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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 504 580
Rank change year-on-year +55 +76 +148
Contract jobs citing Database Security 54 56 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 39 32
10th Percentile £381 £438 £463
25th Percentile £418 £516 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +12.20% -10.68%
75th Percentile £515 £588 £600
90th Percentile £588 £693 £649
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.86% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

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 24,672 31,000 42,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.71% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,837 20,180 29,760
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 2,113 1,505
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.27 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
North of England +14 19 £448 -8.21% 2
London +16 15 £450 -22.08% 11
North West +9 13 £446 -8.51%
Midlands +5 7 - - 4
West Midlands +2 7 - - 4
South East +26 4 £450 -21.74% 6
North East - 4 £738 - 2
South West - 3 £520 -
East of England - 3 £488 - 2
Yorkshire -7 2 £500 +56.25%
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (3.70%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
1 2 (3.70%) Network Security
1 2 (3.70%) SSL
1 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (48.15%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (37.04%) SQL Server
3 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 16 (29.63%) Relational Database
5 15 (27.78%) NoSQL
6 13 (24.07%) RDBMS
7 12 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (20.37%) Oracle Database
9 9 (16.67%) MySQL
10 5 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
12 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
13 2 (3.70%) CockroachDB
13 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (3.70%) Metadata
13 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (1.85%) DB2
14 1 (1.85%) InterSystems Cache
14 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) GitLab
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Electronics
5 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Marketing
5 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (59.26%) DBA
2 14 (25.93%) Administrator
3 10 (18.52%) SQL DBA
4 8 (14.81%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (11.11%) Architect
6 6 (11.11%) Database Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Security Architect
7 5 (9.26%) MongoDB DBA
8 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Lead
8 4 (7.41%) Senior
9 3 (5.56%) Analyst
9 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared DBA
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Database Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) JSON
2 11 (20.37%) XML
3 8 (14.81%) Kafka
4 4 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Replication
2 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.85%) CMDB
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Unix
3 3 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (38.89%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (37.04%) High Availability
4 15 (27.78%) DevOps
5 13 (24.07%) Agile
6 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 10 (18.52%) Task Automation
7 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
8 7 (12.96%) Database Migration
9 5 (9.26%) Analytics
9 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.26%) Data Management
9 5 (9.26%) Database Tuning
9 5 (9.26%) ITIL
9 5 (9.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (9.26%) RBAC
9 5 (9.26%) SQL Optimisation
10 4 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (7.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
3 5 (9.26%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Korn
5 1 (1.85%) Ruby
5 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.41%) CISSP
4 4 (7.41%) OCP
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.56%) MCSE
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) GDPR
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.56%) NIST
4 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 7 (12.96%) Data Guard
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
3 6 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (5.56%) Terraform
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.70%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Galera Cluster
6 1 (1.85%) Nessus
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Oracle
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) SAP
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco
4 2 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Qualys
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Aveksa
5 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.85%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) iManage
5 1 (1.85%) Imperva
5 1 (1.85%) RedGate
5 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.85%) Sybase
5 1 (1.85%) Tenable
5 1 (1.85%) Tripwire