Data Protection Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 182 169
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 76 78 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 1.26% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.34% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62 19 70
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £38,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,938 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £74,750 £68,875
South East median annual salary £45,901 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.54% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,757 5,841 6,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.33% 94.58% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 3,178 3,933
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,338 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,731 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the Thames Valley

Data Protection
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Berkshire +16 40 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Buckinghamshire +1 25 £42,500 -12.82% 6
Oxfordshire +4 11 £26,000 -45.26% 6
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (5.26%) nginx
2 3 (3.95%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Moodle
3 1 (1.32%) Totara
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (11.84%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (10.53%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) Power Platform
3 12 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (11.84%) AWS
5 5 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.26%) Alation
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.26%) Collibra
6 4 (5.26%) GCP
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.32%) IaaS
8 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.05%) Internet
2 14 (18.42%) Firewall
3 10 (13.16%) Intranet
3 10 (13.16%) SNMP
4 7 (9.21%) VPN
5 6 (7.89%) Network Security
6 5 (6.58%) DNS
7 4 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (5.26%) MQTT
7 4 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.32%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) Power BI
2 13 (17.11%) Data Lake
3 12 (15.79%) Power Query
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.26%) Metadata
4 4 (5.26%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 27 (35.53%) Legal
2 22 (28.95%) Law
3 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (21.05%) Finance
5 10 (13.16%) Marketing
6 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.95%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.63%) Retail
10 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Power BI Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Network Manager
4 7 (9.21%) Data Protection Officer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) Data Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Data Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Data Governance Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Governance Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Head of Compliance
7 4 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Portfolio Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) CSS
1 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
1 4 (5.26%) gRPC
1 4 (5.26%) HTML
1 4 (5.26%) Knex.js
1 4 (5.26%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (5.26%) Node.js
1 4 (5.26%) React
1 4 (5.26%) React Native
1 4 (5.26%) RESTful
1 4 (5.26%) Sequelize
1 4 (5.26%) Web Services
2 2 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (1.32%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) Data Protection Act
2 21 (27.63%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.26%) IoT
4 4 (5.26%) Social Media
5 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.32%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.32%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) SCORM
7 1 (1.32%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.74%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Data Management
1 15 (19.74%) Information Security
2 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
4 11 (14.47%) Agile
5 10 (13.16%) CRM
5 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (13.16%) DevOps
5 10 (13.16%) Incident Response
5 10 (13.16%) Line Management
6 9 (11.84%) B2C
6 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.84%) Contingency Planning
6 9 (11.84%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 8 (10.53%) Scrum
8 7 (9.21%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) SQL
2 12 (15.79%) T-SQL
3 11 (14.47%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.26%) JSX
5 4 (5.26%) R
5 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Bash
6 2 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) C#
7 1 (1.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.89%) ISEB
3 5 (6.58%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.95%) CISSP
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.32%) MCSA
6 1 (1.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.37%) GDPR
2 7 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.89%) NIST
4 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.63%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Hyper-V
1 9 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.53%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Suricata
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) VMware
3 7 (9.21%) Cisco
4 6 (7.89%) Sage
5 4 (5.26%) Aruba
5 4 (5.26%) HP
5 4 (5.26%) Informatica
5 4 (5.26%) Splunk
5 4 (5.26%) Talend
6 3 (3.95%) Juniper
6 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.32%) Apple
8 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.32%) NEC
8 1 (1.32%) Workday