Data Security Jobs in the South East

Data Security
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 267 319
Rank change year-on-year +48 +52 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 89 132 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 0.78% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.93% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 73 48
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +53.85% -18.75%
75th Percentile £69,840 £92,500 £61,125
90th Percentile £75,199 £95,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,001
% change year-on-year -3.70% +18.42% -0.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,706 14,227 13,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.94% 84.24% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,173 9,849 7,822
10th Percentile £29,800 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Thames Valley +71 41 £62,500 +31.58% 30
Berkshire +59 30 £69,840 +47.03% 16
Hampshire +49 16 - - 9
West Sussex +40 16 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Surrey +34 12 £65,000 -21.21% 9
Oxfordshire +37 8 £62,500 -5.66% 14
Kent +27 4 £60,000 -15.49% 7
Buckinghamshire +22 3 £59,000 +43.03% 2
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (15.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Acrobat
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.37%) ResourceLink
3 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.60%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.11%) AWS
4 9 (10.11%) Google Workspace
5 7 (7.87%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (6.74%) GCP
7 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (3.37%) Alation
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.37%) dbt
9 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.25%) SaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.12%) IaaS
10 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) Intranet
2 2 (2.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.35%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (20.22%) Power BI
3 15 (16.85%) Oracle ODI
4 14 (15.73%) Big Data
4 14 (15.73%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.74%) Hadoop
5 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (6.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (5.62%) Tableau
7 4 (4.49%) Parquet
7 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.12%) MySQL
10 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Moq
1 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.12%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 38 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 34 (38.20%) Law
3 25 (28.09%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (23.60%) Finance
5 12 (13.48%) Retail
6 9 (10.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Billing
7 2 (2.25%) Games
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) Lead
2 15 (16.85%) Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Data Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Data Migration Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Migration Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Oracle Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 15 (16.85%) Technical Consultant
3 9 (10.11%) Compliance Advisor
3 9 (10.11%) Security Advisor
4 6 (6.74%) Analyst
4 6 (6.74%) Data Analytics Director
4 6 (6.74%) Senior
4 6 (6.74%) Vendor Manager
5 4 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (4.49%) Design Engineer
5 4 (4.49%) Development Engineer
5 4 (4.49%) Systems Manager
6 3 (3.37%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.87%) REST
3 6 (6.74%) Kafka
4 4 (4.49%) Pandas
5 3 (3.37%) OAuth
5 3 (3.37%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.37%) PySpark
6 2 (2.25%) .NET
6 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.25%) FHIR
7 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.12%) HTML
7 1 (1.12%) Jest
7 1 (1.12%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.12%) Playwright
7 1 (1.12%) pytest
7 1 (1.12%) React
7 1 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Data Structures
1 15 (16.85%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.11%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (10.11%) e-Learning
2 9 (10.11%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.46%) Agile
2 27 (30.34%) ETL
3 24 (26.97%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (24.72%) Project Management
5 21 (23.60%) User Experience
6 20 (22.47%) Data Governance
6 20 (22.47%) Digital Strategy
7 19 (21.35%) Data Analysis
7 19 (21.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 19 (21.35%) Process Improvement
7 19 (21.35%) Robotic Process Automation
8 18 (20.22%) Analytics
8 18 (20.22%) Migration
9 17 (19.10%) Validation
10 16 (17.98%) Data Modelling
11 15 (16.85%) Data Extraction
11 15 (16.85%) Data Migration
11 15 (16.85%) ERP
11 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.45%) SQL
2 19 (21.35%) PL/SQL
3 15 (16.85%) Python
4 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.62%) Bash
5 5 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.37%) C#
6 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) PMI Certification
1 19 (21.35%) PMP
2 17 (19.10%) Degree
3 10 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.87%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.47%) GDPR
2 11 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (11.24%) Data Quality
4 9 (10.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (10.11%) PCI DSS
4 9 (10.11%) PERC
5 7 (7.87%) Accessibility
6 6 (6.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (4.49%) QA
8 2 (2.25%) NIST
9 1 (1.12%) CDISC
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Concur
1 19 (21.35%) Oracle
1 19 (21.35%) SAP
1 19 (21.35%) Workday
2 15 (16.85%) Google
3 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.11%) Adobe
4 9 (10.11%) OneTrust
5 3 (3.37%) Cognos
6 2 (2.25%) BT
7 1 (1.12%) Databricks
7 1 (1.12%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.12%) Veeam
7 1 (1.12%) VMware