Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Encryption
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 123 134
Rank change year-on-year -46 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.028% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.055% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile £613 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £738
90th Percentile - - £768
England median daily rate £550 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +7.42% +2.40% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,971 1,809 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.64% 88.72% 84.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 1,201 1,423
10th Percentile £300 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -8.18% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 111 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £14.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +5.87% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £61.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Encryption relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Encryption
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
Lancashire - 1 £625 - 2
Data Encryption
England

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle