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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 188 197
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 815 717 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.84% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.97% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 583 489 912
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,778 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £88,750 £79,250 £67,813
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 60,225 36,390 71,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.59% 93.48% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 38,460 20,470 53,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,372 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 8 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 8 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 +1 334 £80,000 +3.90% 151
North of England -44 140 £57,239 +4.07% 70
South East -24 125 £40,000 -11.11% 59
Midlands -12 96 £57,500 +15.00% 51
North West -24 82 £50,000 - 30
West Midlands -25 61 £50,000 - 34
East of England -2 51 £43,000 +7.98% 31
Yorkshire -36 51 £57,239 -2.16% 27
South West -21 49 £36,998 -40.80% 26
East Midlands -10 33 £67,500 +135.81% 17
North East -29 7 £51,250 - 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 32 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.49%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
5 3 (0.37%) IIS
6 2 (0.25%) Confluence
6 2 (0.25%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 42 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
3 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.37%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 176 (21.60%) Azure
2 117 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (8.10%) Entra ID
4 63 (7.73%) AWS
4 63 (7.73%) Power Platform
5 58 (7.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 56 (6.87%) SaaS
7 26 (3.19%) GCP
8 17 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.84%) PaaS
10 14 (1.72%) Google Workspace
10 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (1.60%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.60%) Serverless
12 12 (1.47%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.23%) GitHub
14 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.63%) Firewall
2 29 (3.56%) CHAP
3 28 (3.44%) WAN
4 22 (2.70%) Network Security
5 18 (2.21%) VPN
6 17 (2.09%) LAN
7 14 (1.72%) DNS
8 11 (1.35%) DHCP
9 9 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.74%) VLAN
11 6 (0.74%) VoIP
11 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.61%) SMS
13 4 (0.49%) Internet
13 4 (0.49%) Wireless
14 3 (0.37%) PuTTY
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
15 2 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.63%) Power BI
2 22 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 19 (2.33%) Metadata
4 18 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.35%) Power Query
7 10 (1.23%) Tableau
8 8 (0.98%) MySQL
9 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.61%) Big Data
11 5 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.37%) DB2
13 3 (0.37%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
14 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%) ERwin
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 341 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 190 (23.31%) Finance
3 141 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (15.21%) Legal
5 62 (7.61%) Law
6 61 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (6.75%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (6.38%) Marketing
9 51 (6.26%) Retail
10 45 (5.52%) Banking
11 38 (4.66%) Financial Institution
12 29 (3.56%) 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
18 9 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (13.13%) Analyst
2 68 (8.34%) Lead
3 63 (7.73%) Senior
4 41 (5.03%) IT Manager
5 37 (4.54%) Report Analyst
6 36 (4.42%) Architect
7 31 (3.80%) Auditor
7 31 (3.80%) IT Support
8 29 (3.56%) Data Manager
8 29 (3.56%) Data Protection Officer
9 28 (3.44%) Security Auditor
10 27 (3.31%) Security Manager
11 26 (3.19%) Development Manager
11 26 (3.19%) Internal Auditor
12 25 (3.07%) Business Manager
12 25 (3.07%) Developer
13 24 (2.94%) Account Manager
13 24 (2.94%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.82%) Consultant
14 23 (2.82%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.96%) CSS
2 12 (1.47%) HTML
3 10 (1.23%) Node.js
4 9 (1.10%) OAuth
5 7 (0.86%) .NET
5 7 (0.86%) EDI
5 7 (0.86%) REST
6 6 (0.74%) Middleware
6 6 (0.74%) OpenID
6 6 (0.74%) SOAP
7 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.61%) Jest
7 5 (0.61%) PySpark
7 5 (0.61%) RESTful
8 4 (0.49%) JWT
8 4 (0.49%) React
8 4 (0.49%) XML
9 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (0.37%) SAML
9 3 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 128 (15.71%) Data Protection Act
2 108 (13.25%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.56%) Driving Licence
5 28 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 26 (3.19%) Cloud Native
7 22 (2.70%) NHS
8 19 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.84%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.35%) CMDB
12 11 (1.35%) Social Media
13 10 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
13 10 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
17 6 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.59%) Windows
2 24 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.09%) Linux
4 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.49%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.37%) AIX
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (26.13%) Cybersecurity
2 191 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 132 (16.20%) Decision-Making
4 132 (16.20%) Risk Management
5 126 (15.46%) Information Security
6 110 (13.50%) Agile
7 109 (13.37%) AI
8 104 (12.76%) Incident Response
8 104 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 97 (11.90%) Analytics
10 92 (11.29%) Data Governance
11 91 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (10.43%) Project Management
13 79 (9.69%) ITIL
14 76 (9.33%) Business Continuity
15 73 (8.96%) Process Improvement
16 72 (8.83%) Disaster Recovery
17 68 (8.34%) Information Governance
18 64 (7.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.12%) SQL
2 53 (6.50%) Python
3 22 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 21 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.72%) Java
6 11 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.10%) Bash
7 9 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.86%) PHP
9 6 (0.74%) Bicep
9 6 (0.74%) C#
10 4 (0.49%) Go
10 4 (0.49%) VBA
11 3 (0.37%) Groovy
11 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.25%) RPG
12 2 (0.25%) Ruby
12 2 (0.25%) Scala
12 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 96 (11.78%) Degree
2 79 (9.69%) CISSP
3 63 (7.73%) CISM
4 46 (5.64%) CISA
5 41 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.93%) FFIEC
7 30 (3.68%) CGEIT
7 30 (3.68%) SANS
8 21 (2.58%) Security Cleared
9 20 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 20 (2.45%) DBS Check
10 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (2.21%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.09%) PMP
12 17 (2.09%) SC Cleared
13 14 (1.72%) CEH
14 13 (1.60%) CRISC
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (30.55%) GDPR
2 113 (13.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (11.04%) NIST
4 70 (8.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 65 (7.98%) Data Quality
6 39 (4.79%) COBIT
7 28 (3.44%) PCI DSS
8 26 (3.19%) Accessibility
9 23 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (2.45%) GRC
10 20 (2.45%) QA
11 14 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (1.60%) SOC 2
13 12 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (1.23%) HIPAA
15 9 (1.10%) PMO
16 7 (0.86%) PERC
17 6 (0.74%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.74%) TickIT
System Software
1 53 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.23%) Docker
3 8 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.45%) Terraform
3 14 (1.72%) CASB
4 12 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.98%) Ansible
6 8 (0.98%) SCCM
7 5 (0.61%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.25%) Argo
9 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.12%) ArcSight ESM
10 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.12%) Grafana
10 1 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.12%) QRadar
10 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 218 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.31%) Google
3 18 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 12 (1.47%) iManage
4 12 (1.47%) Oracle
4 12 (1.47%) SAP
5 9 (1.10%) Cisco
5 9 (1.10%) Databricks
5 9 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 9 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.98%) Meraki
7 7 (0.86%) Sage
7 7 (0.86%) VMware
7 7 (0.86%) Workday
8 5 (0.61%) Citrix
8 5 (0.61%) Freshdesk
8 5 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.61%) Zscaler
9 4 (0.49%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.49%) Varonis