Database Security Contracts in England

Database Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Database Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Security over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 584 715
Rank change year-on-year +118 +131 -101
Contract jobs citing Database Security 65 56 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.12% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.13% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 35
10th Percentile £438 £463 £363
25th Percentile £510 £481 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.66% +37.13%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £643 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £573
% change year-on-year +8.00% -12.66% +34.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.63 - -
25th Percentile £42.08 - -
Median hourly rate £57.32 - -
75th Percentile £59.44 - -
90th Percentile £60.01 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.32 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Database Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Database Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Database Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Security in England.

Daily rate trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Security in England.

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in England

Database Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Database Security in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Database Security in England

Database Security
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Security within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +83 25 £585 +17.00% 10
North of England +47 19 £534 -11.00% 2
North West +37 17 £534 -11.00% 2
South East +45 16 £575 +27.78% 8
Midlands +27 5 £488 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £488 -
Yorkshire +13 2 £320 -46.67%
South West - 2 - - 1
East Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Database Security
UK

Database Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (10.77%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) Serverless
3 8 (12.31%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.54%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.54%) OCI
6 1 (1.54%) PaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) Firewall
2 10 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 10 (15.38%) WAN
3 2 (3.08%) DNS
3 2 (3.08%) SAN
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.54%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (50.77%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.62%) NoSQL
3 15 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 15 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 15 (23.08%) Relational Database
4 14 (21.54%) SQL Server
5 11 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (16.92%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (9.23%) MySQL
7 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (7.69%) MariaDB
8 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
10 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
10 2 (3.08%) Informix
11 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (20.00%) Finance
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) German Language
6 1 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) DBA
2 15 (23.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 10 (15.38%) Administrator
3 10 (15.38%) Consultant
3 10 (15.38%) Security Consultant
4 9 (13.85%) Database Specialist
5 8 (12.31%) SQL DBA
6 6 (9.23%) Platform Specialist
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Cloud Security Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared DBA
7 5 (7.69%) SQL Developer
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Administrator
8 4 (6.15%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 3 (4.62%) Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Cloud Administrator
9 3 (4.62%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.08%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) JSON
1 11 (16.92%) Kafka
1 11 (16.92%) XML
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Clustering
1 12 (18.46%) Replication
2 10 (15.38%) PKI
3 8 (12.31%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Unix
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) HPUX
3 2 (3.08%) Solaris
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
2 23 (35.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (29.23%) Agile
4 17 (26.15%) DevOps
5 16 (24.62%) Database Tuning
5 16 (24.62%) Migration
6 14 (21.54%) High Availability
6 14 (21.54%) Security Auditing
7 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (18.46%) Data Encryption
8 12 (18.46%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (16.92%) Capacity Management
9 11 (16.92%) Cloud Security
9 11 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (16.92%) Penetration Testing
9 11 (16.92%) SIEM
10 10 (15.38%) Key Management
10 10 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (13.85%) Ethical Hacking
11 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 16 (24.62%) Bash
3 11 (16.92%) Python
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) Java
8 1 (1.54%) R
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (13.85%) Degree
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) OCP
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) MCSA
7 1 (1.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.54%) IFRS
2 1 (1.54%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (12.31%) vSphere
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Ansible
1 11 (16.92%) Terraform
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (3.08%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.54%) Packer
4 1 (1.54%) vRealize
4 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (46.15%) Oracle
2 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (12.31%) SolarWinds
3 8 (12.31%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Dell
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Sun
5 1 (1.54%) Arqiva
5 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) EMC
5 1 (1.54%) HP
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Veritas