Data Security Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Security
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 150 143
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 +113
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 29 20 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.80% 0.48% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.59% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 41
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,050 £45,321
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -17.31% +57.36%
75th Percentile £83,500 £55,625 £84,056
90th Percentile £92,500 £59,825 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,135 3,395 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.24% 80.81% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 1,431 2,246
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £83,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Security
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Security

Data Security
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in Yorkshire

Data Security
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Yorkshire +13 29 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (37.93%) Apache Spark
2 8 (27.59%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
3 8 (27.59%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
4 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
6 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (10.34%) dbt
8 2 (6.90%) Azure App Service
8 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) DHCP
2 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) Network Security
2 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (27.59%) Data Lake
1 8 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.69%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Iceberg
3 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
4 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.24%) Tech for Good
4 4 (13.79%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Data Engineer
2 11 (37.93%) Senior
2 11 (37.93%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) IT Support
4 4 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 4 (13.79%) IT Manager
4 4 (13.79%) IT Support Manager
4 4 (13.79%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (13.79%) IT Technician
4 4 (13.79%) Principal Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Support Manager
4 4 (13.79%) Support Technician
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Principal Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 3 (10.34%) Pandas
3 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (58.62%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (48.28%) Migration
4 13 (44.83%) Mentoring
5 11 (37.93%) Analytics
5 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
5 11 (37.93%) Data Modelling
6 10 (34.48%) Data Engineering
7 9 (31.03%) Machine Learning
8 8 (27.59%) Data Migration
8 8 (27.59%) ETL
9 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (20.69%) AI
10 6 (20.69%) Data Science
10 6 (20.69%) DevOps
11 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
12 4 (13.79%) Case Management
12 4 (13.79%) IT Asset Management
12 4 (13.79%) Server Management
12 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Python
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
2 4 (13.79%) VBA
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) Databricks
3 4 (13.79%) Adobe
3 4 (13.79%) Citrix
3 4 (13.79%) VMware
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 3 (10.34%) Palantir