Database Security Jobs

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Database Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Security over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 831 911
Rank change year-on-year +173 +80 +173
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 42 81 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.082% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.095% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 28 65 60
10th Percentile £40,550 £41,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £58,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £115,267 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £38,750
% change year-on-year -4.76% +35.48% -26.19%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,687 84,865 98,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.50% 85.91% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,769 59,922 58,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £75,533 £72,500 £81,251
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Security within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +125 27 £62,500 +13.64% 20
UK excluding London +153 22 £50,000 -4.76% 12
London +101 15 £95,000 +11.76% 8
Work from Home +144 10 £70,000 -17.65% 28
Wales - 7 - -
South West +125 6 £56,250 +18.42% 6
North of England +37 5 £41,250 -21.43%
North West +1 5 £41,250 -25.00%
Scotland +121 3 £50,000 -4.76%
Yorkshire +69 2 £45,000 -18.18%
South East +91 1 £45,000 +20.00% 4

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.38%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.14%) Power BI
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.76%) Data Mart
4 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.38%) DB2
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.38%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.38%) Postman
2 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Back Office
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 9 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) DBA
3 8 (19.05%) SQL DBA
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 3 (7.14%) SQL Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL DBA
6 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Head of Security
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Principal Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Security Tester
7 1 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Murex MxML
2 1 (2.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.38%) JWT
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
4 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (30.95%) ERP
3 12 (28.57%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 12 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 12 (28.57%) Project Management
3 12 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (19.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 5 (11.90%) Data Security
10 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 4 (9.52%) Data Migration
10 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
11 3 (7.14%) Data Integration
11 3 (7.14%) Data Protection
11 3 (7.14%) Project Delivery
11 3 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 11 (26.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.05%) Perl
5 7 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.76%) GDPR
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.38%) NCSC
5 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
1 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Nessus
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Epicor
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Okta
4 2 (4.76%) Databricks
4 2 (4.76%) Murex
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) Imperva
5 1 (2.38%) Sage