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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 650 731
Rank change year-on-year -10 +81 +211
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 10 40 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.079% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.086% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 51
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £44,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +4.55% +20.22%
75th Percentile £79,063 £95,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £119,834 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +14.75%

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 52,190 46,328 65,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.79% 92.00% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,933 22,336 50,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 9 February 2026.

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 9 February 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
Work from Home +59 7 £67,500 -12.90%
England +13 6 £57,500 -36.11% 4
UK excluding London +8 4 £42,500 -5.56% 3
London +23 2 £95,000 - 2
North of England -5 2 £42,500 -5.56%
Yorkshire -29 2 £42,500 -5.56%
South West -7 1 £70,000 +7.69% 1
East of England - 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) FileMaker
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) Airbyte
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DBA
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Senior DBA
3 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 3 (30.00%) Developer
4 3 (30.00%) FileMaker Developer
5 2 (20.00%) SQL DBA
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (10.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) High Availability
1 7 (70.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Database Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) New Relic