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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 244 320
Rank change year-on-year -93 +76 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Security 323 299 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.09% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.20% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 198 136
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -10.00% -0.69%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £700
90th Percentile £705 £747 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £554
% change year-on-year +6.80% -7.04% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 0
10th Percentile £13.65 £19.68 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £29.52 -
Median hourly rate £19.80 £46.23 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% - -
75th Percentile £69.50 £62.62 -
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.27 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £13.60 -
% change year-on-year +61.76% - -

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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -70 160 £570 +3.64% 28
North of England -39 66 £528 +17.33% 17
Midlands -54 38 £500 +11.11% 23
Yorkshire -22 33 £528 +32.00% 7
West Midlands -34 31 £500 -15.25% 15
North West -36 24 £550 +12.82% 8
South East -80 22 £550 +10.00% 29
South West -50 14 £525 -4.55% 12
East of England -16 12 £500 - 6
North East -31 9 £463 +19.35% 2
East Midlands -20 7 £304 -32.44% 10
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 20 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.55%) Apache
5 5 (1.55%) Confluence
6 4 (1.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.62%) Apache Pig
8 2 (0.62%) CICS
9 1 (0.31%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) InDesign
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.93%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 127 (39.32%) Azure
2 106 (32.82%) AWS
3 55 (17.03%) Power Platform
4 38 (11.76%) GCP
5 33 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (8.05%) dbt
6 26 (8.05%) Entra ID
6 26 (8.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 26 (8.05%) Snowflake
7 19 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.64%) GitHub
11 14 (4.33%) Serverless
12 13 (4.02%) Azure AI
13 12 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (2.79%) OneDrive
16 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.19%) Network Security
2 9 (2.79%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) DNS
4 3 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.93%) WAN
5 2 (0.62%) DHCP
5 2 (0.62%) SSL
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.62%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Internet
6 1 (0.31%) SMTP
6 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.79%) Power BI
2 40 (12.38%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (11.15%) Metadata
4 29 (8.98%) Data Lake
5 16 (4.95%) Delta Lake
5 16 (4.95%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.33%) Big Data
7 12 (3.72%) Tableau
8 11 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.17%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.86%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.55%) Looker
13 5 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.95%) JIRA
2 12 (3.72%) Git
3 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.93%) GitLab
5 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) MLflow
6 1 (0.31%) MSI
6 1 (0.31%) Snyk
6 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 123 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.15%) Finance
3 53 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.64%) Banking
5 15 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.33%) Legal
7 11 (3.41%) Retail
8 10 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.93%) Japanese Language
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
10 3 (0.93%) Police
10 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (23.22%) Architect
2 63 (19.50%) Data Engineer
3 53 (16.41%) Lead
4 27 (8.36%) Analyst
4 27 (8.36%) Security Architect
5 23 (7.12%) Data Architect
6 19 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 18 (5.57%) Senior
8 14 (4.33%) Developer
9 12 (3.72%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.41%) Consultant
10 11 (3.41%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (2.48%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 8 (2.48%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
13 6 (1.86%) Azure Architect
13 6 (1.86%) Security Analyst
13 6 (1.86%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.19%) PySpark
2 19 (5.88%) Terraform
3 13 (4.02%) Kafka
3 13 (4.02%) REST
4 7 (2.17%) LangChain
5 6 (1.86%) OAuth
5 6 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.55%) Middleware
7 4 (1.24%) OpenID
7 4 (1.24%) SAML
8 3 (0.93%) HTML
8 3 (0.93%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.93%) SOAP
9 2 (0.62%) A2A Protocol
9 2 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.62%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.62%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.43%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (6.50%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 19 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.86%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.86%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.55%) Replication
11 4 (1.24%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.24%) PKI
11 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.17%) Windows
2 5 (1.55%) Linux
3 3 (0.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.65%) Analytics
2 89 (27.55%) Data Governance
2 89 (27.55%) Data Modelling
3 87 (26.93%) AI
4 72 (22.29%) Migration
5 70 (21.67%) Cybersecurity
6 63 (19.50%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (19.20%) CI/CD
8 61 (18.89%) Data Protection
9 59 (18.27%) ETL
10 58 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 57 (17.65%) Data Engineering
11 57 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 55 (17.03%) Agile
13 54 (16.72%) Roadmaps
14 53 (16.41%) DevOps
15 50 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
15 50 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 91 (28.17%) SQL
2 71 (21.98%) Python
3 15 (4.64%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.33%) Java
5 11 (3.41%) Bash
6 6 (1.86%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.86%) Scala
7 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.55%) R
8 4 (1.24%) Bicep
8 4 (1.24%) C#
8 4 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.62%) COBOL
10 2 (0.62%) REXX
10 2 (0.62%) Ruby
10 2 (0.62%) SOQL
10 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 75 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.15%) Degree
4 33 (10.22%) CISSP
5 20 (6.19%) CISM
6 17 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 17 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (2.79%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.55%) CEH
12 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.24%) CCSP
13 4 (1.24%) PMP
13 4 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.24%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (23.84%) GDPR
2 74 (22.91%) Data Quality
3 28 (8.67%) NIST
4 26 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.33%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.72%) QA
7 7 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.17%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.86%) ISO 19650
8 6 (1.86%) SLA
9 5 (1.55%) GRC
10 3 (0.93%) NCSC
10 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (4.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.17%) Docker
3 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.62%) HDFS
5 2 (0.62%) NFS
5 2 (0.62%) Postfix
5 2 (0.62%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.62%) Varnish
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.55%) Ansible
4 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.93%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.62%) Control-M
6 2 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.62%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) IBM Guardium
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.46%) Databricks
3 23 (7.12%) Google
4 20 (6.19%) Oracle
5 12 (3.72%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.48%) Foundry
6 8 (2.48%) Zscaler
7 7 (2.17%) SAP
8 6 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.55%) Informatica
9 5 (1.55%) Workday
10 4 (1.24%) Delphix
10 4 (1.24%) Splunk
11 3 (0.93%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.93%) IBM
11 3 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.62%) Symantec
12 2 (0.62%) Thales