Database Engineer Contracts

Database Engineer
UK

The median Database Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 658 793
Rank change year-on-year +114 +135 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 42 35 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.060% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.064% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 32
10th Percentile £177 £449 £450
25th Percentile £228 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -12.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £631 £586 £641
90th Percentile £700 £663 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £475 £625
% change year-on-year -28.53% -24.00% +66.67%

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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the UK

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in the UK

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in the UK

Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Engineer in the UK

Database Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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 +101 31 £588 +8.05% 15
London +107 20 £588 +9.30% 9
UK excluding London +81 20 £340 -28.53% 9
Scotland +44 7 £550 +15.79% 3
Work from Home +106 6 £600 +15.38% 5
South West +23 5 - -
East of England +6 2 £190 - 1
Wales - 2 £220 -
West Midlands - 2 £165 - 1
Midlands - 2 £165 - 2
North of England +29 1 £650 - 2
South East +9 1 £250 +11.11% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £650 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (57.14%) SQL
2 20 (47.62%) Agile
3 17 (40.48%) Azure
3 17 (40.48%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (38.10%) Oracle
5 15 (35.71%) Ansible
6 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
7 12 (28.57%) Linux
8 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
8 11 (26.19%) AWS
9 10 (23.81%) Oracle Database
9 10 (23.81%) Finance
10 9 (21.43%) Python
10 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
10 9 (21.43%) Git
10 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (19.05%) MySQL
11 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
12 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
12 7 (16.67%) Migration
12 7 (16.67%) ITIL
12 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (16.67%) DBS Check
12 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
12 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
12 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 7 (16.67%) Database Migration

Database Engineer 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 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) IIS
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.38%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) AWS
3 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.38%) CloudBees
8 1 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) LAN
2 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 2 (4.76%) WLAN
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
3 10 (23.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (19.05%) MySQL
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (9.52%) InfluxDB
6 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (7.14%) Informix
7 3 (7.14%) Metadata
8 2 (4.76%) Big Data
8 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.76%) Redis
9 1 (2.38%) ClickHouse
9 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) German Language
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Kafka
2 4 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.76%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.38%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
4 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 7 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 7 (16.67%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) Migration
5 6 (14.29%) DevOps
5 6 (14.29%) SDLC
6 5 (11.90%) Business Case
6 5 (11.90%) Database Tuning
7 4 (9.52%) Database Security
7 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.52%) High Availability
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Kanban
7 4 (9.52%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (9.52%) Scrum
8 3 (7.14%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (21.43%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) Perl
3 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) C
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) Groovy
7 1 (2.38%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.76%) QA
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Data Guard
2 6 (14.29%) Puppet
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
3 5 (11.90%) Grafana
4 3 (7.14%) SCCM
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.38%) Kibana
6 1 (2.38%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Oracle
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
4 6 (14.29%) Sybase
5 3 (7.14%) Commvault
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco
6 2 (4.76%) Citrix
6 2 (4.76%) Databricks
6 2 (4.76%) Dell
6 2 (4.76%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (4.76%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.38%) SimCorp