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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 167 160
Rank change year-on-year +44 -7 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Security 40 25 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.15% 0.50% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.61% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 45
10th Percentile £315 £400 £475
25th Percentile £402 £547 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +18.18% +12.82%
75th Percentile £544 £668 £580
90th Percentile £630 £725 £748
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £32.68
25th Percentile £13.13 - £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.75 - £40.75
75th Percentile £14.38 - £45.56
90th Percentile - - £48.23
England median hourly rate £46.23 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year +15.56% +107.79% -10.47%

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 3,139 4,111 5,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.02% 82.78% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 2,488 3,428
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 327 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.03 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +113.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £76.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +24 17 £505 -22.31% 17
Berkshire +20 13 £600 -7.69% 9
Surrey +18 8 £510 -21.54% 3
Hampshire +28 5 £426 -27.49% 5
West Sussex - 5 £470 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £350 - 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £360 - 8
Kent -3 2 £210 +33.69% 1
Home Counties - 2 - -
East Sussex -3 1 - - 2
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 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (2.50%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) 2G
4 1 (2.50%) 3G
4 1 (2.50%) 4G
4 1 (2.50%) 5G
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) Metadata
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) NewSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Power BI
5 2 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) Consultant
3 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Security Consultant
5 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) SAP Security Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Platform Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Security Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Security Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (5.00%) JDBC
3 2 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) ETL
3 9 (22.50%) Data Integration
3 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
4 8 (20.00%) Analytics
4 8 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 8 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 8 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (17.50%) Application Security
5 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
5 7 (17.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 7 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.50%) Validation
6 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.00%) Data Management
6 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) Scala
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (12.50%) CISSP
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.50%) CCSP
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.00%) CEH
6 2 (5.00%) CISM
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.00%) Degree
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) GDPR
2 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (15.00%) HIPAA
4 5 (12.50%) NIST
5 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
5 3 (7.50%) PSD2
6 1 (2.50%) GRC
6 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) SAP
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (7.50%) F5
4 3 (7.50%) Qualys
5 2 (5.00%) Proofpoint
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Aruba
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Informatica
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Yealink