Data Security Contracts in Central London

Data Security
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 154 175
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Security 19 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 19
10th Percentile - £491 £420
25th Percentile £450 £653 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £663 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +16.23% +16.92%
75th Percentile £663 £755 £725
90th Percentile £775 £769 £755
London median daily rate £575 £659 £575
% change year-on-year -12.71% +14.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £19.25 -
% change year-on-year +32.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,182 3,380 4,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.99% 91.33% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 2,281 3,170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £680
90th Percentile £800 £815 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.56 £21.13
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.25 £53.50
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.63 £35.29
% change year-on-year -29.34% +12.29% +9.52%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
City of London +45 17 £600 -9.43% 8
Southwark - 1 £700 -
Data Security
London

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Alation
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Slack
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) OLAP
3 1 (5.26%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Integration Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Governance Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Data Governance
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Data Integration
3 6 (31.58%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Data Management
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Data Transformation
6 3 (15.79%) Information Security
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Sharing
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.53%) COBIT
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) CASB
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
1 2 (10.53%) SCOrch
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (15.79%) Netskope
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Imperva
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Symantec
4 1 (5.26%) Talend
4 1 (5.26%) Varonis
4 1 (5.26%) Workday
4 1 (5.26%) Zscaler