Data Protection Jobs in the South East

Data Protection
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 212 267
Rank change year-on-year +11 +55 -61
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 213 224 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.28% 1.50% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.59% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 170 131 151
10th Percentile £28,200 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,802 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% +10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,625 £90,000 £75,222
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Protection 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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,143 14,089 18,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.72% 94.51% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,926 8,168 12,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley +16 76 £43,000 -18.35% 37
Hampshire +13 46 £40,000 -54.29% 16
Berkshire +17 41 £55,000 -15.38% 17
Kent -10 29 £65,000 +30.00% 5
West Sussex +46 26 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Surrey +2 25 £45,802 -22.70% 19
Buckinghamshire +1 24 £42,500 -29.17% 12
Oxfordshire +2 11 £26,000 -45.26% 8
East Sussex -21 7 £37,500 -31.82% 6
Sussex - 4 £51,250 -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (6.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.88%) nginx
3 3 (1.41%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.47%) Totara
Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (3.29%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.88%) Azure
2 46 (21.60%) AWS
3 22 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.51%) Serverless
5 14 (6.57%) Amazon S3
5 14 (6.57%) GCP
6 13 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.23%) CloudFront
8 9 (4.23%) Route 53
9 8 (3.76%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.76%) IaaS
9 8 (3.76%) PaaS
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.08%) Firewall
2 19 (8.92%) Internet
3 16 (7.51%) DNS
4 13 (6.10%) Intranet
5 11 (5.16%) DHCP
6 10 (4.69%) SNMP
7 9 (4.23%) Network Security
7 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.76%) VPN
9 7 (3.29%) HTTP
10 6 (2.82%) Wireless
11 5 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (1.88%) LAN
12 4 (1.88%) MQTT
12 4 (1.88%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.88%) WAN
13 3 (1.41%) Broadband
13 3 (1.41%) VoIP
14 1 (0.47%) Skype
14 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.92%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.45%) Power BI
3 16 (7.51%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (6.10%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.10%) MySQL
5 11 (5.16%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.16%) Power Query
6 9 (4.23%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.88%) Metadata
11 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Git
1 2 (0.94%) Hudson
1 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.54%) Legal
3 41 (19.25%) Finance
4 40 (18.78%) Law
5 22 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.16%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.69%) Marketing
10 8 (3.76%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.35%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.35%) Retail
12 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.41%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.94%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.94%) Local Government
14 2 (0.94%) Publishing
15 1 (0.47%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (13.15%) Developer
2 19 (8.92%) Senior
3 17 (7.98%) Data Protection Officer
4 16 (7.51%) Lead
5 15 (7.04%) Architect
5 15 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
7 11 (5.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 11 (5.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 11 (5.16%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.16%) Power BI Developer
7 11 (5.16%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.69%) Senior Architect
8 10 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.23%) AWS Architect
9 9 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.23%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.57%) Web Services
2 11 (5.16%) .NET
2 11 (5.16%) gRPC
2 11 (5.16%) RESTful
3 6 (2.82%) Node.js
4 5 (2.35%) HTML
5 4 (1.88%) CSS
5 4 (1.88%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.88%) Knex.js
5 4 (1.88%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (1.88%) React
5 4 (1.88%) React Native
5 4 (1.88%) Sequelize
6 2 (0.94%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.94%) PySpark
7 1 (0.47%) Blazor
7 1 (0.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.35%) Management Information System
2 30 (14.08%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (9.86%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.76%) IoT
7 7 (3.29%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.88%) Social Media
11 3 (1.41%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
12 2 (0.94%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.55%) Windows
2 10 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.23%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.35%) Linux
5 4 (1.88%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (16.90%) DevOps
2 36 (16.90%) Information Security
3 30 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (13.15%) Computer Science
5 27 (12.68%) Data Security
6 23 (10.80%) Decision-Making
6 23 (10.80%) Risk Management
7 22 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (10.33%) Project Delivery
8 21 (9.86%) Data Privacy
8 21 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (9.39%) Agile
10 19 (8.92%) Data Management
11 18 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (8.45%) CI/CD
11 18 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (7.98%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (7.98%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.98%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.49%) SQL
2 23 (10.80%) Python
3 11 (5.16%) C#
3 11 (5.16%) T-SQL
4 10 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.35%) R
6 4 (1.88%) JSX
6 4 (1.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.94%) Bash
7 2 (0.94%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (24.88%) Degree
2 24 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.92%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.45%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.51%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.69%) CISSP
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.29%) DBS Check
8 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.82%) ISEB
10 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.41%) CCNA
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.41%) CISM
11 3 (1.41%) GIAC
11 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.00%) GDPR
2 30 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.16%) PCI DSS
4 10 (4.69%) Data Quality
5 9 (4.23%) HIPAA
6 8 (3.76%) NIST
7 6 (2.82%) ISO 9001
8 5 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.88%) ISO 14001
9 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.88%) PMO
10 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.94%) GRC
11 2 (0.94%) NCSC
11 2 (0.94%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.98%) Docker
2 12 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.63%) Hyper-V
2 12 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.35%) XenApp
4 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.16%) Terraform
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.88%) Suricata
5 3 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 57 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.63%) VMware
3 11 (5.16%) Google
4 9 (4.23%) Cisco
5 6 (2.82%) Nuix
5 6 (2.82%) Sage
5 6 (2.82%) SAP
6 5 (2.35%) Citrix
6 5 (2.35%) Splunk
7 4 (1.88%) Aruba
7 4 (1.88%) HP
7 4 (1.88%) Informatica
7 4 (1.88%) Juniper
7 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.88%) Talend
8 3 (1.41%) Acronis
8 3 (1.41%) Apple
8 3 (1.41%) Veeam
9 2 (0.94%) BMC
9 2 (0.94%) Facebook