Data Privacy Job Trends in the East of England

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Privacy 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 152 162 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 -31 +100
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 6 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.42% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile - £57,375 £39,650
25th Percentile £185,000 £67,125 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £190,000 £74,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +155.03% +2.76% -
75th Percentile £195,000 £85,025 £73,750
90th Percentile - £109,971 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.11% +6.43% +21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,070 3,072 2,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.37% 87.25% 86.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,796 1,200 1,568
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,825 £84,650
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Privacy
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the East of England 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
Bedfordshire +38 3 - - 8
Cambridgeshire +10 3 £190,000 +153.33% 8
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Report Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Chief Security Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) EU AI Act
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Foundry
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft