Data Security Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Security
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 129 175
Rank change year-on-year +31 +46 -55
Contract jobs citing Data Security 13 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.66% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.75% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 4
10th Percentile £319 £222 £319
25th Percentile £511 £237 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £603
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -21.16% +60.67%
75th Percentile £675 £498 £643
90th Percentile £743 £540 £662
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 2,139 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.85% 87.99% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,471 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.72% +16.42%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £728 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Coventry - 8 £650 - 2
Birmingham +14 3 £400 +78.57% 3
Walsall - 1 £325 -
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) OLTP
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) kappa
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
5 1 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 5 (38.46%) Application Security
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
2 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Content Management
5 2 (15.38%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) F5
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Qualys
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk