Data Security Contracts in the City of London

Data Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 113 148
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Security 33 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.82% 0.79% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.87% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 9
10th Percentile £475 £458 £622
25th Percentile £511 £481 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -9.43% -5.36%
75th Percentile £682 £788 £755
90th Percentile £729 £835 £775
Central London median daily rate £558 £575 £663
% change year-on-year -3.04% -13.21% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the City of London

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the City of London

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the City of London

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the City of London

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (3.03%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.03%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Boomi
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SSH
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (18.18%) Metadata
1 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Data Mining
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
4 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) RStudio
2 2 (6.06%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) Xcode
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Police
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Data Integration Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Data Quality Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) IT Architect
5 1 (3.03%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Java Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Risk Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Kafka
2 3 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 2 (6.06%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (6.06%) pydantic
3 2 (6.06%) PySpark
3 2 (6.06%) SOAP
3 2 (6.06%) Visualforce
3 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) iOS SDK
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.03%) Solaris
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 10 (30.30%) Data Modelling
3 9 (27.27%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Data Engineering
5 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
5 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.18%) Agile
6 6 (18.18%) Data Science
6 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.18%) Metadata Management
7 5 (15.15%) Data Lineage
7 5 (15.15%) Data Management
7 5 (15.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) ETL
8 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) Scala
5 2 (6.06%) Apex Code
5 2 (6.06%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) SOQL
6 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISA
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) GxP
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) PERC
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) NFS
1 1 (3.03%) Veritas File System
1 1 (3.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) Control-M
2 1 (3.03%) Kibana
2 1 (3.03%) logstash
2 1 (3.03%) Netcool
2 1 (3.03%) QRadar
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (3.03%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) Adobe
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) OneTrust
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) VMware