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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 209 220
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,008 664 968
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.10% 1.53% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.70% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 673 463 654
10th Percentile £33,700 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,846 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.62% -5.87%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,395 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.31% +5.51% -8.70%

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 67,388 39,043 61,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.74% 81.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,625 22,552 42,071
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +33 413 £70,000 -2.44% 219
Midlands +42 154 £53,834 +8.76% 69
North of England -2 153 £52,500 +5.00% 89
South East -8 153 £45,000 - 109
West Midlands +38 100 £53,600 +2.10% 42
North West 0 88 £51,000 +18.60% 46
South West -34 62 £48,750 +9.33% 47
East of England -7 58 £45,000 +38.46% 33
East Midlands +10 54 £55,000 +100.00% 27
Yorkshire -11 52 £57,500 -4.17% 32
North East -42 13 £80,250 +39.57% 11
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 76 (7.54%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.60%) WordPress
4 5 (0.50%) Confluence
4 5 (0.50%) IIS
5 4 (0.40%) Apache
5 4 (0.40%) CMS
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.099%) Documentum
7 1 (0.099%) JBoss
7 1 (0.099%) Moodle
7 1 (0.099%) nginx
7 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.099%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.099%) InDesign
8 1 (0.099%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.19%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.60%) Shopify
4 3 (0.30%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.30%) iTrent
4 3 (0.30%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.099%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.099%) FastStats
6 1 (0.099%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.099%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.099%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 210 (20.83%) Azure
2 173 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
3 132 (13.10%) AWS
4 91 (9.03%) Power Platform
5 70 (6.94%) Entra ID
6 67 (6.65%) SaaS
7 42 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 37 (3.67%) Power Automate
9 31 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 30 (2.98%) GCP
11 29 (2.88%) Serverless
12 27 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (2.48%) PowerApps
14 21 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.88%) OneDrive
16 18 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
17 15 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.39%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.16%) Network Security
2 34 (3.37%) Firewall
3 24 (2.38%) VPN
4 23 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (1.79%) DNS
6 15 (1.49%) DHCP
6 15 (1.49%) WAN
7 13 (1.29%) LAN
8 12 (1.19%) Internet
9 11 (1.09%) CHAP
9 11 (1.09%) VLAN
10 10 (0.99%) Wireless
11 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.50%) SMS
12 5 (0.50%) SSL
13 4 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
13 4 (0.40%) Intranet
14 2 (0.20%) DKIM
14 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.94%) Power BI
2 26 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (2.38%) Metadata
4 20 (1.98%) Tableau
5 17 (1.69%) MySQL
6 16 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.29%) Power Query
10 11 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.99%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.60%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.50%) Big Data
15 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) Looker
Development Applications
1 17 (1.69%) Git
1 17 (1.69%) JIRA
2 8 (0.79%) GitLab
3 7 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.50%) MLflow
5 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.30%) JMeter
7 2 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.099%) Appium
8 1 (0.099%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.099%) Gatling
8 1 (0.099%) git-flow
8 1 (0.099%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.099%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.099%) Selenium
8 1 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 385 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 216 (21.43%) Finance
3 164 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (15.58%) Legal
5 95 (9.42%) Retail
6 85 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (8.43%) Public Sector
7 84 (8.33%) Law
8 65 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
9 57 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (4.27%) Marketing
11 30 (2.98%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.88%) Banking
13 21 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.98%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
15 14 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.29%) Local Government
16 13 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (9.92%) Analyst
2 97 (9.62%) Senior
3 68 (6.75%) Architect
4 66 (6.55%) Lead
5 56 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 53 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 50 (4.96%) Developer
8 41 (4.07%) IT Support
9 35 (3.47%) Data Protection Officer
10 32 (3.17%) Consultant
11 30 (2.98%) Service Manager
12 29 (2.88%) Governance Manager
12 29 (2.88%) Information Manager
12 29 (2.88%) IT Engineer
12 29 (2.88%) Security Manager
13 27 (2.68%) Data Protection Manager
14 26 (2.58%) Business Manager
15 25 (2.48%) Sales Manager
16 24 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
16 24 (2.38%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.58%) HTML
2 24 (2.38%) CSS
3 15 (1.49%) AWS CDK
3 15 (1.49%) OpenID
4 12 (1.19%) OAuth
4 12 (1.19%) React
4 12 (1.19%) SAML
5 10 (0.99%) REST
6 9 (0.89%) Node.js
7 8 (0.79%) .NET
7 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
8 7 (0.69%) Kafka
8 7 (0.69%) PySpark
8 7 (0.69%) SPFx
9 6 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.60%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.60%) XML
10 5 (0.50%) LDAP
10 5 (0.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 116 (11.51%) Data Protection Act
3 89 (8.83%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.96%) Security Posture
5 46 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (3.87%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.47%) Driving Licence
8 32 (3.17%) Virtual Team
9 31 (3.08%) Product Ownership
10 25 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (1.79%) Social Media
13 17 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
14 15 (1.49%) Freedom of Information Act
15 14 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 14 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.29%) CCTV
16 13 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
17 11 (1.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 74 (7.34%) Windows
2 18 (1.79%) Linux
3 17 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.50%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.40%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
2 244 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
3 225 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 193 (19.15%) AI
5 176 (17.46%) Information Security
6 164 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 154 (15.28%) Decision-Making
8 145 (14.38%) Agile
9 141 (13.99%) Risk Management
10 114 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 113 (11.21%) Data Governance
12 104 (10.32%) Service Delivery
13 98 (9.72%) Analytics
14 97 (9.62%) Incident Response
15 95 (9.42%) Roadmaps
16 91 (9.03%) ITIL
17 90 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
18 82 (8.13%) Business Continuity
19 79 (7.84%) Information Governance
20 78 (7.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 80 (7.94%) SQL
2 77 (7.64%) Python
3 43 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.08%) Java
5 29 (2.88%) PHP
6 26 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 21 (2.08%) Bash
8 14 (1.39%) Perl
8 14 (1.39%) Ruby
9 13 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 12 (1.19%) C#
10 12 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.40%) VBA
12 3 (0.30%) Go
12 3 (0.30%) Groovy
13 2 (0.20%) Bicep
13 2 (0.20%) C
13 2 (0.20%) R
13 2 (0.20%) RPG
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (13.19%) Degree
2 90 (8.93%) CISSP
3 69 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 63 (6.25%) CISM
5 38 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.68%) CISA
8 26 (2.58%) CRISC
9 25 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 17 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (1.49%) CCSP
15 13 (1.29%) FFIEC
15 13 (1.29%) SANS
16 11 (1.09%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (29.66%) GDPR
2 117 (11.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (9.23%) Data Quality
4 84 (8.33%) NIST
5 60 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 44 (4.37%) GRC
7 35 (3.47%) Accessibility
8 33 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 24 (2.38%) COBIT
10 23 (2.28%) QA
11 22 (2.18%) PCI DSS
12 20 (1.98%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (1.19%) SLA
15 10 (0.99%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.79%) PERC
17 7 (0.69%) NCSC
17 7 (0.69%) PMO
17 7 (0.69%) SOC 1
System Software
1 66 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.69%) Docker
3 9 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.69%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.099%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (3.67%) Terraform
2 26 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.69%) Ansible
5 7 (0.69%) CASB
6 6 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.40%) Nessus
8 3 (0.30%) Argo
9 2 (0.20%) Grafana
9 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.099%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.099%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.099%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.099%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.099%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.099%) SCCM
Vendors
1 255 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.68%) Google
3 25 (2.48%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.79%) SAP
5 17 (1.69%) Oracle
6 15 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.09%) VMware
8 10 (0.99%) Databricks
8 10 (0.99%) iManage
8 10 (0.99%) Infor
8 10 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.89%) Sage
10 8 (0.79%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.69%) Cisco
12 6 (0.60%) IBM
12 6 (0.60%) Okta
13 5 (0.50%) Citrix
13 5 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.50%) Informatica
13 5 (0.50%) Zscaler