Database Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 434 519
Rank change year-on-year +39 +85 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Database Developer 10 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.074% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.078% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 8
10th Percentile £459 £400 £365
25th Percentile £551 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £663 £488 £574
90th Percentile £720 £498 £594
UK median daily rate £566 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +19.21% -13.64% +31.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.67
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £46.67
% change year-on-year - +80.18% -3.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,296 22,932 30,081
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.05% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 16,071 21,102
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,186 1,194 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.85 £59.01
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Database Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Developer in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Developer 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 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Developer in the UK excluding London

Database Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Developer 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 18 April 2024. 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
South East +27 6 £625 +42.05% 1
Scotland - 2 £575 - 2
Midlands +36 1 £338 -22.86% 3
West Midlands +34 1 £338 -15.63% 2
North of England +26 1 £475 +5.56% 2
North East - 1 £475 -
Database Developer
UK

Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Database Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Database Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Metadata
6 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (20.00%) OCI
6 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Degree

Database Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Metadata
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) MDX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Database Security
5 1 (10.00%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce