Database Security Contract Job Trends in the North West

Database Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 106 134
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 +48
Contract jobs citing Database Security 3 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £453 £441 £521
25th Percentile £456 £445 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £533
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -15.95% +42.13%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £534
90th Percentile £648 £697 £539
England median daily rate £520 £540 £534
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.12% -2.91%

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 2,118 1,953 2,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.96% 83.82% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,055 1,676
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £360 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 111 162
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +59.09%
75th Percentile £45.46 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Database Security job vacancy trend in the North West

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the North West

Database Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Database Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Database Security

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 17 November 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 -11 1 £450 +1.12% 3
Cheshire -21 1 £675 -3.23%
Merseyside - 1 £475 -
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle