Data Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 451 468
Rank change year-on-year +84 +17 -90
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 240 202 465
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 187 156 271
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,823 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -0.79% +26.32%
75th Percentile £88,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,125 £97,290
UK median annual salary £67,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.27% -4.35% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,975 38,432 70,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.61% 96.05% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,429 26,704 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Security.

Data Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Security over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Data Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.25%) Apache
1 27 (11.25%) IIS
1 27 (11.25%) Tomcat
2 12 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.08%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 4 (1.67%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) Moodle
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (12.50%) NEC Housing
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) iTrent
3 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (37.92%) Azure
2 35 (14.58%) AWS
3 34 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 18 (7.50%) GCP
6 13 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.42%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.42%) SaaS
7 10 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.92%) Serverless
8 7 (2.92%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.50%) Matillion
10 4 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.67%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.00%) Firewall
2 7 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.50%) WAN
3 6 (2.50%) Wireshark
4 5 (2.08%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) DHCP
5 4 (1.67%) DNS
5 4 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.25%) VLAN
6 3 (1.25%) VoIP
6 3 (1.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.42%) HTTP
7 1 (0.42%) Internet
7 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.33%) SQL Server
2 32 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 20 (8.33%) Power BI
4 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.33%) Metadata
8 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.25%) MySQL
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.83%) Big Data
11 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Git
2 4 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 69 (28.75%) Finance
3 40 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.50%) Local Government
4 30 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 29 (12.08%) Police
6 18 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.00%) Banking
8 10 (4.17%) Retail
9 9 (3.75%) Law
9 9 (3.75%) Legal
9 9 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.92%) Back Office
10 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.92%) Marketing
11 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.08%) Billing
12 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.67%) Wearables
14 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.83%) Senior
2 34 (14.17%) Architect
3 29 (12.08%) Analyst
4 27 (11.25%) Applications Support
5 24 (10.00%) Lead
6 20 (8.33%) Administrator
7 18 (7.50%) DBA
7 18 (7.50%) Developer
8 14 (5.83%) Security Analyst
9 13 (5.42%) Security Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Data Architect
11 11 (4.58%) Enterprise Architect
11 11 (4.58%) Technical Support
12 10 (4.17%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Data Manager
12 10 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.75%) IT Manager
13 9 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
14 8 (3.33%) Senior Security Engineer
14 8 (3.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.92%) Web Services
2 18 (7.50%) .NET
3 11 (4.58%) .NET Framework
3 11 (4.58%) Entity Framework
4 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 8 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 8 (3.33%) Middleware
6 7 (2.92%) RESTful
7 6 (2.50%) Blazor
8 5 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (2.08%) Kafka
8 5 (2.08%) React
9 3 (1.25%) EDI
9 3 (1.25%) REST
9 3 (1.25%) SailPoint
10 2 (0.83%) CSS
10 2 (0.83%) HTML
10 2 (0.83%) SPFx
10 2 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.42%) Management Information System
2 34 (14.17%) Public Cloud
3 17 (7.08%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (3.33%) Housing Association
5 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.08%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) IoT
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.83%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.83%) NHS
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.25%) Windows
2 36 (15.00%) Linux
3 31 (12.92%) Solaris
3 31 (12.92%) Unix
4 7 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.67%) CentOS
5 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.67%) zOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.83%) Data Protection
2 38 (15.83%) ETL
3 37 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (15.42%) Information Security
4 36 (15.00%) Task Automation
5 32 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 30 (12.50%) Agile
6 30 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 30 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (11.67%) Data Management
7 28 (11.67%) Network Architecture
8 27 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (11.25%) Server Management
9 25 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 24 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 23 (9.58%) Incident Response
11 23 (9.58%) ITIL
12 22 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (9.17%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.42%) SQL
2 27 (11.25%) Shell Script
3 26 (10.83%) T-SQL
4 17 (7.08%) C#
5 9 (3.75%) Python
6 8 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.67%) Java
8 4 (1.67%) VBA
9 3 (1.25%) Scala
10 2 (0.83%) Gremlin
10 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Bicep
11 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (26.25%) Degree
2 32 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.00%) CISSP
4 14 (5.83%) CISM
4 14 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.92%) CEH
7 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.08%) OCA
7 5 (2.08%) OCP
7 5 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.25%) CCNA
8 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.25%) MCSE
8 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.83%) CCNP
9 2 (0.83%) CCSE
9 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (12.50%) GDPR
3 29 (12.08%) Accessibility
4 15 (6.25%) Data Quality
5 14 (5.83%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 9 (3.75%) GRC
9 8 (3.33%) NCSC
10 6 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (2.08%) ISO 9001
12 4 (1.67%) NIST
12 4 (1.67%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.83%) COBIT
13 2 (0.83%) QA
13 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.42%) GxP
14 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.92%) Docker
2 7 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.50%) CSIRT
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.08%) Data Guard
2 5 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (2.08%) PaperCut
3 4 (1.67%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.42%) DatAdvantage
5 1 (0.42%) QRadar
5 1 (0.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.25%) Oracle
3 30 (12.50%) NEC
4 15 (6.25%) Databricks
5 12 (5.00%) Google
5 12 (5.00%) Qualys
6 11 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.75%) Guidewire
8 8 (3.33%) SAP
9 7 (2.92%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.92%) VMware
10 4 (1.67%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.67%) Cisco
10 4 (1.67%) Splunk
11 3 (1.25%) Dell
11 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.25%) WatchGuard
12 2 (0.83%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.83%) RedGate
12 2 (0.83%) Varonis