Data Security Contracts in Central London

Data Security
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 109 153
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Security 30 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.45% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.01% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 11
10th Percentile £459 £460 £463
25th Percentile £508 £488 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -13.21% -5.36%
75th Percentile £641 £775 £755
90th Percentile £733 £830 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £664
% change year-on-year -4.35% -13.37% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate - £48.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year - +151.95% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,935 2,168 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.70% 91.44% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,502 2,268
10th Percentile £338 £360 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £713
90th Percentile £775 £792 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £88.38 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.40 £33.53 £41.50
% change year-on-year -9.31% -19.22% +16.90%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Central London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Central London

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
City of London +13 30 £550 -8.33% 12
Data Security
London

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Jupyter
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.33%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Metadata
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.00%) Power BI
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.33%) DataStage
6 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) RStudio
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Police
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
1 8 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Applications Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Business Systems Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Implementation Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.33%) IT Architect
4 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (6.67%) pydantic
2 2 (6.67%) PySpark
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) SOAP
2 2 (6.67%) Visualforce
2 2 (6.67%) YAML
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (3.33%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 8 (26.67%) Analytics
2 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
2 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (20.00%) Metadata Management
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 5 (16.67%) Data Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Science
5 5 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Data Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) SOQL
5 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) CISSP
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CISA
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) GxP
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) PERC
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) CASB
1 1 (3.33%) Kibana
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) OneTrust
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto