Database Developer
UK

The median Database Developer salary in the UK is £42,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 691 908 1066
Rank change year-on-year +217 +158 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Developer 223 91 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.088% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.096% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 42 83 126
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £48,188 £63,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £48,700 £67,500 £64,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £53,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year -20.19% +3.40% +17.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Database Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Developer.

Salary trend for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Developer within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +117 189 £42,500 -20.19% 7
Work from Home +164 143 £41,500 -24.55% 3
England +113 110 £42,500 -22.73% 10
Scotland +4 72 - - 2
North of England +58 34 £41,500 -20.95% 3
Midlands +12 28 £42,500 -22.73% 2
North West +26 20 - - 3
South East +30 17 £45,000 +20.00%
West Midlands 0 17 £42,500 -22.73% 1
South West -8 17 £70,000 +51.35%
Yorkshire +99 14 £41,500 -20.95%
London +105 13 £47,750 -20.42% 5
Northern Ireland - 12 - -
East Midlands - 11 £30,000 - 1
Wales +21 9 - -

Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Database Developer 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 featuring Database Developer in the job title.

1 189 (84.75%) SQL
2 172 (77.13%) Artificial Intelligence
3 165 (73.99%) PL/SQL
4 163 (73.09%) AWS
5 121 (54.26%) Oracle
6 119 (53.36%) Oracle Database
7 110 (49.33%) PostgreSQL
8 107 (47.98%) Migration
8 107 (47.98%) Data Migration
9 106 (47.53%) Oracle Database 11g
9 106 (47.53%) Performance Tuning
10 105 (47.09%) Unit Testing
10 105 (47.09%) Secure Coding
10 105 (47.09%) Actionable Insight
11 68 (30.49%) Software Engineering
12 67 (30.04%) Open Source
13 64 (28.70%) Agile
13 64 (28.70%) Python
14 63 (28.25%) Java
15 62 (27.80%) Visualisation
15 62 (27.80%) NoSQL
16 58 (26.01%) Law
17 57 (25.56%) Finance
17 57 (25.56%) Terraform
17 57 (25.56%) SDLC
17 57 (25.56%) Microservices
18 56 (25.11%) Apache Spark
18 56 (25.11%) Algorithms
18 56 (25.11%) HDFS
18 56 (25.11%) Databricks

Database Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (4.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 163 (73.09%) AWS
2 11 (4.93%) Azure
3 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.45%) OCI
5 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (53.36%) Oracle Database
2 110 (49.33%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (47.53%) Oracle Database 11g
4 62 (27.80%) NoSQL
5 56 (25.11%) Apache Hive
5 56 (25.11%) Hadoop
5 56 (25.11%) HBase
6 27 (12.11%) SQL Server
7 23 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (8.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (6.73%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.04%) Power BI
11 8 (3.59%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.14%) Big Data
12 7 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.90%) FileMaker
14 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
15 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (25.11%) Bitbucket Server
1 56 (25.11%) Git
1 56 (25.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (26.01%) Law
2 57 (25.56%) Finance
3 56 (25.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (16.59%) Legal
5 32 (14.35%) Marketing
6 19 (8.52%) Social Skills
7 6 (2.69%) Back Office
7 6 (2.69%) Billing
7 6 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.76%) .NET
2 12 (5.38%) ASP.NET
3 10 (4.48%) JSON
4 3 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) HTML5
5 1 (0.45%) J2EE
5 1 (0.45%) jQuery
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) Web Services
5 1 (0.45%) XML
5 1 (0.45%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.45%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.11%) Algorithms
2 18 (8.07%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.45%) Derivative
7 1 (0.45%) Equities
7 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (25.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (77.13%) Artificial Intelligence
2 107 (47.98%) Data Migration
2 107 (47.98%) Migration
3 106 (47.53%) Performance Tuning
4 105 (47.09%) Actionable Insight
4 105 (47.09%) Secure Coding
4 105 (47.09%) Unit Testing
5 68 (30.49%) Software Engineering
6 67 (30.04%) Open Source
7 64 (28.70%) Agile
8 62 (27.80%) Visualisation
9 57 (25.56%) Microservices
9 57 (25.56%) SDLC
10 56 (25.11%) Batch Processing
10 56 (25.11%) CI/CD
10 56 (25.11%) Community of Practice
10 56 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (25.11%) Machine Learning
10 56 (25.11%) Operational Stability
10 56 (25.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 189 (84.75%) SQL
2 165 (73.99%) PL/SQL
3 64 (28.70%) Python
4 63 (28.25%) Java
5 19 (8.52%) T-SQL
6 18 (8.07%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.83%) C#
8 12 (5.38%) VB.NET
9 7 (3.14%) R
10 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (6.28%) Degree
2 11 (4.93%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.45%) COREP
2 1 (0.45%) IFRS
2 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 56 (25.11%) HDFS
2 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (25.56%) Terraform
2 1 (0.45%) MIIS
Vendors
1 121 (54.26%) Oracle
2 56 (25.11%) Cloudera
2 56 (25.11%) Databricks
2 56 (25.11%) Informatica
3 18 (8.07%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.45%) IBM
4 1 (0.45%) IFS