Database Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 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
26 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 600 850
Rank change year-on-year +37 +250 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 39 33 51
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.088% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.092% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £32,916 £32,500 £49,750
25th Percentile - £43,125 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,310 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £85,000 £88,500
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 June 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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Database Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (64.10%) Oracle
2 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
3 17 (43.59%) SQL
4 14 (35.90%) Linux
5 13 (33.33%) Windows
5 13 (33.33%) E-business
5 13 (33.33%) Agile
6 12 (30.77%) Public Cloud
7 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
7 11 (28.21%) Python
8 10 (25.64%) Banking
8 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
9 9 (23.08%) Data Management
9 9 (23.08%) Finance
9 9 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (23.08%) BigQuery
9 9 (23.08%) GCP
9 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
10 8 (20.51%) Data Fabric
10 8 (20.51%) Incident Response
10 8 (20.51%) Data Hub
10 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (20.51%) Databricks
10 8 (20.51%) Cyberattack
10 8 (20.51%) Database Optimisation
10 8 (20.51%) ETL
10 8 (20.51%) zOS
10 8 (20.51%) Financial Institution
10 8 (20.51%) DB2
10 8 (20.51%) F5

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) GCP
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Aiven
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
3 9 (23.08%) BigQuery
4 8 (20.51%) Data Hub
4 8 (20.51%) DB2
4 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.69%) Ingres
6 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (5.13%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (25.64%) Banking
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Financial Institution
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Cyberattack
2 8 (20.51%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 13 (33.33%) Windows
3 8 (20.51%) zOS
4 6 (15.38%) Unix
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Agile
1 13 (33.33%) E-business
2 9 (23.08%) Data Management
2 9 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (20.51%) Analytics
3 8 (20.51%) Database Optimisation
3 8 (20.51%) ETL
3 8 (20.51%) Incident Response
4 7 (17.95%) Coaching
4 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) SQL
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Bash
4 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) HND
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (64.10%) Oracle
2 8 (20.51%) Databricks
2 8 (20.51%) F5
3 3 (7.69%) Sybase
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) jBASE
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft