Data Security Contracts in the Midlands

Data Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 142 184
Rank change year-on-year +15 +42 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Security 14 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.57% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £360 £226 £262
25th Percentile £564 £250 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +21.62% +32.14%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £664
90th Percentile £698 - £771
England median daily rate £554 £563 £566
% change year-on-year -1.51% -0.62% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.37
Median hourly rate £21.73 - £24.24
75th Percentile - - £26.12
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% +44.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
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 Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
West Midlands +19 13 £650 +52.94% 13
East Midlands +4 1 - - 14
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) CloudFront
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (7.14%) Matillion
7 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) Network Security
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.14%) Back Office
6 1 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth2
1 5 (35.71%) SAML
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Application Security
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 5 (35.71%) Data Management
3 5 (35.71%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
3 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (35.71%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
3 5 (35.71%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Complex ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Data Extraction
5 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) R
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) F5
1 1 (7.14%) Informatica
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Qualys
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk