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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 125 138
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Security 23 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.05% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £297 £500 £226
25th Percentile £387 £625 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +15.56% +21.62%
75th Percentile £561 £675 £600
90th Percentile £641 £705 -
England median daily rate £520 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -3.65% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
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
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 1,937 2,366 2,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.61% 79.88% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 1,559 1,988
10th Percentile £206 £248 £260
25th Percentile £356 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 185 99
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.22 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.11 £14.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.58% -24.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £28.76 £35.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 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
West Midlands +16 17 £590 -9.23% 90
East Midlands +11 5 £449 - 77
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 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 4 (17.39%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) Intranet
2 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (13.04%) Big Data
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Flink
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.35%) Head of IT Security
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (8.70%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (4.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
3 9 (39.13%) Data Engineering
3 9 (39.13%) ETL
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Data Governance
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
5 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Data Science
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Project Management
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Scala
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) CISSP
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) CEH
5 2 (8.70%) CISM
5 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.35%) CITP
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) MCP
6 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (17.39%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Proofpoint
2 2 (8.70%) Workday
3 1 (4.35%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) UiPath