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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 269 309
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 +169
Contract jobs citing Data Security 319 270 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.87% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.00% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 170 194
10th Percentile £363 £325 £326
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £615 £681 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.27% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £14.44 - £27.68
25th Percentile £15.16 - £39.96
Median hourly rate £16.71 - £49.75
75th Percentile £19.58 - £50.96
90th Percentile £21.30 - £57.71
UK median hourly rate £16.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +132.56%

All Process and 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 26,934 26,984 35,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.48% 86.62% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,108 16,470 24,373
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,747 976 1,492
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.08% +25.12%

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 November 2025.

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
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 November 2025. 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 +30 153 £550 - 170
North of England -14 72 £488 -7.14% 55
Yorkshire -10 50 £511 -2.62% 26
Midlands +4 46 £484 +17.93% 41
West Midlands -7 33 £525 +28.05% 16
South East +3 31 £500 -20.00% 165
North West -21 21 £470 -21.67% 24
East Midlands -5 12 £449 -45.64% 23
South West 0 11 £575 +27.78% 17
East of England -11 8 £450 +0.56% 14
North East -11 1 £388 - 5
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 16 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.39%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.82%) Apache
5 6 (1.88%) Confluence
6 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) TPMS
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (2.51%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.94%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.94%) Revit
5 2 (0.63%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.31%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Workday HCM
2 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.63%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.63%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (31.03%) AWS
2 80 (25.08%) Azure
3 63 (19.75%) GCP
4 43 (13.48%) Serverless
5 37 (11.60%) Power Platform
6 24 (7.52%) Snowflake
7 23 (7.21%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (6.27%) GitHub
10 16 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.70%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 12 (3.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (3.76%) PowerApps
15 11 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (3.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.33%) Firewall
2 13 (4.08%) Network Security
3 7 (2.19%) DNS
3 7 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.57%) Internet
5 3 (0.94%) DHCP
5 3 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.94%) SNMP
5 3 (0.94%) SSH
5 3 (0.94%) SSL
5 3 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.94%) Wireless
6 2 (0.63%) VPN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.31%) DKIM
7 1 (0.31%) DMARC
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.85%) NoSQL
2 40 (12.54%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (10.03%) Power BI
4 21 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.02%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.39%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.45%) Tableau
10 10 (3.13%) Big Data
11 9 (2.82%) MySQL
12 8 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.19%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.19%) Metadata
14 5 (1.57%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.57%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.57%) HBase
15 4 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.15%) GitLab
3 18 (5.64%) Liquibase
4 11 (3.45%) JIRA
5 8 (2.51%) Git
6 7 (2.19%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.57%) PyCharm
8 4 (1.25%) Subversion
9 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.31%) EasyMock
10 1 (0.31%) ERwin
10 1 (0.31%) JBehave
10 1 (0.31%) JUnit
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) Selenium
10 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.31%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.31%) Xcode
10 1 (0.31%) YourKit
General
1 134 (42.01%) Social Skills
2 105 (32.92%) Finance
3 67 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.85%) Banking
5 34 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.33%) Legal
7 17 (5.33%) Marketing
8 8 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.94%) Local Government
12 3 (0.94%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Military
13 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.31%) Automotive
14 1 (0.31%) Police
14 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (17.24%) Architect
2 39 (12.23%) Senior
3 29 (9.09%) Analyst
4 27 (8.46%) Data Engineer
5 22 (6.90%) Lead
6 21 (6.58%) Developer
6 21 (6.58%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.70%) Security Engineer
10 14 (4.39%) Consultant
10 14 (4.39%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.39%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) Senior Architect
12 11 (3.45%) Business Analyst
13 10 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Project Manager
13 10 (3.13%) Senior Security Architect
13 10 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.42%) REST
2 24 (7.52%) RESTful
3 23 (7.21%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (5.64%) Kafka
4 18 (5.64%) Lightning Web Components
5 14 (4.39%) SOAP
6 10 (3.13%) Middleware
6 10 (3.13%) Spark Streaming
6 10 (3.13%) Visualforce
7 9 (2.82%) PySpark
8 8 (2.51%) LangChain
8 8 (2.51%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.88%) .NET
10 5 (1.57%) NumPy
10 5 (1.57%) OAuth
10 5 (1.57%) Pandas
10 5 (1.57%) pytest
10 5 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.25%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 30 (9.40%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.78%) Public Cloud
4 26 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (7.52%) Management Information System
6 19 (5.96%) Security Posture
7 18 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.45%) Clustering
9 9 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.82%) Replication
10 8 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.51%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.51%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.88%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.88%) NHS
12 5 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.23%) Linux
2 11 (3.45%) Windows
3 5 (1.57%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.25%) Solaris
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (27.27%) Agile
3 84 (26.33%) Data Governance
4 81 (25.39%) CI/CD
5 77 (24.14%) DevOps
6 73 (22.88%) Data Modelling
7 72 (22.57%) Cybersecurity
8 62 (19.44%) Analytics
9 59 (18.50%) Computer Science
10 52 (16.30%) AI
10 52 (16.30%) Migration
11 50 (15.67%) ETL
12 49 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (13.17%) Data Engineering
13 42 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (12.23%) Containerisation
16 37 (11.60%) Roadmaps
17 34 (10.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (32.29%) Python
2 80 (25.08%) SQL
3 25 (7.84%) Go
4 21 (6.58%) Java
5 15 (4.70%) Apex Code
6 12 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.13%) Bash
8 9 (2.82%) C#
8 9 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.51%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.25%) Perl
10 4 (1.25%) R
10 4 (1.25%) Scala
11 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.63%) Korn
12 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Rust
12 2 (0.63%) Solidity
13 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (22.88%) Degree
2 46 (14.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (12.23%) Security Cleared
4 34 (10.66%) Master's Degree
5 25 (7.84%) AWS Certification
6 24 (7.52%) SC Cleared
7 20 (6.27%) Azure Certification
8 18 (5.64%) CISSP
9 10 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.51%) CISM
10 8 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.88%) CCSP
11 6 (1.88%) CEH
11 6 (1.88%) CISA
11 6 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.88%) PMP
12 5 (1.57%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (19.44%) GDPR
2 46 (14.42%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.96%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.02%) QA
5 14 (4.39%) NIST
6 13 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (2.51%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.88%) EU AI Act
10 5 (1.57%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.57%) PSD2
11 4 (1.25%) SLA
12 3 (0.94%) GLBA
12 3 (0.94%) GRC
12 3 (0.94%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.63%) PMO
14 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (11.60%) Docker
2 6 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.57%) HDFS
4 4 (1.25%) NFS
4 4 (1.25%) Veritas File System
4 4 (1.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (14.11%) Terraform
2 42 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.34%) Ansible
4 25 (7.84%) Grafana
5 24 (7.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.19%) SCCM
7 5 (1.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (1.57%) Puppet
8 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.25%) QRadar
8 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.94%) CASB
9 3 (0.94%) WSUS
10 2 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 69 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.34%) Splunk
3 31 (9.72%) Google
4 22 (6.90%) Oracle
5 20 (6.27%) Salesforce
6 16 (5.02%) Databricks
7 12 (3.76%) SAP
8 9 (2.82%) Workday
9 7 (2.19%) Qualys
10 5 (1.57%) F5
11 4 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.25%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.25%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.25%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.25%) VMware
12 3 (0.94%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.94%) Sophos
12 3 (0.94%) Talend
12 3 (0.94%) Teradata
12 3 (0.94%) UiPath