Data Security Contracts

Data Security
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 372 453
Rank change year-on-year +86 +81 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Security 325 351 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.70% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 248 308
10th Percentile £338 £413 £331
25th Percentile £425 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +5.14%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 2
10th Percentile £21.93 £15.32 £20.01
25th Percentile £23.75 £15.81 £20.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% -37.62%
75th Percentile £55.81 £19.88 £25.40
90th Percentile £72.50 - £25.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £15.41 £22.87
% change year-on-year +159.66% -32.64% -60.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,713 50,320 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 89.67% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,845 55,748
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,670 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +43.19% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +74 261 £570 +3.64% 222
Work from Home +141 154 £500 -9.09% 98
UK excluding London +27 151 £500 -4.76% 147
London +66 125 £575 -13.21% 73
South East +21 56 £500 -9.09% 32
North of England +20 30 £513 +5.45% 56
North West +27 23 £513 +5.45% 27
South West -1 23 £650 +18.18% 8
Scotland +27 22 £420 -16.00% 5
Midlands +9 13 £650 +15.56% 29
West Midlands +11 12 £650 +52.94% 14
Yorkshire +3 7 £527 +4.36% 24
East of England +13 4 £600 +20.00% 16
East Midlands +11 1 - - 15

Data 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 36 (11.08%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.69%) SAS
3 6 (1.85%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) CICS
4 5 (1.54%) Confluence
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.31%) Odoo
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (30.46%) Azure
2 58 (17.85%) AWS
3 40 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (8.31%) GCP
5 22 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 16 (4.92%) SaaS
7 15 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.69%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.08%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (2.46%) PaaS
12 8 (2.46%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.15%) GitHub
13 7 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.00%) Firewall
2 12 (3.69%) DNS
3 10 (3.08%) Network Security
3 10 (3.08%) SAN
4 8 (2.46%) NAS
4 8 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.15%) DHCP
6 5 (1.54%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.54%) VLAN
6 5 (1.54%) VPN
7 3 (0.92%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.62%) Internet
8 2 (0.62%) VoIP
8 2 (0.62%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) DWDM
9 1 (0.31%) Intranet
9 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (6.77%) Data Lake
3 19 (5.85%) Power BI
4 18 (5.54%) Metadata
5 15 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.31%) Big Data
7 13 (4.00%) MySQL
8 12 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.08%) Crystal Reports
9 10 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.46%) DB2
10 8 (2.46%) OLTP
11 7 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.85%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.85%) Tableau
13 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.23%) Couchbase
14 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.62%) JIRA
2 12 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.38%) Git
4 6 (1.85%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.92%) Toad
6 2 (0.62%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.62%) kappa
6 2 (0.62%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) GoCD
7 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.31%) JMeter
7 1 (0.31%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 76 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (16.00%) Finance
4 40 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.85%) Banking
6 15 (4.62%) Legal
7 11 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.85%) Retail
12 5 (1.54%) Marketing
13 4 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.92%) Back Office
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (21.85%) Architect
2 43 (13.23%) Analyst
3 32 (9.85%) Data Engineer
4 29 (8.92%) Data Architect
5 28 (8.62%) Developer
6 24 (7.38%) Lead
7 22 (6.77%) Consultant
8 19 (5.85%) Technical Architect
9 17 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.92%) SharePoint Architect
11 15 (4.62%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Security Architect
13 11 (3.38%) Senior
13 11 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.08%) Project Manager
14 10 (3.08%) Security Specialist
15 9 (2.77%) SOC Analyst
16 8 (2.46%) Compliance Analyst
16 8 (2.46%) IT Security Specialist
16 8 (2.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.00%) Kafka
2 9 (2.77%) Node.js
3 7 (2.15%) CSS
3 7 (2.15%) HTML
3 7 (2.15%) Web Services
4 6 (1.85%) OAuth
5 5 (1.54%) .NET
5 5 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.54%) LDAP
5 5 (1.54%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.54%) SAML
6 4 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (1.23%) PySpark
6 4 (1.23%) React
6 4 (1.23%) REST
6 4 (1.23%) RESTful
6 4 (1.23%) XML
7 3 (0.92%) SOAP
8 2 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.08%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 24 (7.38%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.54%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.85%) Clustering
7 6 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.85%) Replication
8 5 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (1.54%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.92%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.92%) FMCG
10 3 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.92%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.38%) Windows
2 17 (5.23%) Linux
3 9 (2.77%) zOS
4 8 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.54%) Solaris
6 3 (0.92%) Android
6 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (21.54%) Data Governance
3 68 (20.92%) Analytics
4 49 (15.08%) Data Modelling
4 49 (15.08%) Incident Response
5 47 (14.46%) Data Management
6 46 (14.15%) Project Management
7 44 (13.54%) Migration
8 42 (12.92%) Agile
9 41 (12.62%) Vulnerability Management
10 39 (12.00%) ETL
11 37 (11.38%) Computer Science
11 37 (11.38%) Data Loss Prevention
12 34 (10.46%) Data Integration
12 34 (10.46%) Data Migration
12 34 (10.46%) SIEM
13 32 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (9.85%) Security Operations
14 31 (9.54%) Roadmaps
14 31 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.92%) SQL
2 45 (13.85%) Python
3 24 (7.38%) Java
4 18 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.69%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.46%) Bash
6 8 (2.46%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.54%) COBOL
7 5 (1.54%) PHP
7 5 (1.54%) REXX
8 4 (1.23%) C#
8 4 (1.23%) Scala
9 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.92%) R
9 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.62%) Go
10 2 (0.62%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) C++
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (17.85%) Degree
2 45 (13.85%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.31%) CISSP
6 10 (3.08%) CISM
7 9 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.46%) PMP
9 5 (1.54%) CISA
9 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.62%) CEH
11 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.62%) PhD
12 1 (0.31%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 43 (13.23%) GDPR
3 17 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.62%) QA
5 11 (3.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (3.38%) NIST
6 9 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.54%) GRC
9 4 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.23%) SLA
10 3 (0.92%) COBIT
10 3 (0.92%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.92%) NCSC
11 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.31%) GPG13
System Software
1 17 (5.23%) Active Directory
1 17 (5.23%) Docker
2 8 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 14 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.77%) Terraform
3 7 (2.15%) Ansible
4 5 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (1.54%) Netcool
4 5 (1.54%) Tivoli
4 5 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (1.23%) SCCM
6 3 (0.92%) CASB
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.62%) Ambari
7 2 (0.62%) Oozie
7 2 (0.62%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.62%) WSUS
8 1 (0.31%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.31%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.31%) Kibana
8 1 (0.31%) logstash
8 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 88 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.00%) Oracle
3 25 (7.69%) Qualys
4 21 (6.46%) Varonis
5 20 (6.15%) Databricks
5 20 (6.15%) NetApp
6 18 (5.54%) Splunk
7 16 (4.92%) Forcepoint
7 16 (4.92%) LogRhythm
8 12 (3.69%) Google
8 12 (3.69%) SAP
9 11 (3.38%) Cisco
9 11 (3.38%) IFS
10 10 (3.08%) IBM
11 9 (2.77%) CyberArk
11 9 (2.77%) ServiceNow
11 9 (2.77%) VMware
12 8 (2.46%) HP
13 7 (2.15%) Talend
13 7 (2.15%) Virgin Media