Database Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Database Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Database Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 - 313
Rank change year-on-year - - -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 7 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.33%
75th Percentile £60,938 - £65,625
90th Percentile £61,875 - £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £69,640
% change year-on-year -23.08% -6.66% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 5,201 3,290 7,709
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.92% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,653 2,636 4,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £39,643
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,398 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% - -
75th Percentile £66,650 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Engineer in the West Midlands

Database Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Database Engineer in the West Midlands

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Engineer in the West Midlands

Database Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Worcestershire - 4 £37,500 -
Birmingham - 3 £61,250 - 2
Database Engineer
England

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 West Midlands region featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) SQL
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Logical Data Model
2 4 (57.14%) Physical Data Model
2 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) SAP
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (57.14%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Data Management
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) Logical Data Model
1 4 (57.14%) Physical Data Model
1 4 (57.14%) Translating Business Requirements
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft