Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Encryption
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 158 194
Rank change year-on-year -16 +36 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 9 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.19% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.23% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £358 £440 £328
25th Percentile £411 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +19.32%
75th Percentile £715 - £725
90th Percentile £892 £673 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,538 3,484 4,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.03% 84.05% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 2,035 2,990
10th Percentile £268 £308 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -0.04% +0.04%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 184 203
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.91 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.76 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.75 £51.22 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £61.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +45.65%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the North of England

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Encryption.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the North of England

Data Encryption
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Encryption.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Yorkshire -6 6 £501 +0.10% 2
North West -13 3 £500 -35.48% 1
Data Encryption
England

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 6 (66.67%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) GitLab
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (66.67%) Liquibase
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 6 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (66.67%) REST
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (55.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (77.78%) Data Security
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) Change Management
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 6 (66.67%) High Availability
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) Grafana
2 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Splunk
2 4 (44.44%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks