Data Security Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 92 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Security 24 25 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.10% 1.05% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.26% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 21
10th Percentile £307 £304 -
25th Percentile £426 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £486
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +23.46% -6.54%
75th Percentile £694 £716 £627
90th Percentile £763 £788 £700
England median daily rate £525 £565 £585
% change year-on-year -7.08% -3.42% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 - £31.50
% change year-on-year - - +32.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,927 1,980 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.56% 83.40% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,095 1,702
10th Percentile £270 £294 £270
25th Percentile £368 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £595
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 109 163
10th Percentile £13.64 £16.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £28.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.35 £73.75 £69.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North West over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Security

Data Security
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 Security within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Cheshire -17 13 £475 -31.65% 6
Manchester -6 9 £529 +62.69% 6
Merseyside - 1 £165 - 7
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills and 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) dbt
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Akamai
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
1 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Security Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Applications Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Designer
6 2 (8.33%) IT Technician
6 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Banking Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Power Apps Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
1 4 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
5 5 (20.83%) Security Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Application Security
6 4 (16.67%) Attestation
6 4 (16.67%) CRM
6 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CBAP
2 2 (8.33%) CSPO
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) F5