Data Security Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Security
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 39 71 73
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Security 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.87% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £530 £413 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £425 £175
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% +142.86% -
75th Percentile £788 £438 £188
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Hertfordshire

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Hertfordshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Hertfordshire

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Hertfordshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Welwyn Garden City 0 3 £775 -
Letchworth - 1 £475 - 2
Stevenage - 1 £530 - 3
Data Security
East of England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle