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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 99 111
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Security 9 31 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 1.64% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.75% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 15
10th Percentile £421 £464 £460
25th Percentile £500 £508 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -4.35% -12.21%
75th Percentile £719 £640 £744
90th Percentile £790 £731 £830
Central London median daily rate £650 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -12.21%

All Process & 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 2,094 1,774 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.21% 94.01% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,158 1,280
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

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 2 August 2026.

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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Matillion
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) GIS
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ER Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
1 1 (11.11%) Flask
1 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) LangChain
1 1 (11.11%) LangGraph
1 1 (11.11%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) Snowpark
1 1 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Genomics
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) AI
1 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Key Management
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP