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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 212 259
Rank change year-on-year +44 +47 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,179 635 737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.17% 1.48% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.67% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 769 423 453
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
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 73,454 38,135 55,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.76% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 21,803 32,273
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,571 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,040
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 15 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 15 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 +17 431 £65,000 -3.70% 966
North of England +24 215 £51,000 +2.00% 304
South East +39 211 £45,000 -1.10% 253
Midlands +43 163 £53,600 +3.69% 156
North West +12 114 £50,000 - 177
West Midlands +30 107 £53,600 -10.67% 108
South West -30 81 £55,000 +27.64% 114
Yorkshire -2 76 £52,500 -12.50% 97
East of England -1 67 £42,500 +30.77% 105
East Midlands +5 56 £45,000 +12.50% 48
North East -42 25 £80,500 +40.00% 33
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 97 (8.23%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.76%) WordPress
4 6 (0.51%) Confluence
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.34%) Apache
6 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.085%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.085%) CMS
8 1 (0.085%) Documentum
8 1 (0.085%) JBoss
8 1 (0.085%) Moodle
8 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.42%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.085%) InDesign
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
3 7 (0.59%) SystmOne
4 4 (0.34%) iTrent
4 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.085%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.085%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 252 (21.37%) Azure
2 211 (17.90%) Microsoft 365
3 143 (12.13%) AWS
4 103 (8.74%) Power Platform
5 89 (7.55%) SaaS
6 84 (7.12%) Entra ID
7 50 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 41 (3.48%) Power Automate
10 39 (3.31%) GCP
11 36 (3.05%) PowerApps
12 33 (2.80%) Serverless
13 31 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (2.63%) OneDrive
14 26 (2.21%) Copilot Studio
15 25 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
19 15 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.09%) Network Security
2 42 (3.56%) Firewall
3 33 (2.80%) DNS
4 32 (2.71%) VPN
5 29 (2.46%) DHCP
6 25 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.61%) VLAN
8 18 (1.53%) Internet
8 18 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.53%) Wireless
9 14 (1.19%) LAN
10 12 (1.02%) WAN
11 7 (0.59%) VoIP
12 6 (0.51%) SSL
13 5 (0.42%) CHAP
13 5 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
14 4 (0.34%) Intranet
14 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.25%) BGP
16 2 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.36%) Power BI
2 36 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (3.05%) Metadata
3 29 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.36%) Power Query
5 16 (1.36%) Tableau
6 14 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.19%) MySQL
7 12 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.85%) MariaDB
9 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.68%) Star Schema
11 7 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (2.12%) Git
2 16 (1.36%) JIRA
3 8 (0.68%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.51%) GitLab
5 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.25%) JMeter
6 3 (0.25%) MLflow
7 2 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.17%) git-flow
7 2 (0.17%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.17%) Maven
7 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.085%) Ant
8 1 (0.085%) ERwin
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.085%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 454 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 273 (23.16%) Finance
3 220 (18.66%) Legal
4 206 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 117 (9.92%) Law
7 108 (9.16%) Organisational Skills
8 107 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 102 (8.65%) Retail
10 91 (7.72%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (4.41%) Marketing
12 43 (3.65%) Manufacturing
13 33 (2.80%) Banking
14 28 (2.37%) Local Government
15 21 (1.78%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.44%) Fire and Rescue
18 16 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (1.27%) Back Office
20 14 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (10.35%) Senior
2 106 (8.99%) Architect
3 88 (7.46%) Lead
4 84 (7.12%) Analyst
5 69 (5.85%) Data Manager
6 53 (4.50%) IT Manager
7 48 (4.07%) Developer
7 48 (4.07%) IT Support
8 43 (3.65%) Data Protection Manager
9 34 (2.88%) Sales Manager
10 33 (2.80%) Consultant
10 33 (2.80%) Information Manager
10 33 (2.80%) IT Engineer
11 32 (2.71%) Governance Manager
12 30 (2.54%) Security Manager
12 30 (2.54%) Service Manager
13 29 (2.46%) Data Protection Officer
14 28 (2.37%) Business Manager
14 28 (2.37%) Security Architect
15 25 (2.12%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.05%) Terraform
2 25 (2.12%) HTML
3 23 (1.95%) OpenID
4 22 (1.87%) REST
5 20 (1.70%) SAML
6 19 (1.61%) OAuth
7 18 (1.53%) CSS
8 16 (1.36%) AWS CDK
9 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (1.10%) Middleware
10 12 (1.02%) LDAP
10 12 (1.02%) ModSecurity
10 12 (1.02%) SPFx
11 11 (0.93%) React
12 10 (0.85%) SOAP
13 9 (0.76%) .NET
14 8 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
15 7 (0.59%) EDI
15 7 (0.59%) Langfuse
15 7 (0.59%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 153 (12.98%) Management Information System
2 111 (9.41%) Onboarding
3 110 (9.33%) Data Protection Act
4 56 (4.75%) Security Posture
5 52 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (4.07%) Cloud Native
8 47 (3.99%) Product Ownership
9 34 (2.88%) Virtual Team
10 31 (2.63%) Driving Licence
11 29 (2.46%) Social Media
12 25 (2.12%) Data Centre
12 25 (2.12%) Freedom of Information
13 23 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (1.61%) NHS
15 18 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 18 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (1.27%) Freedom of Information Act
16 15 (1.27%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.29%) Windows
2 17 (1.44%) Linux
3 16 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.17%) Unix
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.085%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (26.04%) Cybersecurity
2 297 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 283 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 246 (20.87%) AI
5 228 (19.34%) Information Security
6 215 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 186 (15.78%) Agile
8 183 (15.52%) Decision-Making
9 182 (15.44%) Risk Management
10 161 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 123 (10.43%) Service Delivery
12 122 (10.35%) Roadmaps
13 117 (9.92%) Analytics
13 117 (9.92%) Incident Response
14 109 (9.25%) Data Governance
15 108 (9.16%) Disaster Recovery
16 102 (8.65%) Collaborative Working
17 101 (8.57%) Business Continuity
18 98 (8.31%) Information Governance
19 95 (8.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 87 (7.38%) SQL
2 81 (6.87%) Python
3 39 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 38 (3.22%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.71%) Java
6 26 (2.21%) PHP
7 21 (1.78%) C#
8 20 (1.70%) Bash
9 15 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.19%) Perl
10 14 (1.19%) Ruby
11 12 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.25%) Go
12 3 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.17%) Bicep
13 2 (0.17%) C
13 2 (0.17%) R
13 2 (0.17%) RPG
13 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.085%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 158 (13.40%) Degree
2 105 (8.91%) CISSP
3 84 (7.12%) Security Cleared
4 74 (6.28%) CISM
5 39 (3.31%) SC Cleared
6 38 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.71%) DBS Check
8 30 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 22 (1.87%) CRISC
10 22 (1.87%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.78%) CCSP
12 20 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (1.70%) CISA
13 16 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (1.19%) ACCA
15 13 (1.10%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (30.79%) GDPR
2 161 (13.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 110 (9.33%) Data Quality
4 108 (9.16%) NIST
5 74 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 58 (4.92%) GRC
7 43 (3.65%) Accessibility
8 39 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 31 (2.63%) QA
10 25 (2.12%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.95%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (1.61%) COBIT
14 18 (1.53%) ISO 22301
15 16 (1.36%) SLA
16 14 (1.19%) ISO 9001
17 11 (0.93%) NCSC
17 11 (0.93%) PERC
18 7 (0.59%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.59%) SOC 1
System Software
1 72 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.44%) Docker
2 17 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.93%) vSphere
4 10 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.17%) UAG
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.085%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.68%) Nessus
4 7 (0.59%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 3 (0.25%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.17%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.17%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.085%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.085%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.085%) QRadar
9 1 (0.085%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 332 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.46%) Google
3 23 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.87%) Oracle
5 20 (1.70%) VMware
6 16 (1.36%) Cisco
7 15 (1.27%) Informatica
7 15 (1.27%) SAP
8 14 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.10%) Okta
10 12 (1.02%) Databricks
10 12 (1.02%) ForgeRock
11 11 (0.93%) YouTube
12 10 (0.85%) Infor
12 10 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.76%) Adobe
14 8 (0.68%) OneTrust
14 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.68%) Xero
15 7 (0.59%) Workday