Database Engineer Contracts in England

Database Engineer
UK > England

The median Database Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 511 634
Rank change year-on-year +70 +123 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 33 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.079% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.085% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 14
10th Percentile £184 £150 £504
25th Percentile £361 £250 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £588 £544
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +8.05% -9.38%
75th Percentile £565 £638 £615
90th Percentile £640 £815 £668
UK median daily rate £438 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -23.91% +10.05% -12.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,494 34,110 46,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.71% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,975 22,631 32,967
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 2,443 1,373
10th Percentile £14.01 £12.87 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.92
Median hourly rate £30.32 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% -17.38% +99.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
London +58 14 £500 -14.89% 17
North of England +27 11 £425 -34.62% 2
Yorkshire +19 9 £400 -38.46% 1
South East +41 2 £350 +40.00% 3
West Midlands +15 2 £170 +3.03%
Midlands +10 2 £170 +3.03% 3
North West - 2 £493 - 1
East of England +34 1 £180 -10.00% 2
Database Engineer
UK

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (54.55%) Oracle
2 16 (48.48%) Oracle Database
3 13 (39.39%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) SQL
6 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
6 10 (30.30%) Migration
6 10 (30.30%) Ansible
7 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
8 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
8 8 (24.24%) Database Migration
8 8 (24.24%) Finance
9 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
10 6 (18.18%) High Availability
10 6 (18.18%) Database Security
10 6 (18.18%) Azure
10 6 (18.18%) AWS
10 6 (18.18%) vSphere
10 6 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (15.15%) VMware
11 5 (15.15%) Data Migration
11 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
11 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
11 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (12.12%) Data Guard
12 4 (12.12%) Replication
12 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.06%) OCI
2 2 (6.06%) SaaS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) Oracle Database
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
3 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (9.09%) MySQL
5 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
7 1 (3.03%) DB2
7 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
7 1 (3.03%) MS Access
7 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Local Government
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.03%) Autofac
2 1 (3.03%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) StructureMap
2 1 (3.03%) WCF
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) NHS
3 1 (3.03%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (30.30%) Migration
4 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 8 (24.24%) Database Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Database Security
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Data Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (12.12%) Security Patching
8 3 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (9.09%) Change Management
8 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 3 (9.09%) Database Tuning
8 3 (9.09%) DevOps
8 3 (9.09%) Problem Management
9 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (6.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) OCP
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) MCPD
4 1 (3.03%) MCSD
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) vSphere
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) Docker
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Data Guard
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Oracle
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) EXASOL
4 2 (6.06%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Imperva
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Remedy
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Sybase