Data Security Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Security
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 81 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Security 14 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.01% 1.37% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.63% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 6
10th Percentile £319 £462 -
25th Percentile £351 £475 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £525 £424
Median % change year-on-year -25.14% +23.89% +25.56%
75th Percentile £431 £554 £583
90th Percentile £438 £589 £622
England median daily rate £520 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -3.65% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,274 1,407 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.05% 83.75% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 854 1,240
10th Percentile £263 £300 £281
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 57 34
10th Percentile £16.13 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.29 £12.15 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -30.45% +6.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.68 £50.75 £47.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Yorkshire

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Yorkshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Yorkshire

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Yorkshire

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
South Yorkshire -14 8 £384 -26.86% 9
West Yorkshire +6 6 £413 -17.50% 4
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Power Query
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Financial Institution
5 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Python Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (28.57%) REST
1 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Change Management
1 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
1 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
1 5 (35.71%) Cryptography
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) High Availability
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Microservices
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Go
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
5 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Workday