Data Protection Job Trends in the East of England

Data Protection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 149 114
Rank change year-on-year +32 -35 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 42 31 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.01% 0.86% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.00% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 21
10th Percentile - £27,945 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £50,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £68,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +25.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £162,000 £85,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,987 £64,951 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.34% +8.25% +9.09%

All Process & 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 3,157 3,107 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.74% 86.62% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 1,235 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,200 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,125 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 30 December 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 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 +20 16 £32,500 -40.91% 20
Suffolk -8 12 - - 23
Hertfordshire +17 6 £75,000 +50.00% 44
Essex -14 4 £30,850 - 30
Bedfordshire +20 2 - - 19
Norfolk +5 2 £85,000 +197.67% 13
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
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 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.14%) AWS
7 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.38%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Wireless
2 4 (9.52%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) LAN
3 2 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) IPv4
4 1 (2.38%) IPv6
4 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.38%) MPLS
4 1 (2.38%) SAN
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) VPN
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Power BI
1 4 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) GitLab
1 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 26 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (54.76%) Finance
3 14 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Legal
6 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (7.14%) Law
8 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Administrator
2 18 (42.86%) IT Administrator
3 6 (14.29%) IT Support
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Data Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Chief Information Security Officer
6 2 (4.76%) Chief Security Officer
6 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Information Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Information Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Information Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Information Security Officer
6 2 (4.76%) Report Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (11.90%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 7 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.90%) Android
3 5 (11.90%) Apple iOS
3 5 (11.90%) Mac OS
3 5 (11.90%) Windows 10
3 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (28.57%) Budgeting
2 12 (28.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 12 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.90%) Analytics
6 5 (11.90%) Coaching
6 5 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (11.90%) ITIL
6 5 (11.90%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (11.90%) Security Management
7 4 (9.52%) Data Privacy
7 4 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) DBS Check
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.52%) CISM
2 4 (9.52%) CISSP
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) CISA
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) GRC
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.38%) Puppet
3 1 (2.38%) Salt
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Apple
2 5 (11.90%) Samsung
3 4 (9.52%) Verint
4 3 (7.14%) Adobe
5 2 (4.76%) Google
5 2 (4.76%) VMware
6 1 (2.38%) Aruba
6 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam