Data Security Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Security
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 122 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 -10 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Security 21 11 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.27% 0.43% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.51% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 30
10th Percentile £339 - £488
25th Percentile £358 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +18.18% +7.84%
75th Percentile £570 - £572
90th Percentile £811 - £624
South East median daily rate £478 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +3.24% -15.91% +12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,525 2,152 2,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.03% 84.66% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,194 1,823
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £617
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 139 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.37 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.31 £21.35
Median hourly rate £24.91 £53.03 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.04% +6.06% +190.53%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £82.10 £86.01 £75.23
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.94% +9.75% +112.77%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the Thames Valley

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the Thames Valley

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the Thames Valley

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the Thames Valley

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Berkshire +27 16 £560 -13.85% 11
Buckinghamshire - 5 £350 - 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 8
Data Security
South East

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
3 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.52%) Big Data
5 2 (9.52%) Metadata
5 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 2 (9.52%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) ERwin
1 2 (9.52%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) JDBC
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Cyberattack
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 7 (33.33%) Migration
2 7 (33.33%) RBAC
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
4 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
4 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (23.81%) ETL
5 4 (19.05%) Business Case
5 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (19.05%) Data Management
5 4 (19.05%) Product Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Requirements Management
5 4 (19.05%) SIEM
6 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CEH
2 2 (9.52%) CISM
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) GDPR
2 6 (28.57%) HIPAA
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) CyberArk
2 2 (9.52%) Proofpoint
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle