Database Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Database Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Database Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £425, 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 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £493 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in Manchester

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in Manchester

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

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 Manchester region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft