Data Security Contracts in the North of England

Data Security
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 173 217
Rank change year-on-year +31 +44 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Security 36 34 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.61% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.68% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 25
10th Percentile £420 £329 £331
25th Percentile £456 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -7.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £532 £638
90th Percentile £705 £626 £688
England median daily rate £570 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +3.64% -3.34% +13.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% -37.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
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 Security within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +25 25 £513 +5.45% 30
Yorkshire +14 11 £554 +9.70% 25
Data Security
England

Data Security
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 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (25.00%) MySQL
3 8 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 8 (22.22%) Power BI
4 7 (19.44%) Qlik Sense
4 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) Big Data
5 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) SQLite
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GoCD
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Architect
2 7 (19.44%) Data Scientist
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Security Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.56%) PHP Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Process Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Android Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) GCP Data Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 7 (19.44%) CSS
2 7 (19.44%) HTML
3 3 (8.33%) React
4 2 (5.56%) Jest
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.78%) Dagger
5 1 (2.78%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Retrofit
5 1 (2.78%) RxJava
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
5 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Security Posture
2 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.78%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (36.11%) Analytics
3 11 (30.56%) ETL
4 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 8 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
6 7 (19.44%) Data Science
6 7 (19.44%) ITIL
6 7 (19.44%) ITSM
6 7 (19.44%) Scrum
6 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Data Management
7 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 6 (16.67%) Service Management
8 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.89%) Design Patterns
8 5 (13.89%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (8.33%) PHP
4 3 (8.33%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.78%) R
6 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (19.44%) Master's Degree
3 7 (19.44%) PMI Certification
3 7 (19.44%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Databricks
1 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.78%) F5
4 1 (2.78%) Qualys
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Teradata