Database Engineer Jobs in England

Database Engineer
UK > England

The median Database Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 866 1002
Rank change year-on-year +189 +136 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 163 59 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.067% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.073% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 45 101
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £91,991 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile - £96,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Engineer in England

Database Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
North of England +66 42 £62,783 -8.68% 1
London +116 33 £87,610 +29.79% 12
South East +37 33 £40,000 -51.52% 2
Midlands +11 29 £46,500 -12.68% 2
Yorkshire +92 18 - -
West Midlands +20 18 £58,500 +9.86% 1
North West +11 15 £68,891 +37.78% 1
South West - 13 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 11 £25,000 - 1
North East +7 9 £62,783 -13.40%
East of England - 7 - - 1
Database Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (61.35%) Database Migration
1 100 (61.35%) Migration
2 97 (59.51%) MS Visio
3 71 (43.56%) Google
4 69 (42.33%) iPad
4 69 (42.33%) Dropbox
4 69 (42.33%) Google Drive
4 69 (42.33%) OneDrive
5 44 (26.99%) Oracle
6 32 (19.63%) SQL Server
7 23 (14.11%) SQL
8 22 (13.50%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (12.88%) CSS
10 15 (9.20%) Agile
11 14 (8.59%) PowerShell
12 13 (7.98%) Azure
12 13 (7.98%) Linux
12 13 (7.98%) Python
13 12 (7.36%) Public Cloud
14 11 (6.75%) Social Skills
14 11 (6.75%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (6.75%) Finance
14 11 (6.75%) GCP
15 10 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
15 10 (6.13%) Banking
15 10 (6.13%) Windows
15 10 (6.13%) ETL
15 10 (6.13%) DB2
15 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 97 (59.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.33%) Dropbox
1 69 (42.33%) Google Drive
1 69 (42.33%) OneDrive
2 13 (7.98%) Azure
3 11 (6.75%) GCP
4 8 (4.91%) AWS
5 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.61%) Aiven
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.13%) DB2
2 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.52%) BigQuery
3 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.91%) Data Hub
4 8 (4.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.68%) MySQL
6 6 (3.68%) Power BI
7 5 (3.07%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.45%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.84%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (6.75%) Finance
1 11 (6.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.13%) Banking
3 8 (4.91%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.88%) CSS
2 3 (1.84%) .NET
2 3 (1.84%) JSON
3 1 (0.61%) J2EE
3 1 (0.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 69 (42.33%) iPad
2 22 (13.50%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.36%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.91%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.91%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.84%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.23%) Photography
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.98%) Linux
2 10 (6.13%) Windows
3 8 (4.91%) zOS
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (61.35%) Database Migration
1 100 (61.35%) Migration
2 15 (9.20%) Agile
3 11 (6.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (6.13%) ETL
4 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (5.52%) Analytics
5 9 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (5.52%) Data Management
6 8 (4.91%) Database Optimisation
6 8 (4.91%) Incident Response
7 7 (4.29%) High Availability
8 5 (3.07%) Mentoring
9 4 (2.45%) Coaching
9 4 (2.45%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (2.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (1.84%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (1.84%) Project Delivery
10 3 (1.84%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.11%) SQL
2 14 (8.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.98%) Python
4 8 (4.91%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.84%) C#
5 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.84%) R
5 3 (1.84%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.23%) Bash
6 2 (1.23%) Java
6 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.61%) Go
7 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (1.84%) Degree
2 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (3.68%) Ansible
1 6 (3.68%) Terraform
2 5 (3.07%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (43.56%) Google
2 44 (26.99%) Oracle
3 8 (4.91%) Databricks
3 8 (4.91%) F5
3 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.45%) Sybase
5 1 (0.61%) jBASE
5 1 (0.61%) SAP