Senior Database Engineer Contracts

Senior Database Engineer
UK

The median Senior Database Engineer daily rate in the UK is £562, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 571 672
Rank change year-on-year +33 +101 +200
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Database Engineer 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.012% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.013% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £433 £629 £445
25th Percentile £528 £653 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +42.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £587 £778 £584
90th Percentile £589 £806 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £500

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,944 38,437 52,467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.04% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,029 24,865 36,295
10th Percentile £284 £294 £308
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.31%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,430 2,436 1,571
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.49 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -8.57% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.47 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.85% +4.53% +90.48%

Senior Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Database Engineer over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 22 July 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
UK excluding London - 6 £575 - 8
Scotland - 5 £575 -
England +36 3 £550 -22.81% 9
Work from Home +29 3 £550 -12.00% 10
London +27 1 £550 -22.81% 2
South East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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 featuring Senior Database Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) Database Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) OCI
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Flashback
3 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (37.50%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (37.50%) Replication
3 3 (37.50%) Clustering
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Dell
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) OCI
3 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (12.50%) Autofac
1 1 (12.50%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) StructureMap
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) AIX
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Solaris
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Database Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Design
5 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Inversion of Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) MCPD
1 1 (12.50%) MCSD
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (37.50%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Dell
2 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) EXASOL
3 2 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
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