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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 104 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Security 28 24 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.56% 1.12% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.22% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 22
10th Percentile £315 £475 £335
25th Percentile £403 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £673 £594
Median % change year-on-year -23.42% +13.26% -15.18%
75th Percentile £626 £750 £710
90th Percentile £750 £855 £799
Central London median daily rate £515 £613 £594
% change year-on-year -15.92% +3.16% -15.18%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 December 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 & 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 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Exchequer
1 1 (3.57%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 9 (32.14%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Apigee
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
1 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Metadata
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) DataStage
4 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.57%) Informix
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) XML
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) Faiss
3 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LangChain
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.57%) OpenID
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
3 1 (3.57%) Swagger
3 1 (3.57%) XML Schema
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Taxonomies
4 2 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.57%) BYOD
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
1 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) AI
2 7 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.86%) ETL
4 5 (17.86%) Use Case
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 4 (14.29%) Validation
6 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
6 3 (10.71%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) C++
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) R
4 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) CISA
5 1 (3.57%) CISM
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) MCP
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) EU AI Act
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 2 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (7.14%) SLA
4 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) CASB
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 3 (10.71%) OpenAI
4 2 (7.14%) Guidewire
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Talend