Database Engineer Jobs in London

Database Engineer
England > London

The median Database Engineer salary in London is £87,610 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 590 788
Rank change year-on-year +106 +198 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 32 26 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.077% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.081% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 72
10th Percentile £81,250 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £82,865 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,610 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% +3.85% +8.62%
75th Percentile £91,991 £86,250 £90,625
90th Percentile £101,500 £95,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,313 32,109 66,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,649 23,746 34,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,449 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in London

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Database Engineer in London

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Engineer in London

Database Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +64 4 £82,500 +40.43%
West London - 1 £82,500 -
Database Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Database Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (62.50%) Oracle
2 17 (53.13%) SQL Server
3 14 (43.75%) SQL
4 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (34.38%) Finance
5 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 10 (31.25%) Banking
5 10 (31.25%) Windows
5 10 (31.25%) Linux
5 10 (31.25%) MongoDB
6 9 (28.13%) ETL
6 9 (28.13%) Migration
6 9 (28.13%) BigQuery
6 9 (28.13%) GCP
6 9 (28.13%) Database Migration
7 8 (25.00%) Data Fabric
7 8 (25.00%) Incident Response
7 8 (25.00%) Data Hub
7 8 (25.00%) Databricks
7 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 8 (25.00%) Public Cloud
7 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 8 (25.00%) Cyberattack
7 8 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
7 8 (25.00%) zOS
7 8 (25.00%) Data Management
7 8 (25.00%) DB2
7 8 (25.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (25.00%) F5
7 8 (25.00%) Analytics

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 7 (21.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) GCP
2 5 (15.63%) Dropbox
2 5 (15.63%) Google Drive
2 5 (15.63%) OneDrive
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Aiven
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (31.25%) MongoDB
3 9 (28.13%) BigQuery
4 8 (25.00%) Data Hub
4 8 (25.00%) DB2
4 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
7 3 (9.38%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Banking
3 8 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 8 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 8 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (15.63%) iPad
4 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) zOS
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Database Migration
3 9 (28.13%) ETL
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 8 (25.00%) Analytics
4 8 (25.00%) Data Management
4 8 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
4 8 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Backtesting
6 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.25%) High Availability
6 2 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (6.25%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Ansible
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) Databricks
2 8 (25.00%) F5
3 5 (15.63%) Google
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) Sybase