Data Security Jobs

Data Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 344 491
Rank change year-on-year -20 +147 -70
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 472 483 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.91% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 250 341 371
10th Percentile £42,950 £32,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +4.19%
75th Percentile £93,438 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £97,500 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.98% +6.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,910 53,276 102,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.01% 90.42% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25,957 38,478 64,616
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,716 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.35% -5.97% +10.00%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security over the 6 months to 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the UK

Data Security
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the UK over the 6 months to 16 January 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
England -36 429 £66,184 +10.31% 184
UK excluding London -39 286 £60,000 +4.35% 100
London +22 166 £90,000 +20.00% 97
Work from Home +41 160 £67,328 +17.09% 119
South East -32 79 £80,000 +39.13% 23
North of England -29 66 £50,000 -21.26% 31
Midlands -30 57 £52,500 -6.67% 16
West Midlands -30 47 £52,500 +15.38% 10
North West -17 43 £50,000 -16.67% 16
South West +2 34 £44,000 -4.86% 10
East of England -40 17 £58,750 +20.51% 9
Scotland +18 16 £80,000 +0.46% 13
Yorkshire +7 16 £46,250 -36.07% 10
Wales +28 13 £65,000 +3.19%
East Midlands -29 10 £66,000 +14.78% 6
North East -11 7 £41,250 -57.69% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (5.72%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.87%) Apache
3 21 (4.45%) Apache Spark
4 19 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.85%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.64%) Confluence
7 3 (0.64%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (8.69%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.54%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.12%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 153 (32.42%) Azure
2 95 (20.13%) Power Platform
3 77 (16.31%) AWS
4 68 (14.41%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (11.02%) GCP
6 36 (7.63%) SaaS
7 35 (7.42%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (5.51%) Serverless
9 25 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (3.60%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.97%) GitHub
13 13 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.75%) Google Workspace
14 11 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.12%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.90%) Firewall
2 25 (5.30%) Network Security
3 16 (3.39%) WAN
4 13 (2.75%) LAN
5 12 (2.54%) Intranet
6 8 (1.69%) Broadband
7 7 (1.48%) DNS
8 6 (1.27%) Bluetooth
8 6 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.27%) VLAN
9 5 (1.06%) BGP
9 5 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.06%) NAS
9 5 (1.06%) SAN
10 4 (0.85%) DHCP
10 4 (0.85%) Internet
11 3 (0.64%) VPN
12 2 (0.42%) HTTP
12 2 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.47%) Power BI
2 65 (13.77%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (7.20%) Tableau
4 33 (6.99%) Data Lake
5 29 (6.14%) Big Data
6 26 (5.51%) Qlik Sense
7 22 (4.66%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.39%) Hadoop
9 14 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (2.75%) NoSQL
11 12 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (2.12%) Metadata
13 9 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
16 5 (1.06%) DynamoDB
16 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (2.54%) JIRA
2 8 (1.69%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) GitLab
3 4 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.42%) Flyway
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.42%) MLflow
4 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 173 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.28%) Finance
3 76 (16.10%) Legal
4 67 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.63%) Manufacturing
6 35 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (6.57%) Retail
8 22 (4.66%) Law
9 16 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.12%) Electronics
10 10 (2.12%) Marketing
11 8 (1.69%) Games
12 7 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.06%) Billing
14 5 (1.06%) Military
14 5 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 56 (11.86%) Senior
2 47 (9.96%) IT Manager
3 46 (9.75%) Architect
4 43 (9.11%) Data Engineer
5 33 (6.99%) Lead
6 29 (6.14%) Analyst
6 29 (6.14%) Data Architect
7 18 (3.81%) Head of IT
8 16 (3.39%) Developer
9 15 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (2.75%) Senior Manager
11 12 (2.54%) Security Analyst
12 11 (2.33%) Security Advisor
12 11 (2.33%) Security Manager
12 11 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.12%) Administrator
13 10 (2.12%) Compliance Advisor
13 10 (2.12%) Database Manager
14 9 (1.91%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (1.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.20%) HTML
2 16 (3.39%) Kafka
3 15 (3.18%) .NET
3 15 (3.18%) RESTful
4 8 (1.69%) CSS
4 8 (1.69%) Django
5 7 (1.48%) PySpark
5 7 (1.48%) Web Services
6 6 (1.27%) SOAP
6 6 (1.27%) WebSockets
7 5 (1.06%) JSON
7 5 (1.06%) NumPy
7 5 (1.06%) Pandas
8 4 (0.85%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.64%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.64%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.64%) SciPy
10 2 (0.42%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.42%) Middleware
10 2 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.08%) Management Information System
2 35 (7.42%) Security Posture
3 26 (5.51%) Cyberattack
4 17 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.91%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
10 8 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.27%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.27%) IoT
12 5 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.85%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.71%) Windows
2 39 (8.26%) Windows Server
3 34 (7.20%) Linux
4 13 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.91%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.85%) Android
9 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.42%) Unix
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (25.85%) Analytics
2 112 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (22.88%) Cybersecurity
4 93 (19.70%) Data Protection
5 92 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
7 83 (17.58%) Data Governance
8 77 (16.31%) Risk Management
9 66 (13.98%) Mentoring
10 63 (13.35%) Change Management
11 62 (13.14%) Decision-Making
11 62 (13.14%) Information Security
12 61 (12.92%) Computer Science
12 61 (12.92%) Data Engineering
13 60 (12.71%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (12.50%) Data Analytics
15 56 (11.86%) Data Management
16 55 (11.65%) Data Privacy
17 53 (11.23%) CI/CD
18 52 (11.02%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (24.58%) SQL
2 81 (17.16%) Python
3 41 (8.69%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.51%) VBA
5 16 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.18%) Java
7 14 (2.97%) C#
7 14 (2.97%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.75%) C++
9 9 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.91%) Scala
10 8 (1.69%) Bash
11 7 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.27%) C
12 6 (1.27%) Ladder Logic
12 6 (1.27%) R
13 1 (0.21%) Bicep
13 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) Go
13 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 108 (22.88%) Degree
2 41 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 29 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 28 (5.93%) CISA
6 26 (5.51%) CCAB
7 19 (4.03%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (2.54%) CISSP
10 10 (2.12%) CEH
10 10 (2.12%) SC Cleared
11 9 (1.91%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.91%) CISM
11 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.91%) OSCP
12 7 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.27%) CCSP
13 6 (1.27%) GCIH
13 6 (1.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (19.28%) GDPR
2 62 (13.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (9.32%) Data Quality
4 43 (9.11%) QA
5 41 (8.69%) NIST
6 39 (8.26%) PCI DSS
7 32 (6.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (5.51%) ITGC
9 17 (3.60%) PERC
10 13 (2.75%) SLA
11 10 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (2.12%) NIST 800
12 8 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.48%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
14 5 (1.06%) COBIT
14 5 (1.06%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.85%) FedRAMP
15 4 (0.85%) GRC
16 3 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (7.42%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.75%) Docker
4 6 (1.27%) XenApp
5 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.64%) KVM
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.69%) CASB
2 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.69%) Terraform
3 7 (1.48%) Autotask
3 7 (1.48%) vCenter Server
4 6 (1.27%) CSIRT
4 6 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.64%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.21%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 125 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.17%) Databricks
3 42 (8.90%) Google
4 24 (5.08%) VMware
5 21 (4.45%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.60%) Cisco
7 15 (3.18%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.54%) Adobe
8 12 (2.54%) LogicMonitor
8 12 (2.54%) OneTrust
8 12 (2.54%) SAP
8 12 (2.54%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.33%) Meraki
10 10 (2.12%) Veeam
11 9 (1.91%) Citrix
11 9 (1.91%) Oracle
12 7 (1.48%) Datto
12 7 (1.48%) IBM
13 6 (1.27%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.27%) Siemens