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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 611 792
Rank change year-on-year -99 +181 +73
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 20 38 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.089% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.095% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16 25 69
10th Percentile £43,125 £38,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £45,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £116,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +35.48%

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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 25 May 2026.

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 25 May 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 -67 20 £69,000 +10.40% 8
Work from Home +21 10 £60,000 -14.29% 1
UK excluding London -71 10 £60,000 +26.32% 9
London -23 9 £78,750 -17.11% 1
South East -14 5 £69,000 +53.33% 5
South West -61 2 £60,000 +6.67%
North of England -39 1 £40,000 -3.03%
Yorkshire -49 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 1
East of England - 1 £40,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (10.00%) FileMaker
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) DBA
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 8 (40.00%) Administrator
4 7 (35.00%) SQL DBA
5 5 (25.00%) Senior DBA
6 4 (20.00%) Developer
7 3 (15.00%) Database Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Senior SQL DBA
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server DBA
8 2 (10.00%) FileMaker Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
8 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
8 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
9 1 (5.00%) .NET Architect
9 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
9 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) High Availability
1 9 (45.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Database Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) Log Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Databricks
4 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.00%) Rollbar