Database Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £394, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 350 398
Rank change year-on-year -48 +48 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Database Developer 10 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.086% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.093% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £372 £365 £319
25th Percentile £383 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £404 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -14.95% -4.04%
75th Percentile £475 £434 £588
90th Percentile £513 £484 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £430 £488
% change year-on-year +16.28% -11.84% -9.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,166 13,980 18,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.36% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,949 8,317 12,127
10th Percentile £210 £213 £214
25th Percentile £366 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,625 835 1,208
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.36 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.28 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.49 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Database Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Database Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Developer in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
North of England -33 5 £388 -29.55%
Yorkshire - 3 £438 -
South East +1 2 - - 2
North West -19 2 £388 -29.55%
Midlands -40 2 £394 -1.56%
Scotland -1 1 £500 +27.06%
West Midlands -39 1 £388 -3.12%
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Database Developer
UK

Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Database Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Database Developer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Kafka
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC

Database Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospike
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) API Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Backtesting
4 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) DocuSign
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow