Data Security Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Security
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.32% - 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £39,069 - £41,450
25th Percentile £43,297 - £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,216 - £51,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +140.70%
75th Percentile £67,756 - £57,875
90th Percentile £73,557 - £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £46,250 £72,349
% change year-on-year +29.73% -36.07% +60.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 458 483 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 72.70% 89.28% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 341 182 438
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,424 £82,500 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Security job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Security
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Security

Data Security
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Security in South Yorkshire

Data Security
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Barnsley - 1 £37,500 -
Sheffield - 1 £70,932 - 2
Data Security
Yorkshire

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Document Management
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft