Database Security Jobs

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Database Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Security over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 838 822
Rank change year-on-year +126 -16 +293
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 28 76 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.071% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.086% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 23 61 64
10th Percentile £45,150 £41,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £62,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £79,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £40,625
% change year-on-year -4.76% +29.23% -22.62%

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 54,056 88,173 84,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 82.50% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 28,040 60,645 53,248
10th Percentile £27,868 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,813 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Security.

Salary trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 9 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 5 July 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 +116 24 £62,500 +13.64% 68
UK excluding London +126 13 £50,000 -4.76% 53
Work from Home +121 13 £55,000 -35.29% 18
London +96 12 £92,500 +8.82% 20
South West +103 8 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North of England +25 3 £37,500 -28.57% 12
North West -11 3 £37,500 -31.82% 6
South East +60 1 £45,000 +20.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.57%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (32.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (10.71%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) DB2
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.57%) Metasploit
1 1 (3.57%) Postman
1 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
1 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Security Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) DBA
2 7 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 6 (21.43%) Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Lead
4 5 (17.86%) Lead Developer
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Head of Security
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Principal Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Security Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
1 1 (3.57%) JWT
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 6 (21.43%) Data Security
4 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) ERP
6 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Capacity Management
7 3 (10.71%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Storage Management
7 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
3 10 (35.71%) Python
3 10 (35.71%) T-SQL
4 8 (28.57%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) NIST
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.57%) NCSC
4 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Nessus
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Okta
3 3 (10.71%) Epicor
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Imperva
5 1 (3.57%) Sage