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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 211 202
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 853 655 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.69% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.81% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 600 452 888
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 £86,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.13%

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 61,529 36,213 74,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.94% 93.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40,990 19,458 55,070
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,250
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +5 337 £77,500 +0.65% 221
North of England +5 158 £57,239 +14.48% 71
South East +3 137 £40,000 -11.11% 87
Midlands +14 114 £57,500 +15.00% 60
North West 0 86 £51,000 +16.57% 32
West Midlands -12 74 £53,750 +2.38% 41
Yorkshire -11 66 £57,239 -4.60% 26
East of England -6 52 £41,000 +20.59% 22
East Midlands +9 38 £56,795 +102.84% 19
South West -42 37 £47,000 -24.80% 34
North East -42 6 £80,000 +14.29% 13
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 38 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.59%) 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 37 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.47%) Fusion 360
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) 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 (1.88%) 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%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
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 (21.22%) Azure
2 128 (15.01%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (8.79%) AWS
4 73 (8.56%) Entra ID
5 69 (8.09%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 52 (6.10%) SaaS
8 28 (3.28%) GCP
9 21 (2.46%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (1.52%) Copilot Studio
11 13 (1.52%) Google Workspace
12 12 (1.41%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.29%) Serverless
14 10 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.17%) GitHub
15 9 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.39%) Firewall
2 25 (2.93%) WAN
3 23 (2.70%) CHAP
4 18 (2.11%) Network Security
5 17 (1.99%) VPN
6 16 (1.88%) LAN
7 11 (1.29%) DNS
8 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.94%) DHCP
10 6 (0.70%) VoIP
11 5 (0.59%) Internet
11 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.59%) SMS
11 5 (0.59%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
12 3 (0.35%) Wireless
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) SSL
14 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.92%) Power BI
2 20 (2.34%) Tableau
3 17 (1.99%) Metadata
4 16 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 16 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.88%) MySQL
5 10 (1.17%) MariaDB
5 10 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.94%) Power Query
8 5 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.59%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.47%) Big Data
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 21 (2.46%) Git
2 14 (1.64%) JIRA
3 6 (0.70%) GitLab
3 6 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.59%) MLflow
5 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.35%) JMeter
6 3 (0.35%) Maven
7 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Storybook
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) GCC
8 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 190 (22.27%) Finance
3 141 (16.53%) Legal
4 132 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (7.97%) Law
6 67 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.57%) Marketing
9 55 (6.45%) Retail
10 37 (4.34%) Banking
11 35 (4.10%) Public Sector
12 33 (3.87%) Financial Institution
13 29 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.52%) 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 (11.96%) Analyst
2 70 (8.21%) Lead
3 66 (7.74%) Senior
4 44 (5.16%) IT Manager
5 42 (4.92%) Architect
5 42 (4.92%) Data Manager
6 37 (4.34%) Report Analyst
7 36 (4.22%) Developer
8 35 (4.10%) IT Support
9 30 (3.52%) Development Manager
10 29 (3.40%) Business Manager
11 26 (3.05%) Business Development Manager
11 26 (3.05%) Data Protection Officer
12 25 (2.93%) Auditor
12 25 (2.93%) Governance Manager
13 24 (2.81%) Security Manager
14 23 (2.70%) IT Engineer
15 22 (2.58%) Information Manager
15 22 (2.58%) Sales Manager
15 22 (2.58%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.23%) CSS
2 16 (1.88%) HTML
3 9 (1.06%) Node.js
3 9 (1.06%) OAuth
4 7 (0.82%) EDI
4 7 (0.82%) REST
5 6 (0.70%) Middleware
5 6 (0.70%) OpenID
5 6 (0.70%) PySpark
5 6 (0.70%) React
6 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.59%) Jest
6 5 (0.59%) Kafka
6 5 (0.59%) Next.js
6 5 (0.59%) RESTful
6 5 (0.59%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.47%) .NET
7 4 (0.47%) JWT
7 4 (0.47%) SOAP
7 4 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (13.95%) Data Protection Act
2 102 (11.96%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.87%) Driving Licence
5 32 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.52%) NHS
11 12 (1.41%) Blockchain
11 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.41%) Social Media
12 11 (1.29%) CMDB
13 10 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 71 (8.32%) Windows
2 22 (2.58%) Windows Server
3 19 (2.23%) Linux
4 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.59%) 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
1 209 (24.50%) Cybersecurity
2 191 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 145 (17.00%) Decision-Making
5 137 (16.06%) AI
6 125 (14.65%) Risk Management
7 119 (13.95%) Information Security
8 118 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 108 (12.66%) Agile
10 103 (12.08%) Data Governance
11 96 (11.25%) Incident Response
12 88 (10.32%) Analytics
13 86 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 78 (9.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 78 (9.14%) ITIL
15 72 (8.44%) Business Continuity
16 71 (8.32%) Process Improvement
17 69 (8.09%) Information Governance
18 67 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
19 66 (7.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (7.03%) SQL
2 46 (5.39%) Python
3 32 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.88%) Java
4 16 (1.88%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.76%) PHP
6 11 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.82%) Bash
8 6 (0.70%) C#
8 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.47%) VBA
10 3 (0.35%) Bicep
10 3 (0.35%) Go
10 3 (0.35%) Groovy
11 2 (0.23%) C
11 2 (0.23%) RPG
11 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (11.72%) Degree
2 70 (8.21%) CISSP
3 54 (6.33%) CISM
4 40 (4.69%) CISA
5 38 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.05%) FFIEC
7 25 (2.93%) SANS
7 25 (2.93%) Security Cleared
8 24 (2.81%) CGEIT
9 22 (2.58%) SC Cleared
10 21 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 19 (2.23%) DBS Check
11 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.52%) CRISC
13 12 (1.41%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.29%) CEH
14 11 (1.29%) PMI Certification
15 10 (1.17%) PMP
16 7 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (31.18%) GDPR
2 108 (12.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 84 (9.85%) NIST
4 70 (8.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 69 (8.09%) Data Quality
6 33 (3.87%) COBIT
7 31 (3.63%) Accessibility
8 25 (2.93%) PCI DSS
9 24 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (2.34%) GRC
11 19 (2.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 15 (1.76%) QA
13 12 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (1.41%) SOC 2
14 10 (1.17%) HIPAA
15 9 (1.06%) PMO
16 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.94%) SLA
17 7 (0.82%) PERC
18 6 (0.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 54 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.52%) Docker
3 8 (0.94%) 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 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.99%) Terraform
3 14 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.41%) CASB
5 11 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.82%) SCCM
7 6 (0.70%) Ansible
8 5 (0.59%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.23%) Argo
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
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%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 222 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.05%) Google
3 19 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.52%) SAP
5 11 (1.29%) iManage
5 11 (1.29%) Oracle
6 9 (1.06%) Databricks
6 9 (1.06%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.94%) Cisco
7 8 (0.94%) Sage
8 7 (0.82%) Meraki
8 7 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.82%) VMware
9 6 (0.70%) Citrix
9 6 (0.70%) Workday
10 5 (0.59%) Xero
10 5 (0.59%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.47%) Concur
11 4 (0.47%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.47%) Varonis