Data Sovereignty Contract Job Trends in England

Data Sovereignty
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Sovereignty in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Sovereignty over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	635	525	531
Rank change year-on-year	-110	+6	+48
Contract jobs citing Data Sovereignty	7	3	1
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.015%	0.011%	0.003%
As % of the General category	0.026%	0.017%	0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	3	1
10^th Percentile	£463	£510	-
25^th Percentile	£481	£656	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£900	£200
Median % change year-on-year	-41.67%	+350.00%	-55.56%
75^th Percentile	£563	-	-
90^th Percentile	£578	-	-
UK median daily rate	£525	£600	£388
% change year-on-year	-12.50%	+54.84%	-13.89%

All General Skills
England

Data Sovereignty falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	26,863	18,110	18,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	57.52%	63.75%	59.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	15,645	11,491	11,253
10^th Percentile	£313	£276	£300
25^th Percentile	£425	£400	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£635	£650
90^th Percentile	£750	£738	£775
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2,597	1,093	760
10^th Percentile	£13.49	£13.80	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.33	£16.25	£17.25
Median hourly rate	£28.09	£25.00	£33.07
Median % change year-on-year	+12.36%	-24.40%	+11.27%
75^th Percentile	£56.21	£43.75	£61.25
90^th Percentile	£79.25	£69.65	£72.50
UK median hourly rate	£27.30	£24.34	£31.00
% change year-on-year	+12.16%	-21.48%	+12.73%

Data Sovereignty Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Sovereignty relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Sovereignty Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Sovereignty.

Data Sovereignty 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 Sovereignty within the England region over the 6 months to 22 October 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	-88	7	£525	+23.53%	26
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Data Sovereignty Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Sovereignty also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Data Sovereignty.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	85.7%	6
1	Azure	85.7%	6
1	GCP	85.7%	6
1	GDPR	85.7%	6
5	CI/CD	71.4%	5
6	ISO/IEC 27001	57.1%	4
6	SOC 2	57.1%	4
6	Zero Trust	57.1%	4
9	Cryptography	42.9%	3
9	Databricks	42.9%	3
9	DevOps	42.9%	3
9	Infrastructure as Code	42.9%	3
9	Key Management	42.9%	3
9	Snowflake	42.9%	3
9	TOGAF	42.9%	3
16	Apache Airflow	28.6%	2
16	Architectural Patterns	28.6%	2
16	AWS KMS	28.6%	2
16	Azure Key Vault	28.6%	2
16	California Consumer Privacy Act	28.6%	2
16	Cisco IPT	28.6%	2
16	CISM	28.6%	2
16	CISSP	28.6%	2
16	Data Loss Prevention	28.6%	2
16	Data Privacy	28.6%	2
16	Data Science	28.6%	2
16	Design Patterns	28.6%	2
16	DevSecOps	28.6%	2
16	Differential Privacy	28.6%	2
16	DORA	28.6%	2

Data Sovereignty Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Finance	28.6%	2
1	Inclusion and Diversity	28.6%	2
1	Legal	28.6%	2
1	Social Skills	28.6%	2
5	Analytical Skills	14.3%	1
5	Public Sector	14.3%	1