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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 133 173
Rank change year-on-year -39 +40 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 26 19 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.71% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.76% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 22
10th Percentile £36,500 £46,750 £25,048
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -24.40%
75th Percentile £69,375 £62,500 £50,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £92,000 £54,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +21.62%

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 4,542 2,493 4,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.77% 93.79% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 1,208 3,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 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 30 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 -40 10 £47,500 -17.39% 6
South Yorkshire -30 6 £62,500 +7.30% 2
North Yorkshire - 5 £72,500 - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £26,234 - 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:

Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) Smartsheet
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) MailChimp
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.85%) Metadata
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
3 4 (15.38%) Advertising
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Head of Projects
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (15.38%) Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) IT Support
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.69%) IT Operations Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) DBA
5 1 (3.85%) Network Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) FHIR
1 1 (3.85%) PySpark
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (26.92%) AI
4 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Business Case
5 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
5 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Gantt Chart
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
5 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
5 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Project Management
5 5 (19.23%) Release Management
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (19.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (19.23%) Scrum
5 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) PMI Certification
2 5 (19.23%) PMP
3 4 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (15.38%) CCSP
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (15.38%) CISSP
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) GRC
2 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (15.38%) NIST
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) QA
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) HL7
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) DocuSign
3 1 (3.85%) OutSystems