Data Security Jobs in the North West

Data Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 225 255
Rank change year-on-year -53 +30 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 21 73 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.73% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.89% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 15 50 17
10th Percentile £40,209 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,124 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% - -22.48%
75th Percentile £80,625 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,375 £62,833
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,729 8,213 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.82% 82.46% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 6,229 3,873
10th Percentile £26,092 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester +11 15 £66,367 -8.46% 17
Cheshire -3 4 £68,750 +52.78% 6
Lancashire -73 1 £51,498 +14.44% 8
Cumbria - 1 £35,698 -
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (14.29%) SAS
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Legal
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Back Office
4 2 (9.52%) Games
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Manager
2 6 (28.57%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) Resilience Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Head of IT
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Logistics
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Supply Chain
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Middleware
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) CSS
3 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.52%) HTML
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) PDA
3 2 (9.52%) Sports Betting
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) Housing Association
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Analytics
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Commercialisation
2 6 (28.57%) Data Encryption
2 6 (28.57%) Data Lineage
2 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (28.57%) Target Operating Model
2 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 4 (19.05%) Mathematics
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
4 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Progress 4GL
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Capita
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) Progress
5 1 (4.76%) SAP