Database Security Contracts in the City of London

Database Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 122 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 +49
Contract jobs citing Database Security 4 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £420 - £463
25th Percentile £435 £438 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £510 £546 £600
90th Percentile £527 £566 £703
Central London median daily rate £472 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -0.68% -13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,762 1,957 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.97% 91.45% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,338 2,105
10th Percentile £338 £363 £342
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 22
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.36 £15.78
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £56.75 £55.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £101.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in the City of London

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the City of London

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft