Data Encryption Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Encryption
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Encryption skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Encryption over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 317 449
Rank change year-on-year +27 +132 +145
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 12 32 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.21% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 19
10th Percentile £575 £450 £436
25th Percentile £604 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £545
90th Percentile £661 £600 £649
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Data Encryption
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Encryption trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Encryption.

Data Encryption daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Encryption over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Data Encryption daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (8.33%) FTP
4 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) Toad
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Design
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Security
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) MACH
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Analytics
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (41.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) Data Security
3 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Okta
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Talend