Database Security Contracts in the North of England

Database Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 173 203
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +39
Contract jobs citing Database Security 19 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.22% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.26% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 3
10th Percentile £409 £360 £560
25th Percentile £445 £420 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -18.75% +3.18%
75th Percentile £533 £494 £625
90th Percentile £718 £605 £640
England median daily rate £450 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -21.74% +12.20% -10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,404 3,861 4,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.67% 83.97% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,331 3,266
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 333 199
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.44 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -15.09% +31.64%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.61
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in the North of England

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the North of England

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the North of England

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in the North of England

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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 West +10 13 £446 -8.51%
North East - 4 £738 - 2
Yorkshire +2 2 £500 +56.25%
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Serverless
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) MongoDB
2 14 (73.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (52.63%) NoSQL
3 10 (52.63%) RDBMS
3 10 (52.63%) Relational Database
4 8 (42.11%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (15.79%) MySQL
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.26%) DB2
7 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (5.26%) Power BI
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) DBA
2 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (26.32%) Administrator
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Security Architect
4 4 (21.05%) MongoDB DBA
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) JSON
2 10 (52.63%) XML
3 8 (42.11%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
3 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) Application Security
4 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (15.79%) SIEM
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) Korn
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Ruby
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CISSP
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) MCSA
4 1 (5.26%) MCSE
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
1 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.53%) Puppet
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Imperva