Database Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 701 802
Rank change year-on-year +155 +101 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 222 32 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.054% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.061% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 44 31 29
10th Percentile £40,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +21.36% -1.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £69,350
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Engineer in the UK excluding London

Database Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +28 93 £100,000 +69.85% 3
North of England +82 42 £62,783 -8.68% 1
South East +29 33 £40,000 -51.52% 2
Midlands +9 29 £46,500 -12.68% 2
Yorkshire +93 18 - -
West Midlands +19 18 £58,500 +9.86% 1
North West +17 15 £68,891 +37.78% 1
South West - 13 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 11 £25,000 - 1
North East +2 9 £62,783 -13.40%
East of England - 7 - - 1
Wales - 3 £51,996 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Database Engineer
UK

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (38.74%) Migration
2 84 (37.84%) MS Visio
2 84 (37.84%) Database Migration
3 83 (37.39%) SQL
4 71 (31.98%) Software Engineering
5 70 (31.53%) Git
6 67 (30.18%) Python
7 65 (29.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (28.83%) Java
9 63 (28.38%) AWS
10 62 (27.93%) Google
10 62 (27.93%) Agile
10 62 (27.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 61 (27.48%) Visualisation
12 60 (27.03%) iPad
12 60 (27.03%) Unix
12 60 (27.03%) Dropbox
12 60 (27.03%) Google Drive
12 60 (27.03%) OneDrive
12 60 (27.03%) Terraform
13 58 (26.13%) Finance
14 57 (25.68%) Law
14 57 (25.68%) SDLC
15 56 (25.23%) Community of Practice
15 56 (25.23%) Bitbucket Server
15 56 (25.23%) Operational Stability
15 56 (25.23%) CI/CD
15 56 (25.23%) Batch Processing
15 56 (25.23%) HDFS
15 56 (25.23%) Microservices

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 56 (25.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 84 (37.84%) MS Visio
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.38%) AWS
2 60 (27.03%) Dropbox
2 60 (27.03%) Google Drive
2 60 (27.03%) OneDrive
3 12 (5.41%) Azure
4 8 (3.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.23%) Apache Hive
1 56 (25.23%) Hadoop
1 56 (25.23%) HBase
1 56 (25.23%) NoSQL
2 31 (13.96%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (4.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (3.60%) Power BI
8 7 (3.15%) Big Data
9 6 (2.70%) MySQL
9 6 (2.70%) OLAP
10 5 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.80%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (31.53%) Git
2 56 (25.23%) Bitbucket Server
2 56 (25.23%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (27.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (26.13%) Finance
3 57 (25.68%) Law
4 37 (16.67%) Legal
5 19 (8.56%) Marketing
6 9 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.05%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) CSS
2 3 (1.35%) .NET
2 3 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (0.45%) J2EE
3 1 (0.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.03%) iPad
2 56 (25.23%) Algorithms
3 21 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.15%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.03%) Unix
2 7 (3.15%) Linux
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.74%) Migration
2 84 (37.84%) Database Migration
3 71 (31.98%) Software Engineering
4 65 (29.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (27.93%) Agile
6 61 (27.48%) Visualisation
7 57 (25.68%) SDLC
8 56 (25.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 56 (25.23%) Batch Processing
8 56 (25.23%) CI/CD
8 56 (25.23%) Community of Practice
8 56 (25.23%) Machine Learning
8 56 (25.23%) Microservices
8 56 (25.23%) Open Source
8 56 (25.23%) Operational Stability
8 56 (25.23%) TDD
8 56 (25.23%) Test Automation
9 44 (19.82%) Risk Management
10 19 (8.56%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 83 (37.39%) SQL
2 67 (30.18%) Python
3 64 (28.83%) Java
4 56 (25.23%) PL/SQL
5 19 (8.56%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.70%) C
7 6 (2.70%) Rust
8 5 (2.25%) C++
8 5 (2.25%) VBA
9 3 (1.35%) Bash
9 3 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (1.35%) R
9 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (6.76%) Degree
2 12 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.35%) HND
4 2 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 56 (25.23%) HDFS
2 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (27.03%) Terraform
2 5 (2.25%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 62 (27.93%) Google
2 56 (25.23%) Cloudera
2 56 (25.23%) Databricks
2 56 (25.23%) Informatica
3 30 (13.51%) Oracle
4 16 (7.21%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.35%) VMware
6 1 (0.45%) jBASE
6 1 (0.45%) SAP