Database Security Contracts in London

Database Security
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 329 366 449
Rank change year-on-year +37 +83 +120
Contract jobs citing Database Security 24 25 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 26
10th Percentile £331 £460 £463
25th Percentile £402 £540 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +12.20% -10.87%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £575
90th Percentile £640 £725 £650
England median daily rate £447 £540 £505
% change year-on-year -17.18% +6.93% -12.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in London

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Security in London

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in London

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in London

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +6 6 £450 -5.26%
East London +11 2 £563 -3.85%
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) iTrent
1 1 (4.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) MySQL
3 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
5 2 (8.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
5 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.17%) DTS
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Serena SBM
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
2 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) DBA
2 6 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (12.50%) Database Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Database Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) MongoDB DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.17%) PostGIS
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Replication
2 7 (29.17%) Clustering
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) High Availability
2 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) MCDBA
2 1 (4.17%) MCSE
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (8.33%) Data Guard
4 2 (8.33%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (4.17%) Control-M
5 1 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (4.17%) Nagios
5 1 (4.17%) Nessus
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
5 1 (4.17%) QRadar
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) Tivoli
5 1 (4.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.50%) Qualys
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Sybase
5 1 (4.17%) BMC
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) EMC
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Serena
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) Tripwire
5 1 (4.17%) VMware