Database Engineer Jobs in England

Database Engineer
UK > England

The median Database Engineer salary in England is £58,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 684 839 1023
Rank change year-on-year +155 +184 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 180 55 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.067% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.073% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 55 41 100
10th Percentile £37,750 £39,000 £44,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,125 £72,500 £78,875
90th Percentile £91,991 £97,500 £105,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £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 12 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +53 55 £45,000 -33.33%
London +106 33 £87,610 +25.16% 4
South East -4 33 £40,000 -51.52%
Midlands -14 33 £46,500 -12.68% 1
North West -5 21 £45,000 -10.00%
West Midlands 0 20 £58,500 +9.86% 1
Yorkshire +75 18 - -
North East -2 16 £45,000 -37.93%
East Midlands - 13 £25,000 -
South West - 13 £70,000 -
East of England - 7 - -
Database Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 (55.56%) Database Migration
1 100 (55.56%) Migration
2 97 (53.89%) MS Visio
3 71 (39.44%) Google
4 69 (38.33%) iPad
4 69 (38.33%) Dropbox
4 69 (38.33%) Google Drive
4 69 (38.33%) OneDrive
5 57 (31.67%) Oracle
6 32 (17.78%) SQL Server
7 24 (13.33%) SQL
8 22 (12.22%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (11.67%) CSS
10 15 (8.33%) Agile
11 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
11 14 (7.78%) Azure
12 13 (7.22%) E-business
12 13 (7.22%) Linux
12 13 (7.22%) Python
13 12 (6.67%) Public Cloud
14 11 (6.11%) GCP
14 11 (6.11%) ETL
14 11 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (6.11%) Finance
14 11 (6.11%) Social Skills
15 10 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (5.56%) Banking
15 10 (5.56%) Data Management
15 10 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (5.56%) Windows

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 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 97 (53.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.33%) Dropbox
1 69 (38.33%) Google Drive
1 69 (38.33%) OneDrive
2 14 (7.78%) Azure
3 11 (6.11%) GCP
4 8 (4.44%) AWS
5 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.56%) Aiven
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.56%) DB2
2 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 9 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (4.44%) Data Hub
4 8 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.89%) Power BI
5 7 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.33%) MySQL
7 5 (2.78%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Git
2 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (6.11%) Finance
1 11 (6.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.56%) Banking
3 8 (4.44%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.67%) CSS
2 3 (1.67%) .NET
2 3 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) J2EE
3 1 (0.56%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 69 (38.33%) iPad
2 22 (12.22%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.44%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.44%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.67%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.11%) Photography
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.22%) Linux
2 10 (5.56%) Windows
3 8 (4.44%) zOS
4 2 (1.11%) Unix
4 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (55.56%) Database Migration
1 100 (55.56%) Migration
2 15 (8.33%) Agile
3 13 (7.22%) E-business
4 11 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (6.11%) ETL
5 10 (5.56%) Analytics
5 10 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (5.56%) Data Management
5 10 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (4.44%) Database Optimisation
6 8 (4.44%) Incident Response
7 7 (3.89%) High Availability
8 5 (2.78%) Mentoring
8 5 (2.78%) Software Engineering
9 4 (2.22%) Coaching
9 4 (2.22%) Data Modelling
9 4 (2.22%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (2.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.33%) SQL
2 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 13 (7.22%) Python
4 8 (4.44%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.67%) C#
5 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.67%) R
5 3 (1.67%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.11%) Bash
6 2 (1.11%) Java
6 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.56%) Go
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (2.22%) Degree
2 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (3.33%) Ansible
1 6 (3.33%) Terraform
2 5 (2.78%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (39.44%) Google
2 57 (31.67%) Oracle
3 8 (4.44%) Databricks
3 8 (4.44%) F5
3 8 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.22%) Sybase
5 2 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) jBASE