Database Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £66,367 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 547 701
Rank change year-on-year +1 +154 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 29 221 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.31% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.33% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 3 43 31
10th Percentile - £40,833 £32,500
25th Percentile £64,621 £43,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -6.40% +21.36%
75th Percentile £69,057 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,623 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
South West +106 10 - - 3
Scotland +26 7 £66,367 -33.63% 3
South East +73 6 £70,000 +75.00% 3
North of England +15 6 - - 1
North West -3 6 - -
Database Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 28 (96.55%) Finance
3 27 (93.10%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (89.66%) DevOps
4 26 (89.66%) Social Skills
4 26 (89.66%) Data Modelling
4 26 (89.66%) Agile
5 25 (86.21%) Data Management
5 25 (86.21%) Oracle Application Server
5 25 (86.21%) Business Analysis
5 25 (86.21%) Data Integration
5 25 (86.21%) Service Management
5 25 (86.21%) Military
5 25 (86.21%) ITIL
5 25 (86.21%) Oracle Reports
5 25 (86.21%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (86.21%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (86.21%) Customer Experience
5 25 (86.21%) Analytics
5 25 (86.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 25 (86.21%) DBS Check
6 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.90%) Line Management
8 2 (6.90%) Coaching
8 2 (6.90%) Customer Service
8 2 (6.90%) Problem Management
8 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (86.21%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) AWS
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
1 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (86.21%) Data Warehouse
1 25 (86.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 25 (86.21%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) DB2
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 28 (96.55%) Finance
2 27 (93.10%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (89.66%) Social Skills
4 25 (86.21%) Military
4 25 (86.21%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) Agile
1 26 (89.66%) Data Modelling
1 26 (89.66%) DevOps
2 25 (86.21%) Analytics
2 25 (86.21%) Business Analysis
2 25 (86.21%) Customer Experience
2 25 (86.21%) Data Integration
2 25 (86.21%) Data Management
2 25 (86.21%) ITIL
2 25 (86.21%) Service Management
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.90%) Coaching
4 2 (6.90%) Customer Service
4 2 (6.90%) Line Management
4 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (6.90%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.45%) Database Security
5 1 (3.45%) Kanban
5 1 (3.45%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (3.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Python
1 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (86.21%) DBS Check
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
2 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Imperva
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk