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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 207 294
Rank change year-on-year -81 +87 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Security 326 309 269
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.28% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.40% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 215 185
10th Percentile £350 £316 £388
25th Percentile £431 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £621 £645 £700
90th Percentile £762 £748 £765
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +2.14% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 11
10th Percentile £16.82 £15.90 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.59 £16.88 £22.74
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.59% -53.75% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £48.60 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.66 £50.25
UK median hourly rate £36.32 £26.93 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.89% -32.69% +107.79%

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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -67 157 £544 -2.68% 58
North of England -24 67 £600 +19.64% 18
Midlands -50 35 £488 +9.06% 13
North West -26 33 £583 +15.58% 8
Yorkshire -26 31 £675 +56.98% 9
West Midlands -42 26 £513 +10.81% 6
South East -98 23 £600 +23.78% 26
East of England -26 18 £278 -36.57% 10
South West -39 16 £500 +2.56% 16
East Midlands -23 9 £438 -2.13% 6
North East - 3 £450 - 1
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 14 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.99%) Confluence
3 11 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.37%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.45%) TPMS
5 7 (2.15%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) InDesign
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.23%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (38.34%) Azure
2 105 (32.21%) AWS
3 60 (18.40%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.80%) GCP
5 35 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (7.67%) Snowflake
7 23 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (6.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.21%) GitHub
10 16 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.91%) dbt
11 14 (4.29%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.99%) Amazon Bedrock
12 13 (3.99%) Azure AI
12 13 (3.99%) Power Automate
13 12 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (3.68%) PowerApps
13 12 (3.68%) Serverless
14 11 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.52%) Network Security
2 12 (3.68%) Firewall
3 9 (2.76%) SSL
4 8 (2.45%) SNMP
4 8 (2.45%) SSH
5 6 (1.84%) DNS
6 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.23%) DHCP
8 3 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.61%) VPN
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) Internet
10 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.87%) Power BI
2 46 (14.11%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (7.36%) Metadata
4 23 (7.06%) Data Lake
5 19 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.91%) Big Data
6 16 (4.91%) Tableau
7 14 (4.29%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.99%) Delta Lake
8 13 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.76%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.84%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.84%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.53%) MySQL
12 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (7.98%) JIRA
2 16 (4.91%) Git
3 9 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.45%) GitLab
5 4 (1.23%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Snyk
7 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 98 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.07%) Finance
3 42 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 40 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.06%) Banking
6 15 (4.60%) Legal
7 12 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.68%) Local Government
8 8 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.15%) Law
10 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Marketing
11 4 (1.23%) Police
11 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Military
12 2 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (17.48%) Architect
2 47 (14.42%) Data Engineer
3 32 (9.82%) Analyst
4 31 (9.51%) Lead
4 31 (9.51%) Security Engineer
4 31 (9.51%) Senior
5 24 (7.36%) Developer
6 18 (5.52%) Data Architect
7 15 (4.60%) Data Analyst
8 14 (4.29%) Security Architect
9 13 (3.99%) Consultant
10 11 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (2.76%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.45%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.45%) Cryptography Engineer
12 8 (2.45%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.15%) Data Business Analyst
13 7 (2.15%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (2.15%) Information Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.83%) PySpark
2 15 (4.60%) REST
3 14 (4.29%) Kafka
4 9 (2.76%) LangChain
5 7 (2.15%) OAuth
5 7 (2.15%) SAML
6 6 (1.84%) OpenID
6 6 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.84%) SOAP
7 5 (1.53%) Middleware
7 5 (1.53%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.53%) RESTful
7 5 (1.53%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.23%) .NET
9 3 (0.92%) Django
9 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.92%) Flask
9 3 (0.92%) JSON
9 3 (0.92%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.28%) AI Agents
3 24 (7.36%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (7.06%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.75%) Security Posture
6 12 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.37%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.37%) NHS
8 9 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.23%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.23%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.13%) Linux
2 10 (3.07%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.61%) Data Governance
2 87 (26.69%) Analytics
3 83 (25.46%) Data Modelling
4 80 (24.54%) AI
5 69 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
6 67 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
7 59 (18.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (17.48%) Agile
8 57 (17.48%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (16.87%) ETL
10 53 (16.26%) CI/CD
11 52 (15.95%) DevOps
12 51 (15.64%) Data Protection
13 49 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (14.42%) Data Engineering
15 45 (13.80%) Migration
16 44 (13.50%) Roadmaps
17 42 (12.88%) Cloud Security
17 42 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (12.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 100 (30.67%) SQL
2 77 (23.62%) Python
3 14 (4.29%) Bash
4 13 (3.99%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.68%) Java
6 9 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.45%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.84%) Bicep
8 6 (1.84%) Scala
9 5 (1.53%) C#
9 5 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.23%) Go
10 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.61%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) R
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.04%) Degree
4 22 (6.75%) CISSP
5 13 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.45%) FFIEC
10 7 (2.15%) CISM
11 6 (1.84%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.84%) PMP
12 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.53%) CCSP
12 5 (1.53%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.92%) IIBA
13 3 (0.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (26.38%) GDPR
2 74 (22.70%) Data Quality
3 40 (12.27%) NIST
4 30 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (6.75%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.99%) GRC
7 11 (3.37%) Accessibility
8 10 (3.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (2.76%) HIPAA
9 9 (2.76%) QA
10 8 (2.45%) GLBA
11 6 (1.84%) SOC 2
12 5 (1.53%) NCSC
12 5 (1.53%) SLA
13 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.61%) COBIT
15 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (6.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.61%) HDFS
4 2 (0.61%) NFS
4 2 (0.61%) Postfix
4 2 (0.61%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.61%) Varnish
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.67%) Terraform
3 6 (1.84%) Ansible
3 6 (1.84%) Grafana
4 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.23%) SCCM
5 4 (1.23%) WSUS
6 2 (0.61%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.31%) IBM Guardium
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 88 (26.99%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.12%) Databricks
3 21 (6.44%) Oracle
4 20 (6.13%) Google
5 19 (5.83%) OpenAI
6 16 (4.91%) Splunk
7 15 (4.60%) SAP
8 10 (3.07%) Foundry
8 10 (3.07%) Thales
9 8 (2.45%) Informatica
10 6 (1.84%) Varonis
11 5 (1.53%) NEC
11 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.53%) Sparx
11 5 (1.53%) Talend
11 5 (1.53%) Workday
12 4 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.23%) IBM
12 4 (1.23%) Sophos
13 3 (0.92%) Guidewire