Database Security Contracts

Database Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Database Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Security over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 632 770
Rank change year-on-year +119 +138 -105
Contract jobs citing Database Security 74 63 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.13% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 43
10th Percentile £337 £463 £364
25th Percentile £480 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% - +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 29 May 2024.

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
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 29 May 2024. 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 +107 63 £540 +8.00% 19
UK excluding London +81 43 £534 +6.80% 13
Work from Home +130 32 £534 -2.02% 11
London +71 27 £585 +17.00% 7
North of England +44 19 £534 -11.00% 4
North West +39 17 £534 -11.00% 3
South East +15 13 £575 +27.78% 5
Scotland +37 6 £344 -27.63% 1
Midlands +24 5 £488 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £488 -
Wales +20 2 £550 -
Yorkshire +12 2 £320 -46.67% 1
East Midlands +11 1 - - 2
South West - 1 - - 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 (1.35%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) Serverless
4 8 (10.81%) GitHub
5 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.70%) OCI
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) Firewall
2 10 (13.51%) SD-WAN
2 10 (13.51%) WAN
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.95%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (22.97%) NoSQL
3 16 (21.62%) MongoDB
3 16 (21.62%) RDBMS
3 16 (21.62%) Relational Database
4 14 (18.92%) SQL Server
5 13 (17.57%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (12.16%) Oracle Database
8 6 (8.11%) MySQL
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (6.76%) MariaDB
10 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (5.41%) Metadata
10 4 (5.41%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (5.41%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 4 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (4.05%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) GitLab
2 2 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (20.27%) Finance
2 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) German Language
7 1 (1.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (60.81%) DBA
2 16 (21.62%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 15 (20.27%) Administrator
4 10 (13.51%) Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) Oracle DBA
4 10 (13.51%) Security Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) SQL DBA
5 7 (9.46%) Database Specialist
6 6 (8.11%) Platform Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Security Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Developer
7 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared DBA
7 5 (6.76%) SQL Developer
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Administrator
8 4 (5.41%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Cloud Administrator
9 3 (4.05%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.22%) JSON
1 12 (16.22%) Kafka
1 12 (16.22%) XML
2 4 (5.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.35%) .NET
3 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Clustering
1 12 (16.22%) Replication
2 10 (13.51%) PKI
3 8 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 7 (9.46%) Unix
3 3 (4.05%) AIX
3 3 (4.05%) Windows
4 2 (2.70%) HPUX
4 2 (2.70%) Solaris
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (33.78%) Migration
4 19 (25.68%) Agile
5 17 (22.97%) DevOps
6 16 (21.62%) Database Tuning
7 15 (20.27%) Mentoring
8 14 (18.92%) High Availability
8 14 (18.92%) Security Auditing
9 13 (17.57%) Data Migration
10 12 (16.22%) Data Encryption
10 12 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (14.86%) Capacity Management
11 11 (14.86%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (14.86%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (14.86%) SIEM
12 10 (13.51%) Key Management
12 10 (13.51%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.19%) SQL
2 16 (21.62%) Bash
3 11 (14.86%) Python
4 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) C#
8 1 (1.35%) Java
8 1 (1.35%) R
8 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Degree
4 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) OCP
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) MCSA
7 1 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.35%) IFRS
2 1 (1.35%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (10.81%) vSphere
2 6 (8.11%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Ansible
1 10 (13.51%) Data Guard
1 10 (13.51%) Terraform
2 7 (9.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.35%) Packer
4 1 (1.35%) vRealize
4 1 (1.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (51.35%) Oracle
2 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 8 (10.81%) SolarWinds
3 8 (10.81%) VMware
4 2 (2.70%) Dell
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) Sun
5 1 (1.35%) Arqiva
5 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco
5 1 (1.35%) EMC
5 1 (1.35%) HP
5 1 (1.35%) Remedy
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Veritas