Data Protection Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Data Protection
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 53 -
Rank change year-on-year +42 - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 7 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 10.94% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.95% 0.43% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 -
Central London median annual salary £47,500 £73,360 £62,500
% change year-on-year -35.25% +17.38% -13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 231 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 60.94% 95.45% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4 77 36
10th Percentile £60,853 £49,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,049 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,324 £61,339 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -22.11% +21.15%
75th Percentile £80,938 £68,750 £150,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £83,200 -
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) ERwin
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Data Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
1 5 (71.43%) Lead Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Lead Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Information Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Structures
1 5 (71.43%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Coaching
2 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Data Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Data Science
2 5 (71.43%) Data Security
2 5 (71.43%) Data Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Model Validation
2 5 (71.43%) Product Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) GCIH
1 2 (28.57%) GIAC
1 2 (28.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) ITGC
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) ArcSight ESM
1 2 (28.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ArcSight
1 2 (28.57%) LogLogic
1 2 (28.57%) McAfee
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk