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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 248 275
Rank change year-on-year +76 +27 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Security 173 153 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 0.74% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.89% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 104 132
10th Percentile £318 £380 £331
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £656 £575
90th Percentile £699 £722 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.24 £15.08
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.87 £15.20
Median hourly rate £23.88 £40.00 £15.41
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +159.66% -32.64%
75th Percentile £41.61 - £15.61
90th Percentile £63.87 £53.00 £15.73
UK median hourly rate £23.88 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -40.31% +107.79% -15.83%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
South East +37 50 £478 -4.50% 302
Scotland +34 46 £528 +25.83% 37
North of England +7 29 £502 +0.30% 210
North West +2 20 £504 -1.66% 100
Midlands +18 19 £450 -30.77% 165
South West +36 16 £463 -28.85% 100
East of England +41 15 £425 -29.17% 132
West Midlands +16 13 £483 -25.77% 89
Yorkshire +11 9 £430 -14.00% 82
East Midlands +11 5 £449 - 65
Wales - 3 £160 - 25
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 11 (6.36%) Apache
2 9 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.73%) SAS
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.58%) CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) Sketch
4 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.89%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.73%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.73%) SAP GRC
3 3 (1.73%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.58%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.75%) Azure
2 41 (23.70%) AWS
3 27 (15.61%) Cloud Computing
4 18 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 17 (9.83%) GCP
6 13 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.36%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.20%) Serverless
11 8 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.62%) GitHub
12 7 (4.05%) dbt
13 6 (3.47%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.47%) SaaS
14 5 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) 2G
2 4 (2.31%) 3G
2 4 (2.31%) 4G
2 4 (2.31%) 5G
3 3 (1.73%) Network Security
3 3 (1.73%) SSL
3 3 (1.73%) VPN
4 2 (1.16%) DNS
4 2 (1.16%) Internet
4 2 (1.16%) Intranet
4 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.58%) DHCP
5 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.58%) NAS
5 1 (0.58%) SAN
5 1 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.97%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (8.09%) Metadata
2 14 (8.09%) Power BI
3 12 (6.94%) Big Data
4 11 (6.36%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.36%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.78%) Tableau
6 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.47%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.31%) Looker
9 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.47%) JIRA
3 5 (2.89%) ERwin
4 4 (2.31%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.73%) Git
6 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
6 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (50.87%) Social Skills
2 49 (28.32%) Finance
3 34 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.45%) Banking
5 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.51%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.89%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.73%) Marketing
11 2 (1.16%) Automotive
11 2 (1.16%) Billing
11 2 (1.16%) Publishing
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Military
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (24.86%) Architect
2 27 (15.61%) Data Engineer
2 27 (15.61%) Senior
3 17 (9.83%) Data Architect
4 14 (8.09%) Analyst
4 14 (8.09%) Consultant
5 11 (6.36%) Developer
5 11 (6.36%) Python Engineer
6 10 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (5.78%) JavaScript Engineer
7 9 (5.20%) Security Consultant
7 9 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.62%) Security Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (4.05%) SAP Security Consultant
9 7 (4.05%) Support Officer
10 6 (3.47%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.29%) Kafka
2 10 (5.78%) PySpark
3 7 (4.05%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (3.47%) React
5 5 (2.89%) .NET
6 4 (2.31%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.31%) OAuth
6 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.31%) OpenID
6 4 (2.31%) SAML
7 3 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.73%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.73%) Node.js
7 3 (1.73%) NumPy
7 3 (1.73%) Pandas
8 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.16%) REST
8 2 (1.16%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Management Information System
2 23 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (9.83%) Cloud Native
4 13 (7.51%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.47%) Replication
6 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.89%) IoT
6 5 (2.89%) NHS
7 4 (2.31%) CMDB
7 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.31%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.16%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.16%) Derivative
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.62%) Linux
2 7 (4.05%) Windows
3 4 (2.31%) Android
3 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.31%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (42.20%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (23.12%) Analytics
3 39 (22.54%) ETL
4 35 (20.23%) Data Modelling
5 34 (19.65%) Agile
6 32 (18.50%) CI/CD
7 30 (17.34%) Data Governance
7 30 (17.34%) Data Science
8 29 (16.76%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (16.76%) Decision-Making
9 28 (16.18%) Data Engineering
10 27 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (14.45%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (13.87%) Visualisation
13 22 (12.72%) Data Architecture
14 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
15 20 (11.56%) Data Protection
16 19 (10.98%) Data Integration
16 19 (10.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.10%) Python
2 49 (28.32%) SQL
3 30 (17.34%) Java
4 18 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.20%) Scala
7 8 (4.62%) Bash
8 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.31%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.16%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.16%) C
11 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.56%) Degree
3 13 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.78%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.31%) CISSP
7 3 (1.73%) CISM
7 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.16%) CEH
9 1 (0.58%) CCNA
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CITP
9 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.58%) ISACA
9 1 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.23%) Data Quality
2 32 (18.50%) GDPR
3 10 (5.78%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.47%) GRC
5 4 (2.31%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.73%) NIST
7 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.16%) WCAG
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.20%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.36%) Terraform
3 6 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.58%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
5 1 (0.58%) logstash
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.36%) SAP
3 10 (5.78%) Google
4 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.89%) Databricks
5 5 (2.89%) Oracle
6 4 (2.31%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.73%) Teradata
8 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.16%) F5
8 2 (1.16%) Informatica
8 2 (1.16%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.16%) Reuters
8 2 (1.16%) Workday
9 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.58%) Varonis
9 1 (0.58%) Veeam
9 1 (0.58%) Veritas