Database Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 447 514
Rank change year-on-year +78 +67 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 22 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.042% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.044% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £164 £354 £515
25th Percentile £190 £456 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -24.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £556 £500 £665
90th Percentile £575 £560 £686
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +42 7 £550 +15.79% 3
South West +28 6 - -
South East +22 2 £203 -10.00% 2
East of England +11 2 £190 - 1
Wales - 2 £220 -
West Midlands - 2 £165 -
Midlands - 2 £165 - 1
North of England +26 1 £650 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £650 - 1
Database Engineer
UK

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Database Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 10 (45.45%) Ansible
4 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (36.36%) Migration
5 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
6 7 (31.82%) Terraform
6 7 (31.82%) DBS Check
6 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 7 (31.82%) Oracle
7 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
7 6 (27.27%) Database Tuning
7 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (27.27%) Business Case
7 6 (27.27%) Database Migration
8 5 (22.73%) Grafana
9 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
9 4 (18.18%) Windows
9 4 (18.18%) Kanban
9 4 (18.18%) German Language
9 4 (18.18%) Scrum

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.55%) CloudBees
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) LAN
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) WLAN
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
4 3 (13.64%) Informix
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata
5 2 (9.09%) InfluxDB
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.55%) ClickHouse
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) German Language
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Beam
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Replication
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) Migration
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Business Case
5 6 (27.27%) Database Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Database Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) Database Security
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) High Availability
6 4 (18.18%) Kanban
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Optimisation
8 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 2 (9.09%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) DBS Check
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) SCCM
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.55%) Kibana
6 1 (4.55%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) Commvault
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Dell
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.09%) SonicWALL
4 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) WatchGuard
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix