Data Encryption Contracts

Data Encryption
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Encryption skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Encryption over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 633 817
Rank change year-on-year +116 +184 -178
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 62 67 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 56 21
10th Percentile £429 £425 £450
25th Percentile £450 £472 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -9.57% +32.02%
75th Percentile £586 £580 £800
90th Percentile £600 £659 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £632
% change year-on-year -18.18% -12.97% +53.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Encryption 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +101 48 £540 +0.47% 8
Work from Home +128 32 £550 +10.00% 5
London +92 29 £550 +4.76% 4
UK excluding London +73 18 £450 -18.18% 5
North of England +34 9 £463 -28.85% 2
South East +31 8 £435 -19.07% 2
North West - 4 £575 - 1
North East - 3 £475 -
Yorkshire +20 2 £450 -30.77% 1
Scotland +30 1 £550 +15.79% 1

Data Encryption
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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) AWS
2 16 (25.81%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.84%) GitHub
4 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.23%) iPaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Stripe
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
2 10 (16.13%) SD-WAN
2 10 (16.13%) WAN
3 3 (4.84%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (4.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Metadata
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.23%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.23%) Bigtable
4 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.23%) HBase
4 2 (3.23%) IBM BigInsights
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Parquet
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.23%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Banking
3 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Automotive
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Software Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Consultant
4 10 (16.13%) Security Consultant
5 7 (11.29%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Python Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (8.06%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (8.06%) Cloud Security Consultant
7 5 (8.06%) DBA
7 5 (8.06%) Security Architect
7 5 (8.06%) SQL DBA
8 4 (6.45%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Applications Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) FastAPI
1 16 (25.81%) WebSockets
2 15 (24.19%) RESTful
3 6 (9.68%) Middleware
4 3 (4.84%) Kafka
4 3 (4.84%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (3.23%) FIDO
6 1 (1.61%) .NET
6 1 (1.61%) J2EE
6 1 (1.61%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) PKI
2 6 (9.68%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.45%) Clustering
3 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) CMDB
5 2 (3.23%) Contactless
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) SCADA
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.23%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Key Management
2 18 (29.03%) Analytics
3 16 (25.81%) API Development
3 16 (25.81%) End-to-End Testing
3 16 (25.81%) Integration Testing
4 15 (24.19%) Cloud Security
4 15 (24.19%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (24.19%) Unit Testing
5 12 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (17.74%) Database Security
6 11 (17.74%) LLM
6 11 (17.74%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (17.74%) Security Auditing
7 10 (16.13%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (16.13%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (16.13%) SIEM
8 9 (14.52%) Ethical Hacking
9 8 (12.90%) Application Security
9 8 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) SQL
2 18 (29.03%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) U-SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Go
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) MCSE
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.84%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) CISA
6 1 (1.61%) CISM
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) NIST
4 3 (4.84%) GPG13
4 3 (4.84%) NCSC
5 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.23%) Ambari
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Oozie
3 1 (1.61%) CASB
3 1 (1.61%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
1 12 (19.35%) OpenAI
2 8 (12.90%) Salesforce
2 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.45%) Google
4 3 (4.84%) Databricks
5 2 (3.23%) CA
5 2 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.23%) PayPal
5 2 (3.23%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Remedy
6 1 (1.61%) Siebel
6 1 (1.61%) Solace