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 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 86 102 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Security 13 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.94% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.74% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £266 £373 £224
25th Percentile £328 £557 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +52.94% -29.75%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £600
90th Percentile £651 £683 -
England median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -3.34%

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 1,232 1,619 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 83.32% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 1,082 1,334
10th Percentile £200 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £609
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £29.33 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 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
Birmingham +16 6 £407 -29.22% 16
Warwickshire - 3 - - 2
Coventry -2 2 £375 -42.31% 10
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 3 (23.08%) Apache
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Flink
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Digital Transformation
4 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
4 1 (7.69%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Security
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Data Science
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CEH
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CITP
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Proofpoint
3 1 (7.69%) Google