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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 216 215
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 992 659 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.11% 1.52% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.69% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 669 461 696
10th Percentile £34,500 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,824 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +5.26% -7.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,750 £71,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -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 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 25 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 25 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 +32 409 £75,000 +3.45% 199
North of England 0 157 £56,120 +12.24% 80
Midlands +48 151 £54,534 +11.29% 62
South East -15 148 £45,000 - 87
West Midlands +34 96 £53,600 +2.70% 36
North West -15 88 £51,000 +15.25% 45
South West -39 59 £47,500 +6.53% 39
Yorkshire -9 56 £57,239 -4.60% 29
East Midlands +5 55 £55,000 +100.00% 26
East of England -2 54 £42,500 +30.77% 22
North East -42 13 £80,250 +39.57% 7
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 73 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.60%) 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 10 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.50%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) InDesign
7 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.21%) 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 (0.10%) 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%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 203 (20.46%) Azure
2 165 (16.63%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (12.90%) AWS
4 89 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.26%) Entra ID
6 64 (6.45%) SaaS
7 46 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 35 (3.53%) Power Automate
9 30 (3.02%) GCP
10 29 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 28 (2.82%) Serverless
12 27 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (2.32%) PowerApps
14 20 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.92%) OneDrive
16 18 (1.81%) Copilot Studio
17 17 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
19 14 (1.41%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.24%) Network Security
2 37 (3.73%) Firewall
3 24 (2.42%) VPN
4 22 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (1.71%) DNS
6 15 (1.51%) WAN
7 14 (1.41%) DHCP
8 13 (1.31%) LAN
9 12 (1.21%) CHAP
9 12 (1.21%) Internet
10 11 (1.11%) VLAN
11 10 (1.01%) Wireless
12 8 (0.81%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.50%) SMS
14 4 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
14 4 (0.40%) Intranet
14 4 (0.40%) SSL
15 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.20%) VoIP
16 1 (0.10%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.85%) Power BI
2 25 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (2.32%) Metadata
4 20 (2.02%) Tableau
5 17 (1.71%) 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 (0.60%) 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 (0.60%) 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
1 383 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 221 (22.28%) Finance
3 172 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (15.93%) Legal
5 95 (9.58%) Retail
6 83 (8.37%) Law
7 81 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (8.17%) Public Sector
8 60 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (4.84%) Marketing
11 30 (3.02%) Banking
12 28 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 22 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
17 12 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (9.98%) Senior
2 96 (9.68%) Analyst
3 65 (6.55%) Lead
4 64 (6.45%) Architect
5 54 (5.44%) IT Manager
6 53 (5.34%) Data Manager
7 50 (5.04%) Developer
8 41 (4.13%) IT Support
9 34 (3.43%) Data Protection Officer
10 32 (3.23%) Consultant
11 30 (3.02%) Service Manager
12 28 (2.82%) Governance Manager
12 28 (2.82%) IT Engineer
12 28 (2.82%) Security Manager
13 27 (2.72%) Information Manager
14 26 (2.62%) Business Manager
15 25 (2.52%) Data Protection Manager
16 24 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
16 24 (2.42%) Service Delivery Manager
17 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 12 (1.21%) OpenID
5 11 (1.11%) React
6 10 (1.01%) REST
7 9 (0.91%) OAuth
7 9 (0.91%) SAML
8 8 (0.81%) .NET
8 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.81%) Node.js
9 7 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
9 7 (0.71%) Kafka
9 7 (0.71%) PySpark
9 7 (0.71%) SPFx
10 6 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.60%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.60%) XML
11 5 (0.50%) Middleware
11 5 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 122 (12.30%) Data Protection Act
2 118 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 85 (8.57%) Onboarding
4 49 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 45 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (3.43%) Cloud Native
7 33 (3.33%) Driving Licence
8 31 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 30 (3.02%) Virtual Team
10 22 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
13 14 (1.41%) Freedom of Information Act
13 14 (1.41%) Social Media
14 13 (1.31%) CCTV
14 13 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.01%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.36%) Windows
2 19 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 18 (1.81%) Linux
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
1 239 (24.09%) Cybersecurity
2 237 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
3 218 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 184 (18.55%) AI
5 168 (16.94%) Information Security
6 163 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 154 (15.52%) Decision-Making
8 141 (14.21%) Risk Management
9 137 (13.81%) Agile
10 115 (11.59%) Data Governance
11 107 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 102 (10.28%) Service Delivery
13 97 (9.78%) Incident Response
14 96 (9.68%) Analytics
15 93 (9.38%) Roadmaps
16 90 (9.07%) Disaster Recovery
17 88 (8.87%) ITIL
18 81 (8.17%) Business Continuity
19 79 (7.96%) Information Governance
20 77 (7.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 78 (7.86%) SQL
2 76 (7.66%) Python
3 43 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.02%) Java
5 29 (2.92%) PHP
6 25 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 20 (2.02%) Bash
8 14 (1.41%) Perl
8 14 (1.41%) Ruby
9 12 (1.21%) C#
9 12 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.11%) 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
1 132 (13.31%) Degree
2 85 (8.57%) CISSP
3 64 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 58 (5.85%) CISM
5 39 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.73%) SC Cleared
7 31 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.82%) CISA
9 25 (2.52%) CRISC
10 23 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.61%) DBS Check
15 15 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (1.51%) Azure Certification
15 15 (1.51%) CCSP
16 14 (1.41%) FFIEC
16 14 (1.41%) SANS
17 12 (1.21%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (30.54%) GDPR
2 121 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (9.07%) Data Quality
4 87 (8.77%) NIST
5 62 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (4.13%) GRC
7 34 (3.43%) Accessibility
8 32 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 25 (2.52%) COBIT
10 22 (2.22%) PCI DSS
11 20 (2.02%) SOC 2
12 19 (1.92%) QA
13 16 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (1.01%) SLA
15 9 (0.91%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.81%) PERC
17 7 (0.71%) PMO
17 7 (0.71%) SOC 1
System Software
1 63 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.61%) Docker
3 11 (1.11%) 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%) Ansible
4 7 (0.71%) CASB
4 7 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
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
7 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.10%) CloudHub
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
1 256 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.72%) Google
3 25 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.81%) SAP
5 17 (1.71%) Oracle
6 15 (1.51%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.31%) 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 (0.60%) Cisco
11 6 (0.60%) 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