Database Security Contracts in England

Database Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Database Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 596 732
Rank change year-on-year +120 +136 -131
Contract jobs citing Database Security 62 59 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.12% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 38
10th Percentile £438 £463 £363
25th Percentile £500 £488 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -12.17% +36.50%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £588 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £534 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +5.74% -12.17% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.63 - -
25th Percentile £42.08 - -
Median hourly rate £57.32 - -
75th Percentile £59.44 - -
90th Percentile £60.01 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.32 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Database Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in England.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Database Security in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Security within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 24 £580 +13.17% 7
North of England +46 19 £534 -11.00% 2
North West +39 17 £534 -11.00% 1
South East +28 13 £575 +15.00% 8
South West - 4 - - 2
Midlands - 4 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £488 -
Yorkshire +21 2 £320 -46.67% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Database Security
UK

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) AWS
2 12 (19.35%) Serverless
3 11 (17.74%) Azure
4 8 (12.90%) GitHub
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) IaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.61%) OCI
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) Firewall
1 10 (16.13%) SD-WAN
1 10 (16.13%) WAN
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) SAN
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (56.45%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (25.81%) NoSQL
2 16 (25.81%) RDBMS
2 16 (25.81%) Relational Database
3 15 (24.19%) MongoDB
4 14 (22.58%) SQL Server
5 12 (19.35%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (17.74%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (11.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (9.68%) MySQL
9 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
10 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (3.23%) DocumentDB
11 2 (3.23%) Informix
12 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
12 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) GitLab
2 5 (8.06%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (20.97%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Banking
3 4 (6.45%) German Language
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (50.00%) DBA
2 16 (25.81%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 9 (14.52%) Consultant
3 9 (14.52%) Database Specialist
3 9 (14.52%) Security Consultant
4 7 (11.29%) Administrator
5 6 (9.68%) Platform Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Cloud Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Developer
6 5 (8.06%) SQL DBA
6 5 (8.06%) SQL Developer
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Administrator
7 4 (6.45%) Database Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared DBA
7 4 (6.45%) Senior
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Database Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) JSON
1 12 (19.35%) Kafka
1 12 (19.35%) XML
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Clustering
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 10 (16.13%) PKI
3 8 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) HPUX
3 2 (3.23%) Solaris
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (35.48%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (30.65%) DevOps
5 18 (29.03%) Migration
6 15 (24.19%) Database Tuning
7 14 (22.58%) Mentoring
8 13 (20.97%) High Availability
9 11 (17.74%) Capacity Management
9 11 (17.74%) Cloud Security
9 11 (17.74%) Data Encryption
9 11 (17.74%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (16.13%) Key Management
10 10 (16.13%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (16.13%) Risk Assessment
10 10 (16.13%) Security Auditing
10 10 (16.13%) SIEM
11 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (14.52%) Data Migration
11 9 (14.52%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) SQL
2 16 (25.81%) Bash
3 10 (16.13%) Python
4 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) Java
7 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.52%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.61%) MCSA
6 1 (1.61%) MCSE
6 1 (1.61%) OCP
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.61%) IFRS
2 1 (1.61%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (12.90%) vSphere
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Ansible
1 12 (19.35%) Terraform
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (4.84%) Data Guard
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.61%) Packer
5 1 (1.61%) vRealize
5 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Oracle
2 16 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
3 8 (12.90%) SolarWinds
3 8 (12.90%) VMware
4 2 (3.23%) Dell
4 2 (3.23%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) Sun
5 1 (1.61%) Arqiva
5 1 (1.61%) EMC
5 1 (1.61%) HP
5 1 (1.61%) Remedy
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Veritas