Senior Database Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Database Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Database Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £575, 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 111 126 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 +34 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Database Engineer 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £415 - £470
25th Percentile £520 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £589 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £562 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +15.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Database Engineer in Scotland

Senior Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Database Engineer in Scotland

Senior Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Database Engineer in Scotland

Senior Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Database Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow - 4 £557 -
Edinburgh +3 1 £589 +2.43%
Senior Database Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Database Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) AIX
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Replication
3 3 (60.00%) Clustering
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) OCI
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Flashback

Senior Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) AIX
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Solaris
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (60.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat