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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 328 430
Rank change year-on-year +40 +102 +183
Contract jobs citing Database Security 29 22 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.15% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 10
10th Percentile £396 £413 £463
25th Percentile £445 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -10.55% +17.84%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £645
90th Percentile - £598 £711
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -18.18% +8.91% -11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
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
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 9,345 12,722 21,755
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,327 8,557 15,344
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 554 526
10th Percentile £12.73 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.26 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -18.10% +28.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

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 7 July 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Serverless
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.79%) Datadog
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle Database
2 13 (44.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (44.83%) SQL Server
3 9 (31.03%) MySQL
3 9 (31.03%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (31.03%) Relational Database
4 7 (24.14%) MongoDB
4 7 (24.14%) RDBMS
5 6 (20.69%) NoSQL
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (13.79%) MariaDB
8 2 (6.90%) CockroachDB
9 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (3.45%) Metadata
9 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Electronics
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) DBA
2 9 (31.03%) Administrator
3 6 (20.69%) Database Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) SQL DBA
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Database Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) MongoDB DBA
7 1 (3.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (17.24%) JSON
2 5 (17.24%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) XML
3 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Disaster Recovery
1 16 (55.17%) High Availability
2 13 (44.83%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) Database Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) Database Tuning
6 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (17.24%) ITIL
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) SQL Optimisation
8 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
8 4 (13.79%) Fintech
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (13.79%) Security Patching
9 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 5 (17.24%) Data Guard
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Aveksa
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Sybase