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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 226 322
Rank change year-on-year -86 +96 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Security 351 309 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 1.12% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.23% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 207 143
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £438 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £625 £606 £700
90th Percentile £740 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £560
% change year-on-year +5.77% -7.14% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £19.68 £30.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £29.52 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £46.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +15.56% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.62 -
90th Percentile £85.63 £72.27 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £13.60 £40.00
% change year-on-year +377.94% -66.00% +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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -55 169 £560 +0.90% 122
North of England -22 75 £574 +26.39% 28
Midlands -34 46 £500 +11.17% 15
West Midlands -35 39 £501 -17.61% 8
North West -40 35 £583 +21.04% 11
Yorkshire -25 32 £600 +51.32% 12
South East -83 23 £550 +11.11% 37
South West -51 16 £513 -6.82% 14
East of England -13 13 £500 +5.26% 9
North East - 8 £463 - 5
East Midlands -11 7 £304 -32.22% 7
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 18 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.85%) Confluence
5 6 (1.71%) Apache
6 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.14%) SAS
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.57%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.28%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) InDesign
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.85%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (41.60%) Azure
2 121 (34.47%) AWS
3 65 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 41 (11.68%) GCP
5 38 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (8.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (7.98%) Entra ID
7 28 (7.98%) Snowflake
8 26 (7.41%) dbt
9 22 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.13%) Azure AI
12 16 (4.56%) GitHub
13 15 (4.27%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (4.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (3.42%) Amazon Bedrock
14 12 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.13%) Serverless
16 9 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.27%) Network Security
2 16 (4.56%) Firewall
3 6 (1.71%) DNS
4 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 2 (0.57%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) SMTP
6 1 (0.28%) SSH
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.66%) Power BI
2 47 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.12%) Metadata
4 28 (7.98%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.70%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.56%) Tableau
7 15 (4.27%) Big Data
8 14 (3.99%) Delta Lake
9 12 (3.42%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.85%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.85%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.28%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.99%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
14 6 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.55%) JIRA
2 13 (3.70%) Git
3 8 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.57%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.57%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) MSI
6 1 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 125 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.36%) Finance
3 55 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.55%) Banking
6 15 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.99%) Legal
8 11 (3.13%) Retail
9 9 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Local Government
10 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.14%) Police
12 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.85%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.85%) Law
12 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (21.08%) Architect
2 68 (19.37%) Data Engineer
3 47 (13.39%) Lead
4 30 (8.55%) Analyst
4 30 (8.55%) Security Engineer
5 27 (7.69%) Senior
6 26 (7.41%) Security Architect
7 22 (6.27%) Data Architect
8 18 (5.13%) Developer
9 14 (3.99%) Data Analyst
10 12 (3.42%) Consultant
10 12 (3.42%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (2.28%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.28%) Technical Architect
13 7 (1.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (1.99%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 7 (1.99%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 7 (1.99%) Data Business Analyst
14 6 (1.71%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.27%) PySpark
2 14 (3.99%) Kafka
3 13 (3.70%) LangChain
3 13 (3.70%) REST
4 8 (2.28%) PyTorch
4 8 (2.28%) scikit-learn
5 7 (1.99%) OAuth
5 7 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.71%) Middleware
7 5 (1.42%) OpenID
7 5 (1.42%) SAML
8 3 (0.85%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.85%) HTML
8 3 (0.85%) SOAP
9 2 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.57%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.57%) Flask
9 2 (0.57%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.55%) Security Posture
3 29 (8.26%) AI Agents
4 25 (7.12%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.84%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.14%) PKI
11 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) Replication
12 3 (0.85%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.42%) Linux
2 6 (1.71%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.77%) Analytics
2 105 (29.91%) Data Governance
3 100 (28.49%) AI
4 92 (26.21%) Data Modelling
5 80 (22.79%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 67 (19.09%) Migration
8 66 (18.80%) CI/CD
9 65 (18.52%) Agile
10 63 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
10 63 (17.95%) DevOps
11 62 (17.66%) Data Engineering
11 62 (17.66%) ETL
12 59 (16.81%) Data Protection
13 55 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 54 (15.38%) Roadmaps
15 51 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (13.68%) Cloud Security
18 47 (13.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 107 (30.48%) SQL
2 85 (24.22%) Python
3 19 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.70%) Bash
5 12 (3.42%) Java
6 8 (2.28%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.99%) Scala
8 5 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.42%) R
8 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.14%) Bicep
10 3 (0.85%) C#
10 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.57%) Go
11 2 (0.57%) Ruby
11 2 (0.57%) SOQL
11 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 79 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.25%) Degree
4 35 (9.97%) CISSP
5 19 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (5.13%) CISM
7 17 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.85%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.28%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.42%) CEH
12 5 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.14%) CCSP
13 4 (1.14%) PMP
13 4 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.14%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (24.79%) GDPR
2 83 (23.65%) Data Quality
3 34 (9.69%) NIST
4 28 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (4.84%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.99%) QA
7 12 (3.42%) HIPAA
8 11 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (2.28%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.99%) SLA
11 6 (1.71%) GRC
11 6 (1.71%) ISO 19650
12 5 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.85%) NCSC
14 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.57%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (4.56%) Docker
2 14 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) HDFS
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.57%) NFS
5 2 (0.57%) Postfix
5 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.57%) Varnish
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.41%) Terraform
3 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.99%) Ansible
5 5 (1.42%) Grafana
5 5 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.57%) Control-M
7 2 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.57%) SCCM
8 1 (0.28%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.40%) Databricks
3 27 (7.69%) Google
4 24 (6.84%) Oracle
5 16 (4.56%) OpenAI
6 11 (3.13%) Foundry
6 11 (3.13%) SAP
7 7 (1.99%) Varonis
7 7 (1.99%) Zscaler
8 6 (1.71%) IBM
8 6 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.42%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.42%) Informatica
9 5 (1.42%) Splunk
9 5 (1.42%) Workday
10 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.85%) NEC
10 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.57%) Thales