Senior Database Developer Jobs

Senior Database Developer
UK

The median Senior Database Developer salary in the UK is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 806 966
Rank change year-on-year +116 +160 +217
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Database Developer 1 96 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.097% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.10% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £96,250 - £49,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -15.49% -11.25%
75th Percentile £98,750 £61,250 £54,875
90th Percentile - £71,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year - -15.49% -3.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Database Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Database Developer in the UK

Senior Database Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Database Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Database Developer in the UK

Senior Database Developer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Database Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +113 1 £97,500 +116.67% 1
London +103 1 £97,500 - 1

Senior Database Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Database Developer 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 featuring Senior Database Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Senior Database Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI