Database Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Database Engineer
England > North of England

The median Database Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 168 200
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 11 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.048% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.052% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £375 £245 -
25th Percentile £391 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -34.62% +44.44%
75th Percentile £475 £538 -
90th Percentile £569 £605 -
England median daily rate £413 £510 £575
% change year-on-year -19.12% -11.30% +27.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,627 3,842 5,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.22% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,329 2,369 3,435
10th Percentile £251 £263 £263
25th Percentile £367 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 283 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.50 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.54 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +14.29% +30.40%
75th Percentile £46.65 £51.89 £44.64
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Yorkshire +4 10 £400 -5.88% 1
North West - 1 £425 - 5
Database Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 North of England region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Oracle
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 8 (72.73%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (72.73%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (54.55%) vSphere
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (45.45%) Finance
5 5 (45.45%) VMware
6 4 (36.36%) OCP
6 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 3 (27.27%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (27.27%) Data Guard
7 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (27.27%) Change Management
7 3 (27.27%) Python
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
8 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle Licensing

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

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Software Licensing
4 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) API Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) OCP
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Data Guard
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Sybase