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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 257 301
Rank change year-on-year +11 +44 +159
Contract jobs citing Data Security 329 277 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.91% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.04% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 179 193
10th Percentile £362 £320 £326
25th Percentile £420 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £700
90th Percentile £750 £779 £784
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 8
10th Percentile £14.63 - £19.75
25th Percentile £15.22 - £37.40
Median hourly rate £16.71 - £49.75
75th Percentile £19.00 - £50.96
90th Percentile £21.30 - £57.71
UK median hourly rate £16.22 £26.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.77% -46.15% +121.04%

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 27,644 26,739 33,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.82% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,602 16,417 23,106
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,428
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +10 158 £538 -2.27% 64
North of England -11 81 £488 -3.99% 38
Yorkshire +7 56 £515 +1.43% 18
Midlands +6 44 £484 +0.73% 23
West Midlands -5 31 £525 +9.38% 9
South East -8 30 £523 -11.06% 49
North West -23 24 £458 -23.75% 15
East Midlands -5 13 £447 -45.82% 14
South West +2 12 £575 +27.78% 14
East of England -19 7 £350 -30.00% 6
North East -8 1 £388 - 6
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 15 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.04%) Apache
4 7 (2.13%) Confluence
5 6 (1.82%) TPMS
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (3.04%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.91%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.91%) Revit
5 2 (0.61%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.30%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.22%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.61%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.61%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.61%) SAP EWM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP GTS
2 2 (0.61%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.61%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP PP
2 2 (0.61%) SAP SCM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP SRM
2 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.30%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.70%) AWS
2 83 (25.23%) Azure
3 61 (18.54%) GCP
4 46 (13.98%) Serverless
5 38 (11.55%) Power Platform
6 26 (7.90%) Amazon S3
6 26 (7.90%) Snowflake
7 22 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (6.08%) GitHub
9 19 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (4.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 15 (4.56%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 13 (3.95%) PowerApps
15 11 (3.34%) dbt
16 10 (3.04%) Amazon EMR
17 9 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.17%) Firewall
2 15 (4.56%) Network Security
3 8 (2.43%) DNS
3 8 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.82%) SNMP
4 6 (1.82%) SSH
4 6 (1.82%) SSL
5 4 (1.22%) DHCP
5 4 (1.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.91%) Wireless
7 2 (0.61%) VPN
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.30%) DKIM
8 1 (0.30%) DMARC
8 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.25%) NoSQL
2 35 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.73%) Power BI
4 22 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.78%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.17%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (4.56%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.26%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.34%) Big Data
10 10 (3.04%) MySQL
10 10 (3.04%) Tableau
11 8 (2.43%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (2.13%) Metadata
13 5 (1.52%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.52%) HBase
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.42%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.90%) GitLab
3 18 (5.47%) Liquibase
4 12 (3.65%) Git
5 11 (3.34%) JIRA
6 5 (1.52%) PyCharm
6 5 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.22%) Subversion
8 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 130 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 112 (34.04%) Finance
3 62 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.16%) Banking
5 39 (11.85%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 21 (6.38%) Marketing
7 19 (5.78%) Legal
8 10 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Local Government
12 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Military
12 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.61%) Retail
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Police
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (17.33%) Architect
2 39 (11.85%) Senior
3 28 (8.51%) Analyst
3 28 (8.51%) Data Engineer
4 23 (6.99%) Lead
5 22 (6.69%) Developer
6 21 (6.38%) Security Architect
7 16 (4.86%) Security Engineer
8 15 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.56%) Consultant
8 15 (4.56%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.65%) Senior Architect
11 11 (3.34%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.34%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.34%) Salesforce Architect
12 10 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.04%) Senior Security Architect
12 10 (3.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.89%) REST
2 25 (7.60%) RESTful
3 23 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (5.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 15 (4.56%) SOAP
6 12 (3.65%) Middleware
6 12 (3.65%) PySpark
6 12 (3.65%) Visualforce
7 11 (3.34%) Kafka
8 9 (2.74%) Spark Streaming
9 8 (2.43%) LangChain
9 8 (2.43%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.13%) .NET
11 6 (1.82%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
12 5 (1.52%) NumPy
12 5 (1.52%) OAuth
12 5 (1.52%) Pandas
12 5 (1.52%) pytest
12 5 (1.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.42%) Cloud Native
1 31 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 29 (8.81%) Public Cloud
3 28 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.60%) Management Information System
5 19 (5.78%) Security Posture
6 18 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.34%) Clustering
9 9 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.74%) NHS
9 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.13%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.13%) Replication
11 6 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.52%) BYOD
12 5 (1.52%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.85%) Linux
2 14 (4.26%) Windows
3 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Solaris
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.48%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (27.96%) Agile
3 83 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 79 (24.01%) Data Governance
5 77 (23.40%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (23.40%) Data Modelling
6 75 (22.80%) DevOps
7 64 (19.45%) Analytics
8 57 (17.33%) AI
9 56 (17.02%) Computer Science
10 54 (16.41%) Migration
11 53 (16.11%) ETL
12 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 49 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (13.37%) Roadmaps
15 43 (13.07%) Data Engineering
16 42 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
17 41 (12.46%) Machine Learning
18 37 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
19 36 (10.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (33.43%) Python
2 78 (23.71%) SQL
3 26 (7.90%) Go
4 16 (4.86%) Apex Code
4 16 (4.86%) Java
5 12 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.65%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.04%) C#
7 9 (2.74%) Bash
8 8 (2.43%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.52%) R
10 4 (1.22%) Perl
11 3 (0.91%) Korn
11 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.61%) C++
12 2 (0.61%) Rust
12 2 (0.61%) Solidity
12 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Bicep
13 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 71 (21.58%) Degree
2 43 (13.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (12.77%) Security Cleared
4 33 (10.03%) Master's Degree
5 26 (7.90%) SC Cleared
6 23 (6.99%) AWS Certification
7 19 (5.78%) Azure Certification
8 18 (5.47%) CISSP
9 8 (2.43%) CISM
10 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.82%) CCSP
11 6 (1.82%) CEH
11 6 (1.82%) CISA
11 6 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.82%) FFIEC
11 6 (1.82%) PMP
12 5 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (21.88%) GDPR
2 45 (13.68%) Data Quality
3 22 (6.69%) PCI DSS
4 18 (5.47%) NIST
5 16 (4.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (4.56%) QA
7 13 (3.95%) Accessibility
8 10 (3.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.82%) EU AI Act
10 6 (1.82%) GLBA
11 5 (1.52%) PSD2
12 4 (1.22%) GRC
12 4 (1.22%) SLA
13 3 (0.91%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.61%) NCSC
14 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (10.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.52%) HDFS
4 4 (1.22%) NFS
4 4 (1.22%) Veritas File System
4 4 (1.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (14.89%) Terraform
2 39 (11.85%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.03%) Ansible
4 24 (7.29%) Grafana
4 24 (7.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.43%) SCCM
6 5 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.52%) Puppet
7 4 (1.22%) QRadar
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.22%) WSUS
8 3 (0.91%) CASB
8 3 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 76 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.64%) Splunk
3 28 (8.51%) Google
4 22 (6.69%) Databricks
5 21 (6.38%) Salesforce
6 18 (5.47%) Oracle
7 13 (3.95%) SAP
8 9 (2.74%) Workday
9 7 (2.13%) Qualys
10 5 (1.52%) F5
10 5 (1.52%) Thales
11 4 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.22%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.22%) Sophos
11 4 (1.22%) VMware
12 3 (0.91%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.91%) Proofpoint