Database Security Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Database Security
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Database Security 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £439 £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% - -
75th Percentile £527 £565 -
90th Percentile £537 - -
North West median daily rate £416 £445 £534
% change year-on-year -6.63% -16.67% -11.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 442 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.59% 97.14% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 304 276
10th Percentile £320 £317 £276
25th Percentile £393 £358 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -8.09% +2.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £17.80 £13.70
25th Percentile £21.19 £27.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.41 £37.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +38.78% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.63 £42.31
90th Percentile £85.10 £86.00 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +69.23% +36.55% -36.19%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Database Security job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Database Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Database Security

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
Chester - 2 £481 - 1
Database Security
North West

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Mirroring
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase