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

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 365 434
Rank change year-on-year +11 +69 +146
Contract jobs citing Database Security 15 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 25
10th Percentile £363 £452 £463
25th Percentile £409 £540 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £578 £505
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +14.36% -22.31%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £579 £718 £645
England median daily rate £450 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -21.74% +10.58% -9.37%

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 12,486 15,230 22,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.05% 88.71% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,361 10,818 16,605
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 265 256
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.81 £32.29 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -20.80% +14.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £50.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £63.55 £69.20 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 18 July 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 18 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
Central London +1 4 £472 -0.68% 1
East London +6 1 £495 -15.38%
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) MySQL
3 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (13.33%) CockroachDB
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) DBA
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (20.00%) Database Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Database Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) High Availability
2 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Pair Programming
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
4 1 (6.67%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (6.67%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Qualys
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Aveksa
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable
3 1 (6.67%) Tripwire