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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 102 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +76
Contract jobs citing Data Security 21 19 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.15% 0.99% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.08% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 24
10th Percentile £257 £513 £355
25th Percentile £346 £563 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £656 £621
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +5.63% -6.23%
75th Percentile £604 £728 £713
90th Percentile £794 £771 £796
Central London median daily rate £492 £633 £594
% change year-on-year -22.21% +6.53% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.23 - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.23 - -

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 1,635 1,764 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.74% 91.92% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,075 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 9 January 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 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) Network Security
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
1 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) DataStage
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) Informix
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DBA
4 1 (4.76%) Managing Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) Faiss
3 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) LangChain
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) PySpark
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) Swagger
3 1 (4.76%) XML Schema
3 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Taxonomies
3 2 (9.52%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.76%) BYOD
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) AI
1 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 5 (23.81%) ETL
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Validation
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (14.29%) LLM
5 3 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.76%) R
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.76%) MCP
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) EU AI Act
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) SLA
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) CASB
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) OpenAI
4 2 (9.52%) Guidewire
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Informatica
5 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Talend