Database Security Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 275 315 453
Rank change year-on-year +40 +138 +159
Contract jobs citing Database Security 29 30 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.20% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 12
10th Percentile £384 £463 £466
25th Percentile £406 £481 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.02% +17.84%
75th Percentile £450 £540 £650
90th Percentile £522 - £695
UK median daily rate £446 £537 £505
% change year-on-year -16.95% +6.34% -12.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Database Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Security trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Security
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Security.

Database Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Database Security daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) iTrent
1 1 (3.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Serverless
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (34.48%) Relational Database
2 9 (31.03%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (27.59%) MySQL
3 8 (27.59%) Oracle Database
3 8 (27.59%) RDBMS
4 7 (24.14%) MongoDB
4 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.90%) CockroachDB
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) DBA
2 12 (41.38%) SQL DBA
3 5 (17.24%) Database Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (3.45%) Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Database Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) JSON
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
1 6 (20.69%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (51.72%) High Availability
3 12 (41.38%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Agile
5 8 (27.59%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Database Migration
6 6 (20.69%) ITIL
6 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) SQL Optimisation
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (10.34%) Database Tuning
9 3 (10.34%) Security Patching
10 2 (6.90%) Configuration Management
10 2 (6.90%) Migration
10 2 (6.90%) Pair Programming
10 2 (6.90%) SDLC
10 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
10 2 (6.90%) Task Automation
10 2 (6.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Data Guard
3 3 (10.34%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) Sybase