Data Security Contracts in England

Data Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 377 477
Rank change year-on-year +81 +100 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Security 274 279 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.66% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 199 235
10th Percentile £390 £413 £331
25th Percentile £450 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £563 £566
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -0.62% +2.91%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £755 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £561 £552
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.68% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £21.31 - £20.01
25th Percentile £23.75 £18.63 £20.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% +44.56%
75th Percentile - £22.97 £25.40
90th Percentile £52.48 £28.54 £25.83
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% +44.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
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 Security within the England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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
London +57 125 £597 -11.56% 55
South East +21 53 £488 -11.36% 37
North of England +31 45 £525 +8.02% 56
North West +24 25 £525 +8.02% 23
South West +7 22 £525 -4.55% 13
Yorkshire +19 20 £525 +5.00% 28
Midlands +15 14 £650 +15.56% 32
West Midlands +19 13 £650 +52.94% 16
East of England +4 4 £600 +20.00% 9
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East Midlands +4 1 - - 16
Data Security
UK

Data Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 31 (11.31%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.47%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.38%) SAS
4 6 (2.19%) Apache
5 5 (1.82%) Confluence
6 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.09%) CICS
7 3 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.36%) Odoo
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (32.12%) Azure
2 52 (18.98%) AWS
3 31 (11.31%) Power Platform
4 30 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (10.22%) GCP
6 15 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.01%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.65%) SaaS
10 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.55%) PaaS
12 6 (2.19%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.19%) IaaS
12 6 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.82%) Slack
13 5 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) DNS
2 11 (4.01%) Network Security
3 10 (3.65%) Firewall
4 7 (2.55%) DHCP
4 7 (2.55%) SAN
4 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.82%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.82%) NAS
5 5 (1.82%) VLAN
5 5 (1.82%) VPN
6 3 (1.09%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.73%) Internet
7 2 (0.73%) VoIP
7 2 (0.73%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) DWDM
8 1 (0.36%) Intranet
8 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (11.31%) Power BI
3 24 (8.76%) Data Lake
3 24 (8.76%) MySQL
3 24 (8.76%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.20%) Qlik Sense
5 15 (5.47%) Big Data
6 12 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.65%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (3.65%) Metadata
8 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.19%) DB2
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.82%) Tableau
11 4 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.46%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) JIRA
2 10 (3.65%) Git
2 10 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.19%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.09%) Toad
5 2 (0.73%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) GoCD
6 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 59 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (18.98%) Finance
2 52 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.84%) Banking
5 11 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (4.01%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.28%) Legal
7 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.19%) Marketing
8 6 (2.19%) Retail
9 4 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.09%) Back Office
10 3 (1.09%) French Language
10 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (22.26%) Architect
2 32 (11.68%) Analyst
3 30 (10.95%) Data Engineer
4 24 (8.76%) Data Architect
5 20 (7.30%) Consultant
6 19 (6.93%) Developer
7 18 (6.57%) Lead
7 18 (6.57%) Technical Architect
8 16 (5.84%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.84%) SharePoint Architect
9 15 (5.47%) Security Architect
10 14 (5.11%) Data Scientist
11 11 (4.01%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Security Specialist
12 10 (3.65%) Senior
13 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.92%) Compliance Analyst
14 8 (2.92%) Data Compliance Analyst
14 8 (2.92%) IT Security Specialist
14 8 (2.92%) Security Operations Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.93%) CSS
1 19 (6.93%) HTML
2 17 (6.20%) AngularJS
3 12 (4.38%) Kafka
4 6 (2.19%) OAuth
4 6 (2.19%) RESTful
4 6 (2.19%) Web Services
5 5 (1.82%) LDAP
5 5 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.82%) PySpark
5 5 (1.82%) SAML
6 4 (1.46%) .NET
6 4 (1.46%) XML
7 3 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.09%) Node.js
7 3 (1.09%) React
7 3 (1.09%) SOAP
8 2 (0.73%) Jest
8 2 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.68%) Management Information System
2 25 (9.12%) Data Structures
3 23 (8.39%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.92%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.19%) Clustering
6 6 (2.19%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.19%) Replication
7 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.09%) FMCG
9 3 (1.09%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.09%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.57%) Windows
2 14 (5.11%) Linux
3 8 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Solaris
4 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 5 (1.82%) zOS
5 3 (1.09%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (23.72%) Analytics
2 61 (22.26%) Data Governance
3 56 (20.44%) Data Modelling
3 56 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (16.06%) Incident Response
5 42 (15.33%) ETL
6 40 (14.60%) Data Management
7 39 (14.23%) Agile
8 38 (13.87%) Vulnerability Management
9 37 (13.50%) Migration
9 37 (13.50%) Project Management
10 35 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (11.68%) Data Loss Prevention
12 31 (11.31%) Computer Science
12 31 (11.31%) Data Integration
12 31 (11.31%) Security Operations
13 30 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 30 (10.95%) SIEM
14 28 (10.22%) Data Migration
14 28 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 83 (30.29%) SQL
2 41 (14.96%) Python
3 30 (10.95%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.03%) Java
5 11 (4.01%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.55%) Bash
7 7 (2.55%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.19%) Scala
9 3 (1.09%) C#
9 3 (1.09%) COBOL
9 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.09%) PHP
9 3 (1.09%) R
9 3 (1.09%) REXX
9 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (17.88%) Degree
2 42 (15.33%) Security Cleared
3 35 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (8.03%) PMP
6 19 (6.93%) PMI Certification
7 18 (6.57%) Master's Degree
8 11 (4.01%) CISSP
9 10 (3.65%) CISM
10 8 (2.92%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.82%) CISA
13 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.73%) CEH
13 2 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.73%) PhD
14 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.36%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.87%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.68%) GDPR
3 13 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.38%) QA
5 9 (3.28%) NIST
6 8 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.46%) SLA
10 3 (1.09%) COBIT
10 3 (1.09%) GRC
10 3 (1.09%) NCSC
11 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.73%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.36%) GPG13
System Software
1 15 (5.47%) Docker
2 13 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.92%) Terraform
3 6 (2.19%) Ansible
4 5 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (1.82%) Netcool
4 5 (1.82%) Tivoli
4 5 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (1.46%) SCCM
6 3 (1.09%) CASB
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.73%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.73%) WSUS
8 1 (0.36%) Ambari
8 1 (0.36%) Avamar
8 1 (0.36%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) Oozie
8 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 75 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.39%) Qualys
2 23 (8.39%) ServiceNow
3 21 (7.66%) Databricks
3 21 (7.66%) Varonis
4 19 (6.93%) Oracle
5 18 (6.57%) NetApp
6 16 (5.84%) Forcepoint
6 16 (5.84%) LogRhythm
7 14 (5.11%) Splunk
8 11 (4.01%) Google
9 10 (3.65%) IBM
9 10 (3.65%) IFS
9 10 (3.65%) SAP
10 9 (3.28%) VMware
11 8 (2.92%) Cisco
12 7 (2.55%) Talend
12 7 (2.55%) Virgin Media
13 6 (2.19%) Foundry
13 6 (2.19%) Palantir