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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 222 216
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 931 628 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.09% 1.53% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.67% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 649 438 858
10th Percentile £33,350 £28,000 £30,445
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +17.50% -12.28%
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +18.00% -12.28%

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 63,008 37,645 76,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.62% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,477 20,913 54,962
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £72,500
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% -9.09%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +22 378 £80,000 +6.67% 123
North of England -2 172 £57,239 +14.48% 68
South East +14 145 £45,000 - 62
Midlands +35 133 £55,000 +10.00% 52
North West +6 93 £50,500 +9.19% 35
West Midlands +16 81 £50,000 -3.64% 32
Yorkshire +7 69 £57,239 -4.60% 22
East of England -4 54 £42,000 +29.23% 12
East Midlands +10 51 £55,000 +100.00% 20
South West -51 32 £47,500 -24.00% 41
North East -41 10 £80,000 +39.13% 12
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 59 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.54%) CMS
4 5 (0.54%) IIS
4 5 (0.54%) WordPress
5 3 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.11%) Documentum
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Moodle
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.86%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.64%) Shopify
4 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.32%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.32%) iTrent
6 2 (0.21%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) FastStats
7 1 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.11%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 196 (21.05%) Azure
2 151 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (11.17%) AWS
4 87 (9.34%) Entra ID
5 81 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 63 (6.77%) Microsoft Purview
7 62 (6.66%) SaaS
8 30 (3.22%) Power Automate
9 27 (2.90%) GCP
10 24 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (2.15%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.93%) Copilot Studio
12 18 (1.93%) Serverless
13 17 (1.83%) OneDrive
14 15 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.37%) Firewall
2 33 (3.54%) Network Security
3 20 (2.15%) VPN
4 19 (2.04%) CHAP
5 16 (1.72%) WAN
5 16 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (1.61%) DNS
7 12 (1.29%) DHCP
8 10 (1.07%) LAN
9 9 (0.97%) VLAN
10 8 (0.86%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.86%) Wireless
11 7 (0.75%) Internet
12 5 (0.54%) SMS
13 4 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
14 3 (0.32%) SSL
15 2 (0.21%) Intranet
15 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.77%) Power BI
2 20 (2.15%) Tableau
3 19 (2.04%) Metadata
4 18 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 17 (1.83%) MySQL
6 12 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.07%) MariaDB
9 9 (0.97%) Power Query
10 7 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.64%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.43%) Big Data
13 3 (0.32%) Db2
13 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (2.04%) Git
2 15 (1.61%) JIRA
3 8 (0.86%) GitLab
4 6 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) MLflow
6 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.32%) JMeter
8 2 (0.21%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.21%) Maven
8 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.11%) Appium
9 1 (0.11%) ERwin
9 1 (0.11%) Gatling
9 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 377 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 211 (22.66%) Finance
3 153 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (15.68%) Legal
5 76 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (7.84%) Law
7 68 (7.30%) Retail
8 58 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (6.02%) Marketing
10 53 (5.69%) Public Sector
11 36 (3.87%) Banking
12 28 (3.01%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 14 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.40%) Local Government
19 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
20 9 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 103 (11.06%) Analyst
2 81 (8.70%) Senior
3 72 (7.73%) Lead
4 52 (5.59%) Architect
5 51 (5.48%) Data Manager
6 48 (5.16%) IT Manager
7 46 (4.94%) Developer
8 42 (4.51%) IT Support
9 31 (3.33%) Report Analyst
10 29 (3.11%) IT Engineer
11 28 (3.01%) Business Manager
11 28 (3.01%) Security Manager
12 26 (2.79%) Development Manager
13 24 (2.58%) Data Protection Officer
13 24 (2.58%) Governance Manager
14 23 (2.47%) Business Development Manager
14 23 (2.47%) Consultant
14 23 (2.47%) Data Protection Manager
15 21 (2.26%) Auditor
15 21 (2.26%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.26%) HTML
2 20 (2.15%) CSS
3 11 (1.18%) REST
4 10 (1.07%) OpenID
5 7 (0.75%) EDI
5 7 (0.75%) Middleware
5 7 (0.75%) Node.js
5 7 (0.75%) OAuth
5 7 (0.75%) PySpark
5 7 (0.75%) React
5 7 (0.75%) SAML
6 6 (0.64%) AWS CDK
6 6 (0.64%) Kafka
6 6 (0.64%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.54%) .NET
7 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (0.54%) Next.js
7 5 (0.54%) XML
8 4 (0.43%) JSON
8 4 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.72%) Data Protection Act
2 117 (12.57%) Management Information System
3 64 (6.87%) Onboarding
4 39 (4.19%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (3.65%) Driving Licence
7 32 (3.44%) Product Ownership
8 31 (3.33%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
10 13 (1.40%) NHS
11 11 (1.18%) CCTV
11 11 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.07%) Blockchain
12 10 (1.07%) CMDB
12 10 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.73%) Windows
2 22 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 21 (2.26%) Linux
4 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.54%) Android
5 5 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.54%) Unix
6 4 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.32%) AIX
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (25.46%) Cybersecurity
2 224 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
3 182 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 162 (17.40%) AI
5 156 (16.76%) Decision-Making
6 147 (15.79%) Information Security
6 147 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 135 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 117 (12.57%) Data Governance
9 116 (12.46%) Agile
10 112 (12.03%) Incident Response
11 98 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 97 (10.42%) Analytics
12 97 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 89 (9.56%) Business Continuity
14 79 (8.49%) Service Delivery
15 78 (8.38%) Roadmaps
16 75 (8.06%) ITIL
17 74 (7.95%) Information Governance
18 72 (7.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.73%) SQL
2 66 (7.09%) Python
3 38 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.47%) Java
4 23 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 21 (2.26%) PHP
6 14 (1.50%) Bash
7 10 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.86%) C#
8 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.75%) Ruby
10 6 (0.64%) Perl
11 4 (0.43%) Go
11 4 (0.43%) VBA
12 3 (0.32%) Groovy
13 2 (0.21%) Bicep
13 2 (0.21%) C
13 2 (0.21%) RPG
13 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 120 (12.89%) Degree
2 80 (8.59%) CISSP
3 60 (6.44%) CISM
4 44 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 39 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.08%) CISA
7 30 (3.22%) SC Cleared
8 22 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (2.36%) FFIEC
8 22 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.26%) SANS
10 20 (2.15%) CGEIT
10 20 (2.15%) CRISC
11 18 (1.93%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.50%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (1.07%) CCSP
15 10 (1.07%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (32.98%) GDPR
2 132 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 98 (10.53%) NIST
4 81 (8.70%) Data Quality
5 80 (8.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 34 (3.65%) Accessibility
6 34 (3.65%) COBIT
6 34 (3.65%) GRC
7 29 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 29 (3.11%) PCI DSS
8 22 (2.36%) SOC 2
9 17 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (1.29%) QA
11 11 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (1.18%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (0.86%) PMO
12 8 (0.86%) SLA
13 7 (0.75%) PERC
13 7 (0.75%) TickIT
System Software
1 59 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.72%) Docker
3 11 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.54%) vSphere
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
1 28 (3.01%) Terraform
2 20 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.07%) CASB
4 8 (0.86%) Ansible
5 6 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.54%) SCCM
7 3 (0.32%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.21%) Grafana
8 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.21%) Nessus
8 2 (0.21%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.11%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 256 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.69%) Google
3 23 (2.47%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.93%) Oracle
5 13 (1.40%) SAP
6 12 (1.29%) VMware
7 11 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.07%) Databricks
8 10 (1.07%) iManage
9 9 (0.97%) Sage
10 8 (0.86%) Infor
10 8 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.64%) Citrix
11 6 (0.64%) IBM
12 5 (0.54%) Cisco
12 5 (0.54%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.54%) Workday
12 5 (0.54%) Xero
12 5 (0.54%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.43%) Tenable