Data Privacy Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 102 106
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 9 30 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.52% 1.66% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.79% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - £48,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £42,430
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £91,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £42,430
% change year-on-year -1.64% +79.71% -26.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Privacy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,367 1,680 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.25% 93.23% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 964 785 1,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,375 £90,750 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Privacy
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in Birmingham

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) IaaS
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (66.67%) PaaS
2 6 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) AI
1 6 (66.67%) API Management
1 6 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 6 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 6 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
1 6 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Business Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Case Management
3 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Document Management
3 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft