Data Encryption
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Encryption skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Encryption over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 915 1159
Rank change year-on-year +57 +244 -298
Permanent jobs citing Data Encryption 56 49 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.047% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.050% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 46 48 25
10th Percentile £55,625 £44,250 £31,600
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,763 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.50% +24.51% -21.63%
75th Percentile £94,375 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £81,375 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% +32.28% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Encryption 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Encryption as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Encryption.

Salary trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +110 51 £75,000 +7.14% 12
Work from Home +78 30 £88,000 +47.83% 11
UK excluding London -1 27 £65,000 +9.20% 10
London +119 21 £90,000 +28.57% 3
South East +35 13 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Scotland -63 5 £75,000 +26.00% 1
South West -24 4 £65,000 +9.20% 1
Yorkshire +86 3 £32,500 -45.40% 1
North of England +43 3 £32,500 -45.40% 3
Midlands +17 2 £53,750 -8.51% 1
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 1

Data Encryption
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) PaaS
3 11 (19.64%) AWS
4 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (16.07%) SaaS
6 8 (14.29%) IaaS
6 8 (14.29%) Serverless
7 7 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (7.14%) Azure API Management
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) Network Security
3 6 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (7.14%) Internet
4 4 (7.14%) VPN
4 4 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (39.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (12.50%) Power BI
4 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Android Studio
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 20 (35.71%) Banking
3 9 (16.07%) Law
3 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.93%) Games
6 4 (7.14%) Legal
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Publishing
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Senior
3 10 (17.86%) Architect
3 10 (17.86%) Lead
4 8 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 8 (14.29%) Resilience Manager
4 8 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 6 (10.71%) Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Security Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Android Developer
7 4 (7.14%) CISSP Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Android Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) Middleware
2 12 (21.43%) .NET
3 8 (14.29%) Kafka
3 8 (14.29%) Web Services
4 6 (10.71%) RESTful
5 4 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.36%) CSS
6 3 (5.36%) CSS3
6 3 (5.36%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.36%) HTML
6 3 (5.36%) HTML5
6 3 (5.36%) React
6 3 (5.36%) Vue
7 1 (1.79%) ADO
7 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 8 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 8 (14.29%) Data Fabric
3 8 (14.29%) Replication
4 5 (8.93%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.36%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.79%) FPGA
8 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Windows
2 8 (14.29%) CentOS
2 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Solaris
2 8 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 8 (14.29%) Unix
2 8 (14.29%) zOS
3 4 (7.14%) Android
3 4 (7.14%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) CI/CD
1 18 (32.14%) Data Security
2 17 (30.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (28.57%) DevOps
4 15 (26.79%) ETL
5 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
6 12 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (19.64%) Agile
8 10 (17.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
9 9 (16.07%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (16.07%) Patch Management
9 9 (16.07%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (16.07%) SIEM
9 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.29%) Batch Processing
10 8 (14.29%) Data Lineage
10 8 (14.29%) Key Management
10 8 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
11 7 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.36%) C#
5 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) CISSP
3 8 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (12.50%) Master's Degree
5 6 (10.71%) CISA
6 5 (8.93%) CISM
6 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.57%) CRISC
8 2 (3.57%) FFIEC
8 2 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (3.57%) SANS
9 1 (1.79%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (10.71%) NIST
1 6 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (5.36%) GDPR
4 3 (5.36%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.57%) COBIT
5 2 (3.57%) GLBA
5 2 (3.57%) NCSC
5 2 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Suricata
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) IBM
2 8 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.93%) Palo Alto
4 4 (7.14%) Cisco
4 4 (7.14%) Juniper
4 4 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Citrix
5 1 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.79%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.79%) SAP