Data Security Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 56 73 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Security 6 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.09% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £383 £394 -
25th Percentile £394 £415 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £338
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +48.15% -
75th Percentile £497 £550 £472
90th Percentile £533 - £569
Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -14.00% -4.76% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +5 6 £425 -15.00% 12
Data Security
Yorkshire

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
1 3 (50.00%) Power Query
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Looker
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) HR Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) HR Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Workday