Database Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Engineer salary in Work from Home is £66,391 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 609 825
Rank change year-on-year +41 +216 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 24 36 46
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.070% 0.090% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.094% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 22 23 25
10th Percentile £26,583 £33,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £42,498 £44,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,391 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £91,991 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £86,000 £73,000
UK median annual salary £66,391 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.14% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,819 38,389 70,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,114 27,311 42,144
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,536 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Database Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Database Engineer.

Database Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Database Engineer over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Database Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (79.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (66.67%) SQL
3 14 (58.33%) Linux
4 13 (54.17%) Windows
4 13 (54.17%) Agile
5 12 (50.00%) Oracle
5 12 (50.00%) Public Cloud
6 11 (45.83%) Python
6 11 (45.83%) MongoDB
7 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (41.67%) Banking
8 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (37.50%) Finance
8 9 (37.50%) BigQuery
8 9 (37.50%) GCP
8 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
9 8 (33.33%) Data Fabric
9 8 (33.33%) Incident Response
9 8 (33.33%) Data Hub
9 8 (33.33%) Cyberattack
9 8 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
9 8 (33.33%) Databricks
9 8 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (33.33%) F5
9 8 (33.33%) Analytics
9 8 (33.33%) zOS
9 8 (33.33%) Data Management
9 8 (33.33%) Financial Institution
9 8 (33.33%) ETL
9 8 (33.33%) DB2

Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (37.50%) GCP
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Aiven
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (79.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (45.83%) MongoDB
3 9 (37.50%) BigQuery
4 8 (33.33%) Data Hub
4 8 (33.33%) DB2
4 8 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (12.50%) Ingres
6 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (8.33%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (41.67%) Banking
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 8 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 8 (33.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 13 (54.17%) Windows
3 8 (33.33%) zOS
4 6 (25.00%) Unix
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Data Management
3 8 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 8 (33.33%) ETL
3 8 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 7 (29.17%) Coaching
4 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (20.83%) Bash
5 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (4.17%) Java
7 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) HND
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (33.33%) Databricks
2 8 (33.33%) F5
3 3 (12.50%) Sybase
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) jBASE