Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Encryption
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.18% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £534 - £675
90th Percentile £715 - -
England median daily rate £525 £640 £540
% change year-on-year -17.97% +18.52% +0.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,291 1,651 2,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.61% 88.43% 82.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,078 1,124 1,534
10th Percentile £291 £200 £230
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 75 180
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.66 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.20 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% -4.21% +7.22%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.32 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Encryption

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Encryption

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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
West Midlands - 7 £525 - 1
Data Encryption
England

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Liquibase
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (85.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Cryptography
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (42.86%) Data Security
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Google