Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Encryption
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.33% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £892 - £650

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Encryption 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 530 589 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.48% 82.26% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 394 468
10th Percentile £200 £200 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £564 £638 £607
90th Percentile £640 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 10 28
10th Percentile - £21.18 £13.34
25th Percentile £12.62 £28.55 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.42% +69.09% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £54.38 £49.06
90th Percentile £26.51 £55.45 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year +10.41% -19.84% +59.42%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in Birmingham

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Encryption.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Google