Senior Database Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Senior Database Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Database Engineer salary in the South East is £69,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 - 356
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Database Engineer 1 0 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.007% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 - -
75th Percentile £71,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £69,000 - £62,783
% change year-on-year - - +17.90%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 13,455 5,816 15,183
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 84.25% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,859 3,670 11,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,123
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.49%

Senior Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Database Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Database Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Database Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior Database Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Database Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Database Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Database Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Hampshire - 1 £69,000 - 2
Senior Database Engineer
England

Senior Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, Senior Database Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Database Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL

Senior Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL