Data Encryption Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Encryption skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Encryption over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 386 432
Rank change year-on-year +42 +46 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 10 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.090% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.11% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 11
10th Percentile £408 - £463
25th Percentile £475 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £650
90th Percentile £581 £585 -
UK median daily rate £519 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.29% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Encryption 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,969 17,465 20,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.73% 83.00% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,894 10,310 14,225
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 2,130 1,287
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.82% +66.81%
75th Percentile £51.93 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Scotland - 5 £488 -
North West +4 2 - - 2
North of England -2 2 - - 4
South West - 2 £525 -
Midlands +10 1 - -
Data Encryption
UK

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
1 1 (10.00%) Toad
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (10.00%) JWT
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) CRISC
1 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (10.00%) Talend
2 1 (10.00%) Teradata