Data Security Contracts in the South East

Data Security
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 149 157
Rank change year-on-year +46 +8 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Security 56 56 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.86% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.19% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 58
10th Percentile £200 - £294
25th Percentile £360 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £563
90th Percentile £689 £698 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £15.58 - £15.08
25th Percentile £16.06 - £15.20
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £15.41
75th Percentile £17.81 - £15.61
90th Percentile £18.23 - £15.73
England median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +61 33 £525 -0.94% 27
Berkshire +41 25 £638 +20.28% 14
West Sussex -4 10 £422 -6.13% 7
Hampshire +30 9 £625 +31.58% 16
Buckinghamshire - 8 £355 - 7
Surrey +13 5 £495 -23.11% 12
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 8
Home Counties - 1 - -
Kent - 1 £210 - 11
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.36%) SAP ERP
2 3 (5.36%) SAP GRC
2 3 (5.36%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.79%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) GCP
3 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.71%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.36%) SaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) 2G
1 4 (7.14%) 3G
1 4 (7.14%) 4G
1 4 (7.14%) 5G
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
2 3 (5.36%) NGFW
2 3 (5.36%) SSL
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.71%) Big Data
2 6 (10.71%) Metadata
3 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) NewSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (3.57%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) ERwin
1 4 (7.14%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.57%) Billing
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Consultant
3 8 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 7 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (12.50%) SAP Security Consultant
5 6 (10.71%) Data Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Data Modeller
6 4 (7.14%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Administrator
8 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) DBA
8 2 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (7.14%) Kafka
3 3 (5.36%) SAML
4 2 (3.57%) JDBC
4 2 (3.57%) PySpark
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.14%) IoT
2 4 (7.14%) Replication
2 4 (7.14%) Smartphone
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Android
1 4 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Migration
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.21%) Data Migration
4 11 (19.64%) Data Management
5 10 (17.86%) Application Security
5 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
5 10 (17.86%) ETL
5 10 (17.86%) RBAC
5 10 (17.86%) Validation
6 9 (16.07%) Data Cleansing
7 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.50%) Business Transformation
8 7 (12.50%) Cloud Security
8 7 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 7 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (12.50%) SAP Security
9 6 (10.71%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) Bash
4 2 (3.57%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (1.79%) ABAP
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) CISM
3 4 (7.14%) CISSP
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CCNA
5 1 (1.79%) CEH
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.79%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) GDPR
2 9 (16.07%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.14%) GRC
4 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.57%) NIST
6 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.43%) SAP
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.57%) Databricks
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Informatica
5 1 (1.79%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.79%) Remedy