Data Protection Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Protection
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 56 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 12 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.92% 0.18% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.20% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile £30,000 - £43,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £46,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £58,348
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -37.44% +37.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £38,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,000 - £82,750
North West median annual salary £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% +10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Data Protection 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 509 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.44% 89.30% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 428 256 397
10th Percentile £27,850 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Cheshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Cheshire

Data Protection
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Knutsford - 6 £85,000 - 1
Macclesfield - 3 £32,000 -
Crewe - 3 £35,000 - 2
Data Protection
North West

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (25.00%) Automotive
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) CRM Executive
1 3 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce Executive
1 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) DPDK
1 2 (16.67%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) CRM
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Logistics
4 2 (16.67%) Open Source
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) KVM
2 2 (16.67%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) SaltStack