Data Security Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 14 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.58% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.39% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £410 £788 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £825 £675
Median % change year-on-year -45.82% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £450 £863 £700
90th Percentile £486 - -
England median daily rate £520 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 518 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.99% 87.06% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 436
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £436 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 46
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the East Midlands

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -5 13 £447 - 5
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 10 (71.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (71.43%) Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Architect
1 9 (64.29%) Salesforce Architect
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Lightning Web Components
1 10 (71.43%) Middleware
1 10 (71.43%) REST
1 10 (71.43%) SOAP
1 10 (71.43%) Visualforce
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Governance
2 12 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 12 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Architecture Roadmap
3 10 (71.43%) Data Flow Diagram
3 10 (71.43%) Data Migration
3 10 (71.43%) Integration Patterns
3 10 (71.43%) Migration
3 10 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 9 (64.29%) Data Management
4 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
4 9 (64.29%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (57.14%) Design Patterns
5 8 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
7 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (21.43%) ETL
8 2 (14.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Apex Code
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) GDPR
2 10 (71.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (64.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.14%) GRC
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft