Database Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

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

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 730 798
Rank change year-on-year +190 +68 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 223 32 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.054% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.061% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 45 30 28
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,350 £32,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,406 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £63,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +23.79% -1.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £66,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,121 52,440 69,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,105 29,890 42,562
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +29 93 £100,000 +69.85% 2
North of England +91 42 £62,783 -8.68% 4
South East +34 33 £40,000 -51.52% 2
Midlands +9 30 £46,500 -12.68% 2
West Midlands +17 19 £52,500 -1.41% 1
Yorkshire +87 18 - -
North West +20 15 £68,891 +37.78% 2
South West - 13 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 11 £25,000 - 1
North East 0 9 £62,783 -13.40% 2
East of England - 7 - - 1
Wales - 3 £51,996 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Database Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Database Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (38.57%) Migration
2 84 (37.67%) SQL
2 84 (37.67%) MS Visio
2 84 (37.67%) Database Migration
3 71 (31.84%) Software Engineering
4 70 (31.39%) Git
5 67 (30.04%) Python
6 65 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (28.70%) Java
8 63 (28.25%) AWS
9 62 (27.80%) Google
9 62 (27.80%) Agile
9 62 (27.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (27.35%) Visualisation
11 60 (26.91%) iPad
11 60 (26.91%) Unix
11 60 (26.91%) Dropbox
11 60 (26.91%) Google Drive
11 60 (26.91%) OneDrive
11 60 (26.91%) Terraform
12 58 (26.01%) Finance
13 57 (25.56%) Law
13 57 (25.56%) SDLC
14 56 (25.11%) Community of Practice
14 56 (25.11%) Bitbucket Server
14 56 (25.11%) Operational Stability
14 56 (25.11%) CI/CD
14 56 (25.11%) Batch Processing
14 56 (25.11%) Microservices
14 56 (25.11%) Apache Spark

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 56 (25.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 84 (37.67%) MS Visio
2 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.25%) AWS
2 60 (26.91%) Dropbox
2 60 (26.91%) Google Drive
2 60 (26.91%) OneDrive
3 13 (5.83%) Azure
4 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.11%) Apache Hive
1 56 (25.11%) Hadoop
1 56 (25.11%) HBase
1 56 (25.11%) NoSQL
2 31 (13.90%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (6.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (4.04%) Power BI
6 9 (4.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (3.14%) Big Data
8 6 (2.69%) MySQL
8 6 (2.69%) OLAP
9 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.35%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 70 (31.39%) Git
2 56 (25.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 56 (25.11%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (27.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (26.01%) Finance
3 57 (25.56%) Law
4 37 (16.59%) Legal
5 19 (8.52%) Marketing
6 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.04%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.97%) CSS
2 3 (1.35%) .NET
2 3 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (0.45%) J2EE
3 1 (0.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.91%) iPad
2 56 (25.11%) Algorithms
3 21 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.14%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.91%) Unix
2 7 (3.14%) Linux
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.57%) Migration
2 84 (37.67%) Database Migration
3 71 (31.84%) Software Engineering
4 65 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (27.80%) Agile
6 61 (27.35%) Visualisation
7 57 (25.56%) SDLC
8 56 (25.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 56 (25.11%) Batch Processing
8 56 (25.11%) CI/CD
8 56 (25.11%) Community of Practice
8 56 (25.11%) Machine Learning
8 56 (25.11%) Microservices
8 56 (25.11%) Open Source
8 56 (25.11%) Operational Stability
8 56 (25.11%) TDD
8 56 (25.11%) Test Automation
9 44 (19.73%) Risk Management
10 19 (8.52%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.17%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.67%) SQL
2 67 (30.04%) Python
3 64 (28.70%) Java
4 56 (25.11%) PL/SQL
5 19 (8.52%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.69%) C
7 6 (2.69%) Rust
8 5 (2.24%) C++
8 5 (2.24%) VBA
9 3 (1.35%) Bash
9 3 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (1.35%) R
9 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.17%) Degree
2 12 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.35%) HND
4 2 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 56 (25.11%) HDFS
2 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (26.91%) Terraform
2 5 (2.24%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 62 (27.80%) Google
2 56 (25.11%) Cloudera
2 56 (25.11%) Databricks
2 56 (25.11%) Informatica
3 30 (13.45%) Oracle
4 16 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.35%) VMware
6 2 (0.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) jBASE