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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 757 648 718
Rank change year-on-year -109 +70 -34
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 46 9 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.018% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.021% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,375 £49,688 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £72,125 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £73,625 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £59,563
% change year-on-year +19.05% -11.86% +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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -134 35 £62,500 +19.05% 15
England -117 33 £67,000 +24.65% 39
Midlands - 13 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland -68 10 - -
London -67 9 £77,500 -8.82% 23
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 - 2
Work from Home -49 8 £60,500 +10.00% 23
South East - 6 £69,000 - 4
North of England -65 5 £65,000 +73.33% 4
West Midlands - 4 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £65,000 - 4
North West -27 2 £52,500 +40.00%
Wales - 1 £62,500 - 1

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 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (78.26%) SQL Server
2 13 (28.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (21.74%) MySQL
5 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (15.22%) Power BI
5 7 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (15.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
7 5 (10.87%) Oracle Database
7 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
8 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.17%) Flyway
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Aerospace
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) DBA
2 31 (67.39%) Administrator
3 16 (34.78%) Senior
4 9 (19.57%) Database Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior DBA
5 7 (15.22%) SQL DBA
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Database Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior SQL DBA
8 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared DBA
9 2 (4.35%) Maximo Administrator
9 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 1 (2.17%) Applications Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Administrator
10 1 (2.17%) Cloud Administrator
10 1 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Oracle DBA
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Operations Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 2 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Replication
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Windows
2 7 (15.22%) Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (47.83%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (43.48%) High Availability
4 15 (32.61%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (19.57%) Analytics
6 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
6 9 (19.57%) Database Tuning
6 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (19.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (17.39%) Database Migration
7 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
8 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.22%) DevOps
8 7 (15.22%) Migration
9 6 (13.04%) Change Management
9 6 (13.04%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 37 (80.43%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.39%) T-SQL
4 6 (13.04%) Python
5 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.17%) SCOM
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.26%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Cognos
3 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Teradata
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) RedGate
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.17%) YouTube