Data Security Contracts in Essex

Data Security
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 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 14 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.50% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 0.56% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - £500
75th Percentile £318 - -
90th Percentile £320 - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Essex

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Essex

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Essex

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon - 5 £317 - 2
Data Security
East of England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) dbt
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
1 4 (66.67%) Tableau
2 3 (50.00%) Looker
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) React
3 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) NumPy
3 3 (50.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace