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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 213 206
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +66
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 862 640 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 1.63% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.76% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 606 452 881
10th Percentile £31,971 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £42,563 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,625 £84,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.17%

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 60,313 36,433 75,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.30% 93.06% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41,346 19,656 55,190
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 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 6 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 +10 340 £80,000 +3.90% 217
North of England +2 159 £57,239 +14.48% 80
South East 0 138 £40,000 -11.11% 86
Midlands +27 116 £57,500 +15.00% 70
North West +4 87 £50,500 +16.09% 40
West Midlands -4 75 £50,000 -6.98% 48
Yorkshire -3 66 £57,239 -4.60% 28
East of England -3 54 £41,000 +26.15% 26
East Midlands -2 39 £58,589 +113.05% 22
South West -36 36 £47,500 -24.00% 38
North East -37 6 £80,000 +14.29% 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 38 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 4 (0.46%) IIS
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Confluence
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 38 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.70%) Shopify
3 4 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.35%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
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 EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 183 (21.23%) Azure
2 129 (14.97%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (8.93%) AWS
4 74 (8.58%) Entra ID
5 69 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 51 (5.92%) SaaS
8 28 (3.25%) GCP
9 21 (2.44%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (1.51%) Copilot Studio
11 13 (1.51%) Google Workspace
12 12 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.28%) Serverless
14 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.16%) GitHub
15 9 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.34%) Firewall
2 25 (2.90%) WAN
3 23 (2.67%) CHAP
4 18 (2.09%) Network Security
5 17 (1.97%) VPN
6 16 (1.86%) LAN
7 11 (1.28%) DNS
8 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.93%) DHCP
10 6 (0.70%) VoIP
11 5 (0.58%) Internet
11 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.58%) SMS
11 5 (0.58%) VLAN
12 4 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
13 3 (0.35%) Wireless
14 2 (0.23%) Intranet
14 2 (0.23%) SSL
15 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.84%) Power BI
2 20 (2.32%) Tableau
3 17 (1.97%) Metadata
4 16 (1.86%) Data Lake
4 16 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.86%) MySQL
5 10 (1.16%) MariaDB
5 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.93%) Power Query
7 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.58%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.46%) Big Data
9 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.35%) Db2
9 3 (0.35%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (2.44%) Git
2 14 (1.62%) JIRA
3 7 (0.81%) GitLab
4 6 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.58%) MLflow
6 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
7 3 (0.35%) Maven
8 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) Appium
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%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 347 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 192 (22.27%) Finance
3 140 (16.24%) Legal
4 133 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (7.89%) Law
6 67 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (6.61%) Marketing
9 56 (6.50%) Retail
10 37 (4.29%) Banking
11 35 (4.06%) Public Sector
12 33 (3.83%) Financial Institution
13 28 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.62%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.51%) Local Government
17 13 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 103 (11.95%) Analyst
2 69 (8.00%) Lead
3 66 (7.66%) Senior
4 45 (5.22%) Data Manager
5 44 (5.10%) IT Manager
6 43 (4.99%) Architect
7 37 (4.29%) Report Analyst
8 36 (4.18%) Developer
9 35 (4.06%) IT Support
10 30 (3.48%) Development Manager
11 29 (3.36%) Business Manager
12 26 (3.02%) Business Development Manager
12 26 (3.02%) Data Protection Officer
13 25 (2.90%) Auditor
13 25 (2.90%) Governance Manager
14 24 (2.78%) Security Manager
15 23 (2.67%) Information Manager
15 23 (2.67%) IT Engineer
16 22 (2.55%) Sales Manager
16 22 (2.55%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.20%) CSS
2 16 (1.86%) HTML
3 9 (1.04%) Node.js
3 9 (1.04%) OAuth
4 7 (0.81%) EDI
4 7 (0.81%) REST
5 6 (0.70%) Middleware
5 6 (0.70%) OpenID
5 6 (0.70%) PySpark
5 6 (0.70%) React
6 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.58%) Jest
6 5 (0.58%) Kafka
6 5 (0.58%) Next.js
6 5 (0.58%) RESTful
6 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.46%) .NET
7 4 (0.46%) JWT
7 4 (0.46%) SOAP
7 4 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.04%) Data Protection Act
2 103 (11.95%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.83%) Driving Licence
5 32 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 24 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.39%) Blockchain
10 12 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.39%) NHS
10 12 (1.39%) Social Media
11 11 (1.28%) CMDB
12 10 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
13 9 (1.04%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 71 (8.24%) Windows
2 22 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 19 (2.20%) Linux
4 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.58%) Android
5 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.58%) Unix
6 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.35%) AIX
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (24.36%) Cybersecurity
2 191 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 146 (16.94%) Decision-Making
5 137 (15.89%) AI
6 127 (14.73%) Risk Management
7 121 (14.04%) Information Security
8 119 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 108 (12.53%) Agile
10 106 (12.30%) Data Governance
11 97 (11.25%) Incident Response
12 89 (10.32%) Analytics
13 86 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (9.16%) Disaster Recovery
15 78 (9.05%) ITIL
16 71 (8.24%) Business Continuity
16 71 (8.24%) Process Improvement
17 68 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (7.89%) Information Governance
18 66 (7.66%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.08%) SQL
2 47 (5.45%) Python
3 32 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.97%) Java
5 16 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.74%) PHP
7 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.81%) Bash
9 6 (0.70%) C#
9 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) VBA
11 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 3 (0.35%) Go
11 3 (0.35%) Groovy
12 2 (0.23%) C
12 2 (0.23%) RPG
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (11.72%) Degree
2 71 (8.24%) CISSP
3 55 (6.38%) CISM
4 40 (4.64%) CISA
5 38 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 26 (3.02%) FFIEC
8 25 (2.90%) SANS
9 24 (2.78%) CGEIT
10 23 (2.67%) SC Cleared
11 21 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (2.09%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.51%) CRISC
15 12 (1.39%) Azure Certification
16 11 (1.28%) CEH
16 11 (1.28%) PMI Certification
17 10 (1.16%) PMP
18 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
19 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (31.32%) GDPR
2 110 (12.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (9.86%) NIST
4 71 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 71 (8.24%) Data Quality
5 33 (3.83%) COBIT
6 31 (3.60%) Accessibility
7 25 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 25 (2.90%) PCI DSS
8 22 (2.55%) GRC
9 19 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (1.74%) QA
11 13 (1.51%) SOC 2
12 12 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (1.16%) HIPAA
14 9 (1.04%) PMO
15 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.93%) SLA
16 7 (0.81%) PERC
17 6 (0.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 54 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.51%) Docker
3 8 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.09%) Terraform
3 15 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.39%) CASB
5 11 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.81%) SCCM
7 6 (0.70%) Ansible
8 5 (0.58%) SmoothWall
9 3 (0.35%) Argo
10 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) Grafana
11 1 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.02%) Google
3 20 (2.32%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.51%) SAP
5 12 (1.39%) Oracle
6 11 (1.28%) iManage
7 9 (1.04%) Databricks
7 9 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.93%) Cisco
8 8 (0.93%) Sage
9 7 (0.81%) Meraki
9 7 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.81%) VMware
10 6 (0.70%) Citrix
10 6 (0.70%) Workday
11 5 (0.58%) Xero
11 5 (0.58%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.46%) Concur
12 4 (0.46%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.46%) Varonis