Data Security Jobs in the South West

Data Security
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 221 246
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 48 57 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.80% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.85% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 37 29 49
10th Percentile £12,000 - £34,900
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £27,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -46.60% +14.44%
75th Percentile £61,750 £42,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £63,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.74% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,687 6,704 7,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.34% 94.56% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,554 3,713 4,976
10th Percentile £28,833 £30,500 £30,966
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,056
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the South West

Data Security
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +17 19 £59,500 +19.00% 5
Wiltshire 0 8 £55,000 +64.18%
Cornwall - 7 £37,500 - 1
Somerset +7 5 £12,000 -46.67% 1
Dorset -17 3 £38,500 - 1
Gloucestershire -30 3 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Devon -24 2 £32,500 +18.18% 2
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.33%) CMS
2 4 (8.33%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.83%) OneDrive
4 8 (16.67%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.42%) PowerApps
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) LAN
2 9 (18.75%) DHCP
2 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 9 (18.75%) IPsec
2 9 (18.75%) VLAN
2 9 (18.75%) VPN
2 9 (18.75%) WAN
2 9 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (10.42%) Firewall
4 4 (8.33%) Network Security
4 4 (8.33%) Wireless
5 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 8 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (16.67%) Looker
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.17%) Power BI
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Architect
2 9 (18.75%) Data Architect
3 8 (16.67%) IT Support
4 6 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (8.33%) Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Field Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Service Desk Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Administrator
8 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Administrator
8 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) .NET
1 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (8.33%) Blazor
1 4 (8.33%) Entity Framework
2 3 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) SOAP
3 1 (2.08%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (14.58%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.42%) Clustering
3 5 (10.42%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 4 (8.33%) Replication
5 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.17%) PKI
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 9 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 15 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 10 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (20.83%) Innovative Thinking
5 9 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 9 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 8 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 8 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 8 (16.67%) DevOps
6 8 (16.67%) ERD
6 8 (16.67%) ETL
6 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
8 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 5 (10.42%) Application Security
9 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.42%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) SQL
2 4 (8.33%) C#
3 3 (6.25%) Python
4 2 (4.17%) C
4 2 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.17%) R
4 2 (4.17%) Scala
4 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.17%) CISA
3 2 (4.17%) CISM
3 2 (4.17%) CISSP
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) CRISC
3 2 (4.17%) SANS
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 8 (16.67%) GDPR
2 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.42%) SOC 1
2 5 (10.42%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) HP Fortify
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (14.58%) Cisco
3 7 (14.58%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Veracode
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks