Data Protection Jobs in the East of England

Data Protection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 188 180
Rank change year-on-year +44 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 40 38 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.19% 0.58% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.75% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 33 23 20
10th Percentile - £35,600 £32,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £51,500 £40,504
Median % change year-on-year -31.07% +27.15% -18.99%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,162 5,094 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.22% 78.19% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 3,809 2,041
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the East of England.

Salary trend for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +52 15 £43,471 -35.60% 76
Hertfordshire +29 14 £39,821 -25.22% 115
Essex +29 10 £32,500 - 106
Suffolk -19 1 £75,000 - 33
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.50%) Rubrik
4 6 (15.00%) OneDrive
5 5 (12.50%) AWS
5 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 5 (12.50%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.00%) Asana
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) Collibra
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Wireless
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) ERwin
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Lead
2 8 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 8 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 8 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) IT Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Director
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (5.00%) LINQ
1 2 (5.00%) REST
1 2 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (10.00%) Android
4 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.00%) Debian
5 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (40.00%) ITIL
3 15 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (25.00%) Information Security
7 9 (22.50%) Customer Service
8 8 (20.00%) Coaching
8 8 (20.00%) Customer Experience
8 8 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
8 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.00%) Process Improvement
9 5 (12.50%) DevOps
9 5 (12.50%) Security Management
10 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 4 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
10 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 3 (7.50%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) SLA
2 6 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) NetBackup
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.50%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (7.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Commvault
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
2 7 (17.50%) Zerto
3 4 (10.00%) Apple
3 4 (10.00%) Samsung
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica