Data Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 287 376
Rank change year-on-year +40 +89 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Security 158 144 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.63% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.71% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 119 99
10th Percentile £386 £386 £309
25th Percentile £425 £475 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £638
90th Percentile £711 £678 £691
UK median daily rate £550 £561 £552
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.68% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £30.87 - £20.01
25th Percentile - £30.75 £20.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.50 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +37.74% -
75th Percentile - £32.25 £25.40
90th Percentile £56.25 - £25.83
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% +44.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
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 Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
South East +21 53 £488 -11.36% 37
North of England +31 45 £525 +8.02% 59
North West +24 25 £525 +8.02% 24
South West +7 22 £525 -4.55% 13
Yorkshire +19 20 £525 +5.00% 30
Scotland +38 17 £420 -16.00% 12
Midlands +15 14 £650 +15.56% 31
West Midlands +19 13 £650 +52.94% 15
East of England +4 4 £600 +20.00% 9
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East Midlands +4 1 - - 16
Data Security
UK

Data Security
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 10 (6.33%) SAS
2 7 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.27%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.27%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.63%) Odoo
4 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.56%) Azure
2 20 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.39%) AWS
4 9 (5.70%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.16%) CloudFront
6 5 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) GCP
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.27%) Sumo Logic
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.70%) Network Security
2 5 (3.16%) DNS
2 5 (3.16%) SAN
2 5 (3.16%) VPN
3 3 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.90%) NAS
3 3 (1.90%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.63%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) MySQL
2 20 (12.66%) Power BI
3 19 (12.03%) Relational Database
4 17 (10.76%) Qlik Sense
5 13 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (6.33%) Crystal Reports
7 9 (5.70%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.90%) Metadata
11 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.27%) Big Data
12 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.27%) Tableau
13 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.86%) JIRA
2 3 (1.90%) Git
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.90%) Toad
3 2 (1.27%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.63%) GoCD
4 1 (0.63%) JUnit
General
1 35 (22.15%) Finance
2 30 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.33%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.70%) Banking
7 8 (5.06%) Legal
8 6 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.80%) Retail
9 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Back Office
11 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.27%) Electronics
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.63%) Aviation
12 1 (0.63%) Military
12 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (16.46%) Analyst
2 25 (15.82%) Architect
3 16 (10.13%) Data Engineer
3 16 (10.13%) Developer
4 14 (8.86%) Data Scientist
4 14 (8.86%) Lead
5 12 (7.59%) Data Architect
5 12 (7.59%) Security Architect
6 9 (5.70%) Security Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (5.06%) Compliance Analyst
7 8 (5.06%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.06%) Data Compliance Analyst
7 8 (5.06%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (5.06%) Security Operations Specialist
7 8 (5.06%) Security Specialist
7 8 (5.06%) Senior
8 7 (4.43%) IFS Developer
9 6 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.76%) AngularJS
2 16 (10.13%) CSS
2 16 (10.13%) HTML
3 6 (3.80%) Kafka
3 6 (3.80%) OAuth
4 5 (3.16%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.16%) RESTful
4 5 (3.16%) SAML
5 3 (1.90%) React
5 3 (1.90%) XML
6 2 (1.27%) Android SDK
6 2 (1.27%) Jest
6 2 (1.27%) Node.js
6 2 (1.27%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.63%) Dagger
7 1 (0.63%) JWT
7 1 (0.63%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.63%) RxJava
7 1 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.72%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 7 (4.43%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (4.43%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.16%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.90%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.86%) Windows
2 8 (5.06%) Linux
3 5 (3.16%) Unix
4 4 (2.53%) zOS
5 3 (1.90%) Android
5 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.22%) Incident Response
2 34 (21.52%) Analytics
2 34 (21.52%) Data Modelling
3 33 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (18.99%) Vulnerability Management
5 29 (18.35%) SIEM
6 25 (15.82%) Security Operations
7 24 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (15.19%) Computer Science
8 21 (13.29%) ITIL
9 19 (12.03%) ETL
9 19 (12.03%) Scrum
10 17 (10.76%) Data Loss Prevention
10 17 (10.76%) ITSM
11 16 (10.13%) Roadmaps
11 16 (10.13%) Service Management
12 15 (9.49%) Data Governance
12 15 (9.49%) Data Science
12 15 (9.49%) Proactive Management
13 14 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.01%) SQL
2 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
3 10 (6.33%) Java
4 8 (5.06%) PL/SQL
4 8 (5.06%) Python
5 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.90%) PHP
6 2 (1.27%) R
6 2 (1.27%) Scala
6 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (23.42%) Degree
2 22 (13.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (12.03%) Master's Degree
3 19 (12.03%) PMP
4 18 (11.39%) PMI Certification
5 13 (8.23%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) CISSP
9 2 (1.27%) PhD
10 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.63%) CCSP
10 1 (0.63%) CISA
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CISM
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.63%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.59%) GDPR
2 10 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.06%) NIST
4 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.16%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.53%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (2.53%) QA
7 3 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.63%) COBIT
9 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.66%) Qualys
3 17 (10.76%) ServiceNow
4 16 (10.13%) Forcepoint
4 16 (10.13%) LogRhythm
4 16 (10.13%) Varonis
5 13 (8.23%) Splunk
6 10 (6.33%) IFS
6 10 (6.33%) Oracle
7 7 (4.43%) Databricks
7 7 (4.43%) Virgin Media
8 6 (3.80%) SAP
9 4 (2.53%) F5
10 3 (1.90%) Cisco
10 3 (1.90%) Citrix
10 3 (1.90%) HP
10 3 (1.90%) Microgen
10 3 (1.90%) Workday
11 2 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.27%) Rapid7