It’s still common in lots of roles for sure, depending on the domain. In my web dev experience though I’ve worked on a handful of full stack apps with databases and every time they’re either NoSQL or SQL with an ORM and so I very rarely dealt with raw SQL.

NoSQL databases are quite popular now, and if a SQL db is used many projects will use an ORM which abstracts away direct SQL interactions. It’s still a valuable skill, but just not as necessary as it used to be if all you need are basic CRUD operations so many devs don’t bother with it.

Personally would love a better option to self host just the server-side components to pair with a custom front-end. Currently I’m trying to reverse-engineer the polis client to understand the API calls needed to implement its functionality so I can use it in my own FE.