Forward deployed engineer22 of 63 (3%)
Machine learning engineer22 of 79 (3%)
Site reliability engineer22 of 70 (3%)

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 117 Relational Databases roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.

Required
SkillRoles asking
REST
47 of 117 (40%)
Python
41 of 117 (35%)
SQL
41 of 117 (35%)
AWS
37 of 117 (32%)
PostgreSQL
37 of 117 (32%)
CI/CD
34 of 117 (29%)
Git
33 of 117 (28%)
Java
30 of 117 (26%)
MySQL
30 of 117 (26%)
TypeScript
28 of 117 (24%)
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
CI/CD
18 of 117 (15%)
AWS
15 of 117 (13%)
Kubernetes
14 of 117 (12%)
Azure
13 of 117 (11%)
Docker
13 of 117 (11%)
GCP
11 of 117 (9%)
AI
10 of 117 (9%)
Event-Driven Architecture
10 of 117 (9%)
Observability
9 of 117 (8%)
Python
9 of 117 (8%)

Experience

Of the 55 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
53 of 55 (96%)
2+ years
53 of 55 (96%)
3+ years
46 of 55 (84%)
5+ years
33 of 55 (60%)
8+ years
10 of 55 (18%)
10+ years
7 of 55 (13%)

Degree

Of the 63 roles we could read for it

Required
14 of 63 (22%)
Required, or experience instead
15 of 63 (24%)
Preferred
2 of 63 (3%)
Not mentioned
32 of 63 (51%)

Pay and remote work

Of the 117 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
41 of 117 (35%)
Remote roles
98 of 117 (84%)

How we count: 117 roles from 102 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology