Database Security Job Trends

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Database Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 774 651 747
Rank change year-on-year -123 +96 -72
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 42 13 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.026% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.030% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 20
10th Percentile £52,250 £34,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,625 £48,000 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,250 £63,125
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -18.81% +5.21%
75th Percentile £72,125 £57,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £67,750 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £59,563
% change year-on-year +22.50% -16.05% +3.59%

All Process & 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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Database Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Database Security job vacancy trend in the UK

Database Security
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Security

Database Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 13 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 26 September 2026. 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
UK excluding London -131 31 £61,250 +22.50% 32
England -109 29 £67,000 +34.00% 48
Northern Ireland -76 10 - - 3
London -57 9 £77,500 +34.78% 19
Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home -49 7 £60,500 +21.00% 26
South East - 7 £69,000 - 7
West Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 2
North of England -57 4 £65,000 +73.33% 7
East Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 7
North West -27 2 £52,500 +40.00% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 5
Wales - 1 £62,500 - 2

Database Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 26 (61.90%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 14 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (16.67%) MySQL
5 7 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (14.29%) Power BI
7 5 (11.90%) Oracle Database
8 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
8 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
9 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
10 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.38%) Flyway
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) DBA
2 27 (64.29%) Administrator
3 16 (38.10%) Senior
4 9 (21.43%) Senior DBA
5 8 (19.05%) Database Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) SQL DBA
6 6 (14.29%) Senior Database Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior SQL DBA
8 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Applications Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Administrator
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Administrator
9 1 (2.38%) Data Modeller
9 1 (2.38%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Replication
2 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Windows
2 7 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (9.52%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (45.24%) High Availability
2 19 (45.24%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (21.43%) Analytics
5 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (16.67%) Database Tuning
6 7 (16.67%) DevOps
6 7 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity
7 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (14.29%) Change Management
7 6 (14.29%) ETL
7 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (80.95%) SQL
2 9 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 8 (19.05%) T-SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Python
5 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.38%) SCOM
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (4.76%) Cognos
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Teradata
5 1 (2.38%) RedGate
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.38%) Sybase
5 1 (2.38%) YouTube