Data Security Contracts in the South West

Data Security
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 93 134 143
Rank change year-on-year +41 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Security 18 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.87% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 21
10th Percentile - £415 £463
25th Percentile £363 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +6.80%
75th Percentile £566 £719 £579
90th Percentile £645 £743 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.75% - -
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 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +20 11 £375 -34.78% 8
Somerset - 4 £500 - 5
Gloucestershire +12 2 £550 +37.50% 7
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) dbt
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.56%) Akamai
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 6 (33.33%) Support Officer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Applications Support
4 4 (22.22%) Consultant
5 3 (16.67%) Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Data Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Finance Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Information Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Management Consultant
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Transition Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Transition Project Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 6 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 6 (33.33%) Logistics
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 4 (22.22%) ETL
4 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) Data Quality
2 6 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Kibana
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) logstash
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Adaptive Insights
2 1 (5.56%) F5
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Varonis
2 1 (5.56%) Workday