Database Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Database Engineer
England > North of England

The median Database Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 201 248
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.041% 0.018% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.019% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £245 - £453
25th Percentile £313 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +13.04% +64.29%
75th Percentile £538 - £606
90th Percentile £605 - £618
England median daily rate £563 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Engineer in the North of England

Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
Database Engineer
England

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Database Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) CloudBees
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) ClickHouse
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft