Hybrid/Remote Database Developer Contract Job Trends

Database Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Developer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 314 374
Rank change year-on-year +6 +60 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Database Developer 10 2 17
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.016% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.018% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £370 £412 £364
25th Percentile £381 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £429 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -9.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £400 £440 £526
90th Percentile £475 £446 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £430 £538
% change year-on-year +16.28% -20.04% -2.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Database Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Database Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Database Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Database Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Database Developer job vacancies

Database Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Database Developer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Database Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Database Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Database Developer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Database Developer job vacancies

Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Database Developer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) SSDT
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (20.00%) Release Automation
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (10.00%) API Integration
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Change Control
5 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) DB2

Database Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (30.00%) SSDT
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Release Automation
2 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) API Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) DocuSign
1 1 (10.00%) Informatica
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow