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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 216 258
Rank change year-on-year +48 +42 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,224 632 755
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.20% 1.47% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.66% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 787 419 452
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,045
25th Percentile £41,625 £36,650 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,987 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -0.02% -6.78%
75th Percentile £81,625 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 75,111 38,102 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.37% 88.73% 81.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53,062 21,909 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +21 436 £65,000 -3.70% 1,063
North of England +16 228 £51,000 +2.00% 335
South East +37 227 £45,000 -1.10% 259
Midlands +47 164 £52,478 +1.14% 168
North West +5 120 £47,772 -4.46% 192
West Midlands +23 110 £53,600 -10.67% 116
South West -16 88 £55,000 +27.64% 113
Yorkshire +10 81 £52,500 -12.50% 114
East of England -6 71 £45,000 +38.46% 112
East Midlands 0 54 £45,000 +12.50% 52
North East -38 27 £80,500 +40.00% 34
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
1 107 (8.74%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.74%) WordPress
4 6 (0.49%) Confluence
5 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.33%) Apache
6 4 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.082%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.082%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.082%) Documentum
8 1 (0.082%) JBoss
8 1 (0.082%) Moodle
8 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.41%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.33%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.082%) InDesign
9 1 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.90%) Raiser’s Edge
3 8 (0.65%) SystmOne
4 4 (0.33%) iTrent
4 4 (0.33%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.082%) FastStats
7 1 (0.082%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.082%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.082%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.082%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.082%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 265 (21.65%) Azure
2 224 (18.30%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (11.44%) AWS
4 113 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 92 (7.52%) SaaS
6 87 (7.11%) Entra ID
7 56 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
8 52 (4.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 47 (3.84%) Power Automate
10 42 (3.43%) PowerApps
11 37 (3.02%) GCP
11 37 (3.02%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.86%) Serverless
13 34 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
14 30 (2.45%) Copilot Studio
15 25 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.90%) Network Security
2 41 (3.35%) Firewall
3 35 (2.86%) DNS
3 35 (2.86%) VPN
4 31 (2.53%) DHCP
5 26 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (1.63%) VLAN
7 19 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.55%) Wireless
8 17 (1.39%) Internet
9 16 (1.31%) LAN
10 14 (1.14%) WAN
11 7 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (0.57%) SSL
11 7 (0.57%) VoIP
12 4 (0.33%) CHAP
12 4 (0.33%) Intranet
12 4 (0.33%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.25%) BGP
13 3 (0.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.54%) Power BI
2 38 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (3.02%) Metadata
4 33 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 25 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.39%) Power Query
7 15 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (1.23%) MySQL
7 15 (1.23%) Tableau
8 13 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 12 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.82%) MariaDB
11 10 (0.82%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.82%) Star Schema
12 9 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (0.74%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (2.21%) Git
2 15 (1.23%) JIRA
3 8 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.41%) GitLab
6 3 (0.25%) MLflow
7 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.16%) git-flow
7 2 (0.16%) Maven
7 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.082%) Ant
8 1 (0.082%) Appium
8 1 (0.082%) JMeter
8 1 (0.082%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.082%) Selenium
8 1 (0.082%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 474 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 282 (23.04%) Finance
3 231 (18.87%) Legal
4 214 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 124 (10.13%) Law
6 124 (10.13%) Organisational Skills
7 112 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (8.33%) Retail
9 96 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
10 60 (4.90%) Marketing
11 45 (3.68%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.70%) Banking
13 31 (2.53%) Local Government
14 22 (1.80%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
16 16 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (1.23%) Back Office
17 15 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (10.38%) Senior
2 112 (9.15%) Architect
3 91 (7.43%) Lead
4 84 (6.86%) Analyst
5 71 (5.80%) Data Manager
6 53 (4.33%) IT Manager
7 51 (4.17%) Developer
8 50 (4.08%) IT Support
9 44 (3.59%) Data Protection Manager
10 36 (2.94%) Consultant
11 35 (2.86%) Sales Manager
12 33 (2.70%) Information Manager
12 33 (2.70%) IT Engineer
13 31 (2.53%) Governance Manager
14 30 (2.45%) Security Manager
14 30 (2.45%) Service Manager
15 29 (2.37%) Security Architect
16 28 (2.29%) Business Manager
16 28 (2.29%) Data Protection Officer
17 26 (2.12%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.94%) Terraform
2 27 (2.21%) HTML
3 24 (1.96%) REST
4 23 (1.88%) OpenID
5 20 (1.63%) OAuth
5 20 (1.63%) SAML
6 18 (1.47%) CSS
7 16 (1.31%) AWS CDK
8 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (1.06%) Middleware
10 12 (0.98%) LDAP
10 12 (0.98%) ModSecurity
10 12 (0.98%) SPFx
11 11 (0.90%) React
12 10 (0.82%) SOAP
13 9 (0.74%) .NET
13 9 (0.74%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (0.65%) Model Context Protocol
15 7 (0.57%) EDI
15 7 (0.57%) Langfuse
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 118 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 110 (8.99%) Data Protection Act
4 59 (4.82%) Security Posture
5 57 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (4.08%) Cloud Native
8 48 (3.92%) Product Ownership
9 34 (2.78%) Virtual Team
10 32 (2.61%) Driving Licence
11 31 (2.53%) Social Media
12 28 (2.29%) Freedom of Information
13 26 (2.12%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 23 (1.88%) NHS
16 20 (1.63%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
18 18 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
18 18 (1.47%) Life Science
19 16 (1.31%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 90 (7.35%) Windows
2 17 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.31%) Linux
4 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.41%) Android
7 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.082%) AIX
9 1 (0.082%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 315 (25.74%) Cybersecurity
3 290 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (20.92%) AI
5 235 (19.20%) Information Security
6 225 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 191 (15.60%) Decision-Making
8 190 (15.52%) Agile
9 189 (15.44%) Risk Management
10 166 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 133 (10.87%) Roadmaps
12 132 (10.78%) Service Delivery
13 118 (9.64%) Incident Response
14 117 (9.56%) Analytics
15 114 (9.31%) Collaborative Working
16 110 (8.99%) Data Governance
16 110 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
17 107 (8.74%) Information Governance
18 105 (8.58%) Business Continuity
19 100 (8.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 89 (7.27%) SQL
2 84 (6.86%) Python
3 43 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 41 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 31 (2.53%) Java
6 26 (2.12%) PHP
7 24 (1.96%) C#
8 20 (1.63%) Bash
9 16 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.14%) Perl
10 14 (1.14%) Ruby
11 13 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.25%) Go
12 3 (0.25%) Groovy
12 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.16%) Bicep
13 2 (0.16%) R
13 2 (0.16%) RPG
14 1 (0.082%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.082%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (13.64%) Degree
2 104 (8.50%) CISSP
3 88 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 74 (6.05%) CISM
5 42 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 41 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 34 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 32 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (2.53%) DBS Check
11 27 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (1.80%) CCSP
13 22 (1.80%) CRISC
13 22 (1.80%) DV Cleared
14 20 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (1.55%) CISA
16 16 (1.31%) ACCA
17 14 (1.14%) CIMA
18 13 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (30.96%) GDPR
2 164 (13.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 114 (9.31%) Data Quality
4 106 (8.66%) NIST
5 76 (6.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 60 (4.90%) GRC
7 44 (3.59%) Accessibility
8 40 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.78%) QA
10 27 (2.21%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 23 (1.88%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.55%) ISO 22301
14 18 (1.47%) COBIT
15 17 (1.39%) SLA
16 15 (1.23%) ISO 9001
17 12 (0.98%) PERC
18 11 (0.90%) NCSC
19 8 (0.65%) NIST 800
20 7 (0.57%) SOC 1
System Software
1 73 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.31%) Docker
4 12 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.90%) vSphere
6 7 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.16%) UAG
8 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.082%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.65%) Nessus
4 7 (0.57%) Ansible
5 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.41%) SCCM
6 4 (0.33%) Puppet
7 3 (0.25%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.16%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.082%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.082%) Grafana
9 1 (0.082%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.082%) QRadar
9 1 (0.082%) SCOM
Vendors
1 365 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.37%) Google
3 23 (1.88%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.80%) Oracle
5 20 (1.63%) VMware
6 17 (1.39%) Informatica
7 16 (1.31%) Cisco
8 15 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.23%) SAP
9 13 (1.06%) Okta
10 12 (0.98%) Databricks
10 12 (0.98%) ForgeRock
11 11 (0.90%) YouTube
12 10 (0.82%) Infor
12 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.74%) Adobe
13 9 (0.74%) OneTrust
13 9 (0.74%) Talend
13 9 (0.74%) Xero
14 7 (0.57%) Workday