Data Encryption Contracts

Data Encryption
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 496 521 651
Rank change year-on-year +25 +130 +160
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 24 61 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 56
10th Percentile £413 £428 £425
25th Percentile £454 £456 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £607 £588 £575
90th Percentile £676 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption.

Daily rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption.

Hourly rate trend for Data Encryption in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
Work from Home +21 12 £607 +10.36% 45
UK excluding London +58 11 £475 +5.56% 117
England +21 11 £590 +9.26% 145
Scotland +19 7 £425 -22.73% 6
North West +16 3 £663 +15.22% 13
North of England +15 3 £663 +35.90% 29
London +11 3 £630 +14.55% 50
South West - 1 £525 - 15

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) GCP
2 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) VPN
2 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (20.83%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) Network Security
4 4 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (4.17%) FTP
5 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Mockito
2 1 (4.17%) Toad
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Platform Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Head of Security
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (4.17%) JWT
2 1 (4.17%) MACH
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Analytics
4 6 (25.00%) Data Management
4 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (25.00%) Data Security
5 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Data Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (20.83%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (16.67%) Inventory Management
6 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
6 4 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.17%) NIST
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Okta
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Talend
3 1 (4.17%) Tenable
3 1 (4.17%) Teradata
3 1 (4.17%) Tripwire
3 1 (4.17%) Zscaler