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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 237 322
Rank change year-on-year -71 +85 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Security 358 302 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.09% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.20% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 205 143
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £447 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +1.32%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £700
90th Percentile £740 £742 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £554
% change year-on-year +5.77% -6.14% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 5
10th Percentile £14.15 £19.68 £29.04
25th Percentile £15.93 £29.52 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £46.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +15.56% +107.79%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.62 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.27 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £13.60 £40.00
% change year-on-year +227.21% -66.00% +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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -67 173 £566 +2.03% 112
North of England -34 80 £561 +23.69% 17
Midlands -39 44 £500 +11.17% 23
North West -24 37 £583 +21.04% 7
West Midlands -36 37 £501 -17.61% 10
Yorkshire -26 34 £564 +42.24% 9
South East -90 23 £550 +10.00% 35
South West -44 15 £525 -4.55% 13
East of England -14 13 £500 - 7
North East - 9 £463 - 1
East Midlands -13 7 £304 -32.22% 13
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 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.07%) Confluence
5 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.40%) Apache
7 4 (1.12%) SAS
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.56%) Apache Pig
9 2 (0.56%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) InDesign
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.84%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 148 (41.34%) Azure
2 122 (34.08%) AWS
3 62 (17.32%) Power Platform
4 42 (11.73%) GCP
5 41 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (8.38%) Entra ID
6 30 (8.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (7.54%) Snowflake
8 26 (7.26%) dbt
9 21 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (5.31%) Azure AI
11 18 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (4.19%) GitHub
13 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (3.35%) Amazon Bedrock
14 12 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (3.35%) Serverless
15 9 (2.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.42%) Network Security
2 16 (4.47%) Firewall
3 7 (1.96%) DNS
4 3 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.84%) WAN
5 2 (0.56%) DHCP
5 2 (0.56%) SSL
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) SMTP
6 1 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.20%) Power BI
2 48 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (9.78%) Metadata
4 29 (8.10%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.19%) Big Data
7 14 (3.91%) Delta Lake
8 13 (3.63%) BigQuery
8 13 (3.63%) Tableau
9 12 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.79%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.51%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.23%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.96%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
14 6 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.70%) JIRA
2 12 (3.35%) Git
3 6 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.12%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) MSI
6 1 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 129 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.30%) Finance
3 57 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.85%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.31%) Banking
6 15 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.91%) Legal
8 11 (3.07%) Retail
9 9 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.12%) Local Government
11 4 (1.12%) Police
12 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.84%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.84%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.84%) Law
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
12 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (20.67%) Architect
2 68 (18.99%) Data Engineer
3 52 (14.53%) Lead
4 31 (8.66%) Security Engineer
5 30 (8.38%) Analyst
6 27 (7.54%) Security Architect
7 23 (6.42%) Senior
8 21 (5.87%) Data Architect
9 17 (4.75%) Developer
10 14 (3.91%) Data Analyst
11 13 (3.63%) Consultant
12 12 (3.35%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
14 8 (2.23%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 8 (2.23%) Technical Architect
15 7 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (1.96%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 7 (1.96%) Data Business Analyst
16 6 (1.68%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.59%) PySpark
2 15 (4.19%) Kafka
3 13 (3.63%) LangChain
4 12 (3.35%) REST
5 8 (2.23%) PyTorch
5 8 (2.23%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.96%) OAuth
6 7 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.68%) Middleware
8 5 (1.40%) OpenID
8 5 (1.40%) SAML
9 3 (0.84%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (0.84%) HTML
9 3 (0.84%) SOAP
10 2 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.56%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.56%) Flask
10 2 (0.56%) Snowpark
10 2 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Security Posture
3 27 (7.54%) AI Agents
4 26 (7.26%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (5.59%) Onboarding
6 19 (5.31%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.68%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.40%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.12%) PKI
12 4 (1.12%) Replication
13 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.07%) Linux
2 7 (1.96%) Windows
3 3 (0.84%) Unix
4 2 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (30.73%) Analytics
2 102 (28.49%) Data Governance
3 99 (27.65%) AI
4 95 (26.54%) Data Modelling
5 86 (24.02%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (21.79%) Data Pipeline
7 69 (19.27%) Migration
8 66 (18.44%) CI/CD
9 64 (17.88%) Data Protection
10 63 (17.60%) Agile
10 63 (17.60%) Data Engineering
11 62 (17.32%) ETL
12 61 (17.04%) DevOps
13 59 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (15.92%) Roadmaps
15 56 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (13.41%) Cloud Security
17 48 (13.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 105 (29.33%) SQL
2 84 (23.46%) Python
3 19 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.63%) Bash
5 12 (3.35%) Java
6 8 (2.23%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.68%) Scala
8 5 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.40%) R
8 5 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.84%) C#
10 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.56%) COBOL
11 2 (0.56%) REXX
11 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 2 (0.56%) SOQL
11 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 82 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.73%) Degree
4 37 (10.34%) CISSP
5 19 (5.31%) CISM
6 18 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.79%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.23%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.40%) CEH
14 4 (1.12%) CCSP
14 4 (1.12%) PMP
14 4 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (1.12%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (24.02%) GDPR
2 82 (22.91%) Data Quality
3 34 (9.50%) NIST
4 28 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (4.75%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.63%) QA
7 12 (3.35%) HIPAA
8 11 (3.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.96%) GRC
10 7 (1.96%) SLA
11 6 (1.68%) ISO 19650
12 4 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.84%) NCSC
14 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.56%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.91%) Docker
3 6 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Flume
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%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.03%) Terraform
3 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.68%) Ansible
5 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.12%) Grafana
6 4 (1.12%) Prometheus
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
7 2 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.28%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 104 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.06%) Databricks
3 29 (8.10%) Google
4 25 (6.98%) Oracle
5 16 (4.47%) OpenAI
6 11 (3.07%) Foundry
7 10 (2.79%) SAP
8 7 (1.96%) Varonis
8 7 (1.96%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.68%) IBM
9 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.40%) Informatica
10 5 (1.40%) Splunk
10 5 (1.40%) Workday
11 3 (0.84%) Delphix
11 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.56%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.56%) NEC