Data Security Contracts in London

Data Security
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 184 253 344
Rank change year-on-year +69 +91 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Security 175 139 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.39% 0.78% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.88% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 103 92
10th Percentile £313 £338 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £623
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -7.63% +8.26%
75th Percentile £679 £700 £725
90th Percentile £781 £786 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
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 £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
Central London +11 27 £633 +2.43% 18
East London +15 2 £420 -31.09% 3
West London - 1 £450 - 2
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 18 (10.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (9.71%) Apache Spark
3 11 (6.29%) Confluence
4 9 (5.14%) Apache
5 6 (3.43%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.29%) IIS
6 4 (2.29%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.43%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (2.29%) InfoPath
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.29%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.14%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.14%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.57%) Magento
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.57%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.57%) TrackWise
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.43%) Azure
2 47 (26.86%) AWS
3 40 (22.86%) Power Platform
4 22 (12.57%) GCP
5 11 (6.29%) Snowflake
6 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.71%) SaaS
7 9 (5.14%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.57%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (4.57%) GitHub
8 8 (4.57%) Serverless
9 7 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.86%) OCI
10 5 (2.86%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (2.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.71%) SSH
2 9 (5.14%) DNS
2 9 (5.14%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.43%) SSL
4 5 (2.86%) Network Security
5 4 (2.29%) DHCP
5 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.71%) VPN
7 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.57%) Firewall
7 1 (0.57%) Intranet
7 1 (0.57%) NAS
7 1 (0.57%) SAN
7 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.86%) Power BI
2 22 (12.57%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (11.43%) Data Lake
4 15 (8.57%) Tableau
5 14 (8.00%) Big Data
6 13 (7.43%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.29%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.71%) Metadata
8 10 (5.71%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.14%) Apache Hive
9 9 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (4.57%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (4.00%) Delta Lake
12 6 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (3.43%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.86%) MySQL
13 5 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) JIRA
2 12 (6.86%) Git
3 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.43%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (3.43%) RStudio
4 6 (3.43%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.86%) ERwin
5 5 (2.86%) GitLab
6 4 (2.29%) Subversion
7 2 (1.14%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.57%) LSMW
8 1 (0.57%) Serena SBM
General
1 54 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.14%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (21.71%) Finance
4 14 (8.00%) Banking
5 11 (6.29%) Marketing
5 11 (6.29%) Retail
6 10 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.86%) Legal
7 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.71%) Military
9 3 (1.71%) Police
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) German Language
10 2 (1.14%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (18.29%) Architect
2 27 (15.43%) Data Engineer
3 23 (13.14%) Analyst
4 18 (10.29%) Data Architect
5 12 (6.86%) Consultant
6 11 (6.29%) Data Analyst
6 11 (6.29%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (5.14%) Lead
7 9 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.00%) Developer
8 7 (4.00%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.43%) Report Writer
10 5 (2.86%) AWS Data Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.29%) Administrator
11 4 (2.29%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.29%) Senior
11 4 (2.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) PySpark
2 11 (6.29%) Kafka
3 9 (5.14%) JSON
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (4.00%) pydantic
4 7 (4.00%) REST
4 7 (4.00%) YAML
5 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.71%) LDAP
5 3 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.71%) Middleware
5 3 (1.71%) SOAP
6 2 (1.14%) .NET
6 2 (1.14%) OAuth
6 2 (1.14%) Shiny
6 2 (1.14%) Visualforce
6 2 (1.14%) Web Services
6 2 (1.14%) XML
7 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.57%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.14%) Reference Data
3 8 (4.57%) Clustering
3 8 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.86%) Replication
7 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.71%) IoT
8 3 (1.71%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) LIMS
9 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.00%) Windows
2 13 (7.43%) Linux
3 9 (5.14%) Unix
4 6 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.86%) Solaris
6 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.57%) Analytics
2 48 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (26.86%) Data Governance
4 45 (25.71%) Data Modelling
5 34 (19.43%) Agile
6 30 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (16.57%) ETL
8 28 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (14.86%) Data Architecture
9 26 (14.86%) Data Management
9 26 (14.86%) DevOps
9 26 (14.86%) Migration
10 25 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 21 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (11.43%) Data Integration
12 20 (11.43%) Data Privacy
12 20 (11.43%) Data Science
13 19 (10.86%) Decision-Making
14 18 (10.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.86%) SQL
2 40 (22.86%) Python
3 16 (9.14%) Bash
4 11 (6.29%) Scala
5 8 (4.57%) PL/SQL
5 8 (4.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.43%) ActionScript
6 6 (3.43%) ActionScript 2.0
7 5 (2.86%) Java
8 4 (2.29%) C
8 4 (2.29%) Perl
8 4 (2.29%) R
9 3 (1.71%) C#
9 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) SOQL
11 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.00%) Degree
2 21 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.43%) FFIEC
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.86%) CISSP
6 4 (2.29%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) CISM
7 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.14%) PMP
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.57%) CISA
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.43%) GDPR
2 32 (18.29%) Data Quality
3 14 (8.00%) Accessibility
4 12 (6.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (3.43%) QA
7 5 (2.86%) PMO
8 4 (2.29%) GRC
8 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (2.29%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.71%) GxP
9 3 (1.71%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (1.14%) NIST
11 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.57%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.57%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (4.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.71%) NFS
4 3 (1.71%) Veritas File System
4 3 (1.71%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Terraform
2 10 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.00%) Ansible
4 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.29%) QRadar
6 3 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.71%) SCCM
6 3 (1.71%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.71%) WSUS
7 2 (1.14%) Control-M
7 2 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.14%) Kibana
7 2 (1.14%) logstash
7 2 (1.14%) MOM
7 2 (1.14%) Netcool
7 2 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.14%) Databricks
2 16 (9.14%) Oracle
3 14 (8.00%) SAP
4 9 (5.14%) Google
5 8 (4.57%) IBM
6 6 (3.43%) Dataiku
6 6 (3.43%) Qualys
7 5 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
7 5 (2.86%) Informatica
7 5 (2.86%) Splunk
7 5 (2.86%) VMware
8 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.29%) Siemens
9 3 (1.71%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.71%) Sophos
9 3 (1.71%) Talend