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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 242 293
Rank change year-on-year -124 +51 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Security 297 300 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.09% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.20% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 204 151
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £435 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £571
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.41% -3.31%
75th Percentile £671 £613 £700
90th Percentile £700 £746 £775
UK median daily rate £545 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +5.83% -6.36% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £13.62 £13.94 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.17 -
Median hourly rate £17.60 £17.53 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% - -
75th Percentile £69.50 £19.57 -
90th Percentile £82.25 £20.61 -
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £13.60 -
% change year-on-year +29.41% - -

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -90 142 £575 +4.55% 234
North of England -66 60 £539 +17.81% 51
Midlands -39 39 £500 +6.15% 37
West Midlands -37 32 £501 -9.00% 22
Yorkshire -37 31 £495 +10.06% 15
South East -79 22 £550 +10.00% 50
North West -54 19 £574 +20.74% 25
South West -41 16 £525 -4.55% 26
East of England -22 11 £475 -2.56% 17
North East -31 10 £463 +19.35% 11
East Midlands -20 7 £304 -32.22% 15
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 17 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.71%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.36%) Apache
5 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.35%) SAS
7 3 (1.01%) Confluence
8 2 (0.67%) Apache Pig
8 2 (0.67%) CICS
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.01%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.01%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (37.71%) Azure
2 93 (31.31%) AWS
3 43 (14.48%) GCP
4 42 (14.14%) Power Platform
5 29 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (7.41%) dbt
7 22 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 21 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (6.73%) Snowflake
10 16 (5.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (4.71%) Serverless
12 13 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.04%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.36%) Azure AI
16 7 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (2.36%) OneDrive
17 6 (2.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.72%) Network Security
2 8 (2.69%) Firewall
3 5 (1.68%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.01%) WAN
5 2 (0.67%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) SSH
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.13%) Power BI
2 36 (12.12%) Metadata
3 34 (11.45%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.71%) BigQuery
5 14 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.04%) Big Data
7 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.37%) Delta Lake
9 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.03%) Tableau
10 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.36%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (1.68%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.39%) Git
2 11 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.34%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.34%) MLflow
4 1 (0.34%) Snyk
4 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 119 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.91%) Finance
3 58 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.73%) Banking
6 16 (5.39%) Legal
7 13 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.04%) Retail
9 10 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.01%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.01%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.01%) Marketing
12 3 (1.01%) Military
13 2 (0.67%) Advertising
13 2 (0.67%) Automotive
13 2 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (22.90%) Architect
2 65 (21.89%) Data Engineer
3 49 (16.50%) Lead
4 24 (8.08%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.41%) Data Architect
6 21 (7.07%) Analyst
7 17 (5.72%) Senior
8 13 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (4.38%) Security Engineer
9 12 (4.04%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.70%) Developer
11 10 (3.37%) Consultant
12 9 (3.03%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.69%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.02%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 6 (2.02%) Data Migration Engineer
14 6 (2.02%) Migration Engineer
14 6 (2.02%) Security Consultant
14 6 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 6 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.72%) Terraform
2 15 (5.05%) PySpark
3 13 (4.38%) Kafka
4 10 (3.37%) REST
5 7 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.02%) LangChain
6 6 (2.02%) OAuth
7 5 (1.68%) XGBoost
8 4 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.35%) Middleware
8 4 (1.35%) OpenID
8 4 (1.35%) SAML
9 3 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.01%) HTML
9 3 (1.01%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.01%) LDAP
9 3 (1.01%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.01%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Beam
10 2 (0.67%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (7.07%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.39%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.05%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.70%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.37%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.03%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.02%) Credit Risk
11 6 (2.02%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.02%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.02%) Replication
12 5 (1.68%) Clustering
12 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.69%) Unix
2 6 (2.02%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Linux
4 2 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.32%) Analytics
2 84 (28.28%) Data Modelling
3 78 (26.26%) Data Governance
4 75 (25.25%) AI
5 69 (23.23%) Migration
6 65 (21.89%) Data Pipeline
7 59 (19.87%) CI/CD
8 58 (19.53%) Roadmaps
8 58 (19.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (19.19%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (18.86%) Data Protection
11 54 (18.18%) ETL
11 54 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 53 (17.85%) DevOps
13 52 (17.51%) Agile
14 49 (16.50%) Data Engineering
15 46 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (13.47%) Machine Learning
17 39 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 83 (27.95%) SQL
2 77 (25.93%) Python
3 15 (5.05%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.37%) Java
5 7 (2.36%) Bash
5 7 (2.36%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.02%) R
7 4 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.35%) Scala
8 3 (1.01%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) Go
9 2 (0.67%) Bicep
9 2 (0.67%) COBOL
9 2 (0.67%) Korn
9 2 (0.67%) REXX
9 2 (0.67%) SOQL
9 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.47%) Degree
4 31 (10.44%) CISSP
5 20 (6.73%) CISM
6 17 (5.72%) Azure Certification
6 17 (5.72%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.03%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.68%) CCSP
12 5 (1.68%) CEH
12 5 (1.68%) PMP
12 5 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (25.25%) Data Quality
2 64 (21.55%) GDPR
3 26 (8.75%) NIST
4 19 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.04%) QA
6 10 (3.37%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.36%) ISO 19650
8 6 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (2.02%) GRC
8 6 (2.02%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.68%) Basel III
9 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.68%) SLA
10 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.67%) NCSC
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.02%) Docker
3 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.67%) HDFS
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) Postfix
6 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.35%) Ansible
3 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.67%) Control-M
5 2 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Guardium
6 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 78 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.11%) Databricks
3 26 (8.75%) Google
4 21 (7.07%) Oracle
5 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.69%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.68%) Workday
7 4 (1.35%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.35%) Delphix
7 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.35%) Splunk
8 3 (1.01%) IBM
8 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.67%) Foundry
9 2 (0.67%) Informatica
9 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.67%) Varonis