Database Security Contracts in England

Database Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 435 480 594
Rank change year-on-year +45 +114 +136
Contract jobs citing Database Security 50 62 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 37
10th Percentile £359 £438 £463
25th Percentile £409 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £540 £505
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% +6.93% -12.17%
75th Percentile £471 £588 £588
90th Percentile £572 - £650
UK median daily rate £446 £537 £505
% change year-on-year -16.95% +6.34% -12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £33.63 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £42.08 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £57.32 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.44 -
90th Percentile - £60.01 -
UK median hourly rate £43.11 £57.32 -
% change year-on-year -24.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
London +37 24 £450 -21.74% 15
North of England +14 13 £445 -16.67% 17
North West +14 13 £445 -16.67% 8
South East +39 6 £450 -21.74% 23
South West +44 2 - - 14
Midlands +20 2 - - 16
West Midlands +13 2 - - 8
East of England - 1 - - 13
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) iTrent
1 1 (2.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) Serverless
3 9 (18.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) IaaS
4 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.00%) PaaS
4 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.00%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (32.00%) MongoDB
2 16 (32.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (32.00%) SQL Server
3 14 (28.00%) NoSQL
3 14 (28.00%) RDBMS
4 13 (26.00%) MySQL
5 12 (24.00%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (18.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.00%) CockroachDB
7 2 (4.00%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (4.00%) MariaDB
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.00%) Serena SBM
3 1 (2.00%) Subversion
3 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (68.00%) DBA
2 12 (24.00%) SQL DBA
3 10 (20.00%) Administrator
3 10 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 5 (10.00%) Database Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) MongoDB DBA
5 4 (8.00%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Database Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DBA
7 1 (2.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) JSON
2 13 (26.00%) XML
3 10 (20.00%) Kafka
4 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.00%) Middleware
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) LDAP
5 1 (2.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Replication
2 9 (18.00%) Clustering
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows
3 5 (10.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) AIX
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Solaris
5 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (40.00%) High Availability
3 17 (34.00%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (28.00%) DevOps
6 13 (26.00%) Agile
7 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.00%) Database Migration
9 7 (14.00%) ITIL
9 7 (14.00%) Migration
10 5 (10.00%) SQL Optimisation
10 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
11 4 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (8.00%) Cloud Security
11 4 (8.00%) Data Migration
11 4 (8.00%) Database Tuning
11 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 3 (6.00%) Containerisation
12 3 (6.00%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (6.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.00%) OCP
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) MCDBA
4 1 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Ansible
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Data Guard
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (4.00%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Control-M
5 1 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.00%) Nagios
5 1 (2.00%) Nessus
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) QRadar
5 1 (2.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Oracle
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.00%) Qualys
5 2 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) Sybase
6 1 (2.00%) BMC
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco
6 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.00%) EMC
6 1 (2.00%) Imperva
6 1 (2.00%) RedGate
6 1 (2.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Serena
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable
6 1 (2.00%) VMware