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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 171 200
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 815 718 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.90% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.04% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 591 490 905
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.74%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.74%

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 59,858 35,198 71,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.86% 93.05% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,901 20,543 53,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -4 336 £80,000 +3.90% 159
North of England -42 139 £57,239 +4.07% 68
South East -27 120 £40,000 -11.11% 62
Midlands -22 100 £55,000 +10.00% 53
North West -33 80 £50,000 - 34
West Midlands -35 59 £50,000 - 41
Yorkshire -44 51 £57,239 -2.16% 24
South West -23 50 £35,000 -44.00% 28
East of England -11 49 £43,000 -14.00% 32
East Midlands -20 39 £55,000 +92.14% 12
North East -30 8 £40,000 -21.95% 11
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 35 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.49%) Apache
4 4 (0.49%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) IIS
6 2 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.37%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 182 (22.33%) Azure
2 121 (14.85%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (9.08%) Entra ID
4 61 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 60 (7.36%) AWS
5 60 (7.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 56 (6.87%) SaaS
7 25 (3.07%) GCP
8 18 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (1.84%) Google Workspace
10 15 (1.84%) PaaS
11 14 (1.72%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.72%) Serverless
12 12 (1.47%) GitHub
12 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (7.36%) Firewall
2 29 (3.56%) CHAP
2 29 (3.56%) WAN
3 23 (2.82%) Network Security
3 23 (2.82%) VPN
4 20 (2.45%) DNS
5 18 (2.21%) LAN
6 17 (2.09%) DHCP
7 10 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.74%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) VoIP
9 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.61%) SMS
11 4 (0.49%) Internet
11 4 (0.49%) Wireless
12 3 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.37%) PuTTY
13 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.26%) Power BI
2 24 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 20 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.33%) Metadata
5 13 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.23%) Power Query
7 8 (0.98%) Tableau
8 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.61%) Big Data
10 5 (0.61%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.49%) MySQL
12 3 (0.37%) DB2
12 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.58%) Git
2 14 (1.72%) JIRA
3 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.86%) GitLab
5 5 (0.61%) Maven
5 5 (0.61%) MLflow
6 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) JMeter
7 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) Appium
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) GCC
9 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 193 (23.68%) Finance
3 147 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (14.72%) Legal
5 62 (7.61%) Law
6 61 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (6.50%) Marketing
8 50 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (6.01%) Retail
10 44 (5.40%) Banking
11 38 (4.66%) Financial Institution
12 28 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (3.19%) Public Sector
14 22 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.47%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.10%) Local Government
19 8 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
20 7 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 114 (13.99%) Analyst
2 67 (8.22%) Lead
3 62 (7.61%) Senior
4 40 (4.91%) IT Manager
5 37 (4.54%) Report Analyst
6 35 (4.29%) IT Support
7 34 (4.17%) Architect
8 31 (3.80%) Auditor
9 30 (3.68%) Data Protection Officer
10 29 (3.56%) Security Manager
11 28 (3.44%) Security Auditor
12 26 (3.19%) Internal Auditor
13 25 (3.07%) Development Manager
13 25 (3.07%) Information Manager
13 25 (3.07%) IT Engineer
14 24 (2.94%) Business Manager
14 24 (2.94%) Data Manager
14 24 (2.94%) Support Analyst
15 23 (2.82%) Account Manager
15 23 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.84%) CSS
2 11 (1.35%) HTML
3 10 (1.23%) Node.js
4 9 (1.10%) OAuth
5 8 (0.98%) .NET
6 7 (0.86%) EDI
6 7 (0.86%) REST
7 6 (0.74%) Middleware
7 6 (0.74%) OpenID
7 6 (0.74%) SOAP
8 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.61%) Jest
8 5 (0.61%) PySpark
8 5 (0.61%) RESTful
9 4 (0.49%) JWT
9 4 (0.49%) XML
10 3 (0.37%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.37%) RAML
10 3 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (15.71%) Data Protection Act
2 108 (13.25%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 30 (3.68%) Driving Licence
6 28 (3.44%) Cloud Native
7 22 (2.70%) NHS
8 19 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.84%) Blockchain
12 14 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.35%) CMDB
13 11 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
14 10 (1.23%) Social Media
15 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.69%) Windows
2 31 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.21%) Linux
4 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.49%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.37%) AIX
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (26.75%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 133 (16.32%) Risk Management
5 129 (15.83%) Decision-Making
6 128 (15.71%) Information Security
7 110 (13.50%) Incident Response
8 108 (13.25%) Agile
9 101 (12.39%) AI
10 100 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 98 (12.02%) Analytics
12 90 (11.04%) Data Governance
12 90 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 86 (10.55%) Project Management
14 83 (10.18%) ITIL
15 79 (9.69%) Business Continuity
16 74 (9.08%) Disaster Recovery
16 74 (9.08%) Process Improvement
17 68 (8.34%) Information Governance
18 66 (8.10%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.12%) SQL
2 54 (6.63%) Python
3 26 (3.19%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.72%) Java
6 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.98%) Bash
7 8 (0.98%) Bicep
7 8 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.74%) C#
9 4 (0.49%) Go
9 4 (0.49%) VBA
10 3 (0.37%) Groovy
10 3 (0.37%) PHP
10 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.25%) RPG
11 2 (0.25%) Ruby
11 2 (0.25%) Scala
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 97 (11.90%) Degree
2 82 (10.06%) CISSP
3 66 (8.10%) CISM
4 46 (5.64%) CISA
5 44 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.93%) FFIEC
7 30 (3.68%) CGEIT
7 30 (3.68%) SANS
8 21 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 21 (2.58%) Security Cleared
9 19 (2.33%) DBS Check
10 18 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.21%) PMI Certification
11 17 (2.09%) PMP
11 17 (2.09%) SC Cleared
12 14 (1.72%) CEH
13 13 (1.60%) CRISC
14 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (30.06%) GDPR
2 119 (14.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (11.41%) NIST
4 71 (8.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 63 (7.73%) Data Quality
6 39 (4.79%) COBIT
7 32 (3.93%) Accessibility
8 29 (3.56%) PCI DSS
9 23 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (2.70%) GRC
11 20 (2.45%) QA
12 15 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 15 (1.84%) SOC 2
13 12 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.23%) HIPAA
15 9 (1.10%) PMO
16 8 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.86%) PERC
18 6 (0.74%) EU AI Act
18 6 (0.74%) TickIT
System Software
1 64 (7.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.35%) Docker
3 7 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (2.70%) Terraform
3 14 (1.72%) CASB
4 12 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.23%) Ansible
6 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.98%) SCCM
8 5 (0.61%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.37%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.37%) QRadar
11 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.25%) Argo
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) Avamar
12 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) Grafana
12 1 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 226 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.31%) Google
3 16 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.60%) SAP
5 12 (1.47%) iManage
5 12 (1.47%) Oracle
6 11 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.23%) Cisco
7 10 (1.23%) Databricks
8 8 (0.98%) Meraki
8 8 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.86%) Sage
9 7 (0.86%) VMware
10 6 (0.74%) Freshdesk
10 6 (0.74%) Splunk
11 5 (0.61%) Citrix
11 5 (0.61%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.61%) Workday
11 5 (0.61%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.49%) Dell