Data Security Contract Job Trends in West London

Data Security
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 33 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Security 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.04% 0.86% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.98% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £606 - £250
25th Percentile £616 - £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £450 £410
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% +9.76% -25.45%
75th Percentile £647 - £534
90th Percentile £656 - £590
London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 205 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.50% 87.98% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 138 353
10th Percentile £204 £300 £214
25th Percentile £300 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £500 £574 £640
90th Percentile £603 £638 £713
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 22
10th Percentile £25.12 £21.89 £23.38
25th Percentile - £24.90 £43.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -53.65% +120.00%
75th Percentile £34.45 £65.00 £86.88
90th Percentile £44.13 £72.20 £90.00
London median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
% change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Data Security job vacancy trend in West London

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Security

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Security

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Wembley - 1 £600 - 2
Data Security
London

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Workday