Data Encryption Contracts in England

Data Encryption
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Encryption skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Encryption over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 495 592
Rank change year-on-year +21 +97 +156
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 11 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 33 52
10th Percentile £504 £419 £425
25th Percentile £516 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £540 £531
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +1.65% -14.62%
75th Percentile £687 £585 £575
90th Percentile £747 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £97.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Encryption 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Encryption in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Encryption in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +16 3 £663 +15.22% 13
North of England +15 3 £663 +35.90% 29
London +11 3 £630 +14.55% 50
South West - 1 £525 - 15
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Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Business Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Design
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Analytics
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (27.27%) Data Management
1 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (27.27%) Data Security
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
2 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Database Security
2 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Qualys
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable
2 1 (9.09%) Tripwire
2 1 (9.09%) Zscaler