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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 214 220
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,029 667 919
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.11% 1.53% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.71% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 688 463 598
10th Percentile £34,500 £27,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,125 £72,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.32%

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 68,438 39,016 59,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.74% 89.57% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48,346 22,579 39,414
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +27 424 £70,000 -3.45% 383
North of England -4 161 £52,500 +5.00% 132
Midlands +50 154 £53,600 +21.82% 89
South East -14 154 £45,000 +2.86% 139
West Midlands +33 101 £53,600 -0.28% 57
North West 0 91 £51,000 +17.24% 63
South West -32 62 £48,750 +3.08% 56
East of England -13 59 £45,000 +38.46% 39
Yorkshire 0 55 £57,500 -4.17% 51
East Midlands +16 53 £55,000 +100.00% 32
North East -43 15 £80,500 +40.00% 18
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 80 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.58%) WordPress
4 5 (0.49%) Confluence
4 5 (0.49%) IIS
5 4 (0.39%) Apache
5 4 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.097%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.097%) Documentum
7 1 (0.097%) JBoss
7 1 (0.097%) Moodle
7 1 (0.097%) nginx
7 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.49%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.097%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.097%) InDesign
8 1 (0.097%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.17%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.58%) Shopify
4 4 (0.39%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.097%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.097%) FastStats
7 1 (0.097%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.097%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.097%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 221 (21.48%) Azure
2 180 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (13.22%) AWS
4 94 (9.14%) Power Platform
5 73 (7.09%) Entra ID
6 71 (6.90%) SaaS
7 45 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (3.69%) Power Automate
9 35 (3.40%) GCP
10 33 (3.21%) Microsoft Copilot
11 30 (2.92%) Serverless
12 27 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 22 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.94%) OneDrive
16 18 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
17 15 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.05%) Network Security
2 34 (3.30%) Firewall
3 24 (2.33%) VPN
4 23 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.94%) DNS
6 17 (1.65%) DHCP
7 14 (1.36%) WAN
8 13 (1.26%) Internet
9 12 (1.17%) LAN
9 12 (1.17%) VLAN
10 11 (1.07%) Wireless
11 10 (0.97%) CHAP
12 8 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.58%) SSL
14 5 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
14 5 (0.49%) SMS
15 4 (0.39%) Intranet
16 3 (0.29%) VoIP
17 2 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
17 2 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.00%) Power BI
2 27 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (2.43%) Metadata
4 20 (1.94%) Tableau
5 17 (1.65%) MySQL
5 17 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 14 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.36%) Power Query
8 11 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.97%) MariaDB
10 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.58%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.39%) Big Data
13 4 (0.39%) Looker
14 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (1.75%) Git
2 17 (1.65%) JIRA
3 8 (0.78%) GitLab
4 7 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.49%) MLflow
6 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.29%) JMeter
8 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.19%) Maven
8 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.097%) Appium
9 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.097%) Gatling
9 1 (0.097%) git-flow
9 1 (0.097%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.097%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.097%) Selenium
9 1 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 392 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 214 (20.80%) Finance
3 165 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (15.94%) Legal
5 96 (9.33%) Retail
6 92 (8.94%) Public Sector
7 88 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (8.55%) Law
8 71 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (3.69%) Marketing
11 33 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.82%) Banking
13 21 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.46%) Fire and Rescue
16 14 (1.36%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.36%) Local Government
16 14 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (9.91%) Senior
2 98 (9.52%) Analyst
3 73 (7.09%) Architect
4 70 (6.80%) Lead
5 60 (5.83%) Data Manager
6 54 (5.25%) IT Manager
7 52 (5.05%) Developer
8 42 (4.08%) IT Support
9 34 (3.30%) Data Protection Officer
10 32 (3.11%) Consultant
11 31 (3.01%) Data Protection Manager
12 30 (2.92%) Governance Manager
12 30 (2.92%) Information Manager
13 29 (2.82%) Service Manager
14 28 (2.72%) IT Engineer
14 28 (2.72%) Sales Manager
15 27 (2.62%) Security Manager
16 24 (2.33%) Business Manager
16 24 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
16 24 (2.33%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.72%) HTML
2 26 (2.53%) CSS
3 17 (1.65%) OpenID
4 15 (1.46%) AWS CDK
5 14 (1.36%) OAuth
5 14 (1.36%) SAML
6 12 (1.17%) React
7 10 (0.97%) REST
8 9 (0.87%) .NET
8 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (0.87%) Node.js
9 8 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (0.78%) SPFx
10 7 (0.68%) Kafka
10 7 (0.68%) LDAP
10 7 (0.68%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.68%) PySpark
11 6 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.58%) RESTful
11 6 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 123 (11.95%) Management Information System
2 117 (11.37%) Data Protection Act
3 93 (9.04%) Onboarding
4 51 (4.96%) Security Posture
5 48 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
6 42 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.40%) Driving Licence
8 32 (3.11%) Virtual Team
9 31 (3.01%) Product Ownership
10 29 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.04%) Social Media
12 20 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
15 15 (1.46%) Freedom of Information Act
15 15 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.26%) CCTV
16 13 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
17 12 (1.17%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.09%) Windows
2 17 (1.65%) Linux
3 15 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.68%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.49%) Android
6 4 (0.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) AIX
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
2 249 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
3 240 (23.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 198 (19.24%) AI
5 180 (17.49%) Information Security
6 167 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 160 (15.55%) Decision-Making
8 151 (14.67%) Agile
9 146 (14.19%) Risk Management
10 120 (11.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 112 (10.88%) Data Governance
12 106 (10.30%) Service Delivery
13 103 (10.01%) Incident Response
14 102 (9.91%) Analytics
15 99 (9.62%) Roadmaps
16 93 (9.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 92 (8.94%) ITIL
18 85 (8.26%) Business Continuity
19 84 (8.16%) Mentoring
20 83 (8.07%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 83 (8.07%) SQL
2 79 (7.68%) Python
3 45 (4.37%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.01%) Java
5 29 (2.82%) PHP
6 27 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 21 (2.04%) Bash
8 14 (1.36%) C#
8 14 (1.36%) Perl
8 14 (1.36%) Ruby
9 13 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.39%) VBA
11 3 (0.29%) Go
11 3 (0.29%) Groovy
12 2 (0.19%) Bicep
12 2 (0.19%) C
12 2 (0.19%) R
12 2 (0.19%) RPG
12 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (13.12%) Degree
2 92 (8.94%) CISSP
3 71 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 64 (6.22%) CISM
5 38 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.69%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.53%) CISA
8 26 (2.53%) CRISC
9 24 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 18 (1.75%) DBS Check
12 16 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.55%) CCSP
13 13 (1.26%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.26%) SANS
14 12 (1.17%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (30.03%) GDPR
2 118 (11.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 96 (9.33%) Data Quality
4 85 (8.26%) NIST
5 61 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 46 (4.47%) GRC
7 36 (3.50%) Accessibility
8 33 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 24 (2.33%) QA
10 23 (2.24%) COBIT
11 22 (2.14%) PCI DSS
11 22 (2.14%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (1.17%) SLA
14 11 (1.07%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.87%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.87%) PERC
16 8 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.78%) NCSC
17 7 (0.68%) TickIT
System Software
1 67 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.75%) Docker
3 8 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.68%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.097%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (3.60%) Terraform
2 28 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.68%) Ansible
5 7 (0.68%) CASB
5 7 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.49%) Nessus
7 3 (0.29%) Argo
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.097%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.097%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.097%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.097%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.097%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.097%) SCCM
Vendors
1 266 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.82%) Google
3 24 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.85%) SAP
5 18 (1.75%) Oracle
6 15 (1.46%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.07%) Databricks
8 10 (0.97%) iManage
8 10 (0.97%) Infor
8 10 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.97%) VMware
9 9 (0.87%) Palo Alto
9 9 (0.87%) Sage
10 8 (0.78%) Okta
11 7 (0.68%) Cisco
11 7 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.58%) IBM
13 5 (0.49%) Citrix
13 5 (0.49%) Informatica
13 5 (0.49%) Workday