Data Security Contracts in London

Data Security
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 349 382
Rank change year-on-year +95 +33 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Security 141 152 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.56% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.61% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 90 163
10th Percentile £338 £450 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +6.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £688
90th Percentile £785 £775 £773
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £19.38 - -
25th Percentile £22.19 £18.63 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £19.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.47% - -
75th Percentile £33.00 £25.34 -
90th Percentile £43.35 £35.19 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.12
% change year-on-year +107.79% -12.97% -20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in London

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in London

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in London

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in London

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in London

Data Security
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 Security within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Central London +52 21 £621 -6.23% 7
East London - 2 £610 - 1
North London +1 1 £320 -36.00% 1
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (12.06%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.38%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.67%) Confluence
4 5 (3.55%) Apache
5 2 (1.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.71%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.97%) Azure
2 36 (25.53%) AWS
3 27 (19.15%) GCP
4 26 (18.44%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (9.93%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (8.51%) SaaS
7 10 (7.09%) PaaS
7 10 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 9 (6.38%) IaaS
9 8 (5.67%) Nutanix
9 8 (5.67%) Rubrik
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (4.26%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.55%) Alation
12 5 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.55%) GitHub
12 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
12 5 (3.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) Firewall
2 10 (7.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.38%) DHCP
3 9 (6.38%) DNS
4 8 (5.67%) Kerberos
4 8 (5.67%) NAS
4 8 (5.67%) SAN
4 8 (5.67%) VLAN
5 4 (2.84%) Network Security
6 3 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.42%) VoIP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.71%) DWDM
8 1 (0.71%) Intranet
8 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (9.22%) Big Data
3 12 (8.51%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.09%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.09%) Power BI
5 8 (5.67%) Metadata
5 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.55%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.55%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.13%) Bigtable
8 3 (2.13%) DB2
8 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.13%) HBase
8 3 (2.13%) OLTP
8 3 (2.13%) Sqoop
9 2 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.80%) Git
3 8 (5.67%) JIRA
3 8 (5.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.42%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.71%) JMeter
5 1 (0.71%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (29.08%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 34 (24.11%) Finance
4 19 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.67%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Legal
7 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.13%) French Language
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (27.66%) Architect
2 19 (13.48%) Data Engineer
3 16 (11.35%) Analyst
3 16 (11.35%) Data Architect
4 14 (9.93%) Technical Architect
5 13 (9.22%) Consultant
6 11 (7.80%) SharePoint Architect
7 8 (5.67%) Lead
8 7 (4.96%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.96%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.26%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.55%) Asset Management Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Asset Management Business Analyst
10 5 (3.55%) Data Manager
10 5 (3.55%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.55%) Senior
10 5 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Architect
11 4 (2.84%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) LDAP
2 5 (3.55%) Kafka
2 5 (3.55%) Web Services
3 4 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.13%) .NET
4 3 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.13%) CSS
4 3 (2.13%) HTML
4 3 (2.13%) PySpark
4 3 (2.13%) REST
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.42%) SOAP
5 2 (1.42%) Swagger
6 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.71%) JSON
6 1 (0.71%) Spring
6 1 (0.71%) XML
6 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Data Structures
2 14 (9.93%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.38%) Clustering
3 9 (6.38%) Replication
4 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.42%) FMCG
7 2 (1.42%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.42%) NHS
7 2 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.71%) PKI
8 1 (0.71%) SCADA
8 1 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.22%) Windows
2 12 (8.51%) Linux
3 9 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.67%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.67%) Solaris
5 2 (1.42%) Unix
5 2 (1.42%) zOS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.21%) Data Governance
2 42 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (24.82%) Agile
4 33 (23.40%) Project Management
5 31 (21.99%) Data Management
6 30 (21.28%) Analytics
7 29 (20.57%) Migration
8 28 (19.86%) Data Modelling
9 25 (17.73%) Change Management
10 24 (17.02%) Data Migration
11 22 (15.60%) DevOps
12 21 (14.89%) ETL
13 20 (14.18%) Data Integration
14 19 (13.48%) Data Engineering
14 19 (13.48%) Roadmaps
15 18 (12.77%) Data Loss Prevention
16 17 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
18 15 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 15 (10.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.40%) SQL
2 30 (21.28%) Python
3 11 (7.80%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.38%) Bash
4 9 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.26%) Java
6 4 (2.84%) C#
7 3 (2.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.42%) COBOL
8 2 (1.42%) REXX
8 2 (1.42%) U-SQL
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.71%) R
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) Degree
4 15 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.38%) CISM
5 9 (6.38%) CISSP
6 4 (2.84%) CISA
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.13%) PMP
8 2 (1.42%) CEH
8 2 (1.42%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CCNA CyberOps
9 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (24.82%) Data Quality
2 25 (17.73%) GDPR
3 9 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (5.67%) QA
5 6 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (3.55%) NIST
7 3 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.13%) GRC
7 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.13%) SLA
8 2 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.71%) GPG13
9 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (7.09%) Docker
2 9 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.71%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) Terraform
2 10 (7.09%) Ansible
2 10 (7.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (5.67%) Netcool
3 8 (5.67%) Tivoli
3 8 (5.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (1.42%) Ambari
4 2 (1.42%) CA Service Virtualization
4 2 (1.42%) Oozie
5 1 (0.71%) Avamar
5 1 (0.71%) CASB
5 1 (0.71%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) logstash
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.71%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.71%) SCCM
5 1 (0.71%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.93%) NetApp
2 14 (9.93%) Oracle
3 13 (9.22%) IBM
4 11 (7.80%) Cisco
4 11 (7.80%) Google
5 10 (7.09%) Databricks
5 10 (7.09%) VMware
6 9 (6.38%) EMC
6 9 (6.38%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.67%) CyberArk
7 8 (5.67%) Dell
7 8 (5.67%) HP
7 8 (5.67%) Isilon
7 8 (5.67%) Qualys
7 8 (5.67%) Serena
7 8 (5.67%) Splunk
8 7 (4.96%) Informatica
8 7 (4.96%) Talend
9 6 (4.26%) Palantir