Data Encryption Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 511 546
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 +220
Permanent jobs citing Data Encryption 4 58 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.16% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.18% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 4 46 8
10th Percentile £47,025 £66,060 £50,125
25th Percentile £48,938 £77,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +32.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50,938 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £52,625 £85,625 £68,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.00% -14.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Encryption 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,392 32,378 29,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.87% 88.54% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 19,133 14,700 21,744
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,375 £41,250 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Encryption relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Encryption job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Encryption
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Encryption.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England +13 4 £50,000 -24.66% 2
North West +23 2 £49,500 -25.41% 1
Yorkshire -11 2 £50,000 -47.17% 1
Data Encryption
UK

Data Encryption
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DMZ
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (75.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix