Data Security Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Security
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 99 120
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Security 25 22 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.42% 1.05% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.15% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £301 £475 £314
25th Percentile £416 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £673 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +7.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £644 £763 £713
90th Percentile £781 £858 £802
Central London median daily rate £525 £588 £625
% change year-on-year -10.64% -6.00% -10.71%

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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Security

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 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the City of London

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Security

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
1 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Metadata
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) DataStage
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Informix
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) Faiss
3 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) LangChain
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.00%) OpenID
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Swagger
3 1 (4.00%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.00%) Taxonomies
4 2 (8.00%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.00%) BYOD
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) AI
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (20.00%) Use Case
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) ETL
4 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Validation
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) CISA
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) MCP
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) SLA
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) CASB
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Talend