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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 152 213
Rank change year-on-year -40 +61 +72
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 51 62 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 1.29% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.42% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 39 52 67
10th Percentile £31,000 £46,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +7.98%
75th Percentile £63,000 £64,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £68,250 £80,000 £101,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £66,367 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.58% +15.42% -4.17%

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 8,085 4,362 8,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.17% 90.74% 83.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,675 2,575 6,801
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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
East Midlands -21 29 £55,000 +15.79% 9
West Midlands -43 22 £56,250 +7.14% 9
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 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) SAP HCM
1 4 (7.84%) SAP HR
1 4 (7.84%) SAP Payroll
1 4 (7.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (13.73%) AWS
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (5.88%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.96%) OCI
8 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DHCP
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Data Lake
2 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
4 2 (3.92%) DB2
4 2 (3.92%) Easytrieve
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.96%) Metadata
5 1 (1.96%) Power Query
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.84%) Retail
7 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) IT Manager
2 9 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) Lead
3 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 8 (15.69%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) IT Support
5 4 (7.84%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) SAP Support
5 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.88%) IT Operations Manager
6 3 (5.88%) IT Security Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Network Security Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Operational Security Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (5.88%) Security Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) EDI
2 4 (7.84%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (3.92%) .NET
3 2 (3.92%) ISPF
4 1 (1.96%) JSON
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Driving Licence
1 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) NHS
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Project Management
2 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (23.53%) PRINCE2
4 10 (19.61%) Agile
4 10 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (19.61%) Data Governance
5 8 (15.69%) CRM
5 8 (15.69%) Data Management
5 8 (15.69%) Data Strategy
5 8 (15.69%) ERP
5 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
6 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
6 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
6 7 (13.73%) ETL
6 7 (13.73%) IT Strategy
6 7 (13.73%) Time Management
7 6 (11.76%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) ABAP
3 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.92%) Assembly Language
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) COBOL
4 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.92%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) CITP
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) MCDST
3 1 (1.96%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) GDPR
2 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (5.88%) PMO
4 3 (5.88%) QA
5 2 (3.92%) PERC
6 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Planon
2 6 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 4 (7.84%) VMware
4 3 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) Databricks
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow