Database Security Contract Job Trends in the South West

Database Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Database Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 114 152
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 -
Contract jobs citing Database Security 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £422 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £425 £446 £534
% change year-on-year -4.71% -16.48% +5.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,307 1,495 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.16% 90.28% 84.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 990 1,760
10th Percentile £305 £239 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 105 340
10th Percentile £16.62 £20.69 £14.35
25th Percentile £23.50 £55.00 £27.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Database Security job vacancy trend in the South West

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Database Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Somerset - 2 £438 - 3
Bristol -18 1 £450 -
Wiltshire - 1 £425 -
Database Security
England

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Database Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle