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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 109 164
Rank change year-on-year +17 +55 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Security 27 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 0.82% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.91% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 9
10th Percentile £500 £455 £483
25th Percentile £527 £525 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -5.66% +15.22%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £755
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £633 £618 £663
% change year-on-year +2.43% -6.79% +16.23%
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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 1 May 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 6 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (18.52%) Apache
3 4 (14.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (11.11%) Confluence
4 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Magento
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) Boomi
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) SSH
2 2 (7.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Hive
2 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
2 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Delta Lake
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Metadata
4 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.41%) Data Mining
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) RStudio
3 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (7.41%) Subversion
5 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.70%) Serena SBM
General
1 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Police
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) International Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Data Integration Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Quality Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.70%) IT Security Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Java Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.70%) SAS Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) JSON
1 4 (14.81%) pydantic
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
1 4 (14.81%) YAML
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) Middleware
2 3 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) LDAP
3 2 (7.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (7.41%) SOAP
3 2 (7.41%) Visualforce
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
1 4 (14.81%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (14.81%) Reference Data
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Solaris
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Data Integration
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (22.22%) Analytics
4 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
5 5 (18.52%) ETL
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.81%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (14.81%) Data Science
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Data Management
7 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) Bash
4 5 (18.52%) Scala
5 3 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (7.41%) Apex Code
6 2 (7.41%) Perl
6 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) SOQL
7 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) GxP
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) PERC
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) NFS
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas File System
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Control-M
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) MOM
1 2 (7.41%) QRadar
1 2 (7.41%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) CASB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
2 1 (3.70%) logstash
2 1 (3.70%) Netcool
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Databricks
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.41%) BMC
4 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
4 2 (7.41%) Qualys
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 2 (7.41%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Adobe
5 1 (3.70%) EMC
5 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Serena
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase