Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Privacy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Privacy over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 592 360
Rank change year-on-year +162 -232 +119
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 576 398 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.41% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.43% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 320 320 1,137
10th Percentile £32,150 £35,725 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -15.97% +8.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £48,687 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -7.26% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Privacy 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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +168 512 £65,000 +33.51% 191
UK excluding London +143 371 £61,500 +26.32% 124
Work from Home +27 208 £61,500 +26.32% 97
London +135 189 £77,500 +43.52% 84
North of England +113 114 £50,000 +11.11% 28
South East +15 78 £61,500 +26.32% 30
Midlands +39 68 £58,250 -10.38% 21
North West +35 58 £60,000 +33.33% 19
West Midlands +37 50 £57,500 -12.55% 12
South West 0 47 £61,500 +22.42% 15
Scotland -18 43 £75,000 +36.36% 15
Yorkshire +106 41 £37,500 - 8
East Midlands +2 18 £110,000 +69.23% 9
North East +4 15 - - 1
East of England -2 13 £75,000 +163.16% 10
Wales +7 5 £27,500 -45.00% 7
Northern Ireland +16 4 £37,500 -48.28%

Data Privacy
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 76 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 46 (7.99%) CMS
3 41 (7.12%) Kentico
4 38 (6.60%) Umbraco
5 36 (6.25%) Headless CMS
5 36 (6.25%) IIS
5 36 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.04%) Confluence
6 6 (1.04%) SAS
7 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.69%) WordPress
8 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.35%) Drupal
9 2 (0.35%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 79 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.95%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.56%) SAP HR
3 9 (1.56%) SAP SCM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP BPC
4 5 (0.87%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.87%) SAP EWM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (20.66%) Azure
2 115 (19.97%) Power Platform
3 62 (10.76%) AWS
4 42 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (7.12%) Kontent
6 28 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.17%) GCP
8 23 (3.99%) SaaS
9 19 (3.30%) Serverless
10 17 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (2.60%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.43%) IaaS
13 14 (2.43%) PaaS
14 12 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (1.56%) Boomi
16 8 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (1.39%) Azure Functions
16 8 (1.39%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.81%) Firewall
2 20 (3.47%) Intrusion Detection
3 19 (3.30%) Internet
4 17 (2.95%) Wireless
5 7 (1.22%) HTTP
6 6 (1.04%) Network Security
6 6 (1.04%) WAN
7 5 (0.87%) LAN
8 4 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) VPN
9 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.35%) Intranet
10 2 (0.35%) SSL
10 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.17%) DNS
11 1 (0.17%) RFID
11 1 (0.17%) SAN
11 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (19.10%) Power BI
2 41 (7.12%) Metadata
3 40 (6.94%) Data Lake
4 32 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 24 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.95%) DB2
8 16 (2.78%) Big Data
8 16 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.26%) Tableau
10 11 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.74%) MySQL
12 8 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.87%) CockroachDB
13 5 (0.87%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.69%) Metabase
15 3 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (12.67%) JIRA
2 9 (1.56%) Git
2 9 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.87%) Jaeger
3 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.52%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.35%) MLflow
7 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 263 (45.66%) Finance
2 257 (44.62%) Social Skills
3 204 (35.42%) Legal
4 161 (27.95%) Banking
5 106 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (7.29%) Law
7 39 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (5.90%) Marketing
8 34 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (4.86%) Retail
11 25 (4.34%) Public Sector
12 24 (4.17%) Telecoms
13 22 (3.82%) Financial Institution
13 22 (3.82%) Manufacturing
13 22 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (2.78%) Advertising
14 16 (2.78%) Retail Banking
15 15 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (36.28%) Senior
2 114 (19.79%) Analyst
3 91 (15.80%) Senior Analyst
4 54 (9.38%) Developer
5 49 (8.51%) Lead
6 48 (8.33%) Consultant
7 41 (7.12%) Architect
8 38 (6.60%) .NET Developer
9 36 (6.25%) .NET Applications Developer
9 36 (6.25%) Applications Developer
9 36 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (6.25%) C# Developer
9 36 (6.25%) CMS Developer
10 34 (5.90%) C# Application Developer
10 34 (5.90%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 34 (5.90%) Senior .NET Applications Developer
10 34 (5.90%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 34 (5.90%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 34 (5.90%) Senior C# Application Developer
10 34 (5.90%) Senior C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.85%) .NET
2 43 (7.47%) RESTful
3 42 (7.29%) React
4 36 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 36 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 36 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 36 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 36 (6.25%) Next.js
5 11 (1.91%) Middleware
6 7 (1.22%) gRPC
6 7 (1.22%) Kafka
6 7 (1.22%) Web Services
6 7 (1.22%) XML
7 5 (0.87%) Django
7 5 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.87%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.69%) CSS
9 3 (0.52%) REST
10 2 (0.35%) Node.js
10 2 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.68%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (7.64%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.73%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.95%) Driving Licence
7 17 (2.95%) Life Science
8 15 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.60%) NHS
9 14 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.91%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
11 6 (1.04%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (0.69%) IoT
13 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.81%) Windows
2 36 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 34 (5.90%) Linux
4 17 (2.95%) Unix
5 9 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.69%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.52%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (37.33%) Data Management
2 211 (36.63%) Data Protection
3 190 (32.99%) Data Governance
4 153 (26.56%) Process Improvement
5 144 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
6 143 (24.83%) Matrix Management
7 108 (18.75%) Project Delivery
8 104 (18.06%) Agile
9 103 (17.88%) Project Management
10 100 (17.36%) Information Security
11 98 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
11 98 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (16.84%) Impact Assessments
13 88 (15.28%) Risk Management
14 83 (14.41%) DevOps
15 82 (14.24%) Supplier Relationship Management
16 77 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
17 76 (13.19%) Coaching
18 61 (10.59%) Computer Science
19 60 (10.42%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 84 (14.58%) SQL
2 47 (8.16%) C#
3 41 (7.12%) JavaScript
4 38 (6.60%) Python
5 20 (3.47%) T-SQL
6 17 (2.95%) Java
7 7 (1.22%) R
8 6 (1.04%) Bash
9 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.35%) PHP
11 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) ABAP
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (18.06%) Degree
2 54 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (4.34%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.34%) CISSP
5 24 (4.17%) CISA
6 23 (3.99%) CREST Certified
7 18 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.95%) OSCP
9 14 (2.43%) CISM
10 12 (2.08%) GIAC
10 12 (2.08%) GSEC
10 12 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 12 (2.08%) SSCP
11 9 (1.56%) PCI QSA
11 9 (1.56%) SC Cleared
12 8 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 7 (1.22%) ISEB
13 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.04%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (38.72%) GDPR
2 93 (16.15%) Data Quality
3 40 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (6.42%) QA
5 20 (3.47%) PMO
6 19 (3.30%) GRC
7 17 (2.95%) ITGC
7 17 (2.95%) NIST
8 15 (2.60%) PCI DSS
9 12 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (1.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (1.56%) Accessibility
12 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
13 7 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (1.04%) CDISC
15 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.52%) SLA
18 2 (0.35%) IASME
System Software
1 28 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.56%) Docker
4 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (3.30%) Terraform
2 10 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.22%) Ansible
4 5 (0.87%) Kiali
5 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.52%) Nessus
6 3 (0.52%) Nmap
7 2 (0.35%) Autotask
7 2 (0.35%) CASB
7 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.35%) Puppet
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) WSUS
8 1 (0.17%) yum
Vendors
1 128 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.85%) SAP
3 36 (6.25%) Optimizely
3 36 (6.25%) Sitecore
4 27 (4.69%) Oracle
5 25 (4.34%) Databricks
6 23 (3.99%) Sage
7 12 (2.08%) VMware
8 9 (1.56%) Cisco
8 9 (1.56%) Dell
8 9 (1.56%) HP
9 8 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.22%) Citrix
10 7 (1.22%) Google
10 7 (1.22%) Workday
11 6 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.04%) Canon
11 6 (1.04%) iManage
11 6 (1.04%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.04%) Splunk