Data Encryption
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Encryption skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Encryption over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 839 921 1154
Rank change year-on-year +82 +233 -278
Permanent jobs citing Data Encryption 51 56 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.056% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.059% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 40 55 27
10th Percentile £61,750 £46,418 £33,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,526 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +24.01% -23.20%
75th Percentile £92,750 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £122,536 £77,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% +32.28% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Encryption 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Encryption in the UK

Data Encryption
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Encryption within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 +85 46 £75,000 +26.00% 6
Work from Home +71 30 £88,000 +47.83% 8
UK excluding London -29 26 £65,000 +9.20% 6
London +97 17 £102,500 +46.43% 1
South East +12 14 £65,000 +13.04%
Scotland -63 5 £75,000 +26.00% 1
South West -26 4 £65,000 +9.20% 1
Yorkshire +82 3 £32,500 -45.40%
North of England +46 3 £32,500 -45.40% 1

Data Encryption
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 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) PaaS
3 11 (21.57%) AWS
4 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) IaaS
5 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (13.73%) SaaS
6 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.80%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (9.80%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.88%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Firewall
2 7 (13.73%) Network Security
3 5 (9.80%) Internet
3 5 (9.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (9.80%) VPN
4 4 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (13.73%) Power BI
4 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Android Studio
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
General
1 21 (41.18%) Finance
2 20 (39.22%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Law
4 8 (15.69%) Financial Institution
5 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
6 5 (9.80%) Games
7 4 (7.84%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Lead
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Data Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Resilience Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Technical Leader
5 6 (11.76%) Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) Security Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Android Developer
7 4 (7.84%) CISSP Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Android Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) Middleware
2 10 (19.61%) .NET
3 9 (17.65%) Web Services
4 8 (15.69%) Kafka
5 4 (7.84%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (7.84%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.88%) CSS
6 3 (5.88%) CSS3
6 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.88%) HTML
6 3 (5.88%) HTML5
6 3 (5.88%) React
6 3 (5.88%) Vue
7 1 (1.96%) ADO
7 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (21.57%) Management Information System
3 8 (15.69%) Cyberattack
3 8 (15.69%) Data Fabric
3 8 (15.69%) Replication
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
4 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.96%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) CentOS
2 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) Solaris
2 8 (15.69%) Ubuntu
2 8 (15.69%) Unix
2 8 (15.69%) zOS
3 5 (9.80%) Kali Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Android
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Data Security
2 17 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 14 (27.45%) Computer Science
4 14 (27.45%) ETL
5 13 (25.49%) DevOps
6 12 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (19.61%) Patch Management
7 10 (19.61%) SIEM
8 9 (17.65%) Agile
8 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 9 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (15.69%) Application Security
9 8 (15.69%) Batch Processing
9 8 (15.69%) Data Lineage
9 8 (15.69%) Key Management
9 8 (15.69%) Target Operating Model
9 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
9 8 (15.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 7 (13.73%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 7 (13.73%) Python
3 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.84%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.88%) C#
5 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) CISSP
3 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (13.73%) Master's Degree
5 6 (11.76%) CISA
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
6 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
6 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
7 4 (7.84%) CISM
8 2 (3.92%) CRISC
8 2 (3.92%) FFIEC
8 2 (3.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (3.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (13.73%) NIST
1 7 (13.73%) PCI DSS
2 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.92%) COBIT
5 2 (3.92%) GLBA
5 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Suricata
2 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) IBM
2 8 (15.69%) ServiceNow
3 6 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 5 (9.80%) Cisco
4 5 (9.80%) Juniper
4 5 (9.80%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix
5 1 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.96%) SAP