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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 225 219
Rank change year-on-year +46 -6 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 976 650 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.11% 1.50% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.66% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 664 456 810
10th Percentile £33,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,835 £39,955 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -13.04%

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 64,779 39,218 72,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.95% 90.32% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 45,743 22,382 52,059
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +34 398 £75,000 +0.67% 209
North of England +11 169 £57,239 +14.48% 86
Midlands +48 146 £54,534 +9.07% 71
South East +8 146 £45,000 - 81
West Midlands +30 93 £53,600 +3.30% 42
North West -11 91 £51,000 +10.27% 50
Yorkshire +4 68 £57,239 -4.60% 24
East of England -3 56 £42,000 +29.23% 27
East Midlands +7 53 £55,000 +100.00% 29
South West -45 46 £47,500 -5.00% 49
North East -45 10 £80,000 +77.78% 13
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 63 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.51%) CMS
4 5 (0.51%) IIS
4 5 (0.51%) WordPress
5 4 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Documentum
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.51%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 18 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.13%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.61%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.31%) iTrent
4 3 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.10%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.10%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.10%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 199 (20.39%) Azure
2 154 (15.78%) Microsoft 365
3 119 (12.19%) AWS
4 86 (8.81%) Entra ID
4 86 (8.81%) Power Platform
5 61 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 61 (6.25%) SaaS
6 33 (3.38%) Power Automate
7 28 (2.87%) GCP
8 26 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 26 (2.66%) Serverless
9 22 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 19 (1.95%) Copilot Studio
11 18 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (1.84%) OneDrive
12 17 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.43%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.33%) Firewall
2 46 (4.71%) Network Security
3 23 (2.36%) VPN
4 20 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (1.74%) DNS
6 15 (1.54%) CHAP
6 15 (1.54%) WAN
7 14 (1.43%) DHCP
8 12 (1.23%) LAN
9 11 (1.13%) Internet
9 11 (1.13%) VLAN
10 10 (1.02%) Wireless
11 8 (0.82%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.51%) SMS
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
14 3 (0.31%) SSL
15 2 (0.20%) Intranet
15 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.20%) VoIP
16 1 (0.10%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.66%) Power BI
2 23 (2.36%) Metadata
3 21 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.05%) Tableau
5 18 (1.84%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.74%) MySQL
7 12 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.02%) MariaDB
9 10 (1.02%) SQL Server
10 9 (0.92%) Power Query
11 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.41%) Big Data
12 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.31%) Db2
13 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (1.84%) Git
2 13 (1.33%) JIRA
3 8 (0.82%) GitLab
4 6 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.51%) MLflow
6 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.31%) JMeter
8 2 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.10%) Ant
9 1 (0.10%) ERwin
9 1 (0.10%) Gatling
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.10%) Selenium
9 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 390 (39.96%) Social Skills
2 219 (22.44%) Finance
3 167 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (14.96%) Legal
5 81 (8.30%) Retail
6 79 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (7.58%) Law
8 69 (7.07%) Public Sector
9 58 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (5.33%) Marketing
11 40 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (3.28%) Banking
13 24 (2.46%) Financial Institution
14 22 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.23%) Local Government
19 10 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 105 (10.76%) Analyst
2 93 (9.53%) Senior
3 74 (7.58%) Lead
4 58 (5.94%) Architect
5 49 (5.02%) Data Manager
6 48 (4.92%) IT Manager
7 46 (4.71%) Developer
8 43 (4.41%) IT Support
9 33 (3.38%) Data Protection Officer
10 32 (3.28%) Consultant
11 31 (3.18%) IT Engineer
12 30 (3.07%) Security Manager
13 28 (2.87%) Business Manager
14 27 (2.77%) Report Analyst
15 25 (2.56%) Governance Manager
16 24 (2.46%) Development Manager
16 24 (2.46%) Information Manager
17 22 (2.25%) Business Development Manager
17 22 (2.25%) Data Protection Manager
18 21 (2.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.25%) HTML
2 20 (2.05%) CSS
3 14 (1.43%) AWS CDK
4 11 (1.13%) OpenID
5 10 (1.02%) React
5 10 (1.02%) REST
6 8 (0.82%) Node.js
6 8 (0.82%) SAML
7 7 (0.72%) Kafka
7 7 (0.72%) Middleware
7 7 (0.72%) OAuth
7 7 (0.72%) PySpark
8 6 (0.61%) .NET
8 6 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.61%) EDI
8 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.61%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.51%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.51%) Next.js
9 5 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (14.34%) Data Protection Act
2 116 (11.89%) Management Information System
3 79 (8.09%) Onboarding
4 43 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 42 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (3.48%) Driving Licence
7 33 (3.38%) Product Ownership
8 31 (3.18%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 17 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.33%) CCTV
14 13 (1.33%) NHS
14 13 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (1.13%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.13%) Freedom of Information Act
17 10 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.79%) Windows
2 22 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 21 (2.15%) Linux
4 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.51%) Android
5 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.51%) Unix
6 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.31%) AIX
7 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (25.20%) Cybersecurity
2 236 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
3 195 (19.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 181 (18.55%) AI
5 158 (16.19%) Decision-Making
6 156 (15.98%) Information Security
7 155 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 146 (14.96%) Risk Management
9 123 (12.60%) Agile
10 117 (11.99%) Data Governance
11 111 (11.37%) Incident Response
12 102 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 101 (10.35%) Disaster Recovery
14 99 (10.14%) Analytics
15 90 (9.22%) Business Continuity
16 85 (8.71%) Roadmaps
17 84 (8.61%) Information Governance
18 82 (8.40%) ITIL
18 82 (8.40%) Service Delivery
19 77 (7.89%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 76 (7.79%) Python
2 73 (7.48%) SQL
3 39 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.07%) Java
5 29 (2.97%) PHP
6 25 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.25%) Bash
8 15 (1.54%) Ruby
9 14 (1.43%) Perl
10 11 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.82%) C#
11 8 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.41%) Go
12 4 (0.41%) VBA
13 3 (0.31%) Groovy
14 2 (0.20%) Bicep
14 2 (0.20%) C
14 2 (0.20%) RPG
14 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.10%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 124 (12.70%) Degree
2 80 (8.20%) CISSP
3 58 (5.94%) CISM
3 58 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.28%) CISA
7 28 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.46%) CRISC
9 22 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (1.84%) FFIEC
13 17 (1.74%) SANS
14 16 (1.64%) CGEIT
15 15 (1.54%) DBS Check
16 13 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (1.13%) CCSP
18 10 (1.02%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (32.58%) GDPR
2 134 (13.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 101 (10.35%) NIST
4 87 (8.91%) Data Quality
5 78 (7.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 37 (3.79%) GRC
7 36 (3.69%) Accessibility
8 30 (3.07%) COBIT
9 29 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (2.87%) PCI DSS
11 21 (2.15%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (1.64%) QA
13 10 (1.02%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.82%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.82%) PMO
15 8 (0.82%) SLA
16 7 (0.72%) TickIT
System Software
1 61 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.64%) Docker
3 13 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (3.79%) Terraform
2 25 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.82%) Ansible
4 8 (0.82%) CASB
5 6 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.31%) Argo
6 3 (0.31%) SCCM
7 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.20%) Nessus
7 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.10%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 265 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.66%) Google
3 21 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.84%) Oracle
5 15 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.54%) SAP
6 14 (1.43%) VMware
7 10 (1.02%) Databricks
8 9 (0.92%) iManage
8 9 (0.92%) Sage
9 8 (0.82%) Infor
9 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.61%) Citrix
10 6 (0.61%) IBM
10 6 (0.61%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.51%) Cisco
11 5 (0.51%) Workday
11 5 (0.51%) Xero
11 5 (0.51%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.41%) Freshdesk