Data Protection Act Job Trends in the East of England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 8 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.19% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% - 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £57,775
25th Percentile £29,600 - £66,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,850 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.00%
75th Percentile £32,101 - £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £64,686 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% +3.50% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,327 1,381 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.84% 38.50% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 626 552 583
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,583 £28,760
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £38,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,875 £87,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Data Protection Act
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 Protection Act within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 - - 2
Essex - 1 £30,850 - 3
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
1 4 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Information Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (62.50%) Coaching
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) ITSM
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Salt
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Verint
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow