Data Security Jobs in South Wales

Data Security
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 97 100
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 2 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.23% 0.39% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile - - £46,700
25th Percentile £77,500 £44,851 £52,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,604 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +71.66% -26.90% +27.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £52,589 £75,000
90th Percentile - £67,625 £75,750
Wales median annual salary £80,000 £46,604 £27,500
% change year-on-year +71.66% +69.47% -45.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 719 1,186 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.36% 76.57% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 425 776 557
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,750 £61,250 £64,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,433 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in South Wales

Data Security
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Security in South Wales

Data Security
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cardiff +36 2 £80,000 +21.67% 9
Data Security
Wales

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Engineering
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Stewardship
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality