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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 214 203
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 859 642 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 1.63% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.76% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 601 453 883
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,500 £83,500
UK median annual salary £60,850 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.42% +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 59,697 36,481 76,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.91% 92.81% 82.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,672 19,839 55,609
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +4 339 £80,000 +3.90% 130
North of England +1 156 £57,239 +14.48% 76
South East +9 139 £41,250 -8.33% 71
Midlands +28 117 £56,250 +12.50% 60
North West +5 84 £51,000 +15.25% 36
West Midlands +7 75 £50,000 -6.98% 38
Yorkshire -8 66 £57,239 -4.60% 28
East of England +7 54 £41,000 +26.15% 23
East Midlands +3 40 £56,795 +106.53% 22
South West -26 35 £47,500 -24.00% 32
North East -39 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 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 4 (0.47%) IIS
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) WordPress
7 2 (0.23%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 37 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 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 (0.47%) 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%) iTrent
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
1 181 (21.07%) Azure
2 127 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (9.08%) AWS
4 75 (8.73%) Entra ID
5 69 (8.03%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 51 (5.94%) SaaS
8 28 (3.26%) 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
12 12 (1.40%) Google Workspace
12 12 (1.40%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.28%) Serverless
14 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.16%) GitHub
15 9 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.36%) Firewall
2 23 (2.68%) CHAP
2 23 (2.68%) WAN
3 19 (2.21%) Network Security
4 17 (1.98%) VPN
5 14 (1.63%) LAN
6 11 (1.28%) DNS
6 11 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.93%) DHCP
9 6 (0.70%) Internet
10 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.58%) SMS
10 5 (0.58%) VLAN
10 5 (0.58%) VoIP
11 4 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
12 3 (0.35%) Wireless
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) SSL
14 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.87%) Power BI
2 20 (2.33%) Tableau
3 17 (1.98%) 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 (0.47%) 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 (1.63%) JIRA
3 7 (0.81%) GitLab
4 6 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.58%) MLflow
6 4 (0.47%) 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
1 346 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 193 (22.47%) Finance
3 140 (16.30%) Legal
4 135 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (7.92%) Law
6 66 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (6.64%) Marketing
8 56 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.52%) Retail
9 37 (4.31%) Banking
10 35 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 33 (3.84%) Financial Institution
12 27 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.33%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.51%) Local Government
17 12 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 103 (11.99%) Analyst
2 68 (7.92%) Lead
3 65 (7.57%) Senior
4 45 (5.24%) Data Manager
5 43 (5.01%) Architect
5 43 (5.01%) IT Manager
6 37 (4.31%) IT Support
6 37 (4.31%) Report Analyst
7 36 (4.19%) Developer
8 30 (3.49%) Development Manager
9 29 (3.38%) Business Manager
10 26 (3.03%) Business Development Manager
11 25 (2.91%) Auditor
11 25 (2.91%) Data Protection Officer
11 25 (2.91%) Governance Manager
12 24 (2.79%) Security Manager
13 23 (2.68%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.56%) Consultant
14 22 (2.56%) Information Manager
14 22 (2.56%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.21%) CSS
2 16 (1.86%) HTML
3 9 (1.05%) Node.js
3 9 (1.05%) OAuth
4 7 (0.81%) EDI
4 7 (0.81%) REST
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%) Middleware
6 5 (0.58%) Next.js
6 5 (0.58%) RESTful
6 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.47%) .NET
7 4 (0.47%) JWT
7 4 (0.47%) SOAP
7 4 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (13.97%) Data Protection Act
2 103 (11.99%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.96%) Driving Licence
5 32 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 25 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.51%) NHS
10 12 (1.40%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.28%) CMDB
11 11 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
12 10 (1.16%) Social Media
13 9 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.05%) 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 68 (7.92%) Windows
2 21 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 19 (2.21%) 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 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.35%) AIX
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
2 191 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 145 (16.88%) Decision-Making
5 137 (15.95%) AI
6 128 (14.90%) Risk Management
7 122 (14.20%) Information Security
8 121 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (12.46%) Data Governance
10 105 (12.22%) Agile
11 96 (11.18%) Incident Response
12 90 (10.48%) Analytics
13 88 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 78 (9.08%) Disaster Recovery
15 75 (8.73%) ITIL
16 71 (8.27%) Business Continuity
17 69 (8.03%) Process Improvement
18 68 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
18 68 (7.92%) Information Governance
19 67 (7.80%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.10%) SQL
2 47 (5.47%) Python
3 32 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.98%) Java
5 16 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.75%) 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 (0.47%) 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 (11.76%) Degree
2 71 (8.27%) CISSP
3 55 (6.40%) CISM
4 40 (4.66%) CISA
5 38 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.14%) Security Cleared
7 26 (3.03%) FFIEC
8 25 (2.91%) SANS
9 24 (2.79%) CGEIT
10 23 (2.68%) SC Cleared
11 21 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 20 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.75%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.51%) CRISC
15 12 (1.40%) Azure Certification
16 11 (1.28%) CEH
17 10 (1.16%) PMI Certification
18 9 (1.05%) PMP
19 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
20 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (32.01%) GDPR
2 110 (12.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (10.01%) NIST
4 71 (8.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 71 (8.27%) Data Quality
5 33 (3.84%) COBIT
6 31 (3.61%) Accessibility
7 26 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 25 (2.91%) PCI DSS
9 22 (2.56%) GRC
10 19 (2.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (1.51%) QA
11 13 (1.51%) SOC 2
12 12 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (1.16%) HIPAA
14 9 (1.05%) PMO
15 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.81%) PERC
16 7 (0.81%) SLA
17 6 (0.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 53 (6.17%) 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 33 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (2.21%) Terraform
3 16 (1.86%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.40%) CASB
5 9 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.81%) SCCM
7 6 (0.70%) Ansible
8 3 (0.35%) Argo
8 3 (0.35%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.12%) Grafana
10 1 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) Nessus
10 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.91%) Google
3 20 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 12 (1.40%) Oracle
4 12 (1.40%) SAP
5 11 (1.28%) iManage
6 9 (1.05%) Databricks
6 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.93%) Sage
8 7 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.81%) VMware
9 6 (0.70%) Cisco
9 6 (0.70%) Citrix
9 6 (0.70%) Workday
10 5 (0.58%) Meraki
10 5 (0.58%) Xero
10 5 (0.58%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.47%) Concur
11 4 (0.47%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.47%) Varonis