Data Security Contracts in Berkshire

Data Security
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 109 87
Rank change year-on-year +41 -22 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Security 25 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.13% 0.76% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 0.85% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 24
10th Percentile £476 £478 £456
25th Percentile £513 £502 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% +0.95% -0.38%
75th Percentile £700 £554 £563
90th Percentile £797 £570 -
South East median daily rate £478 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% -7.14% +1.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Berkshire

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Berkshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Berkshire

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Berkshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +27 10 £650 +22.64% 9
Windsor - 6 £500 -
Wokingham - 5 - - 1
Data Security
South East

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) SAP ERP
1 3 (12.00%) SAP GRC
1 3 (12.00%) SAP MDG
1 3 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Network Security
1 3 (12.00%) NGFW
1 3 (12.00%) SSL
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.00%) Big Data
2 4 (16.00%) Metadata
2 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) ERwin
1 4 (16.00%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
3 4 (16.00%) Security Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (12.00%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) SAP Security Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.00%) SAML
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (8.00%) JDBC
3 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Migration
3 6 (24.00%) Application Security
3 6 (24.00%) Data Architecture
3 6 (24.00%) SIEM
4 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) RBAC
5 4 (16.00%) Business Case
5 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (16.00%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (16.00%) Data Science
5 4 (16.00%) Physical Data Model
5 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) CISM
1 4 (16.00%) CISSP
1 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CEH
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GRC
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Proofpoint