Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in England

Data Encryption
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 477 496
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 +209
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 48 34 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 60
10th Percentile £466 £424 £445
25th Percentile £500 £459 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £533 £573
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -6.99% +6.51%
75th Percentile £711 £596 £588
90th Percentile £822 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £531 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +1.14% -7.49% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 27,657 25,687 33,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.93% 88.34% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 15,867 22,695
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 869 1,403
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Encryption relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in England

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Encryption.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in England

Data Encryption
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Encryption.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
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 15 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
North of England -20 25 £525 +22.81% 5
London -22 20 £691 +28.01% 6
Yorkshire - 19 £525 - 3
West Midlands -22 9 £537 -
Midlands -31 9 £537 - 1
North West -22 4 £675 +57.89% 2
North East - 2 £466 -
South East -8 1 £525 -10.64% 3
Data Encryption
UK

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
1 27 (56.25%) Serverless
2 23 (47.92%) GCP
3 10 (20.83%) Azure
4 8 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 6 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (10.42%) Azure App Service
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Event Grid
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Functions
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) LAN
1 10 (20.83%) WAN
2 8 (16.67%) Network Security
3 3 (6.25%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) NGFW
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 14 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) Metadata
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) GitLab
1 20 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.17%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) JUnit
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 23 (47.92%) Banking
2 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (37.50%) Financial Institution
4 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Architect
4 10 (20.83%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Senior
6 8 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
6 8 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (14.58%) Network Architect
8 6 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (12.50%) Developer
8 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Network Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (43.75%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (41.67%) REST
2 20 (41.67%) RESTful
3 5 (10.42%) .NET
3 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.42%) Node.js
3 5 (10.42%) PyTorch
3 5 (10.42%) React
3 5 (10.42%) TensorFlow
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.08%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.08%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.08%) PySpark
5 1 (2.08%) RxJava
5 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (39.58%) Public Cloud
3 17 (35.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (10.42%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.08%) CSOC
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) DevOps
2 29 (60.42%) Containerisation
3 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 25 (52.08%) Agile
4 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (52.08%) Microservices
5 21 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 20 (41.67%) Cryptography
6 20 (41.67%) High Availability
7 19 (39.58%) Computer Science
7 19 (39.58%) Non-Functional Testing
8 18 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (33.33%) Change Management
10 15 (31.25%) Data Security
11 14 (29.17%) Cost Optimisation
11 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
12 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (18.75%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Python
2 19 (39.58%) Go
3 13 (27.08%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) Bicep
5 5 (10.42%) C#
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.17%) Java
8 1 (2.08%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.08%) Scala
8 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (39.58%) Degree
1 19 (39.58%) Master's Degree
2 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.08%) CCSP
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.17%) ITGC
3 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) JSP 440
4 1 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 21 (43.75%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 30 (62.50%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Grafana
2 21 (43.75%) Prometheus
3 19 (39.58%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Splunk
2 13 (27.08%) Google
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.50%) Databricks
5 5 (10.42%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Qualys