Senior Database Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Database Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, 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 301 342 471
Rank change year-on-year +41 +129 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Database Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.020% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.021% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £386 - £455
25th Percentile £448 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +31.58% -20.83%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £500
90th Percentile £581 - £590
UK median daily rate £562 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +15.00% -16.67%

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%

Senior Database Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Database Engineer.

Senior Database Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Database Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Autofac
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) StructureMap
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills

Senior 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) Autofac
1 1 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) StructureMap
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCPD
1 1 (33.33%) MCSD
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
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