Data Security Contracts in the Midlands

Data Security
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 135 178
Rank change year-on-year +11 +43 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Security 13 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.69% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile £373 £224 £204
25th Percentile £557 £233 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £544 £463
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +17.57% +15.63%
75th Percentile £675 £592 £675
90th Percentile £683 £600 £766
England median daily rate £562 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +2.18% -3.34% +13.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.37
Median hourly rate £21.73 - £24.24
75th Percentile - - £26.12
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £24.24
% change year-on-year +107.79% -20.59% -57.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +17 12 £650 +160.00% 11
East Midlands +14 1 - - 20
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) OLTP
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) kappa
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Police
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Application Security
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Data Management
2 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
2 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) F5
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Qualys
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk