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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 263 308
Rank change year-on-year +18 +45 +188
Contract jobs citing Data Security 334 282 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.04% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 183 189
10th Percentile £362 £321 £322
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £657 £700
90th Percentile £750 £778 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £14.44 - £27.68
25th Percentile £15.16 - £39.96
Median hourly rate £16.71 - £49.75
75th Percentile £19.58 - £50.96
90th Percentile £21.30 - £57.71
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £26.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -46.15% +132.56%

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 27,528 26,989 34,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.13% 86.89% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 16,492 23,819
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 971 1,471
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.10 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%
75th Percentile £49.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +7 157 £538 -2.27% 130
North of England -14 79 £488 -6.25% 52
Yorkshire -7 55 £511 -1.68% 22
Midlands +8 48 £484 +17.93% 39
West Midlands +3 34 £525 +28.05% 17
South East -3 32 £510 -18.40% 56
North West -15 23 £458 -23.75% 25
East Midlands -1 14 £447 -45.82% 22
South West 0 11 £575 +27.78% 15
East of England -14 8 £400 -25.58% 9
North East -10 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 16 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.69%) Apache
5 6 (1.80%) Confluence
6 5 (1.50%) TPMS
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (2.99%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.90%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.90%) Revit
5 2 (0.60%) 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 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.20%) Workday HCM
2 3 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.60%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.60%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.60%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP GTS
3 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.60%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.60%) SAP SCM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.30%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.30%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 103 (30.84%) AWS
2 84 (25.15%) Azure
3 63 (18.86%) GCP
4 48 (14.37%) Serverless
5 40 (11.98%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.38%) Amazon S3
7 27 (8.08%) Snowflake
8 21 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (6.29%) GitHub
8 21 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (4.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (4.49%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.89%) PowerApps
14 12 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (3.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.09%) Firewall
2 15 (4.49%) Network Security
3 7 (2.10%) DNS
3 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.50%) Internet
4 5 (1.50%) SNMP
4 5 (1.50%) SSH
4 5 (1.50%) SSL
5 3 (0.90%) DHCP
5 3 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.90%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) DKIM
7 1 (0.30%) DMARC
7 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
1 40 (11.98%) NoSQL
2 34 (10.18%) Power BI
3 22 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (4.79%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.49%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.19%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.29%) Big Data
9 11 (3.29%) Tableau
10 10 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.99%) MySQL
11 9 (2.69%) Metadata
12 8 (2.40%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.50%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.50%) HBase
14 4 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 36 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.78%) GitLab
3 18 (5.39%) Liquibase
4 11 (3.29%) JIRA
5 10 (2.99%) Git
6 7 (2.10%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.50%) PyCharm
8 4 (1.20%) Subversion
9 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.30%) ERwin
10 1 (0.30%) Selenium
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 137 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 109 (32.63%) Finance
3 69 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.57%) Banking
5 38 (11.38%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.29%) Financial Institution
6 21 (6.29%) Marketing
7 19 (5.69%) Legal
8 9 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Military
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Police
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (18.26%) Architect
2 40 (11.98%) Senior
3 29 (8.68%) Analyst
3 29 (8.68%) Data Engineer
4 24 (7.19%) Lead
5 22 (6.59%) Developer
6 21 (6.29%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.49%) Consultant
8 15 (4.49%) Security Engineer
8 15 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.19%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) Data Architect
10 13 (3.89%) Senior Architect
11 11 (3.29%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.29%) Salesforce Architect
12 10 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 10 (2.99%) Senior Security Architect
12 10 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.97%) REST
2 25 (7.49%) RESTful
3 23 (6.89%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.99%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (4.79%) SOAP
6 15 (4.49%) Kafka
7 12 (3.59%) Middleware
7 12 (3.59%) Visualforce
8 10 (2.99%) PySpark
9 9 (2.69%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.40%) LangChain
10 8 (2.40%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.10%) .NET
12 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
13 5 (1.50%) Node.js
13 5 (1.50%) NumPy
13 5 (1.50%) OAuth
13 5 (1.50%) Pandas
13 5 (1.50%) pytest
13 5 (1.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.88%) Product Ownership
3 29 (8.68%) Public Cloud
4 27 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (7.19%) Management Information System
6 19 (5.69%) Security Posture
7 18 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.29%) Clustering
10 9 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.69%) NHS
10 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.10%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.10%) Low-Code
11 7 (2.10%) Replication
12 6 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.80%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.50%) BYOD
13 5 (1.50%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.28%) Linux
2 13 (3.89%) Windows
3 5 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.20%) Solaris
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (28.14%) Agile
3 86 (25.75%) CI/CD
4 85 (25.45%) Data Governance
5 80 (23.95%) Data Modelling
6 79 (23.65%) Cybersecurity
6 79 (23.65%) DevOps
7 68 (20.36%) Analytics
8 59 (17.66%) Computer Science
9 58 (17.37%) AI
10 54 (16.17%) ETL
10 54 (16.17%) Migration
11 53 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (14.07%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (13.47%) Data Engineering
15 43 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (12.87%) Roadmaps
16 42 (12.57%) Machine Learning
17 39 (11.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 112 (33.53%) Python
2 82 (24.55%) SQL
3 26 (7.78%) Go
4 21 (6.29%) Java
5 17 (5.09%) Apex Code
6 13 (3.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.99%) Bash
8 10 (2.99%) C#
9 8 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.50%) R
11 4 (1.20%) Perl
11 4 (1.20%) Scala
12 3 (0.90%) Korn
12 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.60%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Rust
13 2 (0.60%) Solidity
13 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 73 (21.86%) Degree
2 46 (13.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (12.57%) Security Cleared
4 34 (10.18%) Master's Degree
5 26 (7.78%) AWS Certification
5 26 (7.78%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.99%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.39%) CISSP
8 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.40%) CISM
9 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.80%) CCSP
10 6 (1.80%) CEH
10 6 (1.80%) CISA
10 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.80%) PMP
11 5 (1.50%) FFIEC
11 5 (1.50%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (20.36%) GDPR
2 49 (14.67%) Data Quality
3 21 (6.29%) PCI DSS
4 17 (5.09%) NIST
5 16 (4.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (4.49%) QA
7 13 (3.89%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.80%) EU AI Act
10 5 (1.50%) GLBA
10 5 (1.50%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.50%) PSD2
11 4 (1.20%) GRC
11 4 (1.20%) SLA
12 3 (0.90%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.60%) PMO
14 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (11.68%) Docker
2 6 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.50%) HDFS
4 4 (1.20%) NFS
4 4 (1.20%) Veritas File System
4 4 (1.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (14.97%) Terraform
2 43 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.88%) Ansible
4 24 (7.19%) Grafana
4 24 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.10%) SCCM
6 5 (1.50%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (1.50%) Puppet
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.20%) QRadar
7 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.90%) CASB
8 3 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.90%) WSUS
9 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 75 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.18%) Splunk
3 31 (9.28%) Google
4 22 (6.59%) Databricks
4 22 (6.59%) Salesforce
5 21 (6.29%) Oracle
6 13 (3.89%) SAP
7 9 (2.69%) Workday
8 7 (2.10%) Qualys
9 5 (1.50%) F5
10 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.20%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.20%) Thales
10 4 (1.20%) VMware
11 3 (0.90%) OneTrust
11 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.90%) UiPath