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

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Essex > Colchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in Colchester. 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	-	-	26
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act	0	0	1
As % of all permanent jobs in Colchester	-	-	0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	-	-	4.00%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Essex median annual salary	£32,361	£60,000	-
% change year-on-year	-46.07%	-	-

All Generic Skills
Colchester

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 Colchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	28	7	25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Colchester	14.58%	18.92%	17.99%
Number of salaries quoted	6	2	14
10^th Percentile	£28,000	£41,750	£16,800
25^th Percentile	£29,750	£42,500	£23,563
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£38,750	£45,000	£40,000
Median % change year-on-year	-13.89%	+12.50%	-5.88%
75^th Percentile	£43,438	£47,500	£52,500
90^th Percentile	£44,375	£48,250	£66,500
Essex median annual salary	£42,151	£32,500	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+29.69%	-27.78%	-7.27%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Colchester

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