Data Protection Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Protection
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.39% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26,000
25th Percentile £56,250 - £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - £50,600
Northern Ireland median annual salary £62,500 - £37,500
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 412 219 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 81.10% 91.25% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 218 67 233
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £51,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Protection
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Belfast - 2 £62,500 - 1
Data Protection
Northern Ireland

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker