Data Security Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Security
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 86 99 120
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Security 11 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.62% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £266 £380 £224
25th Percentile £328 £559 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £483
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +34.72% -20.25%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £575
90th Percentile £638 £750 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the West Midlands

Data Security
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 Security within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +20 5 £224 -61.04% 12
Warwickshire - 2 - - 2
Coventry +1 1 £375 -42.31%
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 8
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) Metadata
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Flink
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Digital
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Digital Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Head of IT
3 1 (9.09%) Head of IT Security
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
5 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CITP
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Proofpoint
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google