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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 94 114
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Security 9 28 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 1.65% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.76% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 10
10th Percentile £456 £500 £448
25th Percentile £506 £534 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -9.60% -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £747
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.23 - £48.50

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 2,030 1,591 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.62% 93.70% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,005 1,363
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -20.54%

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 6 June 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
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Information Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Genomics
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 3 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) AI
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) API Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) Key Management
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Expense Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) Workday