Database Security Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Database Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 45 61
Rank change year-on-year -38 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Database Security 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.100% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £356 £425
Median % change year-on-year +51.69% -16.24% -26.72%
England median daily rate £425 £446 £534
% change year-on-year -4.71% -16.48% +6.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 832 456 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.12% 87.02% 79.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 306 414
10th Percentile £194 £202 £188
25th Percentile £360 £325 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +1.61% -7.06%
75th Percentile £540 £517 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £638
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 20 64
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +24.46% +5.24%
75th Percentile £24.93 £26.00 £27.06
90th Percentile £25.77 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Database Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Database Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Database Security

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Leicestershire - 1 £540 -
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) VLDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle