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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 747 655 765
Rank change year-on-year -92 +110 +12
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 30 24 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.049% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.054% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 22 22 54
10th Percentile £46,750 £45,075 £42,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.95%
75th Percentile £74,313 £90,000 £68,828
90th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,250 £50,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +18.50% -5.21% +5.50%

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 74,612 44,363 71,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 89.74% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51,478 25,172 48,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 14 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 27 July 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
England -68 28 £60,000 - 11
UK excluding London -60 20 £59,250 +18.50% 10
Work from Home -27 13 £59,250 +7.73% 4
South East -15 8 £69,000 +53.33%
London -17 8 £77,500 -13.89% 3
Midlands - 6 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £55,000 - 3
North of England -31 2 £46,250 +23.33% 5
South West -66 2 £60,000 +9.09%
East Midlands - 2 £65,000 -
North West -8 1 £52,500 +40.00% 3
Northern Ireland -66 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 - 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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (20.00%) Oracle Database
6 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (13.33%) MySQL
7 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
8 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (10.00%) Power BI
9 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (6.67%) FileMaker
9 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Advertising
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) DBA
2 16 (53.33%) Senior
3 15 (50.00%) Administrator
4 10 (33.33%) Senior DBA
5 6 (20.00%) SQL DBA
6 4 (13.33%) Database Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior SQL DBA
8 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (6.67%) FileMaker Developer
8 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior SQL Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior SQL Server Developer
8 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Oracle DBA
9 1 (3.33%) SQL Server DBA
9 1 (3.33%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (56.67%) High Availability
3 14 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (23.33%) Business Continuity
7 7 (23.33%) Database Tuning
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 5 (16.67%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (13.33%) Change Management
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.33%) DevOps
9 4 (13.33%) ETL
9 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Data Guard
4 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Rollbar
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Sybase