Database Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Database Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Database Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 130 157
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.067% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £41,300
25th Percentile £46,250 - £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.12%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - £69,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.12%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,360 2,247 2,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 95.90% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 776 1,455 1,768
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,419
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in West Yorkshire

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Database Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Database Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Database Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Leeds +31 1 £47,500 - 1
Database Engineer
Yorkshire

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL