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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 214 289
Rank change year-on-year -89 +75 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Security 319 294 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.24% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.35% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 201 185
10th Percentile £350 £318 £380
25th Percentile £448 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £700
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 11
10th Percentile £17.13 £15.90 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £16.88 £22.74
Median hourly rate £36.32 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.32% -53.75% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £48.60 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £66.66 £50.25
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £23.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +168.06% -40.31% +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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -78 151 £550 -2.44% 56
North of England -38 64 £600 +19.64% 22
Midlands -44 36 £500 +11.48% 21
North West -23 33 £583 +15.58% 12
West Midlands -45 29 £525 +13.51% 11
Yorkshire -38 27 £675 +56.98% 9
South East -88 24 £675 +41.36% 28
South West -31 16 £500 -4.76% 21
East of England -34 16 £278 -30.63% 7
East Midlands -26 7 £442 -1.06% 10
North East - 4 £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 13 (4.08%) Confluence
2 12 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.88%) Apache
4 6 (1.88%) TPMS
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) InDesign
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (39.50%) Azure
2 104 (32.60%) AWS
3 59 (18.50%) Power Platform
4 45 (14.11%) GCP
5 34 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (7.52%) Snowflake
7 23 (7.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (5.33%) Entra ID
10 16 (5.02%) GitHub
11 15 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.70%) dbt
12 13 (4.08%) Azure AI
12 13 (4.08%) Power Automate
13 12 (3.76%) Amazon Bedrock
13 12 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (3.45%) PowerApps
15 10 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
16 9 (2.82%) Amazon S3
16 9 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.64%) Network Security
2 12 (3.76%) Firewall
3 7 (2.19%) SSL
4 6 (1.88%) SNMP
4 6 (1.88%) SSH
5 5 (1.57%) DNS
6 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.94%) DHCP
7 3 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.63%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) HTTP
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.24%) Power BI
2 44 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.84%) Data Lake
3 25 (7.84%) Metadata
4 18 (5.64%) SQL Server
4 18 (5.64%) Tableau
5 14 (4.39%) Big Data
6 13 (4.08%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.19%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.88%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.88%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (8.46%) JIRA
2 12 (3.76%) Git
3 9 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.19%) GitLab
5 3 (0.94%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.63%) 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
1 101 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 81 (25.39%) Finance
3 40 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.90%) Banking
6 13 (4.08%) Legal
7 11 (3.45%) Local Government
8 10 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.19%) Law
11 5 (1.57%) Retail
12 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.94%) Police
14 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.63%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 2 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (18.18%) Architect
2 47 (14.73%) Data Engineer
3 33 (10.34%) Analyst
3 33 (10.34%) Lead
4 30 (9.40%) Security Engineer
5 29 (9.09%) Senior
6 20 (6.27%) Developer
7 19 (5.96%) Data Architect
8 18 (5.64%) Security Architect
9 15 (4.70%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.08%) Consultant
11 9 (2.82%) Project Manager
11 9 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.51%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 8 (2.51%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.19%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.19%) Information Governance Officer
13 7 (2.19%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.33%) PySpark
2 14 (4.39%) Kafka
3 13 (4.08%) REST
4 10 (3.13%) OAuth
5 9 (2.82%) LangChain
5 9 (2.82%) SAML
6 8 (2.51%) OpenID
7 7 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.57%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.57%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.57%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.57%) SOAP
9 4 (1.25%) Middleware
9 4 (1.25%) RESTful
10 3 (0.94%) .NET
10 3 (0.94%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
11 2 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.78%) AI Agents
3 23 (7.21%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 22 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.82%) NHS
8 8 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.25%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.64%) Linux
2 8 (2.51%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (27.59%) Analytics
2 86 (26.96%) Data Governance
3 81 (25.39%) AI
4 77 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 70 (21.94%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (20.06%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (17.87%) Business Intelligence
8 54 (16.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 50 (15.67%) Agile
9 50 (15.67%) CI/CD
9 50 (15.67%) Data Protection
9 50 (15.67%) DevOps
10 49 (15.36%) ETL
11 46 (14.42%) Migration
12 45 (14.11%) Cloud Security
13 44 (13.79%) Data Engineering
14 42 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (12.23%) Roadmaps
16 38 (11.91%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 93 (29.15%) SQL
2 69 (21.63%) Python
3 14 (4.39%) Bash
4 13 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.45%) Java
6 8 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (2.51%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.88%) Scala
8 5 (1.57%) Bicep
8 5 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.25%) C#
9 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.63%) Ruby
11 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) SOQL
12 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 52 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.17%) Degree
4 24 (7.52%) CISSP
5 14 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.82%) CISM
9 8 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.88%) FFIEC
10 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.88%) PMP
11 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.57%) CCSP
11 5 (1.57%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.94%) IIBA
12 3 (0.94%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.02%) GDPR
2 72 (22.57%) Data Quality
3 39 (12.23%) NIST
4 28 (8.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (6.90%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.76%) GRC
7 10 (3.13%) QA
8 8 (2.51%) HIPAA
9 7 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.88%) GLBA
10 6 (1.88%) NCSC
10 6 (1.88%) SLA
10 6 (1.88%) SOC 2
11 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.63%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.63%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (5.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) HDFS
4 2 (0.63%) NFS
4 2 (0.63%) Postfix
4 2 (0.63%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.63%) Varnish
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.27%) Terraform
3 6 (1.88%) Ansible
3 6 (1.88%) Grafana
4 5 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.94%) SCCM
6 3 (0.94%) WSUS
7 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.31%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
8 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 88 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.09%) Databricks
3 22 (6.90%) Google
3 22 (6.90%) Oracle
4 16 (5.02%) OpenAI
5 14 (4.39%) Splunk
6 13 (4.08%) SAP
7 10 (3.13%) Foundry
8 8 (2.51%) Informatica
8 8 (2.51%) Thales
9 6 (1.88%) Varonis
10 5 (1.57%) NEC
10 5 (1.57%) Talend
10 5 (1.57%) Workday
11 4 (1.25%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.25%) IBM
11 4 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.25%) Sparx
12 3 (0.94%) Sophos
13 2 (0.63%) Salesforce