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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 222 254
Rank change year-on-year +46 +32 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 711 735 613
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.54% 1.21% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.43% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 489 425 511
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,650 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,987 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,073
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,987 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.02% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process and 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 39,308 51,321 43,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 84.72% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,486 26,936 33,323
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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
London +78 315 £76,500 +5.52% 132
South East +42 124 £46,000 -16.36% 113
North of England +12 119 £50,000 -1.96% 48
North West +31 69 £50,000 -1.96% 32
Midlands +22 66 £50,000 -16.67% 62
South West +35 46 £36,563 -28.31% 75
East of England +33 36 £32,500 -53.57% 27
Yorkshire +3 36 £50,000 -9.09% 10
East Midlands +42 35 £35,000 -10.26% 23
West Midlands +5 31 £61,250 -2.00% 38
North East +18 14 £65,000 +52.94% 6
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 53 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.27%) CMS
3 9 (1.27%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) Apache
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 52 (7.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.56%) Endur
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.42%) Yoast SEO
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) Odoo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (24.89%) Azure
2 119 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (9.85%) AWS
4 60 (8.44%) Power Platform
5 53 (7.45%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (4.78%) SaaS
8 24 (3.38%) GCP
8 24 (3.38%) OneDrive
9 18 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (2.53%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.39%) GitHub
11 16 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.97%) Serverless
13 12 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (1.13%) Google Workspace
17 7 (0.98%) Amazon S3
17 7 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.61%) Firewall
2 35 (4.92%) VPN
3 32 (4.50%) WAN
4 28 (3.94%) Network Security
5 25 (3.52%) DNS
6 23 (3.23%) DHCP
7 22 (3.09%) LAN
8 17 (2.39%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.97%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.55%) Unified Communications
12 10 (1.41%) SAN
12 10 (1.41%) VLAN
13 9 (1.27%) Wireless
14 8 (1.13%) SSL
14 8 (1.13%) VoIP
15 7 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
16 6 (0.84%) CHAP
16 6 (0.84%) NAS
17 5 (0.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.47%) Power BI
2 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.25%) Tableau
4 13 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.27%) Metadata
7 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.70%) Power Query
11 4 (0.56%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.56%) MySQL
11 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 31 (4.36%) Git
2 20 (2.81%) JIRA
3 13 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.55%) ERwin
5 8 (1.13%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) ESLint
7 1 (0.14%) GCC
7 1 (0.14%) GDB
7 1 (0.14%) git-flow
7 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.14%) Storybook
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.14%) Vite
7 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 308 (43.32%) Social Skills
2 162 (22.78%) Finance
3 119 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.95%) Legal
5 52 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.63%) Law
7 38 (5.34%) Marketing
8 36 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (3.23%) Retail
11 22 (3.09%) Banking
12 17 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.27%) Back Office
18 8 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 7 (0.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 122 (17.16%) Analyst
2 68 (9.56%) Senior
3 61 (8.58%) Architect
3 61 (8.58%) Lead
4 53 (7.45%) Developer
5 42 (5.91%) IT Support
6 36 (5.06%) Technology Director
7 35 (4.92%) IT Manager
8 31 (4.36%) Security Architect
9 30 (4.22%) Administrator
9 30 (4.22%) Data Analyst
10 28 (3.94%) Enterprise Architect
10 28 (3.94%) Enterprise Information Architect
10 28 (3.94%) Enterprise Security Architect
10 28 (3.94%) Information Architect
10 28 (3.94%) Information Security Architect
11 26 (3.66%) Support Engineer
12 23 (3.23%) IT Engineer
12 23 (3.23%) Support Analyst
13 22 (3.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.08%) .NET
2 22 (3.09%) HTML
3 19 (2.67%) JSON
4 18 (2.53%) CSS
5 13 (1.83%) XML
6 12 (1.69%) REST
6 12 (1.69%) RESTful
7 11 (1.55%) React
8 10 (1.41%) Web Services
9 9 (1.27%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.13%) WPF
11 7 (0.98%) ASP.NET
11 7 (0.98%) OAuth
11 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.98%) Universal Windows Platform
11 7 (0.98%) WinUI
12 5 (0.70%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.70%) Handlebars
12 5 (0.70%) Node.js
12 5 (0.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 137 (19.27%) Data Protection Act
2 74 (10.41%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.05%) Driving Licence
4 38 (5.34%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.67%) Social Media
10 17 (2.39%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.97%) NHS
12 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.69%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
16 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
16 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
17 7 (0.98%) CCTV
17 7 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
17 7 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 99 (13.92%) Windows
2 41 (5.77%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.80%) Linux
4 17 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.41%) Android
6 10 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Unix
8 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
2 150 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (18.85%) Information Security
4 133 (18.71%) Agile
5 119 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 118 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (14.21%) Decision-Making
8 90 (12.66%) Analytics
9 79 (11.11%) ITIL
9 79 (11.11%) Risk Management
10 74 (10.41%) Service Delivery
10 74 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 73 (10.27%) DevOps
12 66 (9.28%) Mentoring
13 63 (8.86%) Roadmaps
14 62 (8.72%) Coaching
14 62 (8.72%) Computer Science
14 62 (8.72%) Customer Service
15 61 (8.58%) IT Strategy
16 60 (8.44%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (10.27%) SQL
2 61 (8.58%) Python
3 38 (5.34%) PowerShell
4 33 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 26 (3.66%) C#
6 13 (1.83%) Bash
7 12 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.41%) Java
10 9 (1.27%) Bicep
10 9 (1.27%) Go
11 7 (0.98%) C++
11 7 (0.98%) R
12 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.42%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) Groovy
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (20.39%) Degree
2 80 (11.25%) CISSP
3 72 (10.13%) CISM
4 56 (7.88%) DBS Check
5 39 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (3.52%) CISA
9 24 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.67%) CRISC
11 18 (2.53%) Master's Degree
12 16 (2.25%) PMI Certification
12 16 (2.25%) PMP
13 15 (2.11%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (1.55%) CCNP
16 9 (1.27%) CCNA
16 9 (1.27%) Security Cleared
17 8 (1.13%) AWS Certification
18 7 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (24.89%) GDPR
2 87 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (8.16%) Accessibility
4 46 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (6.05%) GRC
6 36 (5.06%) QA
7 35 (4.92%) Data Quality
8 34 (4.78%) NIST
9 22 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (1.13%) EU AI Act
11 8 (1.13%) ISAE 3402
11 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 8 (1.13%) SLA
12 7 (0.98%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.84%) COBIT
13 6 (0.84%) PERC
13 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.70%) ISO 14001
15 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 71 (9.99%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.53%) Docker
4 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.13%) BitLocker
6 7 (0.98%) Firmware
7 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) IAG
8 2 (0.28%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) QEMU
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 60 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.64%) Terraform
3 21 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 20 (2.81%) Ansible
5 18 (2.53%) SCCM
6 14 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.13%) Grafana
8 6 (0.84%) Avamar
8 6 (0.84%) Nagios
8 6 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.70%) Autotask
9 5 (0.70%) CASB
10 4 (0.56%) Rancher
10 4 (0.56%) vRealize
11 3 (0.42%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.42%) QRadar
11 3 (0.42%) SCOM
12 2 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 205 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.80%) Cisco
3 26 (3.66%) VMware
4 19 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.53%) Google
5 18 (2.53%) Oracle
6 14 (1.97%) Dell
6 14 (1.97%) HP
7 13 (1.83%) Apple
7 13 (1.83%) SAP
8 10 (1.41%) Veeam
9 9 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.13%) Adobe
10 8 (1.13%) Databricks
10 8 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 8 (1.13%) NetApp
10 8 (1.13%) Splunk
11 7 (0.98%) Meraki
11 7 (0.98%) Samsung
11 7 (0.98%) SolarWinds