Data Security Contracts in the North West

Data Security
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 135 162
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 -32
Contract jobs citing Data Security 25 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.53% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 13
10th Percentile £413 £306 £375
25th Percentile £459 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £486 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -22.24% +25.00%
75th Percentile £616 - £688
90th Percentile £733 £596 -
England median daily rate £570 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +3.64% -3.34% +13.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £19.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year +107.79% -15.83% -37.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Manchester +28 15 £525 -5.62% 15
Cheshire - 7 £500 - 4
Lancashire - 1 £600 - 3
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) SQLite
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) GoCD
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
1 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Java Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (8.00%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Process Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Android Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) Jest
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Dagger
3 1 (4.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (4.00%) RxJava
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (16.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (36.00%) ETL
3 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Data Management
4 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (24.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (16.00%) Product Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) PHP
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) R
5 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Anaplan
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Teradata