Data Security Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 133 148
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Security 72 31 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.55% 0.86% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 0.99% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 16 22
10th Percentile £386 £306 £350
25th Percentile £437 £456 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.94% -6.57%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £629
90th Percentile £700 £744 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -5.45% +3.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £19.46 - -
25th Percentile £20.15 - -
Median hourly rate £21.30 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.71 - £49.75
% change year-on-year - - +163.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,118 3,133 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.90% 86.57% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,786 2,758
10th Percentile £215 £263 £288
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 160 186
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +2.22% +28.95%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.45 £67.57 £62.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Security

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire +1 55 £518 +3.50% 11
North West -23 16 £457 -23.88% 14
North East -12 1 £388 - 2
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (8.33%) TPMS
2 5 (6.94%) Apache
2 5 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) AWS
2 31 (43.06%) GCP
3 28 (38.89%) Serverless
4 7 (9.72%) Azure
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.94%) GitHub
6 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) SNMP
1 6 (8.33%) SSH
1 6 (8.33%) SSL
2 4 (5.56%) Internet
2 4 (5.56%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
4 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) NoSQL
2 13 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.94%) MySQL
3 5 (6.94%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.17%) Apache Hive
4 3 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.17%) HBase
5 2 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (31.94%) GitLab
3 18 (25.00%) Liquibase
4 5 (6.94%) PyCharm
5 3 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 45 (62.50%) Finance
2 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
3 28 (38.89%) Banking
4 20 (27.78%) Financial Institution
5 15 (20.83%) Public Sector
6 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Legal
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 11 (15.28%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Cryptography Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Architect
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Hadoop Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (37.50%) REST
2 23 (31.94%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (31.94%) RESTful
3 5 (6.94%) NumPy
3 5 (6.94%) Pandas
3 5 (6.94%) TensorFlow
4 3 (4.17%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (2.78%) Django
5 2 (2.78%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.78%) Flash
5 2 (2.78%) Flask
5 2 (2.78%) Kafka
5 2 (2.78%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (2.78%) Vue
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.39%) Node.js
6 1 (1.39%) React
6 1 (1.39%) Spring
6 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 23 (31.94%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (30.56%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.72%) Algorithms
5 6 (8.33%) NHS
6 4 (5.56%) Clustering
6 4 (5.56%) Online Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.78%) Blockchain
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (44.44%) Linux
2 10 (13.89%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (48.61%) CI/CD
3 34 (47.22%) DevOps
4 32 (44.44%) Agile
5 29 (40.28%) Computer Science
5 29 (40.28%) Cryptography
5 29 (40.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (38.89%) Microservices
7 27 (37.50%) Containerisation
8 26 (36.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (31.94%) Cost Optimisation
10 22 (30.56%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (29.17%) Software Engineering
12 20 (27.78%) High Availability
13 19 (26.39%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (26.39%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (26.39%) Non-Functional Testing
14 18 (25.00%) Change Management
15 16 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (19.44%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.17%) Python
2 25 (34.72%) Go
3 10 (13.89%) SQL
4 9 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) Rust
6 2 (2.78%) Solidity
7 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (41.67%) Degree
2 22 (30.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (29.17%) Master's Degree
4 12 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.33%) FFIEC
6 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.56%) CISSP
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) CISA
8 3 (4.17%) CISM
9 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.78%) CBAP
9 2 (2.78%) CCSK
9 2 (2.78%) CCSP
9 2 (2.78%) CEH
9 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.78%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) GDPR
2 12 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 10 (13.89%) NIST
4 6 (8.33%) GLBA
5 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.78%) PSD2
7 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.39%) GRC
8 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.39%) QA
8 1 (1.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) HDFS
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Terraform
2 28 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 26 (36.11%) Ansible
4 24 (33.33%) Grafana
5 23 (31.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.17%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (4.17%) Puppet
6 3 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) Splunk
2 18 (25.00%) Google
3 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.94%) Thales
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) Delphix
5 2 (2.78%) IBM
5 2 (2.78%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow