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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 210 205
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 856 659 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.69% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.81% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 601 456 887
10th Percentile £31,691 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £87,500 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,418 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +20.00% -9.09%

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 61,595 36,399 73,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.30% 83.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,041 19,603 54,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 May 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 May 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 +3 341 £77,500 +1.31% 82
North of England -2 154 £57,239 +14.48% 41
South East +11 138 £40,000 -11.11% 53
Midlands +7 111 £57,500 +15.00% 44
North West -5 81 £52,500 +20.00% 18
West Midlands -8 73 £53,750 +2.38% 25
Yorkshire -5 67 £57,239 -4.60% 18
East of England -2 55 £43,000 +26.47% 13
South West -33 38 £47,500 -24.00% 27
East Midlands -6 36 £61,795 +116.82% 19
North East -42 6 £80,000 +14.29% 6
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 37 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 4 (0.47%) 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 39 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.47%) Fusion 360
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
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%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.87%) 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%) SystmOne
4 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Retail
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
1 181 (21.14%) Azure
2 127 (14.84%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (8.76%) AWS
4 73 (8.53%) Entra ID
5 66 (7.71%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 54 (6.31%) SaaS
8 28 (3.27%) GCP
9 19 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.52%) Google Workspace
13 12 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
13 12 (1.40%) Serverless
14 11 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.29%) PaaS
15 10 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.17%) GitHub
15 10 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.49%) Firewall
2 25 (2.92%) WAN
3 23 (2.69%) CHAP
4 18 (2.10%) Network Security
5 17 (1.99%) VPN
6 16 (1.87%) LAN
7 11 (1.29%) DNS
8 9 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.05%) 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 3 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
12 3 (0.35%) Wireless
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) PuTTY
13 2 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.78%) Power BI
2 18 (2.10%) Data Lake
2 18 (2.10%) Tableau
3 17 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (1.99%) Metadata
4 16 (1.87%) MySQL
5 11 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.17%) MariaDB
7 8 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.93%) Power Query
8 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.58%) Big Data
9 5 (0.58%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.35%) DB2
10 3 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (2.57%) Git
2 14 (1.64%) JIRA
3 7 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.70%) GitLab
5 5 (0.58%) MLflow
6 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.47%) Maven
7 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
8 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) Appium
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) GCC
9 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 351 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 196 (22.90%) Finance
3 142 (16.59%) Legal
4 139 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (7.94%) Law
6 67 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.01%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.54%) Marketing
9 55 (6.43%) Retail
10 37 (4.32%) Banking
11 33 (3.86%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.86%) Public Sector
12 31 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.64%) Local Government
16 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 102 (11.92%) Analyst
2 70 (8.18%) Lead
3 67 (7.83%) Senior
4 46 (5.37%) IT Manager
5 41 (4.79%) Architect
6 38 (4.44%) Data Manager
7 37 (4.32%) Report Analyst
8 35 (4.09%) Developer
8 35 (4.09%) IT Support
9 30 (3.50%) Development Manager
10 29 (3.39%) Business Manager
11 27 (3.15%) Data Protection Officer
12 26 (3.04%) Business Development Manager
13 25 (2.92%) Auditor
13 25 (2.92%) Security Manager
14 23 (2.69%) Governance Manager
14 23 (2.69%) IT Engineer
15 22 (2.57%) Consultant
15 22 (2.57%) Sales Manager
15 22 (2.57%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.10%) CSS
2 14 (1.64%) HTML
3 9 (1.05%) Node.js
3 9 (1.05%) OAuth
4 7 (0.82%) EDI
5 6 (0.70%) Middleware
5 6 (0.70%) OpenID
5 6 (0.70%) PySpark
5 6 (0.70%) React
5 6 (0.70%) REST
6 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.58%) Jest
6 5 (0.58%) Next.js
6 5 (0.58%) RESTful
6 5 (0.58%) SOAP
7 4 (0.47%) .NET
7 4 (0.47%) JWT
7 4 (0.47%) XML
8 3 (0.35%) Kafka
8 3 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.14%) Data Protection Act
2 103 (12.03%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.79%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.86%) Driving Licence
5 30 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.04%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 24 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.75%) NHS
11 12 (1.40%) Blockchain
11 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.40%) Social Media
12 11 (1.29%) CMDB
13 10 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
17 6 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 71 (8.29%) Windows
2 22 (2.57%) Windows Server
3 20 (2.34%) 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
1 215 (25.12%) Cybersecurity
2 193 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 145 (16.94%) Decision-Making
5 138 (16.12%) AI
6 128 (14.95%) Risk Management
7 122 (14.25%) Information Security
8 118 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 106 (12.38%) Agile
10 102 (11.92%) Data Governance
11 97 (11.33%) Incident Response
12 90 (10.51%) Analytics
13 87 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 81 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
15 80 (9.35%) ITIL
16 74 (8.64%) Business Continuity
17 72 (8.41%) Process Improvement
18 68 (7.94%) Project Management
19 67 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
19 67 (7.83%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.13%) SQL
2 47 (5.49%) Python
3 30 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.75%) Java
5 15 (1.75%) PHP
6 11 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.82%) Bash
8 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.58%) C#
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
1 105 (12.27%) Degree
2 73 (8.53%) CISSP
3 57 (6.66%) CISM
4 42 (4.91%) CISA
5 40 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.04%) FFIEC
7 25 (2.92%) SANS
7 25 (2.92%) Security Cleared
8 24 (2.80%) CGEIT
9 22 (2.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (2.57%) SC Cleared
10 21 (2.45%) DBS Check
11 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.64%) CRISC
13 12 (1.40%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.40%) CEH
13 12 (1.40%) PMI Certification
14 11 (1.29%) PMP
15 8 (0.93%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (30.61%) GDPR
2 109 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (9.93%) NIST
4 72 (8.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 67 (7.83%) Data Quality
6 34 (3.97%) COBIT
7 30 (3.50%) Accessibility
8 26 (3.04%) PCI DSS
9 25 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (2.34%) GRC
11 17 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 15 (1.75%) QA
13 13 (1.52%) SOC 2
14 12 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (1.17%) HIPAA
16 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (1.05%) PMO
17 8 (0.93%) SLA
18 7 (0.82%) PERC
19 6 (0.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 54 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.29%) Docker
3 8 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.82%) 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 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.99%) Terraform
3 13 (1.52%) CASB
4 12 (1.40%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.82%) SCCM
7 6 (0.70%) Ansible
8 5 (0.58%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.23%) Argo
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.04%) Google
3 19 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.52%) SAP
5 12 (1.40%) Oracle
6 11 (1.29%) iManage
7 9 (1.05%) Cisco
7 9 (1.05%) Databricks
7 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.93%) Sage
9 7 (0.82%) Meraki
9 7 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.82%) VMware
10 6 (0.70%) Citrix
10 6 (0.70%) Workday
11 5 (0.58%) Xero
11 5 (0.58%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.47%) Concur
12 4 (0.47%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.47%) Varonis