Database Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Database Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Database Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 174
Rank change year-on-year +11 +48 -
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.048% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £220 - £253
25th Percentile £288 £663 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £520
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +29.81% -
75th Percentile - £688 £543
90th Percentile - - £585
Central London median daily rate £400 £675 £520
% change year-on-year -40.74% +29.81% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the City of London

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in the City of London

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in the City of London

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) CockroachDB
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) CockroachDB
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat