Database Developer Contracts

Database Developer
UK

The median Database Developer daily rate in the UK is £558 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 668 819
Rank change year-on-year +110 +151 -191
Contract jobs requiring a Database Developer 21 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.053% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.056% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 27
10th Percentile £385 £400 £385
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £663 £500 £594
90th Percentile £742 £525 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +27.78% +12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year - +80.18% -3.48%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £46.67

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Database Developer in the UK

Database Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +100 16 £554 +19.73% 11
UK excluding London +61 10 £575 +27.78% 10
London +105 8 £425 -15.00% 3
Work from Home +110 6 £658 +36.98% 4
South East +29 6 £625 +42.05% 1
Scotland - 2 £575 - 2
West Midlands +31 1 £338 -15.63% 2
Midlands +27 1 £338 -22.86% 3
North of England +18 1 £475 +5.56% 3
North East - 1 £475 -

Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 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 featuring Database Developer in the job title.

1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Oracle
3 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
6 5 (23.81%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Degree
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
7 4 (19.05%) Azure
7 4 (19.05%) AWS
7 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
7 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
8 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
8 3 (14.29%) Git
8 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (14.29%) C#
8 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 3 (14.29%) Python
8 3 (14.29%) ETL

Database Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) OCI
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
4 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.52%) Metadata
5 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (9.52%) Power BI
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (9.52%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
6 1 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.76%) Hudson
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) MDX
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XML Messaging
2 1 (4.76%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Equities
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.52%) Data Integration
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Database Tuning
5 2 (9.52%) High Availability
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Pair Programming
5 2 (9.52%) SDLC
5 2 (9.52%) Secure Coding
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.76%) VBA
5 1 (4.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COREP
1 1 (4.76%) IFRS
1 1 (4.76%) IFRS 17
1 1 (4.76%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Sybase
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce