Database Security Job Trends

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Database Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 756 714
Rank change year-on-year +94 -42 +347
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 14 40 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.051% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.063% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13 24 53
10th Percentile £36,150 £47,875 £34,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £87,500 £74,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.83% +15.00%

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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 8 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 18 September 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 +85 13 £52,500 -19.23% 11
Work from Home +78 10 £50,000 -4.76% 10
UK excluding London +106 9 £50,000 -15.43% 9
South West +81 6 £52,500 -19.23% 1
London +50 4 £71,250 -1.72% 3
North of England +22 2 £37,500 -31.82%
North West +9 2 £37,500 -31.82%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) OCI
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (64.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (14.29%) Power BI
6 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
1 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
1 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
1 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DBA
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Lead Developer
2 5 (35.71%) SQL DBA
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Data Quality Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Pentaho Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (64.29%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Data Security
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
6 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
6 1 (7.14%) Test Planning
6 1 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) OCA
2 1 (7.14%) OCP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk