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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Security 11 24 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 1.37% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.46% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 16
10th Percentile £424 £428 £441
25th Percentile £453 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £738
90th Percentile £708 £695 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -12.11%

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 1,994 1,647 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 94.17% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,095 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £415 £471
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 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 20 September 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) Matillion
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Semantic Layer
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Star Schema
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) GIS
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ER Studio
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modeller
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
1 1 (9.09%) Flask
1 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) LangChain
1 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
1 1 (9.09%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) Snowpark
1 1 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Genomics
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) AI
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (18.18%) Korn
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Alteryx
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow