Senior Database Engineer Jobs

Senior Database Engineer
UK

The median Senior Database Engineer salary in the UK is £61,391 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 978 1171
Rank change year-on-year +195 +193 -288
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Database Engineer 111 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.010% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.011% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 18
10th Percentile - - £42,999
25th Percentile £56,750 £51,625 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,391 £53,250 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -33.02% +63.08%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £107,188
90th Percentile £74,297 £78,500 £113,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,391 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.29% -3.18% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Database Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Database Engineer in the UK

Senior Database Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +209 110 £62,783 +17.90%
UK excluding London +97 98 £61,391 +15.29%
North of England - 34 £62,783 -
South East +47 28 - -
Midlands +24 21 £58,500 +9.86%
Yorkshire - 14 - -
West Midlands +26 12 £58,500 +9.86%
North West - 11 £68,891 -
East Midlands - 9 - -
North East - 9 £62,783 -
London +129 7 - -
South West - 7 - -
East of England - 7 - -
Work from Home +100 4 £62,783 -10.31%
Scotland - 1 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Database Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (87.39%) Database Migration
1 97 (87.39%) MS Visio
1 97 (87.39%) Migration
2 69 (62.16%) Google
2 69 (62.16%) iPad
2 69 (62.16%) Dropbox
2 69 (62.16%) Google Drive
2 69 (62.16%) OneDrive
3 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (4.50%) High Availability
5 5 (4.50%) Azure
5 5 (4.50%) SQL
6 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Terraform
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.60%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (3.60%) Python
6 4 (3.60%) Agile
6 4 (3.60%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.60%) AWS
6 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.60%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.60%) Git
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS

Senior Database Engineer 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:

Applications
1 97 (87.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (62.16%) Dropbox
1 69 (62.16%) Google Drive
1 69 (62.16%) OneDrive
2 5 (4.50%) Azure
3 4 (3.60%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.60%) MySQL
2 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
2 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.80%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Git
General
1 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 69 (62.16%) iPad
2 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (87.39%) Database Migration
1 97 (87.39%) Migration
2 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (4.50%) High Availability
5 4 (3.60%) Agile
5 4 (3.60%) Coaching
5 4 (3.60%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (3.60%) Mentoring
6 2 (1.80%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.50%) SQL
2 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.60%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Ansible
1 4 (3.60%) Data Guard
1 4 (3.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (62.16%) Google
2 4 (3.60%) Oracle