Database Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 338 455
Rank change year-on-year +47 +117 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 13 7 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.046% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.049% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 16
10th Percentile £323 £501 £449
25th Percentile £345 £541 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £593
90th Percentile £571 £673 £663
UK median daily rate £438 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -23.91% +10.05% -12.92%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Database Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Engineer.

Database Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Database Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Database Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) Oracle Database
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
3 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (46.15%) High Availability
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 5 (38.46%) Data Guard
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (38.46%) Database Security
5 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) Database Tuning
5 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) Replication
6 3 (23.08%) Banking
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (23.08%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
6 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
6 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
6 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Database
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) CockroachDB
5 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (7.69%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Autofac
2 1 (7.69%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) StructureMap
2 1 (7.69%) WCF
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) N-Tier
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Solaris
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (38.46%) Database Security
3 4 (30.77%) Database Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) MCPD
2 1 (7.69%) MCSD
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Data Guard
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) Sybase
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