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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 219 260
Rank change year-on-year +55 +41 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,255 636 755
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.22% 1.48% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.66% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 805 422 434
10th Percentile £32,100 £31,250 £32,466
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,769 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -0.86%

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 75,707 38,228 55,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 88.79% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 53,452 21,986 30,884
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 24 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 24 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 +29 449 £65,000 -3.70% 864
South East +35 235 £45,000 -2.17% 259
North of England +24 232 £51,000 +2.00% 322
Midlands +43 163 £53,600 +3.30% 157
North West +16 123 £47,772 -4.46% 172
West Midlands +25 109 £53,600 -10.67% 105
South West -20 92 £50,000 +16.03% 93
Yorkshire +9 82 £48,250 -19.58% 123
East of England 0 74 £45,000 +38.46% 109
East Midlands +5 54 £45,000 +12.50% 52
North East -44 27 £80,500 +40.00% 30
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
1 108 (8.61%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.88%) WordPress
4 6 (0.48%) Confluence
5 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.32%) Apache
6 4 (0.32%) IIS
7 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.080%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.080%) Documentum
9 1 (0.080%) JBoss
9 1 (0.080%) Moodle
9 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.40%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.32%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.080%) Elementor
9 1 (0.080%) InDesign
9 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.88%) Raiser’s Edge
3 8 (0.64%) SystmOne
4 5 (0.40%) Shopify
5 4 (0.32%) iTrent
6 3 (0.24%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.080%) FastStats
8 1 (0.080%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.080%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.080%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.080%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.080%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.080%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 272 (21.67%) Azure
2 226 (18.01%) Microsoft 365
3 142 (11.31%) AWS
4 115 (9.16%) Power Platform
5 96 (7.65%) SaaS
6 92 (7.33%) Entra ID
7 56 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 52 (4.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 49 (3.90%) Power Automate
10 43 (3.43%) PowerApps
11 39 (3.11%) Serverless
12 38 (3.03%) GCP
12 38 (3.03%) OneDrive
13 34 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (2.47%) Copilot Studio
15 25 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.78%) Network Security
2 41 (3.27%) Firewall
3 35 (2.79%) DNS
4 34 (2.71%) VPN
5 32 (2.55%) DHCP
6 26 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (1.59%) VLAN
8 19 (1.51%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.51%) Wireless
9 17 (1.35%) Internet
10 15 (1.20%) LAN
11 13 (1.04%) WAN
12 7 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.56%) VoIP
13 6 (0.48%) SSL
14 4 (0.32%) CHAP
14 4 (0.32%) Intranet
14 4 (0.32%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.24%) BGP
15 3 (0.24%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.37%) Power BI
2 40 (3.19%) Metadata
3 37 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.79%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.35%) Power Query
7 16 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.20%) MySQL
8 15 (1.20%) Tableau
9 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.80%) MariaDB
12 10 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.80%) Star Schema
13 9 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (0.72%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (2.15%) Git
2 15 (1.20%) JIRA
3 8 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.40%) GitLab
6 3 (0.24%) MLflow
7 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.16%) git-flow
7 2 (0.16%) Maven
7 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.080%) Ant
8 1 (0.080%) Appium
8 1 (0.080%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.080%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.080%) Selenium
8 1 (0.080%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.080%) Yeoman
General
1 485 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 292 (23.27%) Finance
3 241 (19.20%) Legal
4 219 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (10.60%) Public Sector
6 130 (10.36%) Law
7 129 (10.28%) Organisational Skills
8 115 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 106 (8.45%) Retail
10 99 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (5.26%) Marketing
12 45 (3.59%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.79%) Banking
14 32 (2.55%) Local Government
15 22 (1.75%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (1.27%) Back Office
18 16 (1.27%) Fire and Rescue
19 15 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (10.52%) Senior
2 118 (9.40%) Architect
3 93 (7.41%) Lead
4 85 (6.77%) Analyst
5 73 (5.82%) Data Manager
6 53 (4.22%) IT Manager
7 52 (4.14%) Developer
8 49 (3.90%) IT Support
9 46 (3.67%) Data Protection Manager
10 36 (2.87%) Consultant
11 35 (2.79%) Sales Manager
12 33 (2.63%) Information Manager
13 32 (2.55%) Governance Manager
13 32 (2.55%) IT Engineer
14 31 (2.47%) Service Manager
15 30 (2.39%) Security Manager
16 29 (2.31%) Security Architect
17 28 (2.23%) Business Manager
17 28 (2.23%) Data Protection Officer
18 27 (2.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.19%) Terraform
2 28 (2.23%) HTML
2 28 (2.23%) REST
3 24 (1.91%) OpenID
4 21 (1.67%) OAuth
5 20 (1.59%) SAML
6 18 (1.43%) CSS
7 16 (1.27%) AWS CDK
8 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
8 14 (1.12%) Middleware
9 12 (0.96%) LDAP
9 12 (0.96%) ModSecurity
9 12 (0.96%) SPFx
10 11 (0.88%) React
11 10 (0.80%) SOAP
12 9 (0.72%) .NET
12 9 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
14 7 (0.56%) EDI
14 7 (0.56%) Langfuse
Miscellaneous
1 173 (13.78%) Management Information System
2 118 (9.40%) Onboarding
3 109 (8.69%) Data Protection Act
4 61 (4.86%) Security Posture
5 60 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (4.14%) Cloud Native
6 52 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (3.90%) Product Ownership
8 35 (2.79%) Social Media
9 34 (2.71%) Virtual Team
10 33 (2.63%) Driving Licence
11 29 (2.31%) Freedom of Information
12 26 (2.07%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (1.83%) NHS
15 21 (1.67%) AI Agents
16 19 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (1.43%) Life Science
18 17 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.25%) Windows
2 19 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.35%) Linux
4 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.40%) Android
7 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.080%) AIX
9 1 (0.080%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (25.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 319 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
3 296 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
4 261 (20.80%) AI
5 240 (19.12%) Information Security
6 233 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 193 (15.38%) Agile
7 193 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 192 (15.30%) Decision-Making
9 168 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 140 (11.16%) Roadmaps
11 132 (10.52%) Service Delivery
12 124 (9.88%) Analytics
13 122 (9.72%) Collaborative Working
14 119 (9.48%) Incident Response
15 112 (8.92%) Data Governance
15 112 (8.92%) Disaster Recovery
16 107 (8.53%) Information Governance
17 106 (8.45%) Business Continuity
18 105 (8.37%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 90 (7.17%) SQL
2 84 (6.69%) Python
3 44 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 42 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 30 (2.39%) Java
6 26 (2.07%) PHP
7 24 (1.91%) C#
8 20 (1.59%) Bash
9 16 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.12%) Perl
10 14 (1.12%) Ruby
11 13 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.40%) Bicep
13 3 (0.24%) Go
13 3 (0.24%) Groovy
13 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.16%) R
14 2 (0.16%) RPG
15 1 (0.080%) Pascal
15 1 (0.080%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (13.47%) Degree
2 107 (8.53%) CISSP
3 92 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.98%) CISM
5 45 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 41 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 33 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (2.55%) DBS Check
11 28 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (1.83%) DV Cleared
13 22 (1.75%) CCSP
13 22 (1.75%) CRISC
14 20 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (1.51%) CISA
16 16 (1.27%) ACCA
17 14 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (1.12%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (30.52%) GDPR
2 166 (13.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 116 (9.24%) Data Quality
4 107 (8.53%) NIST
5 76 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 61 (4.86%) GRC
7 47 (3.75%) Accessibility
8 40 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (2.87%) QA
10 28 (2.23%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 22 (1.75%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.51%) ISO 22301
14 18 (1.43%) COBIT
15 17 (1.35%) SLA
16 15 (1.20%) ISO 9001
17 12 (0.96%) NCSC
17 12 (0.96%) PERC
18 8 (0.64%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.56%) SOC 1
System Software
1 74 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.27%) Docker
4 12 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.88%) vSphere
6 8 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.16%) UAG
8 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.64%) Nessus
4 7 (0.56%) Ansible
5 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.40%) SCCM
6 4 (0.32%) Grafana
6 4 (0.32%) Puppet
7 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.16%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.080%) Argo
9 1 (0.080%) CASB
9 1 (0.080%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.080%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 373 (29.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.31%) Google
3 23 (1.83%) Oracle
3 23 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 21 (1.67%) VMware
5 17 (1.35%) Informatica
6 16 (1.27%) Cisco
6 16 (1.27%) SAP
7 15 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.04%) Okta
8 13 (1.04%) YouTube
9 12 (0.96%) Databricks
9 12 (0.96%) ForgeRock
10 10 (0.80%) Adobe
10 10 (0.80%) Infor
10 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.72%) OneTrust
11 9 (0.72%) Talend
11 9 (0.72%) Xero
12 7 (0.56%) Palo Alto