Data Security Contracts in the East of England

Data Security
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 106 120
Rank change year-on-year +35 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Security 14 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.46% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £315 £424 £288
25th Percentile £318 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £521 £616 £525
90th Percentile £688 £651 £567
England median daily rate £525 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.73% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -20.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 1,607 1,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.53% 84.98% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 672 1,005
10th Percentile £226 £205 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 607 331
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.66 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £73.44 £62.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the East of England

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the East of England

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the East of England

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the East of England

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Essex - 6 £318 - 1
Hertfordshire +33 5 £603 +41.76% 7
Norfolk -1 2 £500 - 3
Cambridgeshire +12 1 £400 -33.33% 10
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
1 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) dbt
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Vertex AI
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (35.71%) Tableau
2 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 4 (28.57%) Power BI
3 3 (21.43%) Looker
3 3 (21.43%) Metadata
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.14%) Flink
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) PySpark
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) NumPy
3 3 (21.43%) Pandas
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
1 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
1 6 (42.86%) ETL
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
2 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Data Management
3 4 (28.57%) Data Science
3 4 (28.57%) DataOps
3 4 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Workflow
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Teradata
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle