Database Security Contracts in Scotland

Database Security
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 113 123 159
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing Database Security 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.31% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £456 £324 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £344 £466
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -26.27% -6.75%
75th Percentile £469 £453 £482
90th Percentile - £488 £485
UK median daily rate £446 £537 £505
% change year-on-year -16.95% +6.34% -12.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in Scotland

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in Scotland

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in Scotland

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 3 £463 - 1
Database Security
UK

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle