Data Security Jobs in the North of England

Data Security
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 261 361
Rank change year-on-year -37 +100 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 41 131 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 0.75% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.90% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 35 76 41
10th Percentile £45,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,624 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £62,833
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,048 14,622 16,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.38% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,724 11,233 7,867
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the North of England

Data Security
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
North West -46 21 £66,367 +32.73% 27
Yorkshire +42 17 £57,500 +27.78% 27
North East +33 3 £51,500 +22.62% 12
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
2 8 (19.51%) Apache
3 3 (7.32%) SAS
4 2 (4.88%) Confluence
4 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) AWS
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
2 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (19.51%) GCP
2 8 (19.51%) Serverless
3 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.44%) OCI
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
3 5 (12.20%) Oracle Database
4 4 (9.76%) MySQL
5 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.32%) Power BI
5 3 (7.32%) Star Schema
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.88%) Flink
7 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
3 6 (14.63%) Legal
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Back Office
5 2 (4.88%) Games
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Data Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Data Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 6 (14.63%) Resilience Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Data Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Lead Security Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) Middleware
2 3 (7.32%) .NET
3 2 (4.88%) CSS
3 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.88%) HTML
3 2 (4.88%) RESTful
3 2 (4.88%) Spring
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) PDA
3 2 (4.88%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.44%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (34.15%) Analytics
3 9 (21.95%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (19.51%) Migration
5 7 (17.07%) Data Migration
5 7 (17.07%) Data Science
5 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
6 6 (14.63%) Commercialisation
6 6 (14.63%) Data Encryption
6 6 (14.63%) Data Lineage
6 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
6 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (14.63%) ETL
6 6 (14.63%) Target Operating Model
6 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) SQL
2 14 (34.15%) Python
3 5 (12.20%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) Progress 4GL
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
1 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) CISA
3 1 (2.44%) CISM
3 1 (2.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.44%) HND
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.32%) Databricks
3 3 (7.32%) Palantir
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Capita
5 1 (2.44%) Meraki
5 1 (2.44%) Progress
5 1 (2.44%) SAP