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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 272 330
Rank change year-on-year +77 +58 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Security 160 125 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.81% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 94 91
10th Percentile £314 £338 £463
25th Percentile £459 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -13.21% +15.22%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £750 £779 £775
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
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 £19.88
90th Percentile - £43.35 -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -15.83%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +21 29 £583 -2.92% 9
East London +20 1 £210 -64.65% 4
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 15 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.75%) Apache Spark
3 11 (6.88%) Confluence
4 10 (6.25%) Apache
5 6 (3.75%) Jupyter
6 4 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (2.50%) IIS
6 4 (2.50%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.63%) CMS
7 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.75%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (2.50%) InfoPath
5 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.50%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.25%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.25%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.63%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.63%) Magento
4 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.63%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.63%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.63%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.63%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.63%) TrackWise
4 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.00%) Azure
2 41 (25.63%) AWS
3 35 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 23 (14.38%) GCP
5 10 (6.25%) SaaS
5 10 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.00%) GitHub
8 7 (4.38%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.75%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.75%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.75%) Serverless
10 5 (3.13%) OCI
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.50%) Collibra
11 4 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.50%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) SSH
2 7 (4.38%) DNS
2 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.75%) SSL
4 4 (2.50%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.88%) DHCP
6 2 (1.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.63%) Broadband
7 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.63%) Intranet
7 1 (0.63%) NAS
7 1 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.63%) SAN
7 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.13%) Power BI
2 19 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (10.63%) Data Lake
4 15 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 14 (8.75%) Metadata
6 13 (8.13%) Tableau
7 12 (7.50%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.25%) Big Data
9 9 (5.63%) Apache Hive
9 9 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (5.63%) Relational Database
10 8 (5.00%) Delta Lake
10 8 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (3.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (3.75%) Qlik Sense
12 5 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (3.13%) MySQL
12 5 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
12 5 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) JIRA
2 12 (7.50%) Git
3 7 (4.38%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.75%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (3.75%) RStudio
5 5 (3.13%) ERwin
5 5 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.50%) GitLab
6 4 (2.50%) Subversion
7 3 (1.88%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.63%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.63%) JBehave
8 1 (0.63%) LSMW
8 1 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.63%) Mockito
8 1 (0.63%) Serena SBM
8 1 (0.63%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.63%) Xcode
8 1 (0.63%) YourKit
General
1 50 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (21.88%) Finance
4 15 (9.38%) Banking
5 11 (6.88%) Marketing
6 8 (5.00%) Retail
7 7 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.13%) Legal
8 5 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.13%) Police
8 5 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Military
10 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.25%) German Language
10 2 (1.25%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (17.50%) Architect
2 26 (16.25%) Data Engineer
3 18 (11.25%) Analyst
4 15 (9.38%) Data Architect
5 12 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.63%) Consultant
6 9 (5.63%) Developer
6 9 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.00%) Lead
8 7 (4.38%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Report Writer
10 5 (3.13%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.50%) Administrator
11 4 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (2.50%) Data Consultant
11 4 (2.50%) IT Project Manager
11 4 (2.50%) PMO Analyst
11 4 (2.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.50%) Kafka
1 12 (7.50%) PySpark
2 8 (5.00%) JSON
3 7 (4.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (4.38%) pydantic
3 7 (4.38%) YAML
4 6 (3.75%) REST
5 3 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.88%) LDAP
5 3 (1.88%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.25%) OAuth
6 2 (1.25%) SOAP
6 2 (1.25%) Visualforce
6 2 (1.25%) XML
7 1 (0.63%) iOS SDK
7 1 (0.63%) Laravel
7 1 (0.63%) Node.js
7 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.63%) Reference Data
3 8 (5.00%) Clustering
3 8 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.13%) Replication
7 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.88%) IoT
8 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.25%) LIMS
9 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.75%) Windows
2 13 (8.13%) Linux
3 8 (5.00%) Unix
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.13%) Solaris
6 4 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (26.88%) Data Governance
3 42 (26.25%) Data Modelling
4 40 (25.00%) Analytics
5 31 (19.38%) Agile
6 29 (18.13%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (16.25%) Data Management
7 26 (16.25%) ETL
8 25 (15.63%) Migration
9 23 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (14.38%) Data Architecture
10 22 (13.75%) Data Integration
11 21 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (13.13%) Decision-Making
11 21 (13.13%) DevOps
12 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
12 20 (12.50%) Data Privacy
13 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (11.25%) Data Science
15 17 (10.63%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.38%) SQL
2 37 (23.13%) Python
3 17 (10.63%) Bash
4 11 (6.88%) Scala
5 8 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 8 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.75%) ActionScript
6 6 (3.75%) ActionScript 2.0
6 6 (3.75%) Java
7 4 (2.50%) C
7 4 (2.50%) Perl
8 3 (1.88%) C#
8 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.25%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.25%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.63%) SOQL
10 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.25%) Degree
4 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.75%) FFIEC
6 5 (3.13%) CISSP
7 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.88%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.25%) PMP
9 1 (0.63%) CEH
9 1 (0.63%) CISA
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.63%) PCI QSA
9 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.25%) GDPR
2 29 (18.13%) Data Quality
3 14 (8.75%) Accessibility
4 12 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (4.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (3.13%) PMO
6 5 (3.13%) QA
7 4 (2.50%) GRC
7 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.88%) GxP
8 3 (1.88%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (1.25%) NIST
10 1 (0.63%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.63%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.63%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (4.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.88%) NFS
4 3 (1.88%) Veritas File System
4 3 (1.88%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.63%) Firmware
5 1 (0.63%) HDFS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Terraform
2 8 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.38%) Ansible
4 4 (2.50%) QRadar
5 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (1.88%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.25%) Control-M
6 2 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.25%) Grafana
6 2 (1.25%) Kibana
6 2 (1.25%) logstash
6 2 (1.25%) Netcool
6 2 (1.25%) SCCM
6 2 (1.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.25%) WSUS
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.63%) CASB
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.25%) Oracle
3 13 (8.13%) Databricks
3 13 (8.13%) SAP
4 11 (6.88%) Google
5 8 (5.00%) IBM
6 6 (3.75%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.75%) Qualys
6 6 (3.75%) Splunk
7 5 (3.13%) IBM Sterling
7 5 (3.13%) Informatica
7 5 (3.13%) VMware
8 4 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.50%) Siemens
8 4 (2.50%) Talend
9 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.88%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.25%) Concur
10 2 (1.25%) Dataiku