Database Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 449 594
Rank change year-on-year +112 +145 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 7 22 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.086% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.090% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 17
10th Percentile £501 £449 £475
25th Percentile £541 £459 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £593 £634
90th Percentile £673 £663 £655
UK median daily rate £575 £523 £600
% change year-on-year +10.05% -12.92% +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Database Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Database Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 2 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
4 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Data Design
6 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
6 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (28.57%) Business Case
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (28.57%) Serverless
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (28.57%) Databricks
6 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (28.57%) PySpark
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda

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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Informix
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Data Design
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Commvault
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase
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