Database Security Contracts

Database Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Database Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 639 778
Rank change year-on-year +123 +139 -93
Contract jobs citing Database Security 68 58 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 33 42
10th Percentile £347 £463 £363
25th Percentile £481 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £676 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Security over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Security in the UK

Database Security
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +92 57 £558 +10.40% 11
UK excluding London +54 38 £534 -2.91% 5
Work from Home +124 28 £534 -2.91% 5
London +68 26 £585 +16.42% 8
North of England +28 16 £534 -11.00% 1
North West +28 14 £534 -11.00%
South East +25 12 £575 +43.75% 1
Scotland +53 6 £344 -27.63% 2
Midlands +21 5 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £488 -
Wales +22 2 £550 -
Yorkshire +12 2 £320 -46.67% 1
East Midlands +7 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) AWS
2 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 7 (10.29%) GitHub
3 7 (10.29%) Serverless
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.94%) OCI
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
2 10 (14.71%) SD-WAN
2 10 (14.71%) WAN
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.47%) DHCP
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
3 11 (16.18%) RDBMS
3 11 (16.18%) Relational Database
4 10 (14.71%) MongoDB
5 9 (13.24%) Oracle Database
5 9 (13.24%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (8.82%) MySQL
7 5 (7.35%) MariaDB
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (5.88%) Metadata
8 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (5.88%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.41%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) GitLab
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (57.35%) DBA
2 15 (22.06%) Administrator
3 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Consultant
4 10 (14.71%) Oracle DBA
4 10 (14.71%) Security Consultant
5 9 (13.24%) SQL DBA
6 7 (10.29%) Database Specialist
7 6 (8.82%) Platform Specialist
8 5 (7.35%) Architect
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) Cloud Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) Cloud Security Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) Data Architect
8 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared DBA
9 4 (5.88%) AWS Administrator
9 4 (5.88%) Developer
9 4 (5.88%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (5.88%) SQL Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Cloud Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) JSON
1 7 (10.29%) Kafka
1 7 (10.29%) XML
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Clustering
1 11 (16.18%) Replication
2 10 (14.71%) PKI
3 7 (10.29%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) AIX
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) HPUX
4 2 (2.94%) Solaris
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Performance Tuning
2 23 (33.82%) Migration
3 20 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (22.06%) Database Tuning
5 14 (20.59%) Security Auditing
6 13 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (19.12%) High Availability
7 12 (17.65%) Agile
7 12 (17.65%) Data Encryption
7 12 (17.65%) Data Migration
7 12 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.18%) Cloud Security
8 11 (16.18%) DevOps
8 11 (16.18%) Penetration Testing
8 11 (16.18%) SIEM
9 10 (14.71%) Capacity Management
9 10 (14.71%) Key Management
9 10 (14.71%) Knowledge Transfer
9 10 (14.71%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.24%) SQL
2 15 (22.06%) Bash
3 10 (14.71%) Python
4 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) R
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.18%) Degree
4 10 (14.71%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) OCP
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) MCSA
7 1 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (10.29%) vSphere
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Data Guard
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
2 8 (11.76%) Terraform
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.47%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) vRealize
5 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (48.53%) Oracle
2 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.29%) SolarWinds
3 7 (10.29%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) Dell
4 2 (2.94%) IBM
4 2 (2.94%) Sun
5 1 (1.47%) Arqiva
5 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) EMC
5 1 (1.47%) HP
5 1 (1.47%) Remedy
5 1 (1.47%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Veritas