Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in London

Data Encryption
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 344 355
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 +192
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 20 33 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 51
10th Percentile - £423 £500
25th Percentile £500 £440 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.93% -9.57% +6.98%
75th Percentile £715 £573 £588
90th Percentile £738 £639 £615
England median daily rate £537 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +5.29% -11.30% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in London

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in London

Data Encryption
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Encryption
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South London - 5 £500 -
Central London +4 2 £575 +15.00% 1
Data Encryption
England

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure AKS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) LAN
1 9 (45.00%) WAN
2 6 (30.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Network Architect
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Testing Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Database Architect
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
1 5 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (25.00%) Node.js
1 5 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (25.00%) React
1 5 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (5.00%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Impact Analysis
1 9 (45.00%) Network Architecture
1 9 (45.00%) Network Design
1 9 (45.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 9 (45.00%) Service Design
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) RBAC
5 5 (25.00%) AI
5 5 (25.00%) API Management
5 5 (25.00%) Compliance Management
5 5 (25.00%) Data Science
5 5 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Bicep
4 5 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ITGC
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (25.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Google