Data Security Contracts in England

Data Security
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 359 462
Rank change year-on-year +67 +103 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Security 272 319 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 229 244
10th Percentile £380 £393 £331
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -2.74% +13.10%
75th Percentile £690 £663 £688
90th Percentile £760 £738 £771
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.32 -
25th Percentile £22.74 £15.81 £22.37
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £24.24
Median % change year-on-year +107.79% -20.59% -43.28%
75th Percentile - £19.88 £26.12
90th Percentile £50.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £24.24
% change year-on-year +107.79% -20.59% -43.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
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% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data 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 Data Security within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +71 134 £600 -4.00% 66
South East +17 56 £488 -7.14% 34
North of England +15 30 £500 +2.88% 44
North West +27 23 £500 +2.88% 22
South West +12 23 £650 +18.18% 12
Midlands +19 12 £650 +28.08% 29
West Midlands +9 11 £650 +36.84% 7
Yorkshire +7 7 £500 -1.96% 22
East of England +8 5 £513 +2.50% 13
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East Midlands +19 1 - - 22
Data Security
UK

Data 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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (9.93%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.41%) SAS
3 10 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.94%) Confluence
5 5 (1.84%) Apache
6 3 (1.10%) CICS
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.10%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.37%) Odoo
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (33.46%) Azure
2 48 (17.65%) AWS
3 34 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.66%) GCP
5 20 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 16 (5.88%) SaaS
7 15 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (4.41%) Entra ID
10 11 (4.04%) PaaS
11 9 (3.31%) IaaS
12 8 (2.94%) Nutanix
12 8 (2.94%) Rubrik
12 8 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (2.21%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.84%) Alation
15 5 (1.84%) Serverless
15 5 (1.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.51%) DNS
2 13 (4.78%) Firewall
3 12 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.04%) Network Security
5 10 (3.68%) DHCP
5 10 (3.68%) SAN
6 8 (2.94%) Kerberos
6 8 (2.94%) NAS
6 8 (2.94%) VLAN
7 5 (1.84%) VPN
8 3 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.10%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.74%) VoIP
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.37%) DWDM
10 1 (0.37%) Intranet
10 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (7.72%) Data Lake
3 20 (7.35%) Power BI
4 15 (5.51%) Big Data
5 13 (4.78%) Metadata
6 12 (4.41%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.68%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.57%) MySQL
11 6 (2.21%) OLTP
11 6 (2.21%) Tableau
12 5 (1.84%) DB2
12 5 (1.84%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.84%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.47%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.10%) OLAP
14 3 (1.10%) Parquet
14 3 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 16 (5.88%) JIRA
2 13 (4.78%) Git
3 12 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.10%) Toad
6 2 (0.74%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.74%) kappa
6 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.37%) GoCD
7 1 (0.37%) JMeter
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
7 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 57 (20.96%) Finance
4 26 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.25%) Banking
6 11 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.31%) Legal
8 8 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.21%) Retail
11 5 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.84%) Marketing
12 4 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.10%) Back Office
13 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.10%) French Language
13 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (23.16%) Architect
2 41 (15.07%) Analyst
3 27 (9.93%) Data Architect
4 24 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.09%) Lead
6 17 (6.25%) Consultant
7 16 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 16 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 15 (5.51%) Developer
9 13 (4.78%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.78%) SharePoint Architect
10 11 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.68%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.68%) Security Specialist
11 10 (3.68%) Senior
12 9 (3.31%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Business Analyst
13 8 (2.94%) Data Compliance Analyst
13 8 (2.94%) Data Manager
13 8 (2.94%) IT Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.94%) Kafka
1 8 (2.94%) LDAP
2 6 (2.21%) CSS
2 6 (2.21%) HTML
2 6 (2.21%) Web Services
3 5 (1.84%) OAuth
3 5 (1.84%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.84%) SAML
3 5 (1.84%) XML
4 4 (1.47%) .NET
4 4 (1.47%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (1.47%) PySpark
4 4 (1.47%) SOAP
5 3 (1.10%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.10%) Node.js
5 3 (1.10%) React
5 3 (1.10%) RESTful
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.29%) Management Information System
2 22 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 21 (7.72%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.62%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.31%) Clustering
5 9 (3.31%) Replication
6 8 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.10%) FMCG
10 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.10%) NHS
10 3 (1.10%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.46%) Windows
2 17 (6.25%) Linux
3 9 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.94%) Solaris
5 5 (1.84%) Unix
5 5 (1.84%) zOS
6 3 (1.10%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (22.43%) Analytics
3 60 (22.06%) Data Governance
4 47 (17.28%) Data Modelling
5 44 (16.18%) Agile
5 44 (16.18%) Incident Response
5 44 (16.18%) Project Management
6 43 (15.81%) Data Management
7 37 (13.60%) Data Loss Prevention
7 37 (13.60%) Migration
7 37 (13.60%) Vulnerability Management
8 34 (12.50%) Data Integration
8 34 (12.50%) ETL
8 34 (12.50%) Security Operations
9 32 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 32 (11.76%) SIEM
10 29 (10.66%) Data Migration
11 28 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (9.93%) DevOps
13 26 (9.56%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 59 (21.69%) SQL
2 38 (13.97%) Python
3 14 (5.15%) Java
3 14 (5.15%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.04%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.68%) Bash
6 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.47%) R
8 3 (1.10%) C#
8 3 (1.10%) COBOL
8 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.10%) PHP
8 3 (1.10%) REXX
8 3 (1.10%) Scala
8 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.74%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.34%) Degree
2 39 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.68%) CISM
4 10 (3.68%) CISSP
5 9 (3.31%) PMP
6 7 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.84%) CISA
9 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) CEH
10 2 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.74%) PhD
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.34%) GDPR
2 35 (12.87%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.15%) QA
4 11 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.31%) NIST
5 9 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.47%) SLA
10 3 (1.10%) GRC
10 3 (1.10%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.10%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.37%) GPG13
12 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Docker
2 14 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (4.04%) Terraform
2 10 (3.68%) Ansible
2 10 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (2.94%) Netcool
3 8 (2.94%) Tivoli
3 8 (2.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.10%) CA Service Virtualization
6 2 (0.74%) Ambari
6 2 (0.74%) Oozie
6 2 (0.74%) SCCM
6 2 (0.74%) WSUS
7 1 (0.37%) Avamar
7 1 (0.37%) CASB
7 1 (0.37%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.37%) logstash
7 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 77 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.56%) Qualys
3 22 (8.09%) Varonis
4 20 (7.35%) Databricks
5 19 (6.99%) Oracle
6 17 (6.25%) Splunk
7 16 (5.88%) Forcepoint
7 16 (5.88%) LogRhythm
7 16 (5.88%) NetApp
8 13 (4.78%) IBM
8 13 (4.78%) VMware
9 11 (4.04%) Cisco
9 11 (4.04%) Google
9 11 (4.04%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.68%) IFS
10 10 (3.68%) SAP
11 9 (3.31%) EMC
12 8 (2.94%) Dell
12 8 (2.94%) HP
12 8 (2.94%) Serena