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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 104 121
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Security 25 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.46% 1.15% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.25% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £375 £443 £298
25th Percentile £438 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £713
90th Percentile £765 £855 £794
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% -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 1,606 1,918 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.08% 91.60% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,173 1,745
10th Percentile £325 £372 £363
25th Percentile £418 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%

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 4 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
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%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
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 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.00%) Metadata
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.00%) DataStage
2 1 (4.00%) Informix
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.00%) Xcode
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Banking
6 3 (12.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Police
7 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Retail
7 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%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
1 2 (8.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) Faiss
2 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) LangChain
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
2 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%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (20.00%) AI
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (16.00%) Use Case
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Attestation
4 3 (12.00%) Data Lineage
4 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (12.00%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) 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 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 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 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
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%) Talend