Data Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 359 445
Rank change year-on-year +19 +86 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 259 502 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.77% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 172 305 229
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £49,187 £41,732 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -10.43%
75th Percentile £69,840 £85,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.17% -7.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,272 65,552 52,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.80% 80.15% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,777 44,406 28,140
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the UK excluding London

Data Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
South East +50 103 £65,000 -14.75% 252
Midlands +57 69 £55,000 -9.84% 166
West Midlands +52 60 £55,000 -15.38% 89
North of England -39 40 £57,500 +21.05% 266
Yorkshire +40 21 £57,500 +27.78% 102
South West +91 20 £75,000 +57.89% 113
East of England +35 17 £50,000 -4.76% 119
North West -43 17 £52,500 - 135
East Midlands +31 9 £35,500 -29.00% 77
Scotland +97 5 £56,250 +54.11% 59
North East +42 2 £65,750 +56.55% 29
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 18
Wales +34 1 £80,000 +71.66% 39
Data Security
UK

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (11.58%) Apache Spark
2 17 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (5.41%) Apache
4 11 (4.25%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.16%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 16 (6.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.79%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (5.79%) SAP HCM
2 15 (5.79%) SAP HR
2 15 (5.79%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (2.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.32%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.54%) ResourceLink
5 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (34.75%) Azure
2 43 (16.60%) Power Platform
3 42 (16.22%) AWS
4 33 (12.74%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.49%) GCP
6 21 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 19 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.79%) Serverless
8 15 (5.79%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (5.02%) Snowflake
10 11 (4.25%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (4.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (3.47%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.32%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.93%) SaaS
14 4 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (1.54%) Google Workspace
15 3 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.04%) Firewall
2 22 (8.49%) LAN
2 22 (8.49%) WAN
3 9 (3.47%) VPN
4 6 (2.32%) DHCP
4 6 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.93%) Network Security
6 4 (1.54%) Intranet
7 2 (0.77%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) VoIP
8 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.78%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (16.22%) Power BI
3 24 (9.27%) Big Data
4 21 (8.11%) Data Lake
5 19 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.79%) Oracle ODI
6 15 (5.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (5.79%) Tableau
7 12 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.25%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (3.86%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.09%) MySQL
12 7 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.70%) Looker
13 6 (2.32%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.32%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.32%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Moq
2 4 (1.54%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.16%) ERwin
3 3 (1.16%) Git
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) MLflow
4 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 83 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (21.24%) Finance
4 39 (15.06%) Law
5 16 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.63%) Marketing
7 11 (4.25%) Legal
8 9 (3.47%) Banking
9 8 (3.09%) Retail
10 7 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.93%) Games
12 3 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.77%) Billing
13 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (17.37%) Lead
2 39 (15.06%) Analyst
3 37 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 23 (8.88%) Senior
5 22 (8.49%) Support Analyst
6 16 (6.18%) Consultant
6 16 (6.18%) Data Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) Data Manager
7 15 (5.79%) Data Migration Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) Migration Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) Oracle Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 15 (5.79%) SAP Analyst
7 15 (5.79%) SAP Support
7 15 (5.79%) SAP Support Analyst
7 15 (5.79%) Support Engineer
7 15 (5.79%) Technical Consultant
8 13 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 15 (5.79%) SAP Fiori
2 11 (4.25%) REST
3 10 (3.86%) Kafka
3 10 (3.86%) PySpark
4 6 (2.32%) .NET
5 5 (1.93%) OAuth
5 5 (1.93%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.54%) EDI
6 4 (1.54%) Middleware
6 4 (1.54%) Pandas
7 3 (1.16%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.16%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.16%) FHIR
7 3 (1.16%) Swagger
8 2 (0.77%) CSS
8 2 (0.77%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.77%) HTML
8 2 (0.77%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.97%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 15 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.02%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.70%) LIMS
7 6 (2.32%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.32%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.16%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.16%) Life Science
9 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) PDA
11 1 (0.39%) Replication
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.74%) Windows
2 23 (8.88%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (3.09%) Linux
5 6 (2.32%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.94%) Analytics
3 58 (22.39%) ETL
4 56 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (20.46%) Data Governance
6 49 (18.92%) Agile
7 43 (16.60%) Data Modelling
8 39 (15.06%) Mentoring
9 35 (13.51%) Data Engineering
10 33 (12.74%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (12.74%) Decision-Making
11 30 (11.58%) Computer Science
12 29 (11.20%) Migration
12 29 (11.20%) Validation
13 28 (10.81%) DevOps
13 28 (10.81%) Project Management
14 26 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (9.65%) Data Migration
15 25 (9.65%) Data Science
15 25 (9.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 90 (34.75%) SQL
2 45 (17.37%) Python
3 25 (9.65%) PowerShell
4 20 (7.72%) PL/SQL
5 15 (5.79%) ABAP
6 9 (3.47%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.70%) Scala
8 6 (2.32%) Bash
8 6 (2.32%) C#
9 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.77%) Java
10 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.39%) Cypher
11 1 (0.39%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (19.69%) Degree
2 24 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.34%) PMI Certification
3 19 (7.34%) PMP
4 12 (4.63%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.86%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 6 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.54%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.16%) CISSP
10 3 (1.16%) CITP
10 3 (1.16%) FFIEC
10 3 (1.16%) MCDST
11 2 (0.77%) CISM
11 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (27.41%) GDPR
2 30 (11.58%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (4.25%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.86%) NIST
6 9 (3.47%) QA
7 8 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.70%) GLP
9 3 (1.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.16%) PERC
10 2 (0.77%) CDISC
11 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.41%) XenApp
4 11 (4.25%) Docker
5 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.77%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 41 (15.83%) SAP
2 39 (15.06%) Microsoft
3 34 (13.13%) Oracle
4 19 (7.34%) Concur
4 19 (7.34%) Google
4 19 (7.34%) Workday
5 16 (6.18%) Cisco
5 16 (6.18%) VMware
6 15 (5.79%) Meraki
7 14 (5.41%) CheckPoint
7 14 (5.41%) Citrix
7 14 (5.41%) SonicWALL
8 6 (2.32%) Apple
8 6 (2.32%) Databricks
9 4 (1.54%) Cognos
9 4 (1.54%) Informatica
9 4 (1.54%) Palantir
9 4 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.16%) Adobe
10 3 (1.16%) Salesforce
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