Data Protection Act Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in Brighton

Data Protection Act (DPA)
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in Brighton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Jun 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	63
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	+13
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act	0	0	1
As % of all permanent jobs in Brighton	-	-	0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	-	-	1.01%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£45,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£46,000
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+8.24%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£46,500
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
East Sussex median annual salary	-	-	£46,000
% change year-on-year	-	-	+8.24%

All Generic Skills
Brighton

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Brighton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	111	73	99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Brighton	25.75%	41.24%	19.76%
Number of salaries quoted	86	47	90
10^th Percentile	£45,000	£37,500	£22,044
25^th Percentile	£52,813	£46,250	£31,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£57,500	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	+21.05%	-17.39%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£65,000	£56,250
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£85,000	£67,500
East Sussex median annual salary	£60,000	£41,250	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+45.45%	-8.33%	-21.74%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Protection Act relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Brighton.