Data Security Contracts in England

Data Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 306 371
Rank change year-on-year +88 +65 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Security 318 261 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.25% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.82% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 179 199
10th Percentile £321 £350 £413
25th Percentile £420 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £554 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -4.97% +1.39%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £569
% change year-on-year -1.90% -7.69% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.31 -
25th Percentile £16.88 £23.75 £18.63
Median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -15.83%
75th Percentile £48.60 - £22.97
90th Percentile £66.66 £52.48 £28.54
UK median hourly rate £23.88 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -40.31% +107.79% -15.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,265 31,763 42,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.18% 85.54% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,982 20,585 29,701
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 2,328 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in England

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
London +92 169 £550 -4.35% 706
South East +53 47 £470 -1.05% 136
North of England +2 38 £472 -10.19% 172
North West +18 28 £496 -5.57% 86
Midlands +23 25 £451 -30.69% 83
West Midlands +14 19 £608 -6.54% 42
South West +37 18 £463 +2.78% 65
East of England +36 14 £400 -33.33% 46
Yorkshire -9 10 £413 -21.43% 64
East Midlands +7 5 £449 - 40
Data Security
UK

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.29%) Apache
3 16 (5.03%) SharePoint
4 12 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.89%) Confluence
6 4 (1.26%) IIS
6 4 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.26%) SAS
6 4 (1.26%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (1.26%) InfoPath
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.57%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.26%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.26%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.63%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.63%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.31%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.31%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.31%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 91 (28.62%) Azure
2 71 (22.33%) AWS
3 55 (17.30%) Power Platform
4 47 (14.78%) GCP
5 24 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 18 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.40%) Serverless
9 13 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.09%) GitHub
10 12 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (3.77%) SaaS
11 11 (3.46%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.14%) dbt
12 10 (3.14%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.83%) SSH
2 8 (2.52%) SSL
3 6 (1.89%) Firewall
3 6 (1.89%) Network Security
4 5 (1.57%) DNS
4 5 (1.57%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.57%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.26%) 2G
5 4 (1.26%) 3G
5 4 (1.26%) 4G
5 4 (1.26%) 5G
5 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.26%) VPN
6 2 (0.63%) Intranet
6 2 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.31%) Internet
7 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.61%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (13.84%) Power BI
3 32 (10.06%) Data Lake
4 29 (9.12%) Metadata
5 23 (7.23%) Big Data
5 23 (7.23%) NoSQL
6 21 (6.60%) Tableau
7 20 (6.29%) SQL Server
8 16 (5.03%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.09%) BigQuery
10 11 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (3.46%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.83%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.52%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.52%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.89%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 6 (1.89%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 15 (4.72%) Jenkins
1 15 (4.72%) JIRA
2 11 (3.46%) ERwin
3 10 (3.14%) Git
4 7 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (2.20%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.57%) GitLab
6 4 (1.26%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.26%) RStudio
7 3 (0.94%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.63%) Subversion
9 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.31%) EasyMock
9 1 (0.31%) JBehave
9 1 (0.31%) JUnit
9 1 (0.31%) LSMW
9 1 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.31%) Xcode
General
1 121 (38.05%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.58%) Finance
3 73 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.55%) Banking
5 22 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.40%) Marketing
8 11 (3.46%) Legal
9 9 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.83%) Retail
10 5 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.57%) Police
10 5 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.26%) Military
12 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.94%) German Language
13 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (23.90%) Architect
2 51 (16.04%) Data Engineer
3 33 (10.38%) Data Architect
4 31 (9.75%) Senior
5 23 (7.23%) Analyst
5 23 (7.23%) Developer
6 19 (5.97%) Consultant
6 19 (5.97%) Security Architect
7 16 (5.03%) Project Manager
7 16 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.09%) Lead
9 10 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (3.14%) Senior Architect
9 10 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (2.83%) Data Consultant
11 8 (2.52%) Applications Support
11 8 (2.52%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.52%) Security Consultant
11 8 (2.52%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.69%) Kafka
2 22 (6.92%) PySpark
3 11 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (3.14%) REST
5 8 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.89%) .NET
6 6 (1.89%) JSON
6 6 (1.89%) SOAP
7 5 (1.57%) OAuth
7 5 (1.57%) pydantic
7 5 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.57%) YAML
8 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.26%) React
8 4 (1.26%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.94%) NumPy
9 3 (0.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.60%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.09%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.52%) IoT
7 8 (2.52%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.52%) Replication
8 7 (2.20%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.89%) Clustering
9 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.66%) Windows
2 16 (5.03%) Linux
3 12 (3.77%) Unix
4 6 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.26%) Android
7 3 (0.94%) Solaris
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (25.79%) Data Modelling
3 74 (23.27%) Analytics
4 72 (22.64%) Data Governance
5 68 (21.38%) ETL
6 61 (19.18%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (17.92%) CI/CD
8 54 (16.98%) Agile
9 52 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (15.41%) Migration
11 45 (14.15%) Data Engineering
11 45 (14.15%) Data Integration
12 42 (13.21%) DevOps
13 40 (12.58%) Data Architecture
13 40 (12.58%) Data Management
14 38 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (11.95%) Visualisation
15 35 (11.01%) Data Science
16 33 (10.38%) Decision-Making
17 32 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 105 (33.02%) SQL
2 74 (23.27%) Python
3 22 (6.92%) Java
4 19 (5.97%) Bash
5 18 (5.66%) Scala
6 13 (4.09%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.14%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.52%) ActionScript
8 8 (2.52%) ActionScript 2.0
8 8 (2.52%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.20%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.20%) C#
10 6 (1.89%) C
10 6 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.63%) Perl
11 2 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Groovy
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) X++
Qualifications
1 53 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.26%) Degree
3 34 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.77%) CISSP
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.20%) CISM
7 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.57%) CEH
9 5 (1.57%) PMP
10 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.26%) CISA
10 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.94%) PCI QSA
12 2 (0.63%) CRISC
12 2 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (18.87%) Data Quality
1 60 (18.87%) GDPR
2 17 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.09%) HIPAA
4 10 (3.14%) QA
5 9 (2.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.89%) GRC
8 6 (1.89%) NIST
9 4 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.94%) GxP
11 2 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.31%) ITGC
12 1 (0.31%) PERC
12 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (5.35%) Docker
2 9 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) NFS
4 2 (0.63%) Veritas File System
4 2 (0.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (6.29%) Terraform
2 19 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.83%) Ansible
4 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.94%) CASB
5 3 (0.94%) Grafana
5 3 (0.94%) Netcool
5 3 (0.94%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.63%) Control-M
6 2 (0.63%) Kibana
6 2 (0.63%) logstash
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.63%) QRadar
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.69%) Oracle
3 22 (6.92%) Google
4 21 (6.60%) Databricks
4 21 (6.60%) SAP
5 13 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.83%) IBM
7 8 (2.52%) Workday
8 7 (2.20%) Informatica
9 6 (1.89%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.89%) IBM Sterling
10 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.57%) Splunk
11 4 (1.26%) F5
11 4 (1.26%) Qualys
11 4 (1.26%) Siemens
11 4 (1.26%) Talend
11 4 (1.26%) VMware
12 3 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.94%) Teradata