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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 129 177
Rank change year-on-year -43 +48 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 27 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.43% 0.67% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.71% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 23
10th Percentile - £46,500 £25,220
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +27.78% -24.40%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £49,250
90th Percentile £77,424 £94,000 £54,200
England median annual salary £63,478 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -3.70% +17.39%

All Process & 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 4,384 2,387 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.29% 94.27% 82.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,877 1,268 3,722
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
West Yorkshire -39 12 £57,000 -0.87% 3
South Yorkshire -32 6 £62,500 +7.30% 4
North Yorkshire - 5 £72,500 - 1
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 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) Smartsheet
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) AWS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.41%) IaaS
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
1 7 (25.93%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Advertising
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Head of Projects
1 5 (18.52%) Lead
1 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) IT Support
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.70%) DBA
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) FHIR
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (29.63%) Waterfall
3 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Business Case
5 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
5 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (18.52%) Gantt Chart
5 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
5 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2
5 5 (18.52%) Project Management
5 5 (18.52%) Release Management
5 5 (18.52%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (18.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) PMI Certification
2 5 (18.52%) PMP
3 3 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (11.11%) CCSP
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CISSP
3 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GRC
2 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) HL7
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) OutSystems
3 1 (3.70%) Palantir