Data Security Contracts in the North of England

Data Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 147 171
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Security 29 31 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 0.66% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.78% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 31
10th Percentile £193 £413 £331
25th Percentile £394 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +2.88% -7.43%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £526
90th Percentile £620 £716 £625
England median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 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
North West +2 20 £504 -1.66% 100
Yorkshire +11 9 £430 -14.00% 84
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 3 (10.34%) SAS
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) dbt
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.45%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) 2G
1 4 (13.79%) 3G
1 4 (13.79%) 4G
1 4 (13.79%) 5G
2 2 (6.90%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
2 3 (10.34%) Power Query
3 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) HBase
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Pentaho
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ERwin
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Data Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) SAS Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) HR Data Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) SharePoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) OAuth
2 4 (13.79%) OAuth2
2 4 (13.79%) OpenID
2 4 (13.79%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) IoT
1 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) NHS
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) Robotics
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Android
1 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Analytics
2 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (27.59%) Visualisation
4 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
4 6 (20.69%) ETL
5 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (17.24%) Validation
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (13.79%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.79%) Digital Twin
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) ActionScript
3 2 (6.90%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (6.90%) C
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.45%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Workday
4 1 (3.45%) Zscaler