Database Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 360 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +65 +55
Contract jobs citing Database Security 34 38 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.18% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 7
10th Percentile £413 £324 £400
25th Percentile £446 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -2.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £497 £584 £600
90th Percentile £520 £591 £620
UK median daily rate £450 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.37% -8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.86% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,227 17,667 20,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.46% 82.29% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,496 10,338 13,895
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 989 2,224 1,268
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.65% +54.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in the UK excluding London

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the UK excluding London

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the UK excluding London

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in the UK excluding London

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
North of England +11 15 £447 -16.29% 34
North West +9 13 £446 -16.48% 21
West Midlands +12 6 - - 15
Midlands +11 6 - - 26
South East +42 4 £450 -21.74% 24
Scotland +1 3 £463 +34.55% 3
South West - 3 £520 - 15
East of England - 3 £488 - 19
Yorkshire +6 2 £500 +56.25% 11
Database Security
UK

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) AWS
3 10 (29.41%) Serverless
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
1 2 (5.88%) SSL
1 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 14 (41.18%) Relational Database
3 13 (38.24%) RDBMS
4 12 (35.29%) NoSQL
5 11 (32.35%) MongoDB
6 8 (23.53%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (20.59%) Oracle Database
8 6 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (17.65%) MySQL
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (2.94%) DB2
11 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
11 1 (2.94%) Power BI
11 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Electronics
5 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
5 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (76.47%) DBA
2 13 (38.24%) Administrator
3 8 (23.53%) SQL DBA
4 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 4 (11.76%) MongoDB DBA
5 4 (11.76%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Database Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared DBA
7 2 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) JSON
2 10 (29.41%) XML
3 8 (23.53%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Replication
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (35.29%) DevOps
5 11 (32.35%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) High Availability
7 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.71%) Data Management
8 5 (14.71%) Database Migration
8 5 (14.71%) SQL Optimisation
8 5 (14.71%) Task Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Analytics
9 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
9 4 (11.76%) Database Tuning
10 3 (8.82%) Data Governance
10 3 (8.82%) Data Integration
10 3 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (8.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.82%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) Korn
5 1 (2.94%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (11.76%) OCP
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (8.82%) MCSE
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
2 3 (8.82%) NIST
3 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Data Guard
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Kustomize
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Puppet
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Oracle
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) Imperva
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds