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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 281 315
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 +189
Contract jobs citing Data Security 308 260 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 0.83% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.95% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 158 202
10th Percentile £365 £327 £341
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £614 £692 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £537
% change year-on-year -5.45% +2.42% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £14.25 - £27.68
25th Percentile £15.11 - £39.96
Median hourly rate £16.71 - £49.75
75th Percentile £18.39 - £50.96
90th Percentile £19.92 - £57.71
UK median hourly rate £14.88 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +139.58%

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 25,903 27,273 36,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.83% 86.64% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,408 16,616 24,967
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £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 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,031 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.77 £66.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% -11.63% +30.30%

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 October 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 25 October 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 +20 142 £550 - 75
North of England -17 68 £488 -7.14% 62
Midlands +2 46 £475 +15.85% 21
Yorkshire -3 45 £508 -3.33% 23
West Midlands 0 33 £525 +28.05% 13
South East +9 30 £520 -16.80% 72
North West -23 22 £470 -21.67% 32
East Midlands +3 12 £449 -45.64% 8
South West +10 11 £575 +27.78% 10
East of England -16 9 £463 +3.35% 5
North East -9 1 £388 - 7
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 12 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.25%) Apache
4 6 (1.95%) Confluence
5 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.97%) TPMS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.97%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.97%) Revit
5 2 (0.65%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.32%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Workday HCM
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.65%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.65%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (31.49%) AWS
2 78 (25.32%) Azure
3 61 (19.81%) GCP
4 39 (12.66%) Serverless
5 31 (10.06%) Power Platform
6 21 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 20 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.52%) GitHub
9 15 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 12 (3.90%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (3.25%) dbt
15 9 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.52%) Firewall
2 13 (4.22%) Network Security
3 7 (2.27%) DNS
3 7 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.97%) DHCP
4 3 (0.97%) Internet
4 3 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.97%) SNMP
4 3 (0.97%) SSH
4 3 (0.97%) SSL
4 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.97%) Wireless
5 2 (0.65%) VPN
6 1 (0.32%) Broadband
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
1 39 (12.66%) NoSQL
2 26 (8.44%) Power BI
3 19 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.17%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.22%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (3.90%) RDBMS
6 11 (3.57%) Big Data
7 8 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.60%) Metadata
7 8 (2.60%) Tableau
8 7 (2.27%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.27%) MySQL
9 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
9 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.62%) HBase
10 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (11.04%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.44%) GitLab
3 18 (5.84%) Liquibase
4 11 (3.57%) JIRA
5 8 (2.60%) Git
6 7 (2.27%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.30%) Subversion
8 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.97%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) EasyMock
9 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.32%) JBehave
9 1 (0.32%) MLflow
9 1 (0.32%) Mockito
9 1 (0.32%) Selenium
9 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.32%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.32%) VisualVM
9 1 (0.32%) YourKit
General
1 124 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 98 (31.82%) Finance
3 60 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.34%) Banking
5 33 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.82%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.52%) Legal
7 17 (5.52%) Marketing
8 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Local Government
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Military
11 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.65%) Police
12 1 (0.32%) Publishing
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (19.16%) Architect
2 39 (12.66%) Senior
3 26 (8.44%) Analyst
4 23 (7.47%) Data Engineer
4 23 (7.47%) Security Architect
5 21 (6.82%) Developer
5 21 (6.82%) Lead
6 17 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (5.52%) Data Architect
6 17 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (4.55%) Consultant
7 14 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 14 (4.55%) Senior Architect
8 11 (3.57%) Business Analyst
8 11 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 11 (3.57%) Senior Security Architect
9 9 (2.92%) Administrator
9 9 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.61%) REST
2 23 (7.47%) RESTful
3 22 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (5.84%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (5.19%) Kafka
6 14 (4.55%) SOAP
7 10 (3.25%) Middleware
7 10 (3.25%) Visualforce
8 8 (2.60%) LangChain
8 8 (2.60%) PySpark
9 7 (2.27%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (1.95%) .NET
10 6 (1.95%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.62%) OAuth
11 5 (1.62%) pytest
11 5 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.30%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (1.30%) Node.js
12 4 (1.30%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.44%) Public Cloud
4 25 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 16 (5.19%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.92%) Clustering
9 9 (2.92%) Replication
10 8 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.60%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.95%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.62%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.62%) NHS
12 5 (1.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.34%) Linux
2 10 (3.25%) Windows
3 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.30%) Solaris
3 4 (1.30%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (26.95%) Data Governance
3 81 (26.30%) Agile
4 75 (24.35%) CI/CD
5 72 (23.38%) DevOps
6 71 (23.05%) Cybersecurity
7 68 (22.08%) Data Modelling
8 56 (18.18%) Analytics
9 54 (17.53%) Computer Science
10 51 (16.56%) Migration
11 49 (15.91%) ETL
12 48 (15.58%) AI
13 43 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (13.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (13.64%) Data Engineering
15 40 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (12.34%) Containerisation
17 35 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (11.36%) Roadmaps
18 33 (10.71%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (31.82%) Python
2 76 (24.68%) SQL
3 24 (7.79%) Go
4 22 (7.14%) Java
5 15 (4.87%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.25%) Bash
7 9 (2.92%) C#
7 9 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.60%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.62%) Scala
10 4 (1.30%) Perl
11 3 (0.97%) R
11 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.65%) Rust
12 2 (0.65%) Solidity
13 1 (0.32%) C
13 1 (0.32%) C++
13 1 (0.32%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 68 (22.08%) Degree
2 46 (14.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (12.01%) Security Cleared
4 33 (10.71%) Master's Degree
5 23 (7.47%) SC Cleared
6 20 (6.49%) AWS Certification
7 18 (5.84%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.87%) CISSP
9 10 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.60%) CISM
11 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.27%) PMP
12 6 (1.95%) CEH
12 6 (1.95%) CISA
12 6 (1.95%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.62%) CCSP
13 5 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (19.16%) GDPR
2 44 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 18 (5.84%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.19%) QA
5 13 (4.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (4.22%) NIST
6 12 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (2.60%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.95%) EU AI Act
10 5 (1.62%) HIPAA
11 4 (1.30%) GRC
11 4 (1.30%) PSD2
11 4 (1.30%) SLA
12 3 (0.97%) GLBA
12 3 (0.97%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.65%) PMO
14 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (11.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.62%) HDFS
3 4 (1.30%) NFS
3 4 (1.30%) Veritas File System
3 4 (1.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (13.31%) Terraform
2 40 (12.99%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.71%) Ansible
4 24 (7.79%) Grafana
5 23 (7.47%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.95%) SCCM
7 5 (1.62%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (1.62%) Puppet
8 4 (1.30%) QRadar
8 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.97%) CASB
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.97%) WSUS
10 2 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.39%) Google
2 32 (10.39%) Splunk
3 21 (6.82%) Oracle
4 20 (6.49%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.87%) Databricks
6 13 (4.22%) SAP
7 9 (2.92%) Workday
8 7 (2.27%) Qualys
9 6 (1.95%) F5
10 5 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.30%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.30%) Talend
11 4 (1.30%) VMware
12 3 (0.97%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.97%) Proofpoint
12 3 (0.97%) Sophos
12 3 (0.97%) Teradata