Database Security Contracts

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 458 509 649
Rank change year-on-year +51 +140 +143
Contract jobs citing Database Security 62 73 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 41
10th Percentile £316 £347 £463
25th Percentile £408 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £537 £505
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% +6.34% -12.17%
75th Percentile £467 £585 £600
90th Percentile £562 £588 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -16.20% +6.80% -12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.42 £33.63 -
25th Percentile £32.33 £42.08 -
Median hourly rate £43.11 £57.32 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.79% - -
75th Percentile £54.83 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £61.30 £60.01 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £57.32 -
% change year-on-year -24.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +45 50 £447 -17.18% 22
UK excluding London +48 29 £448 -16.20% 11
Work from Home +40 29 £445 -16.67% 30
London +37 24 £450 -21.74% 11
North of England +14 13 £445 -16.67% 1
North West +14 13 £445 -16.67% 1
South East +39 6 £450 -21.74% 5
Scotland +10 3 £463 +34.55%
South West +44 2 - - 5
Midlands +20 2 - - 1
West Midlands +13 2 - -
Wales 0 1 £275 -50.00%
East of England - 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) iTrent
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) Serverless
3 9 (14.52%) AWS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.23%) GCP
4 2 (3.23%) IaaS
4 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.23%) PaaS
4 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub
5 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 21 (33.87%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (30.65%) Relational Database
4 17 (27.42%) RDBMS
5 16 (25.81%) MongoDB
6 15 (24.19%) Oracle Database
7 14 (22.58%) NoSQL
7 14 (22.58%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (20.97%) MySQL
9 5 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (3.23%) CockroachDB
11 2 (3.23%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
11 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.61%) Serena SBM
3 1 (1.61%) Subversion
3 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (70.97%) DBA
2 20 (32.26%) SQL DBA
3 14 (22.58%) Administrator
4 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 7 (11.29%) Database Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (6.45%) MongoDB DBA
7 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior
8 3 (4.84%) Senior DBA
9 2 (3.23%) Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Database Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Lead
9 2 (3.23%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Oracle Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Senior SQL DBA
9 2 (3.23%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) JSON
2 13 (20.97%) XML
3 10 (16.13%) Kafka
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.61%) .NET
6 1 (1.61%) LDAP
6 1 (1.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Replication
2 9 (14.52%) Clustering
3 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Unix
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) AIX
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Solaris
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 26 (41.94%) High Availability
3 22 (35.48%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.58%) DevOps
6 13 (20.97%) Agile
7 10 (16.13%) Database Migration
7 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.90%) Migration
9 7 (11.29%) Database Tuning
9 7 (11.29%) ITIL
9 7 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (11.29%) SQL Optimisation
10 5 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
11 4 (6.45%) Cloud Security
11 4 (6.45%) Data Migration
12 3 (4.84%) Containerisation
12 3 (4.84%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (4.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) PL/SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Python
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Ruby
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) Java
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.23%) OCP
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) MCDBA
5 1 (1.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
2 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Ansible
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (8.06%) Data Guard
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (4.84%) Terraform
5 2 (3.23%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Control-M
6 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.61%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) Nessus
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) QRadar
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 35 (56.45%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.84%) Qualys
5 2 (3.23%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) RedGate
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Sybase
6 1 (1.61%) BMC
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.61%) EMC
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Imperva
6 1 (1.61%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.61%) Tenable
6 1 (1.61%) VMware