Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Encryption
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
England median daily rate £525 £640 £540
% change year-on-year -17.97% +18.52% +0.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,434 1,179 1,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.02% 89.25% 83.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 797 1,101
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £650 £682 £706
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 54 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £14.03
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.75 £28.18 £39.69
90th Percentile £71.52 £35.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Encryption.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in the West Midlands

Data Encryption
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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
Birmingham - 6 £525 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
Data Encryption
England

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Liquibase
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (85.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Cryptography
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (42.86%) Data Security
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Google