Data Privacy Job Trends in the City of London

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 115 160
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 +82
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 19 52 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.90% 1.92% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.01% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £65,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% -17.95%
75th Percentile £97,813 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £89,250 -
Central London median annual salary £81,250 £74,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.06% -6.88% -17.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,588 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.50% 95.46% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,685 2,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,325
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Privacy
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in the City of London

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.26%) OCI
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (26.32%) Legal
4 4 (21.05%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Automotive
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Lead
1 4 (21.05%) Risk Manager
1 4 (21.05%) Senior
1 4 (21.05%) Senior Manager
1 4 (21.05%) Senior Risk Manager
1 4 (21.05%) Technology Risk Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Report Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LangChain
2 1 (5.26%) CrewAI
2 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) pydantic
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) AI
1 9 (47.37%) Analytics
1 9 (47.37%) Data Governance
2 8 (42.11%) Decision-Making
3 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (36.84%) Machine Learning
4 6 (31.58%) Information Security
4 6 (31.58%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
5 5 (26.32%) Change Management
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) People Management
5 5 (26.32%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (21.05%) Creative Thinking
6 4 (21.05%) Data Management
6 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
6 4 (21.05%) Data Science
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) CISA
1 5 (26.32%) CISM
1 5 (26.32%) CISSP
2 4 (21.05%) CRISC
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
1 7 (36.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.53%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) VMware