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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 614 753
Rank change year-on-year -61 +139 +193
Permanent jobs citing Database Security 14 37 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.086% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 67
10th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £45,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £90,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +63.64% +20.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £96,125 £131,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +32.45%

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 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 16 March 2026.

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 16 March 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 +27 11 £67,500 -25.00% 10
England -38 10 £65,000 -27.78% 23
UK excluding London -49 6 £52,500 +16.67% 18
London -6 3 £95,000 - 5
South West -34 2 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North of England -44 2 £42,500 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -45 2 £42,500 -5.56%
South East -9 1 £70,000 +93.10% 4
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 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (21.43%) FileMaker
4 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (7.14%) Airbyte
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
6 1 (7.14%) Couchbase
6 1 (7.14%) MySQL
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Games
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) DBA
2 8 (57.14%) Senior
3 6 (42.86%) Senior DBA
4 5 (35.71%) Developer
5 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 3 (21.43%) FileMaker Developer
6 3 (21.43%) SQL DBA
6 3 (21.43%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (14.29%) Administrator
7 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 2 (14.29%) Senior SQL Developer
7 2 (14.29%) Senior SQL Server Developer
7 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
7 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (57.14%) High Availability
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) Database Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Project Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Web Application Development
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.14%) Migration
7 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) T-SQL
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Rollbar
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) New Relic
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle