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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 195 284
Rank change year-on-year -94 +89 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Security 324 317 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.29% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.41% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 224 198
10th Percentile £350 £313 £375
25th Percentile £433 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £618 £650 £686
90th Percentile £764 £762 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 11
10th Percentile £16.97 £15.90 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.77 £16.88 £22.74
Median hourly rate £30.10 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.68% -53.75% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £48.60 -
90th Percentile £84.38 £66.66 £50.25
UK median hourly rate £36.16 £26.93 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.30% -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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £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 -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -78 158 £538 -3.80% 33
North of England -30 68 £600 +22.89% 13
Midlands -38 35 £488 +9.06% 15
North West -25 33 £583 +15.58% 6
Yorkshire -35 33 £675 +56.98% 6
West Midlands -41 27 £525 +13.51% 10
South East -97 22 £575 +20.42% 21
East of England -35 17 £262 -34.56% 10
South West -43 16 £500 +5.26% 9
East Midlands -29 8 £438 -2.13% 4
North East - 2 £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 (4.32%) Apache Spark
1 14 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.01%) Confluence
3 8 (2.47%) TPMS
4 7 (2.16%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) InDesign
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.23%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) ContrOCC
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
1 121 (37.35%) Azure
2 102 (31.48%) AWS
3 65 (20.06%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.27%) GCP
5 39 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (8.95%) Snowflake
7 24 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (6.17%) GitHub
10 18 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.94%) Power Automate
13 15 (4.63%) Serverless
14 14 (4.32%) PowerApps
15 13 (4.01%) Amazon Bedrock
15 13 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.01%) dbt
16 12 (3.70%) Azure AI
16 12 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.25%) Network Security
2 13 (4.01%) Firewall
3 9 (2.78%) SSL
4 8 (2.47%) SNMP
4 8 (2.47%) SSH
5 6 (1.85%) DNS
6 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.23%) DHCP
8 3 (0.93%) Internet
8 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.62%) VPN
10 1 (0.31%) DKIM
10 1 (0.31%) DMARC
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.83%) Power BI
2 48 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.72%) Data Lake
4 20 (6.17%) Tableau
5 19 (5.86%) Metadata
5 19 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.94%) Big Data
6 16 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.40%) Delta Lake
9 10 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.78%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.16%) MySQL
12 7 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.85%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (8.02%) JIRA
2 16 (4.94%) Git
3 12 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.09%) GitLab
5 5 (1.54%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.62%) PyCharm
6 2 (0.62%) 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
1 105 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 86 (26.54%) Finance
3 47 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.02%) Banking
6 12 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.70%) Legal
6 12 (3.70%) Local Government
7 8 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.16%) Law
9 5 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Marketing
10 4 (1.23%) Police
10 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Back Office
12 2 (0.62%) Front Office
12 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (16.36%) Architect
2 46 (14.20%) Data Engineer
3 33 (10.19%) Security Engineer
4 32 (9.88%) Analyst
4 32 (9.88%) Senior
5 26 (8.02%) Lead
6 24 (7.41%) Developer
7 16 (4.94%) Data Architect
8 12 (3.70%) Consultant
8 12 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 12 (3.70%) Security Architect
9 10 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.47%) Business Analyst
10 8 (2.47%) Cryptography Engineer
10 8 (2.47%) Project Manager
10 8 (2.47%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.16%) Information Governance Officer
11 7 (2.16%) Information Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.25%) PySpark
2 15 (4.63%) Kafka
2 15 (4.63%) REST
3 9 (2.78%) LangChain
4 8 (2.47%) OAuth
4 8 (2.47%) SAML
5 7 (2.16%) OpenID
6 6 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.85%) RESTful
6 6 (1.85%) SOAP
7 5 (1.54%) Middleware
7 5 (1.54%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.54%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.23%) .NET
8 4 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.93%) Django
9 3 (0.93%) JSON
9 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.02%) AI Agents
3 25 (7.72%) Management Information System
3 25 (7.72%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.70%) NHS
7 11 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.78%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.23%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.48%) Linux
2 11 (3.40%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.47%) Analytics
1 89 (27.47%) Data Governance
2 82 (25.31%) Data Modelling
3 78 (24.07%) AI
4 69 (21.30%) Cybersecurity
4 69 (21.30%) Data Pipeline
5 63 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
6 61 (18.83%) Agile
7 59 (18.21%) CI/CD
7 59 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (17.59%) ETL
9 55 (16.98%) DevOps
10 53 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (14.81%) Data Protection
12 44 (13.58%) Data Engineering
13 43 (13.27%) Migration
14 42 (12.96%) Roadmaps
15 41 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (12.35%) Cloud Security
17 39 (12.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 102 (31.48%) SQL
2 79 (24.38%) Python
3 17 (5.25%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.40%) Bash
5 10 (3.09%) Java
6 9 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.16%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.85%) Bicep
8 6 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.85%) Scala
9 5 (1.54%) C#
9 5 (1.54%) Go
9 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.93%) R
12 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.62%) C++
12 2 (0.62%) Korn
12 2 (0.62%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.35%) Degree
4 23 (7.10%) CISSP
5 14 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.01%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.47%) FFIEC
9 7 (2.16%) CISM
10 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.54%) CCSP
11 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.54%) PMP
12 3 (0.93%) IIBA
12 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.85%) GDPR
2 71 (21.91%) Data Quality
3 37 (11.42%) NIST
4 28 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (6.48%) PCI DSS
6 13 (4.01%) GRC
7 11 (3.40%) Accessibility
8 10 (3.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (2.78%) HIPAA
10 8 (2.47%) GLBA
10 8 (2.47%) QA
11 6 (1.85%) SOC 2
12 5 (1.54%) NCSC
12 5 (1.54%) SLA
13 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.62%) COBIT
15 2 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (6.17%) Docker
2 6 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) HDFS
4 2 (0.62%) NFS
4 2 (0.62%) Postfix
4 2 (0.62%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.62%) Varnish
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 29 (8.95%) Kubernetes
1 29 (8.95%) Terraform
2 7 (2.16%) Ansible
2 7 (2.16%) Grafana
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.54%) SCCM
4 5 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.23%) WSUS
6 2 (0.62%) 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 94 (29.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.49%) Databricks
3 20 (6.17%) Oracle
4 19 (5.86%) Google
5 18 (5.56%) OpenAI
6 17 (5.25%) Splunk
7 15 (4.63%) SAP
8 10 (3.09%) Thales
9 9 (2.78%) Foundry
10 8 (2.47%) Informatica
11 6 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.85%) Varonis
12 5 (1.54%) NEC
12 5 (1.54%) Sparx
12 5 (1.54%) Talend
13 4 (1.23%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.23%) IBM
13 4 (1.23%) Sophos
14 3 (0.93%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.93%) Workday