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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 106 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Security 24 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 1.05% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.14% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £428 £441 £298
25th Percentile £508 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £670
90th Percentile £695 £800 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -10.71%

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 1,650 1,935 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.12% 91.92% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,867
10th Percentile £324 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 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 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (8.33%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.17%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (4.17%) Apigee
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (20.83%) Metadata
2 4 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.50%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) DataStage
5 1 (4.17%) Pinecone
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) RStudio
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
5 4 (16.67%) Police
6 3 (12.50%) Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.17%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) pydantic
3 2 (8.33%) PySpark
3 2 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) YAML
4 1 (4.17%) Faiss
4 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.17%) iOS SDK
4 1 (4.17%) LangChain
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
4 1 (4.17%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (20.83%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Data Lineage
3 5 (20.83%) Metadata Management
4 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Data Management
4 4 (16.67%) Data Science
4 4 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 4 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Scrum
4 4 (16.67%) Use Case
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) Objective-C
4 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (4.17%) MCP
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) PERC
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) OneTrust
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto