Data Security Contract Job Trends in England

Data Security
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 206 271
Rank change year-on-year -66 +65 +137
Contract jobs citing Data Security 332 310 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.26% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.39% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 218 214
10th Percentile £352 £313 £341
25th Percentile £436 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £774 £784
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £524
% change year-on-year - +0.24% -4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 14
10th Percentile - £15.58 £18.75
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.06 £22.24
Median hourly rate £21.30 £17.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -57.50% +112.15%
75th Percentile £36.50 £17.81 £46.81
90th Percentile £83.75 £18.23 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.33% -43.75% +97.63%

All Process & 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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Security job vacancy trend in England

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in England

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Security

Data Security
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Security in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 2026. 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 -46 157 £544 +0.23% 42
North of England -22 79 £600 +19.34% 23
Yorkshire -26 49 £600 +28.00% 9
Midlands -36 43 £475 +15.85% 19
West Midlands -32 33 £533 +10.94% 10
North West -29 29 £583 +15.58% 11
South East -81 21 £650 +28.71% 34
East of England -22 17 £246 -22.94% 13
South West -11 14 £500 - 7
East Midlands -28 10 £438 +5.93% 9
North East -14 1 - - 3
Data Security
UK

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.01%) Confluence
3 10 (3.01%) TPMS
4 7 (2.11%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (2.71%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) InDesign
4 1 (0.30%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.30%) Revit
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.20%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (35.84%) AWS
2 114 (34.34%) Azure
3 58 (17.47%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.57%) GCP
5 36 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (10.24%) Serverless
7 33 (9.94%) Snowflake
8 24 (7.23%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (5.72%) Entra ID
11 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (5.12%) GitHub
13 17 (5.12%) Power Automate
14 16 (4.82%) PowerApps
15 13 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
16 11 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (3.01%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.52%) Firewall
2 14 (4.22%) Network Security
3 10 (3.01%) SNMP
3 10 (3.01%) SSH
3 10 (3.01%) SSL
4 6 (1.81%) DNS
4 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.51%) Internet
6 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 4 (1.20%) VPN
7 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.30%) DKIM
9 1 (0.30%) DMARC
9 1 (0.30%) HTTP
9 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.30%) SMTP
9 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.27%) Power BI
2 50 (15.06%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (9.34%) NoSQL
4 26 (7.83%) SQL Server
5 25 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (6.63%) Data Lake
7 20 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 18 (5.42%) Big Data
9 17 (5.12%) Tableau
10 15 (4.52%) RDBMS
11 14 (4.22%) Metadata
12 13 (3.92%) MySQL
13 10 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (2.41%) Hadoop
16 7 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (2.11%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (1.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (7.23%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.33%) GitLab
3 20 (6.02%) JIRA
4 15 (4.52%) Git
5 8 (2.41%) Liquibase
6 5 (1.51%) PyCharm
7 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) ERwin
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) Subversion
8 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 122 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 99 (29.82%) Finance
3 50 (15.06%) Public Sector
4 47 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (10.24%) Banking
6 20 (6.02%) Legal
7 16 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.61%) Local Government
9 8 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.11%) Marketing
11 6 (1.81%) Law
12 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Police
14 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.60%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.60%) Front Office
15 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.30%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (15.96%) Architect
2 38 (11.45%) Data Engineer
2 38 (11.45%) Senior
3 31 (9.34%) Security Engineer
4 30 (9.04%) Lead
5 26 (7.83%) Developer
6 24 (7.23%) Analyst
7 16 (4.82%) GCP Engineer
8 15 (4.52%) Data Architect
9 14 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.61%) Security Architect
12 11 (3.31%) Consultant
13 10 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Cryptography Engineer
14 9 (2.71%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
15 8 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.04%) REST
2 16 (4.82%) RESTful
3 14 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.92%) PySpark
5 11 (3.31%) Kafka
6 9 (2.71%) OAuth
6 9 (2.71%) SAML
6 9 (2.71%) SOAP
7 8 (2.41%) OpenID
7 8 (2.41%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.41%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.11%) LangChain
8 7 (2.11%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.81%) Middleware
9 6 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.51%) .NET
10 5 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (1.51%) NumPy
10 5 (1.51%) Pandas
11 4 (1.20%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.04%) Management Information System
3 28 (8.43%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (5.72%) AI Agents
6 18 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (5.42%) Product Ownership
6 18 (5.42%) Public Cloud
7 16 (4.82%) NHS
8 12 (3.61%) Data Structures
9 11 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.41%) Clustering
11 8 (2.41%) Onboarding
12 7 (2.11%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
13 6 (1.81%) BYOD
13 6 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.64%) Linux
2 19 (5.72%) Windows
3 4 (1.20%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Solaris
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.20%) Data Modelling
2 85 (25.60%) Data Governance
3 78 (23.49%) Analytics
4 73 (21.99%) Agile
4 73 (21.99%) AI
5 71 (21.39%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (20.78%) DevOps
6 69 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (20.48%) CI/CD
8 61 (18.37%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (18.37%) ETL
9 59 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (17.47%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (15.36%) Migration
12 47 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (13.86%) Data Engineering
14 45 (13.55%) Roadmaps
15 43 (12.95%) Machine Learning
16 38 (11.45%) Computer Science
17 35 (10.54%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 100 (30.12%) SQL
2 99 (29.82%) Python
3 20 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.82%) Go
5 10 (3.01%) Bash
5 10 (3.01%) Java
6 8 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.81%) Bicep
8 6 (1.81%) C#
9 5 (1.51%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.20%) R
10 4 (1.20%) Scala
10 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.90%) Korn
12 2 (0.60%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.87%) Degree
3 40 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.53%) Master's Degree
5 21 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (5.42%) CISSP
7 15 (4.52%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.92%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (3.01%) FFIEC
11 6 (1.81%) CISM
11 6 (1.81%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.81%) PMP
12 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.20%) CISA
13 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.90%) CCSK
13 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.90%) ISEB
13 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (23.49%) GDPR
2 68 (20.48%) Data Quality
3 29 (8.73%) NIST
4 25 (7.53%) PCI DSS
5 18 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (3.61%) Accessibility
7 11 (3.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (3.31%) QA
8 10 (3.01%) GLBA
8 10 (3.01%) HIPAA
9 9 (2.71%) GRC
10 8 (2.41%) SOC 2
11 7 (2.11%) SLA
12 5 (1.51%) EU AI Act
12 5 (1.51%) NCSC
12 5 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.90%) PMO
15 2 (0.60%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (9.04%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.60%) NFS
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
5 1 (0.30%) Postfix
5 1 (0.30%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.30%) Varnish
5 1 (0.30%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (12.65%) Terraform
2 41 (12.35%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.82%) Ansible
4 15 (4.52%) Grafana
4 15 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.11%) SCCM
6 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.20%) WSUS
8 2 (0.60%) QRadar
9 1 (0.30%) CASB
9 1 (0.30%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 87 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.94%) Databricks
3 30 (9.04%) Splunk
4 27 (8.13%) Google
5 20 (6.02%) Oracle
6 13 (3.92%) SAP
7 12 (3.61%) OpenAI
7 12 (3.61%) Thales
8 9 (2.71%) Informatica
9 7 (2.11%) Foundry
9 7 (2.11%) Talend
10 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.51%) NEC
11 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.51%) Sparx
11 5 (1.51%) Varonis
11 5 (1.51%) Workday
12 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.20%) Sophos
13 3 (0.90%) Guidewire