Database Security Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Database Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 120 130
Rank change year-on-year -54 +10 +42
Contract jobs citing Database Security 2 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.054% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £445 £365 £436
25th Percentile £446 £380 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% -16.26% +6.94%
75th Percentile £453 £427 £494
90th Percentile £454 £441 -
England median daily rate £428 £450 £534
% change year-on-year -5.00% -15.73% -0.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,120 1,830 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.99% 88.88% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,959 1,155 1,514
10th Percentile £263 £208 £215
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 71 174
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.46 £14.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -3.59% +33.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.68 £48.44
90th Percentile £30.25 £39.68 £65.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Database Security job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
West Midlands -59 2 £449 - 3
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) OCP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle