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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 172 204
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 812 718 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.90% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.04% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 587 490 905
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.74%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.74%

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 59,926 35,151 71,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.82% 93.00% 85.57%
Number of salaries quoted 37,965 20,596 53,814
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +3 338 £80,000 +1.91% 161
North of England -47 136 £57,239 +4.07% 68
South East -19 121 £40,000 -11.11% 61
Midlands -20 98 £55,000 +10.00% 55
North West -32 78 £50,000 - 35
West Midlands -27 59 £50,000 - 42
Yorkshire -48 50 £57,239 -2.16% 24
East of England -7 49 £43,000 -14.00% 32
South West -21 49 £36,998 -40.80% 28
East Midlands -19 37 £60,000 +109.61% 13
North East -32 8 £40,000 -21.95% 10
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 36 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.49%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
5 3 (0.37%) IIS
6 2 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.37%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 181 (22.29%) Azure
2 121 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (8.99%) Entra ID
4 61 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 60 (7.39%) Microsoft Purview
6 59 (7.27%) AWS
7 57 (7.02%) SaaS
8 25 (3.08%) GCP
9 18 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (1.85%) Google Workspace
11 15 (1.85%) PaaS
12 14 (1.72%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.60%) Serverless
14 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (1.35%) GitHub
15 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.27%) Firewall
2 29 (3.57%) CHAP
3 28 (3.45%) WAN
4 23 (2.83%) VPN
5 22 (2.71%) Network Security
6 18 (2.22%) DNS
7 17 (2.09%) LAN
8 15 (1.85%) DHCP
9 9 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.74%) VLAN
11 6 (0.74%) VoIP
11 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.62%) SMS
13 4 (0.49%) Internet
13 4 (0.49%) Wireless
14 3 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.37%) PuTTY
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.28%) Power BI
2 23 (2.83%) Data Lake
3 19 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.34%) Metadata
4 13 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.23%) Power Query
6 8 (0.99%) Tableau
7 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.62%) Big Data
9 5 (0.62%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.49%) MySQL
11 3 (0.37%) DB2
11 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.59%) Git
2 14 (1.72%) JIRA
3 9 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.86%) GitLab
5 5 (0.62%) Maven
5 5 (0.62%) MLflow
6 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) JMeter
7 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) GCC
9 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 333 (41.01%) Social Skills
2 193 (23.77%) Finance
3 144 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (14.78%) Legal
5 62 (7.64%) Law
6 61 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (6.53%) Marketing
8 50 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (6.16%) Retail
9 44 (5.42%) Banking
10 38 (4.68%) Financial Institution
11 28 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (3.20%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.11%) Local Government
18 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 112 (13.79%) Analyst
2 67 (8.25%) Lead
3 60 (7.39%) Senior
4 40 (4.93%) IT Manager
5 37 (4.56%) Report Analyst
6 34 (4.19%) Architect
7 33 (4.06%) IT Support
8 31 (3.82%) Auditor
8 31 (3.82%) Data Protection Officer
9 29 (3.57%) Security Manager
10 28 (3.45%) Security Auditor
11 26 (3.20%) Internal Auditor
12 25 (3.08%) Development Manager
12 25 (3.08%) IT Engineer
13 24 (2.96%) Business Manager
13 24 (2.96%) Data Manager
13 24 (2.96%) Information Manager
14 23 (2.83%) Administrator
14 23 (2.83%) Consultant
14 23 (2.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.85%) CSS
2 11 (1.35%) HTML
3 10 (1.23%) Node.js
4 9 (1.11%) OAuth
5 8 (0.99%) .NET
6 7 (0.86%) EDI
6 7 (0.86%) REST
7 6 (0.74%) Middleware
7 6 (0.74%) OpenID
7 6 (0.74%) SOAP
8 5 (0.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.62%) Jest
8 5 (0.62%) PySpark
8 5 (0.62%) RESTful
9 4 (0.49%) JWT
9 4 (0.49%) XML
10 3 (0.37%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (0.37%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.01%) Data Protection Act
2 109 (13.42%) Management Information System
3 36 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.69%) Driving Licence
4 30 (3.69%) Security Posture
5 28 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.71%) NHS
7 19 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.85%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.35%) CMDB
12 11 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
13 10 (1.23%) Social Media
14 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 77 (9.48%) Windows
2 30 (3.69%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.22%) Linux
4 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.62%) Unix
5 5 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.49%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.37%) AIX
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (26.48%) Cybersecurity
2 198 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 133 (16.38%) Risk Management
5 128 (15.76%) Decision-Making
5 128 (15.76%) Information Security
6 109 (13.42%) Incident Response
7 106 (13.05%) Agile
8 101 (12.44%) AI
9 99 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 98 (12.07%) Analytics
11 90 (11.08%) Data Governance
11 90 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 84 (10.34%) Project Management
13 82 (10.10%) ITIL
14 79 (9.73%) Business Continuity
15 74 (9.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 74 (9.11%) Process Improvement
16 68 (8.37%) Information Governance
17 66 (8.13%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 57 (7.02%) SQL
2 54 (6.65%) Python
3 26 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.72%) Java
6 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.11%) Bash
8 8 (0.99%) Bicep
8 8 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.74%) C#
10 4 (0.49%) Go
10 4 (0.49%) VBA
11 3 (0.37%) Groovy
11 3 (0.37%) PHP
11 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.25%) RPG
12 2 (0.25%) Ruby
12 2 (0.25%) Scala
12 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (11.95%) Degree
2 81 (9.98%) CISSP
3 65 (8.00%) CISM
4 46 (5.67%) CISA
5 44 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.94%) FFIEC
7 30 (3.69%) CGEIT
7 30 (3.69%) SANS
8 21 (2.59%) Security Cleared
9 20 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (2.34%) DBS Check
11 18 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (2.22%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.09%) PMP
12 17 (2.09%) SC Cleared
13 14 (1.72%) CEH
14 13 (1.60%) CRISC
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (30.17%) GDPR
2 118 (14.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (11.45%) NIST
4 71 (8.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 62 (7.64%) Data Quality
6 39 (4.80%) COBIT
7 31 (3.82%) Accessibility
8 29 (3.57%) PCI DSS
9 23 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (2.71%) GRC
11 20 (2.46%) QA
12 15 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 15 (1.85%) SOC 2
13 12 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (1.23%) HIPAA
15 9 (1.11%) PMO
16 8 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.86%) PERC
18 6 (0.74%) EU AI Act
18 6 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.23%) Docker
3 7 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (2.71%) Terraform
3 14 (1.72%) CASB
4 12 (1.48%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.23%) Ansible
5 10 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.99%) SCCM
7 5 (0.62%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.37%) ArcSight ESM
9 3 (0.37%) QRadar
10 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.25%) Argo
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) Avamar
11 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Grafana
11 1 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 224 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.33%) Google
3 16 (1.97%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.60%) SAP
5 12 (1.48%) iManage
5 12 (1.48%) Oracle
6 10 (1.23%) Cisco
6 10 (1.23%) Databricks
6 10 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.99%) Meraki
7 8 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.86%) Sage
8 7 (0.86%) VMware
9 6 (0.74%) Splunk
10 5 (0.62%) Citrix
10 5 (0.62%) Freshdesk
10 5 (0.62%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.62%) Workday
10 5 (0.62%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.49%) Dell