Database Security Contracts in the North West

Database Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 121 156
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 +14
Contract jobs citing Database Security 13 16 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.58% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.67% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 1
10th Percentile £409 £481 -
25th Percentile £436 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £457 £538 -
England median daily rate £447 £540 £505
% change year-on-year -17.18% +6.93% -12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £57.32 -
% change year-on-year +11.21% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in the North West

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the North West

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the North West

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in the North West

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +16 11 £445 -16.67% 4
Cheshire - 1 £560 - 2
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (92.31%) NoSQL
2 12 (92.31%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (92.31%) RDBMS
2 12 (92.31%) Relational Database
3 10 (76.92%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (46.15%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) DB2
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) DBA
2 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (38.46%) Administrator
4 3 (23.08%) MongoDB DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) JSON
2 12 (92.31%) XML
3 10 (76.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
1 10 (76.92%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
2 1 (7.69%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Imperva
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk