Data Security Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 168 205
Rank change year-on-year -40 +37 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 68 58 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 1.03% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.19% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 45 51 33
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -15.90% +18.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £57,500 £70,400
90th Percentile - £67,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +17.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,067 4,884 7,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.17% 86.84% 79.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,838 2,826 3,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £46,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -7.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,700
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Security
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Security

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -34 54 £59,250 +10.75% 26
East Midlands -38 14 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 27 (39.71%) Azure
3 16 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (7.35%) PaaS
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.94%) AWS
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.47%) dbt
9 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) LAN
2 1 (1.47%) VLAN
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) WAN
2 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.18%) Power BI
2 14 (20.59%) Tableau
3 13 (19.12%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (13.24%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.35%) Big Data
5 5 (7.35%) Data Mining
5 5 (7.35%) Oracle BI EE
5 5 (7.35%) QlikView
6 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.47%) EDMS
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Finance
4 11 (16.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (10.29%) Marketing
5 7 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Legal
6 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.35%) Retail
7 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Automotive
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Data Engineer
2 17 (25.00%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Azure Data Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Kafka Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Python Data Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Python Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Lead
5 9 (13.24%) Data Manager
6 7 (10.29%) Data Governance Analyst
6 7 (10.29%) Data Governance Manager
6 7 (10.29%) Governance Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) IT Support
9 3 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Head of Business Intelligence
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) Kafka
1 13 (19.12%) Keycloak
2 5 (7.35%) PyTorch
2 5 (7.35%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.47%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
4 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
5 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (7.35%) Reference Data
6 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.94%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.94%) Digital Signage
8 2 (2.94%) EPoS
8 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Analytics
2 27 (39.71%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (36.76%) Data Governance
4 24 (35.29%) ETL
5 23 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (32.35%) AI
7 19 (27.94%) Data Management
8 18 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (23.53%) Decision-Making
10 15 (22.06%) Roadmaps
10 15 (22.06%) Workflow
11 13 (19.12%) DevOps
11 13 (19.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (19.12%) ETL Development
11 13 (19.12%) Project Management
12 12 (17.65%) Visualisation
13 11 (16.18%) Data Protection
14 9 (13.24%) Data Architecture
14 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) Go
3 10 (14.71%) SQL
4 5 (7.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (7.35%) Java
4 5 (7.35%) R
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) Azure Certification
2 13 (19.12%) Degree
2 13 (19.12%) DV Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) CCNA
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.47%) CITP
3 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.88%) GDPR
2 20 (29.41%) Data Quality
3 7 (10.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (4.41%) PERC
7 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Databricks
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco
3 1 (1.47%) Citrix
3 1 (1.47%) Planon
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce