Database Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-30, Skillenai has indexed 4 job postings with the title “Database Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Grafana.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-30
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+How many Database Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 4 job postings with the title “Database Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30.
+What skills do Database Engineer jobs require?
Across Database Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, the skills mentioned most often are Grafana, CI/CD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux.
+Which cities are hiring the most Database Engineer?
As of 2026-08-30, Database Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Chicago, Las Vegas, San Jose.
+Is Database Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 4 Database Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30. The skill mentioned most often in Database Engineer postings is Grafana, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Database Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Database Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grafana | 3 | 75.0% |
| CI/CD | 2 | 50.0% |
| MySQL | 2 | 50.0% |
| PostgreSQL | 2 | 50.0% |
| Linux | 2 | 50.0% |
| SQL | 2 | 50.0% |
| Redis | 2 | 50.0% |
| Persona | 2 | 50.0% |
| Bash | 2 | 50.0% |
| Prometheus | 2 | 50.0% |
| AWS RDS | 2 | 50.0% |
| Terraform | 2 | 50.0% |
| CloudWatch | 2 | 50.0% |
| Spark | 1 | 25.0% |
| PMM | 1 | 25.0% |
Top metros hiring Database Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 1 | 25.0% |
| Las Vegas | 1 | 25.0% |
| San Jose | 1 | 25.0% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, matching postings whose canonical role is “Database Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Database Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-08-30
- window_days
- 90
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