Database Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Database Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Database Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £560, 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 73 - 82
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.75% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £521 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - £475
75th Percentile £587 - £488
90th Percentile £589 - -
Scotland median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.45% +15.79% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in Glasgow

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in Glasgow

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in Glasgow

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

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 Glasgow region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (83.33%) Data Guard
2 5 (83.33%) Database Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) AIX
3 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) OCI
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Dell
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Replication

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) AIX
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Database Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Data Guard
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Dell
3 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft