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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 219 243
Rank change year-on-year +65 +24 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,294 629 717
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 1.46% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.64% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 815 417 392
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.76% +2.59%
75th Percentile £81,625 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -7.73% +1.72%

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 76,581 38,469 54,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 89.04% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53,748 21,719 29,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 6 October 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 October 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 +24 465 £65,000 -3.61% 883
North of England +42 253 £50,000 - 343
South East +49 240 £45,000 - 301
Midlands +41 159 £53,050 +2.24% 192
North West +24 140 £45,000 -10.00% 175
West Midlands +34 107 £53,834 -6.38% 102
South West -20 92 £47,500 +26.11% 103
Yorkshire +17 84 £41,000 -31.67% 136
East of England +6 74 £45,000 +38.46% 120
East Midlands +3 52 £45,000 +12.50% 89
North East -42 29 £80,500 +40.00% 33
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
1 117 (9.04%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.85%) WordPress
4 5 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.39%) Confluence
5 4 (0.31%) Apache
5 4 (0.31%) IIS
6 3 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.077%) Documentum
8 1 (0.077%) Moodle
8 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.39%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.31%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.077%) Elementor
9 1 (0.077%) InDesign
9 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
2 8 (0.62%) SystmOne
3 5 (0.39%) Shopify
4 4 (0.31%) iTrent
5 3 (0.23%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.077%) FastStats
7 1 (0.077%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.077%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.077%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.077%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.077%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 279 (21.56%) Azure
2 230 (17.77%) Microsoft 365
3 143 (11.05%) AWS
4 121 (9.35%) Power Platform
5 98 (7.57%) SaaS
6 94 (7.26%) Entra ID
7 61 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 57 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 54 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 48 (3.71%) PowerApps
11 45 (3.48%) OneDrive
12 42 (3.25%) Serverless
13 41 (3.17%) GCP
14 35 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
15 34 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
16 23 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
20 17 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.33%) Network Security
2 44 (3.40%) Firewall
3 40 (3.09%) DNS
4 36 (2.78%) DHCP
4 36 (2.78%) VPN
5 27 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (1.78%) VLAN
7 21 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.62%) Wireless
8 17 (1.31%) Internet
9 15 (1.16%) LAN
10 12 (0.93%) WAN
11 9 (0.70%) SSL
12 8 (0.62%) Cisco IPT
13 6 (0.46%) VoIP
14 4 (0.31%) CHAP
14 4 (0.31%) Intranet
14 4 (0.31%) IPsec
14 4 (0.31%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (6.41%) Power BI
2 42 (3.25%) Metadata
3 38 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 28 (2.16%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.55%) Power Query
7 15 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (1.16%) MySQL
7 15 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (1.16%) Tableau
8 12 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.77%) MariaDB
10 10 (0.77%) Star Schema
11 9 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (2.16%) Git
2 13 (1.00%) JIRA
3 8 (0.62%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.23%) GitLab
5 3 (0.23%) MLflow
6 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.15%) git-flow
7 1 (0.077%) Ant
7 1 (0.077%) Appium
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.077%) Yeoman
General
1 502 (38.79%) Social Skills
2 309 (23.88%) Finance
3 252 (19.47%) Legal
4 228 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (10.74%) Organisational Skills
6 138 (10.66%) Public Sector
7 136 (10.51%) Law
8 124 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 110 (8.50%) Retail
10 107 (8.27%) Influencing Skills
11 78 (6.03%) Marketing
12 45 (3.48%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.78%) Banking
14 30 (2.32%) Local Government
15 23 (1.78%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.47%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.39%) Back Office
17 18 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
19 14 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (10.97%) Senior
2 125 (9.66%) Architect
3 93 (7.19%) Lead
4 81 (6.26%) Analyst
5 73 (5.64%) Data Manager
6 54 (4.17%) Developer
7 51 (3.94%) IT Manager
8 45 (3.48%) IT Support
9 44 (3.40%) Data Protection Manager
10 38 (2.94%) Consultant
11 34 (2.63%) Governance Manager
12 33 (2.55%) Sales Manager
13 31 (2.40%) Information Manager
13 31 (2.40%) Service Manager
14 30 (2.32%) IT Engineer
14 30 (2.32%) Security Architect
15 29 (2.24%) Business Manager
16 28 (2.16%) Data Protection Officer
17 27 (2.09%) Data Governance Analyst
17 27 (2.09%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.09%) Terraform
2 30 (2.32%) HTML
2 30 (2.32%) REST
3 24 (1.85%) OpenID
4 21 (1.62%) OAuth
5 20 (1.55%) SAML
6 17 (1.31%) CSS
7 16 (1.24%) AWS CDK
8 15 (1.16%) Middleware
9 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
10 12 (0.93%) LDAP
10 12 (0.93%) ModSecurity
10 12 (0.93%) React
10 12 (0.93%) SPFx
11 10 (0.77%) .NET
11 10 (0.77%) SOAP
12 9 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.70%) Node.js
13 8 (0.62%) EDI
13 8 (0.62%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 179 (13.83%) Management Information System
2 123 (9.51%) Onboarding
3 105 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 63 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 53 (4.10%) Cloud Native
7 52 (4.02%) Product Ownership
8 51 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (3.01%) Driving Licence
10 37 (2.86%) Social Media
11 35 (2.70%) Virtual Team
12 29 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
13 28 (2.16%) Data Centre
13 28 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.85%) NHS
15 20 (1.55%) Life Science
16 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 90 (6.96%) Windows
2 22 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.24%) Linux
4 13 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.46%) Android
5 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.077%) AIX
8 1 (0.077%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (26.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 326 (25.19%) Cybersecurity
3 305 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
4 279 (21.56%) AI
5 249 (19.24%) Information Security
6 244 (18.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 205 (15.84%) Risk Management
8 200 (15.46%) Agile
9 190 (14.68%) Decision-Making
10 168 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 148 (11.44%) Roadmaps
12 134 (10.36%) Service Delivery
13 131 (10.12%) Collaborative Working
14 130 (10.05%) Analytics
15 123 (9.51%) Incident Response
16 115 (8.89%) Data Governance
17 111 (8.58%) Business Continuity
17 111 (8.58%) Information Governance
18 110 (8.50%) CRM
19 108 (8.35%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 94 (7.26%) SQL
2 88 (6.80%) Python
3 47 (3.63%) PowerShell
4 43 (3.32%) JavaScript
5 28 (2.16%) Java
6 26 (2.01%) PHP
7 25 (1.93%) C#
8 18 (1.39%) Bash
9 17 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.08%) Perl
10 14 (1.08%) Ruby
11 12 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.46%) Bicep
13 3 (0.23%) Go
13 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.15%) R
14 2 (0.15%) RPG
15 1 (0.077%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.077%) VBA
15 1 (0.077%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 170 (13.14%) Degree
2 106 (8.19%) CISSP
3 98 (7.57%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.80%) CISM
5 49 (3.79%) SC Cleared
6 40 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 39 (3.01%) DBS Check
8 36 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.93%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 22 (1.70%) CCSP
13 21 (1.62%) CRISC
14 19 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (1.39%) CISA
16 17 (1.31%) ACCA
17 16 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.08%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (30.29%) GDPR
2 170 (13.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 118 (9.12%) Data Quality
4 107 (8.27%) NIST
5 82 (6.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 60 (4.64%) GRC
7 49 (3.79%) Accessibility
8 42 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 39 (3.01%) QA
10 29 (2.24%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 21 (1.62%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.55%) ISO 22301
13 20 (1.55%) SLA
14 18 (1.39%) ISO 9001
15 16 (1.24%) COBIT
15 16 (1.24%) NCSC
16 10 (0.77%) PERC
17 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 71 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.16%) Docker
4 14 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.85%) vSphere
6 8 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.15%) UAG
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.077%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.62%) Ansible
4 8 (0.62%) Nessus
5 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.39%) Grafana
5 5 (0.39%) Puppet
5 5 (0.39%) SCCM
6 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.15%) Autotask
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.077%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.077%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.077%) QRadar
9 1 (0.077%) SCOM
Vendors
1 387 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.01%) Google
3 25 (1.93%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.70%) VMware
5 20 (1.55%) Oracle
6 17 (1.31%) Cisco
6 17 (1.31%) Informatica
7 15 (1.16%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.16%) YouTube
8 14 (1.08%) SAP
9 13 (1.00%) Okta
10 12 (0.93%) Databricks
10 12 (0.93%) ForgeRock
11 11 (0.85%) Adobe
11 11 (0.85%) Xero
12 10 (0.77%) Infor
13 9 (0.70%) OneTrust
13 9 (0.70%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.70%) Talend
14 8 (0.62%) Sage