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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 210 283
Rank change year-on-year -87 +73 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Security 312 306 267
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.26% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.38% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 212 184
10th Percentile £350 £315 £380
25th Percentile £431 £418 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £552
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.89% +0.36%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £700
90th Percentile £764 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £528 £540
% change year-on-year +1.71% -2.13% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 11
10th Percentile £16.97 £15.90 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £16.88 £22.74
Median hourly rate £36.16 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.46% -53.75% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £48.60 -
90th Percentile £84.38 £66.66 £50.25
UK median hourly rate £50.16 £23.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +110.09% -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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -81 149 £550 -2.65% 57
North of England -31 65 £600 +19.64% 24
North West -26 33 £583 +15.58% 13
Midlands -47 32 £500 +11.48% 22
Yorkshire -33 28 £675 +56.98% 10
West Midlands -43 25 £525 +13.51% 11
South East -90 22 £575 +16.51% 32
South West -25 17 £500 -4.76% 18
East of England -27 16 £278 -36.57% 8
East Midlands -27 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 13 (4.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.24%) TPMS
5 6 (1.92%) Apache
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.32%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) InDesign
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (38.78%) Azure
2 99 (31.73%) AWS
3 57 (18.27%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.74%) GCP
5 35 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 22 (7.05%) Snowflake
7 21 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.13%) GitHub
10 15 (4.81%) dbt
11 14 (4.49%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.17%) Azure AI
12 13 (4.17%) Power Automate
13 12 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
13 12 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (3.85%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.21%) Amazon S3
14 10 (3.21%) Copilot Studio
15 9 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.13%) Network Security
2 12 (3.85%) Firewall
3 8 (2.56%) SSL
4 7 (2.24%) SNMP
4 7 (2.24%) SSH
5 6 (1.92%) DNS
6 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.28%) DHCP
8 3 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.64%) VPN
10 1 (0.32%) HTTP
10 1 (0.32%) Internet
10 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (16.67%) Power BI
2 45 (14.42%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 22 (7.05%) Metadata
5 19 (6.09%) SQL Server
6 18 (5.77%) Tableau
7 15 (4.81%) Big Data
8 13 (4.17%) Delta Lake
8 13 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.56%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.92%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.60%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (1.60%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (8.33%) JIRA
2 14 (4.49%) Git
3 9 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.24%) GitLab
5 4 (1.28%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) ERwin
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 98 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.60%) Finance
3 40 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.05%) Banking
6 13 (4.17%) Legal
7 12 (3.85%) Local Government
8 11 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Law
10 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Police
10 3 (0.96%) Retail
11 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.64%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.64%) Marketing
11 2 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (16.67%) Architect
2 44 (14.10%) Data Engineer
3 32 (10.26%) Analyst
4 31 (9.94%) Security Engineer
5 30 (9.62%) Lead
5 30 (9.62%) Senior
6 24 (7.69%) Developer
7 19 (6.09%) Data Architect
8 15 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 14 (4.49%) Security Architect
10 13 (4.17%) Consultant
11 8 (2.56%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (2.56%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.56%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 7 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 7 (2.24%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.24%) Information Governance Officer
12 7 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.77%) PySpark
2 14 (4.49%) Kafka
3 13 (4.17%) REST
4 9 (2.88%) LangChain
5 7 (2.24%) OAuth
5 7 (2.24%) SAML
6 6 (1.92%) OpenID
6 6 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.60%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.60%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.60%) SOAP
8 4 (1.28%) .NET
8 4 (1.28%) Middleware
8 4 (1.28%) RESTful
9 3 (0.96%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.96%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.64%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.65%) AI Agents
3 23 (7.37%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.05%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (7.05%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.56%) NHS
7 8 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.28%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.09%) Linux
2 9 (2.88%) Windows
3 2 (0.64%) Unix
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (26.92%) Data Governance
2 83 (26.60%) Analytics
3 77 (24.68%) AI
3 77 (24.68%) Data Modelling
4 65 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 60 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
6 54 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (16.03%) Agile
8 50 (16.03%) DevOps
8 50 (16.03%) ETL
9 49 (15.71%) Data Protection
10 48 (15.38%) CI/CD
11 44 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (13.78%) Data Engineering
12 43 (13.78%) Migration
13 42 (13.46%) Cloud Security
14 39 (12.50%) Roadmaps
15 37 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (30.45%) SQL
2 69 (22.12%) Python
3 14 (4.49%) Bash
4 13 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.53%) Java
6 8 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.92%) Scala
8 5 (1.60%) Bicep
8 5 (1.60%) C#
8 5 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.28%) Go
10 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Ruby
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.86%) Degree
4 22 (7.05%) CISSP
5 13 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.24%) CISM
10 7 (2.24%) FFIEC
11 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.92%) PMP
12 5 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.60%) CCSP
12 5 (1.60%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.96%) IIBA
13 3 (0.96%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (25.96%) GDPR
2 71 (22.76%) Data Quality
3 38 (12.18%) NIST
4 28 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (6.73%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.85%) GRC
7 9 (2.88%) HIPAA
7 9 (2.88%) QA
8 7 (2.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (2.24%) GLBA
9 6 (1.92%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.92%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.60%) SLA
11 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.28%) NCSC
12 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (5.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) HDFS
4 2 (0.64%) NFS
4 2 (0.64%) Postfix
4 2 (0.64%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.64%) Varnish
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 25 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.73%) Terraform
3 6 (1.92%) Ansible
3 6 (1.92%) Grafana
4 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.28%) SCCM
5 4 (1.28%) WSUS
6 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.32%) IBM Guardium
7 1 (0.32%) QRadar
7 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 84 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.29%) Databricks
3 22 (7.05%) Google
4 21 (6.73%) Oracle
5 17 (5.45%) OpenAI
6 15 (4.81%) Splunk
7 13 (4.17%) SAP
8 10 (3.21%) Foundry
9 9 (2.88%) Thales
10 8 (2.56%) Informatica
11 6 (1.92%) Varonis
12 5 (1.60%) NEC
12 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.60%) Talend
12 5 (1.60%) Workday
13 4 (1.28%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.28%) IBM
13 4 (1.28%) Sophos
13 4 (1.28%) Sparx
14 2 (0.64%) Qualys