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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 221 306
Rank change year-on-year -74 +85 +65
Contract jobs citing Data Security 355 318 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.25% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.37% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 210 179
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £554
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -7.04% -4.97%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £700
90th Percentile £760 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 10
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.90 £21.31
25th Percentile £24.10 £16.88 £23.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +251.35% -53.75% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £48.60 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.66 £52.48
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £23.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +170.16% -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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -80 168 £560 +1.82% 46
North of England -44 70 £591 +25.28% 14
Midlands -39 46 £500 +10.99% 14
North West -36 38 £583 +17.50% 8
West Midlands -37 37 £501 -17.61% 8
Yorkshire -37 25 £610 +47.88% 5
South East -91 22 £550 +17.02% 24
South West -28 19 £513 +10.81% 15
East of England -22 18 £400 - 3
East Midlands -12 9 £438 -2.51% 6
North East - 7 £456 - 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 16 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.82%) Confluence
5 5 (1.41%) Apache
5 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.13%) SAS
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.85%) TPMS
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) InDesign
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.13%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 144 (40.56%) Azure
2 121 (34.08%) AWS
3 68 (19.15%) Power Platform
4 47 (13.24%) GCP
5 36 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (8.17%) Snowflake
7 26 (7.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (7.04%) Entra ID
9 22 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (5.92%) dbt
11 19 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.51%) GitHub
13 15 (4.23%) Azure AI
14 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (3.38%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (3.38%) Power Automate
17 10 (2.82%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (2.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.20%) Network Security
2 17 (4.79%) Firewall
3 6 (1.69%) DNS
4 4 (1.13%) SSL
5 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.85%) SNMP
5 3 (0.85%) SSH
5 3 (0.85%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) HTTP
7 1 (0.28%) SMTP
7 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.03%) Power BI
2 50 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (8.45%) Metadata
4 29 (8.17%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.35%) Tableau
7 15 (4.23%) Big Data
8 14 (3.94%) Delta Lake
8 14 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 11 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.25%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.25%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.97%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (7.61%) JIRA
2 13 (3.66%) Git
3 9 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.56%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) MSI
7 1 (0.28%) Snyk
7 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 118 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.76%) Finance
3 49 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.48%) Banking
6 13 (3.66%) Legal
7 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.10%) Retail
8 8 (2.25%) Local Government
9 7 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Law
10 6 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.41%) Police
12 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.85%) Marketing
13 3 (0.85%) Military
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 80 (22.54%) Architect
2 54 (15.21%) Data Engineer
3 37 (10.42%) Lead
4 35 (9.86%) Analyst
5 32 (9.01%) Senior
6 29 (8.17%) Security Engineer
7 27 (7.61%) Security Architect
8 22 (6.20%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.92%) Developer
10 17 (4.79%) Data Analyst
11 13 (3.66%) Consultant
12 11 (3.10%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.54%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 9 (2.54%) Lead Data Engineer
14 8 (2.25%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.25%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.25%) Technical Architect
15 7 (1.97%) Information Governance Officer
15 7 (1.97%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.63%) PySpark
2 14 (3.94%) Kafka
2 14 (3.94%) REST
3 13 (3.66%) LangChain
4 11 (3.10%) OAuth
5 9 (2.54%) SAML
6 8 (2.25%) OpenID
6 8 (2.25%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.25%) scikit-learn
7 7 (1.97%) Middleware
8 6 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.41%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.41%) SOAP
10 3 (0.85%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.85%) HTML
10 3 (0.85%) RESTful
11 2 (0.56%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.56%) Snowpark
11 2 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.73%) Security Posture
3 30 (8.45%) AI Agents
4 26 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.25%) NHS
9 7 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.51%) Linux
2 5 (1.41%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.45%) AI
2 100 (28.17%) Data Governance
3 98 (27.61%) Analytics
4 88 (24.79%) Data Modelling
5 78 (21.97%) Cybersecurity
6 73 (20.56%) Data Pipeline
7 66 (18.59%) DevOps
8 65 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (17.75%) Agile
10 62 (17.46%) CI/CD
10 62 (17.46%) Data Protection
11 61 (17.18%) Migration
12 59 (16.62%) ETL
13 57 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (14.65%) Data Engineering
16 50 (14.08%) Roadmaps
17 46 (12.96%) Cloud Security
17 46 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (12.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 111 (31.27%) SQL
2 82 (23.10%) Python
3 18 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.94%) Bash
5 12 (3.38%) Java
6 8 (2.25%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.69%) Bicep
7 6 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.69%) Scala
8 5 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.13%) R
10 3 (0.85%) C#
10 3 (0.85%) Go
10 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 2 (0.56%) SOQL
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
12 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.08%) Degree
4 30 (8.45%) CISSP
5 20 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.66%) CISM
8 12 (3.38%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.69%) PMP
13 5 (1.41%) CCSP
13 5 (1.41%) CEH
13 5 (1.41%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.13%) SAS Certification
15 3 (0.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (27.04%) GDPR
2 86 (24.23%) Data Quality
3 37 (10.42%) NIST
4 30 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (5.92%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.94%) QA
7 11 (3.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (3.10%) GRC
7 11 (3.10%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.69%) ISO 19650
8 6 (1.69%) SLA
8 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.13%) NCSC
9 4 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.85%) GLBA
10 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (4.51%) Docker
2 11 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) HDFS
5 2 (0.56%) NFS
5 2 (0.56%) Postfix
5 2 (0.56%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.56%) Varnish
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.20%) Terraform
3 8 (2.25%) Ansible
4 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.69%) Grafana
5 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.56%) Control-M
7 2 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.28%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) QRadar
8 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.28%) SCCM
8 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 103 (29.01%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.01%) Databricks
3 27 (7.61%) Oracle
4 25 (7.04%) Google
5 16 (4.51%) OpenAI
6 15 (4.23%) SAP
7 13 (3.66%) Splunk
8 10 (2.82%) Foundry
9 8 (2.25%) Informatica
10 7 (1.97%) Varonis
11 6 (1.69%) IBM
11 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.41%) NEC
12 5 (1.41%) Talend
12 5 (1.41%) Thales
12 5 (1.41%) Workday
13 4 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.13%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.85%) Zscaler