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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 752 666 762
Rank change year-on-year -86 +96 -64
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 40 14 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.028% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.032% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 24
10th Percentile £52,250 £36,150 £47,875
25th Percentile £54,625 £48,750 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.29% +2.08%
75th Percentile £71,625 £58,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.43% +2.83%

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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -107 30 £60,000 +20.00% 34
England -97 27 £65,000 +23.81% 40
Northern Ireland -65 10 - - 3
Work from Home -30 8 £60,000 +20.00% 29
London -52 8 £78,750 +10.53% 15
Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 10
South East - 7 £69,000 - 9
West Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 5
North of England -53 3 £65,000 +73.33% 3
East Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 1
North West -25 1 £52,500 +40.00% 2
South West -79 1 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Wales - 1 £62,500 - 3

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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (77.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (17.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (12.50%) MySQL
6 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
6 5 (12.50%) Power BI
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
7 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.50%) Flyway
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (80.00%) DBA
2 27 (67.50%) Administrator
3 16 (40.00%) Senior
4 10 (25.00%) Senior DBA
5 8 (20.00%) SQL DBA
6 7 (17.50%) Database Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Senior Database Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior SQL DBA
9 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared DBA
9 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 1 (2.50%) .NET Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Administrator
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Cloud Administrator
10 1 (2.50%) Data Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Data Modeller
10 1 (2.50%) Oracle DBA
10 1 (2.50%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) High Availability
2 18 (45.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (42.50%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (27.50%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (22.50%) Analytics
6 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
6 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (17.50%) Business Continuity
8 7 (17.50%) Database Tuning
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
9 6 (15.00%) Change Management
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.00%) ETL
9 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
9 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.50%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Python
4 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) Bicep
5 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Ansible
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) SCOM
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Teradata
5 1 (2.50%) Cognos
5 1 (2.50%) RedGate
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Sybase