Data Security Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 121 103
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 17 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 0.44% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.50% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 15
10th Percentile £53,000 £53,950 £13,803
25th Percentile £59,375 £65,500 £40,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.78% -14.81%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £66,750 - £63,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% +10.00% -1.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 1,987 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.64% 88.27% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 840 1,199
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Security
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Security

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the East Midlands

Data Security
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincolnshire -18 5 - -
Nottinghamshire +24 4 £45,000 -5.26% 7
Northamptonshire - 4 £60,000 - 3
Leicestershire +5 3 £62,500 -10.71% 1
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Metadata
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Power Query
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) IT Manager
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Manager
2 8 (47.06%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 3 (17.65%) IT Operations Manager
4 3 (17.65%) IT Security Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Network Security Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Operational Security Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Operations Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Security Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (29.41%) People Management
2 4 (23.53%) CRM
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) ERP
3 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) Metadata Management
3 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
3 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) VMware