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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 215 215
Rank change year-on-year +36 0 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 991 661 994
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.10% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.70% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 662 463 675
10th Percentile £34,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,934 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +3.31% -6.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,895 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.34% +6.47% -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 66,548 38,995 62,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.82% 81.69%
Number of salaries quoted 46,995 22,507 43,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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% - -8.66%

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 28 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 28 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 +39 408 £75,000 +3.45% 190
Midlands +52 153 £54,534 +10.17% 70
North of England -10 152 £52,500 +5.00% 88
South East +9 149 £45,000 - 88
West Midlands +42 98 £53,600 +2.10% 40
North West -4 87 £51,000 +15.25% 47
South West -32 60 £47,500 +6.53% 39
East Midlands +13 55 £55,000 +100.00% 30
East of England -5 55 £45,000 +38.46% 28
Yorkshire -14 52 £57,500 -4.17% 30
North East -39 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 (7.67%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.61%) WordPress
4 5 (0.50%) IIS
5 4 (0.40%) Apache
5 4 (0.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Documentum
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.21%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.61%) 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%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.10%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.10%) FastStats
6 1 (0.10%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 203 (20.48%) Azure
2 169 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (12.92%) AWS
4 89 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 68 (6.86%) Entra ID
6 66 (6.66%) SaaS
7 41 (4.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 36 (3.63%) Power Automate
9 30 (3.03%) GCP
9 30 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 28 (2.83%) Serverless
11 27 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (2.32%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.92%) OneDrive
15 18 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
16 17 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.41%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.25%) Network Security
2 33 (3.33%) Firewall
3 24 (2.42%) VPN
4 23 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (1.82%) DNS
6 15 (1.51%) DHCP
6 15 (1.51%) WAN
7 13 (1.31%) LAN
8 12 (1.21%) CHAP
8 12 (1.21%) Internet
9 11 (1.11%) VLAN
10 10 (1.01%) Wireless
11 8 (0.81%) 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 68 (6.86%) Power BI
2 25 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (2.32%) Metadata
4 20 (2.02%) Tableau
5 17 (1.72%) MySQL
6 16 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.21%) Power Query
10 11 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (1.01%) MariaDB
12 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.61%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.40%) Big Data
16 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) Looker
Development Applications
1 16 (1.61%) Git
2 15 (1.51%) JIRA
3 8 (0.81%) GitLab
4 6 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.50%) MLflow
6 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.30%) JMeter
8 2 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.10%) Appium
9 1 (0.10%) ERwin
9 1 (0.10%) Gatling
9 1 (0.10%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.10%) Selenium
9 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 379 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 219 (22.10%) Finance
3 164 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (15.84%) Legal
5 94 (9.49%) Retail
6 83 (8.38%) Law
7 82 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 82 (8.27%) Public Sector
8 61 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (5.55%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (4.54%) Marketing
11 30 (3.03%) Banking
12 28 (2.83%) Manufacturing
13 22 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 21 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
17 12 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (9.89%) Senior
2 97 (9.79%) Analyst
3 66 (6.66%) Architect
4 61 (6.16%) Lead
5 54 (5.45%) Data Manager
5 54 (5.45%) IT Manager
6 50 (5.05%) Developer
7 41 (4.14%) IT Support
8 36 (3.63%) Data Protection Officer
9 32 (3.23%) Consultant
10 29 (2.93%) Service Manager
11 28 (2.83%) Governance Manager
11 28 (2.83%) IT Engineer
11 28 (2.83%) Security Manager
12 27 (2.72%) Information Manager
13 26 (2.62%) Data Protection Manager
14 25 (2.52%) Business Manager
15 24 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.42%) Service Delivery Manager
16 22 (2.22%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.62%) HTML
2 24 (2.42%) CSS
3 14 (1.41%) AWS CDK
4 13 (1.31%) OpenID
5 12 (1.21%) React
6 10 (1.01%) OAuth
6 10 (1.01%) REST
6 10 (1.01%) SAML
7 9 (0.91%) Node.js
8 8 (0.81%) .NET
8 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
9 7 (0.71%) Kafka
9 7 (0.71%) PySpark
9 7 (0.71%) SPFx
10 6 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.61%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.61%) XML
11 5 (0.50%) Middleware
11 5 (0.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.21%) Management Information System
2 116 (11.71%) Data Protection Act
3 86 (8.68%) Onboarding
4 49 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 45 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 33 (3.33%) Driving Licence
8 32 (3.23%) Virtual Team
9 31 (3.13%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
13 15 (1.51%) Social Media
14 14 (1.41%) Freedom of Information Act
14 14 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.31%) CCTV
15 13 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
16 12 (1.21%) Data Centre
17 10 (1.01%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.27%) Windows
2 18 (1.82%) Linux
3 17 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.81%) 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
1 237 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
2 236 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 216 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 185 (18.67%) AI
5 172 (17.36%) Information Security
6 159 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 150 (15.14%) Decision-Making
8 141 (14.23%) Risk Management
9 140 (14.13%) Agile
10 114 (11.50%) Data Governance
11 109 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 102 (10.29%) Service Delivery
13 96 (9.69%) Analytics
14 94 (9.49%) Roadmaps
15 93 (9.38%) Incident Response
16 89 (8.98%) ITIL
17 87 (8.78%) Disaster Recovery
18 77 (7.77%) Business Continuity
18 77 (7.77%) Cloud Security
18 77 (7.77%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 78 (7.87%) SQL
2 76 (7.67%) Python
3 43 (4.34%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.03%) Java
5 29 (2.93%) PHP
6 25 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 20 (2.02%) Bash
8 14 (1.41%) Perl
8 14 (1.41%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) TypeScript
10 12 (1.21%) C#
11 11 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.40%) VBA
13 3 (0.30%) Go
13 3 (0.30%) Groovy
14 2 (0.20%) Bicep
14 2 (0.20%) C
14 2 (0.20%) R
14 2 (0.20%) RPG
14 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (13.42%) Degree
2 87 (8.78%) CISSP
3 65 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 60 (6.05%) CISM
5 39 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.73%) SC Cleared
7 31 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.83%) CISA
9 26 (2.62%) CRISC
10 25 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.72%) DBS Check
14 15 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (1.51%) CCSP
15 14 (1.41%) FFIEC
15 14 (1.41%) SANS
16 12 (1.21%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (30.17%) GDPR
2 116 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (9.08%) Data Quality
4 84 (8.48%) NIST
5 59 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (4.24%) GRC
7 34 (3.43%) Accessibility
8 33 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 25 (2.52%) COBIT
10 22 (2.22%) PCI DSS
11 21 (2.12%) QA
12 20 (2.02%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (1.11%) SLA
15 9 (0.91%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.81%) PERC
17 7 (0.71%) NCSC
17 7 (0.71%) PMO
17 7 (0.71%) SOC 1
System Software
1 64 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.61%) Docker
3 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.71%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (3.63%) Terraform
2 26 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.71%) CASB
4 7 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.61%) Ansible
6 3 (0.30%) Argo
6 3 (0.30%) Nessus
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.10%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.10%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 253 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.72%) Google
3 25 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.82%) SAP
5 17 (1.72%) Oracle
6 15 (1.51%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.11%) VMware
8 10 (1.01%) Databricks
8 10 (1.01%) iManage
8 10 (1.01%) Infor
9 9 (0.91%) Sage
9 9 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.81%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.61%) Cisco
11 6 (0.61%) IBM
12 5 (0.50%) Citrix
12 5 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.50%) Workday
12 5 (0.50%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.40%) Xero