Data Protection Job Trends in England

Data Protection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 219 249
Rank change year-on-year +66 +30 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,294 634 714
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.25% 1.46% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.64% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 809 415 389
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,887 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.52% +1.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,875 £77,756
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +1.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,345 38,619 53,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.62% 89.01% 82.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,555 21,921 28,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,681 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in England

Data Protection
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
London +28 462 £65,000 -3.61% 906
North of England +43 259 £50,000 - 309
South East +47 244 £45,000 - 258
Midlands +49 155 £53,050 +2.24% 154
North West +40 143 £45,000 -10.00% 155
West Midlands +28 103 £53,834 -8.32% 90
South West -25 88 £49,375 +31.09% 103
Yorkshire +19 86 £40,000 -33.33% 123
East of England -6 75 £45,000 +38.46% 99
East Midlands -2 52 £45,000 +12.50% 64
North East -41 30 £80,500 +40.00% 32
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 116 (8.96%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.85%) WordPress
4 5 (0.39%) Confluence
4 5 (0.39%) IIS
5 4 (0.31%) Apache
5 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.077%) Documentum
8 1 (0.077%) Moodle
8 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 81 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.39%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.31%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.077%) Elementor
9 1 (0.077%) InDesign
9 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
2 8 (0.62%) SystmOne
3 5 (0.39%) Shopify
4 4 (0.31%) iTrent
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.15%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.077%) FastStats
7 1 (0.077%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.077%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.077%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.077%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 278 (21.48%) Azure
2 231 (17.85%) Microsoft 365
3 143 (11.05%) AWS
4 124 (9.58%) Power Platform
5 100 (7.73%) SaaS
6 94 (7.26%) Entra ID
7 65 (5.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 59 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 55 (4.25%) Power Automate
10 49 (3.79%) PowerApps
11 47 (3.63%) OneDrive
12 42 (3.25%) Serverless
13 40 (3.09%) GCP
14 38 (2.94%) Copilot Studio
15 35 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
20 19 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.40%) Network Security
2 43 (3.32%) Firewall
3 39 (3.01%) DNS
4 36 (2.78%) VPN
5 35 (2.70%) DHCP
6 26 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.70%) VLAN
8 21 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.55%) Wireless
10 17 (1.31%) Internet
11 14 (1.08%) LAN
12 11 (0.85%) WAN
13 10 (0.77%) Cisco IPT
13 10 (0.77%) SSL
14 6 (0.46%) VoIP
15 4 (0.31%) Intranet
15 4 (0.31%) IPsec
15 4 (0.31%) Unified Communications
16 3 (0.23%) BGP
16 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (6.41%) Power BI
2 42 (3.25%) Metadata
3 37 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.09%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.55%) Power Query
7 16 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.16%) Tableau
9 14 (1.08%) MySQL
10 12 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.77%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (2.09%) Git
2 13 (1.00%) JIRA
3 8 (0.62%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.23%) GitLab
6 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.15%) git-flow
6 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.077%) Ant
7 1 (0.077%) Appium
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.077%) Yeoman
General
1 505 (39.03%) Social Skills
2 310 (23.96%) Finance
3 252 (19.47%) Legal
4 232 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (10.74%) Organisational Skills
5 139 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 133 (10.28%) Law
7 126 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 110 (8.50%) Retail
9 106 (8.19%) Influencing Skills
10 81 (6.26%) Marketing
11 43 (3.32%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.86%) Banking
13 30 (2.32%) Local Government
14 24 (1.85%) Aerospace
15 18 (1.39%) Back Office
15 18 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
17 13 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (10.82%) Senior
2 128 (9.89%) Architect
3 95 (7.34%) Lead
4 83 (6.41%) Analyst
5 74 (5.72%) Data Manager
6 54 (4.17%) Developer
7 49 (3.79%) IT Manager
8 45 (3.48%) Data Protection Manager
8 45 (3.48%) IT Support
9 38 (2.94%) Consultant
10 33 (2.55%) Governance Manager
10 33 (2.55%) Sales Manager
11 32 (2.47%) Security Architect
12 31 (2.40%) Service Manager
13 30 (2.32%) Information Manager
13 30 (2.32%) IT Engineer
14 29 (2.24%) Business Manager
15 28 (2.16%) Administrator
16 27 (2.09%) Data Governance Manager
16 27 (2.09%) Data Protection Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.01%) Terraform
2 30 (2.32%) HTML
2 30 (2.32%) REST
3 25 (1.93%) OpenID
4 22 (1.70%) OAuth
5 21 (1.62%) SAML
6 17 (1.31%) CSS
7 16 (1.24%) AWS CDK
8 15 (1.16%) Middleware
9 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (1.00%) LDAP
11 12 (0.93%) ModSecurity
11 12 (0.93%) React
11 12 (0.93%) SPFx
12 10 (0.77%) .NET
12 10 (0.77%) SOAP
13 9 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
13 9 (0.70%) Node.js
14 8 (0.62%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 181 (13.99%) Management Information System
2 121 (9.35%) Onboarding
3 103 (7.96%) Data Protection Act
4 64 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.40%) Security Posture
6 54 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 53 (4.10%) Cloud Native
8 52 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (3.17%) Driving Licence
10 37 (2.86%) Social Media
11 35 (2.70%) Virtual Team
12 29 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 29 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
13 28 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (2.09%) AI Agents
15 24 (1.85%) NHS
16 21 (1.62%) Life Science
17 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
17 19 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.88%) Windows
2 22 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.31%) Linux
4 13 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.46%) Android
5 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.077%) AIX
9 1 (0.077%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (26.28%) Continuous Improvement
2 325 (25.12%) Cybersecurity
3 301 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (22.26%) AI
5 250 (19.32%) Information Security
6 247 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 202 (15.61%) Risk Management
8 200 (15.46%) Agile
9 191 (14.76%) Decision-Making
10 169 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 150 (11.59%) Roadmaps
12 135 (10.43%) Service Delivery
13 134 (10.36%) Collaborative Working
14 128 (9.89%) Analytics
15 124 (9.58%) Incident Response
16 114 (8.81%) CRM
16 114 (8.81%) Data Governance
17 110 (8.50%) Information Governance
18 108 (8.35%) Business Continuity
19 103 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 91 (7.03%) SQL
2 86 (6.65%) Python
3 49 (3.79%) PowerShell
4 42 (3.25%) JavaScript
5 27 (2.09%) Java
6 26 (2.01%) PHP
7 25 (1.93%) C#
8 18 (1.39%) Bash
9 17 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.08%) Perl
10 14 (1.08%) Ruby
11 12 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.46%) Bicep
13 3 (0.23%) Go
13 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) R
14 2 (0.15%) RPG
15 1 (0.077%) Pascal
15 1 (0.077%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (13.06%) Degree
2 108 (8.35%) CISSP
3 102 (7.88%) Security Cleared
4 77 (5.95%) CISM
5 53 (4.10%) SC Cleared
6 43 (3.32%) DBS Check
7 39 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 38 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (1.70%) CCSP
14 21 (1.62%) CRISC
15 19 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (1.31%) ACCA
16 17 (1.31%) CISA
17 16 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.08%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (29.52%) GDPR
2 169 (13.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 118 (9.12%) Data Quality
4 104 (8.04%) NIST
5 82 (6.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 60 (4.64%) GRC
7 50 (3.86%) Accessibility
8 42 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 41 (3.17%) QA
10 29 (2.24%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 21 (1.62%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.55%) ISO 22301
13 20 (1.55%) SLA
14 18 (1.39%) ISO 9001
15 17 (1.31%) NCSC
16 15 (1.16%) COBIT
17 10 (0.77%) PERC
18 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 70 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.08%) Docker
3 14 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.85%) vSphere
5 8 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.15%) UAG
7 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.077%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (1.78%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.62%) Nessus
5 7 (0.54%) Ansible
6 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.39%) Grafana
6 5 (0.39%) Puppet
6 5 (0.39%) SCCM
7 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.23%) Autotask
8 3 (0.23%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.077%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.077%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.077%) SCOM
10 1 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 388 (29.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.01%) Google
2 26 (2.01%) Salesforce
3 22 (1.70%) VMware
4 20 (1.55%) Oracle
5 17 (1.31%) Informatica
6 16 (1.24%) Cisco
6 16 (1.24%) SAP
7 15 (1.16%) YouTube
8 14 (1.08%) Okta
8 14 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.00%) ForgeRock
10 11 (0.85%) Adobe
11 10 (0.77%) Databricks
11 10 (0.77%) Infor
11 10 (0.77%) OneTrust
11 10 (0.77%) Xero
12 9 (0.70%) Talend
13 8 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.54%) Sage