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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 236 303
Rank change year-on-year -124 +67 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Security 302 298 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.09% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.20% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 199 147
10th Percentile £363 £364 £358
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £619 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £533 £520 £554
% change year-on-year +2.40% -6.14% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £13.62 £13.94 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.17 -
Median hourly rate £17.60 £17.53 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% - -
75th Percentile £69.50 £19.57 -
90th Percentile £82.25 £20.61 -
UK median hourly rate £19.80 £13.60 -
% change year-on-year +45.59% - -

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 39,170 24,908 27,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 90.84% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 15,798 17,347
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,504 1,266
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.85 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -82 144 £575 +4.55% 266
North of England -56 63 £500 +9.29% 65
Midlands -46 38 £500 +0.81% 40
Yorkshire -40 31 £463 +2.78% 15
West Midlands -42 31 £500 -9.05% 21
North West -51 22 £550 +14.29% 39
South East -76 21 £550 +7.84% 55
South West -39 16 £525 -4.55% 25
East of England -28 12 £475 -5.00% 19
North East -26 10 £463 +19.35% 11
East Midlands -15 7 £304 -32.44% 19
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 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.97%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.99%) Apache
4 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.32%) Confluence
5 4 (1.32%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Pig
6 2 (0.66%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.99%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.99%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 113 (37.42%) Azure
2 95 (31.46%) AWS
3 46 (15.23%) Power Platform
4 42 (13.91%) GCP
5 26 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (7.62%) dbt
7 21 (6.95%) Entra ID
7 21 (6.95%) Snowflake
8 20 (6.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.64%) Serverless
11 13 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.97%) Amazon S3
13 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.65%) GitHub
15 7 (2.32%) Azure AI
15 7 (2.32%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (2.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.63%) Network Security
2 7 (2.32%) Firewall
3 5 (1.66%) DNS
4 3 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.99%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) SSL
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) Internet
6 1 (0.33%) SSH
6 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.24%) Power BI
2 37 (12.25%) Metadata
3 33 (10.93%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.62%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.64%) Big Data
5 14 (4.64%) BigQuery
6 13 (4.30%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.97%) Delta Lake
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.31%) Tableau
9 7 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.32%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.99%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.66%) Looker
11 5 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (4.97%) Git
2 12 (3.97%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) MLflow
4 1 (0.33%) Snyk
4 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 118 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 73 (24.17%) Finance
3 58 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.96%) Banking
6 15 (4.97%) Legal
7 14 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.64%) Retail
9 10 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.99%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.99%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.99%) Marketing
12 3 (0.99%) Military
13 2 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (22.19%) Architect
2 62 (20.53%) Data Engineer
3 50 (16.56%) Lead
4 23 (7.62%) Analyst
4 23 (7.62%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.28%) Data Architect
6 15 (4.97%) Security Engineer
6 15 (4.97%) Senior
7 13 (4.30%) Lead Data Engineer
8 12 (3.97%) Data Analyst
8 12 (3.97%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.64%) Developer
10 10 (3.31%) Consultant
11 8 (2.65%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 6 (1.99%) Security Consultant
13 6 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.66%) Security Analyst
14 5 (1.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (1.66%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.30%) PySpark
1 16 (5.30%) Terraform
2 13 (4.30%) Kafka
3 11 (3.64%) REST
4 6 (1.99%) LangChain
4 6 (1.99%) OAuth
5 5 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.66%) XGBoost
6 4 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (1.32%) Middleware
6 4 (1.32%) OpenID
6 4 (1.32%) SAML
7 3 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.99%) HTML
7 3 (0.99%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.99%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.66%) Flask
8 2 (0.66%) LDAP
8 2 (0.66%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (6.62%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.63%) Security Posture
5 14 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.64%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.31%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.98%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.99%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.99%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.66%) Replication
12 4 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (1.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.32%) Unix
2 6 (1.99%) Windows
3 3 (0.99%) Linux
4 2 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (32.45%) Analytics
2 88 (29.14%) Data Modelling
3 83 (27.48%) Data Governance
4 77 (25.50%) AI
5 66 (21.85%) Migration
6 65 (21.52%) Data Pipeline
7 61 (20.20%) CI/CD
7 61 (20.20%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (19.87%) Data Protection
9 59 (19.54%) Roadmaps
10 56 (18.54%) ETL
10 56 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (17.88%) Agile
12 53 (17.55%) Data Engineering
13 52 (17.22%) DevOps
14 46 (15.23%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (14.24%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (13.91%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 87 (28.81%) SQL
2 77 (25.50%) Python
3 11 (3.64%) Java
3 11 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.32%) Bash
4 7 (2.32%) Shell Script
5 6 (1.99%) R
6 4 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.32%) Scala
7 3 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.66%) Bicep
8 2 (0.66%) COBOL
8 2 (0.66%) Go
8 2 (0.66%) Korn
8 2 (0.66%) REXX
8 2 (0.66%) SOQL
8 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.25%) Degree
4 32 (10.60%) CISSP
5 20 (6.62%) CISM
6 16 (5.30%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.31%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (2.98%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.66%) CCSP
11 5 (1.66%) CEH
11 5 (1.66%) PMP
11 5 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.32%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (25.83%) Data Quality
2 72 (23.84%) GDPR
3 27 (8.94%) NIST
4 22 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.97%) QA
6 11 (3.64%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (2.32%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.99%) GRC
8 6 (1.99%) ISO 19650
9 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.66%) Basel III
9 5 (1.66%) SLA
10 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.66%) NCSC
12 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.32%) Docker
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.66%) HDFS
6 1 (0.33%) NFS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.33%) Postfix
6 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.33%) IBM Guardium
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.59%) Databricks
3 23 (7.62%) Google
4 18 (5.96%) Oracle
5 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.65%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.66%) SAP
6 5 (1.66%) Workday
7 4 (1.32%) Delphix
7 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.32%) Splunk
8 3 (0.99%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.99%) IBM
8 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.66%) Foundry
9 2 (0.66%) Informatica
9 2 (0.66%) Varonis
10 1 (0.33%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow