Database Security Contracts in Central London

Database Security
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Database Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 129 156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +39
Contract jobs citing Database Security 6 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.16% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.18% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £412 - £463
25th Percentile £417 £438 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.55%
75th Percentile £506 £531 £638
90th Percentile £525 £543 £689
London median daily rate £450 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -21.74% +12.20% -10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Database Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in Central London

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Security in Central London

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in Central London

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +10 6 £450 -5.26%
Database Security
London

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) CockroachDB
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Serena SBM
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Control-M
2 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Serena
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase
3 1 (16.67%) VMware