Data Security Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Security
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 45 70
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Security 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.94% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.33% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £374 - £526
25th Percentile £409 £513 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.69% -1.09%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £585
90th Percentile £586 - £594
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +3.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 306 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.85% 82.93% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 220 554
10th Percentile £213 £234 £313
25th Percentile £358 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -11.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £600
90th Percentile £636 £638 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 9
10th Percentile - £18.84 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £23.75 £13.17
Median hourly rate £15.38 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% +82.93% +26.15%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £18.75
90th Percentile - £37.25 £23.15
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.81% +9.24% +61.54%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Buckinghamshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Buckinghamshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Milton Keynes - 3 £475 - 6
Data Security
South East

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce