Database Security Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Database Security
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Database Security 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.19% - 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £499 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.37% -2.91%

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 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Database Security job vacancy trend in Scotland

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Database Security

Database Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Database Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Database Security

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 13 December 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
Glasgow - 3 £465 -
Database Security
UK

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (33.33%) NewSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Greenplum
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) Talend
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft