Data Security Contracts in Cheshire

Data Security
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 56 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 0.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 -
75th Percentile £488 £506 -
90th Percentile - £518 -
North West median daily rate £504 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +0.80% +17.65% -32.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Cheshire

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Cheshire

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Cheshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Knutsford - 1 £475 - 1
Data Security
North West

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft