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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 222 226
Rank change year-on-year +41 +4 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,061 658 909
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.12% 1.51% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.69% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 712 453 582
10th Percentile £33,500 £26,566 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,545 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £92,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.87%

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 69,561 39,049 58,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 89.35% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 49,075 22,526 38,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 15 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 15 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 +34 437 £66,000 -8.97% 578
South East +14 173 £45,000 +5.88% 159
North of England +2 167 £52,500 +5.00% 166
Midlands +52 150 £53,834 +34.58% 103
West Midlands +36 99 £53,600 +2.70% 69
North West -1 92 £51,000 +30.35% 93
South West -42 63 £48,750 -2.50% 84
Yorkshire -1 59 £57,500 -4.17% 52
East of England -9 59 £45,000 +38.46% 69
East Midlands +6 51 £55,000 +96.43% 34
North East -49 16 £80,500 +40.00% 21
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 87 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.57%) Confluence
3 6 (0.57%) WordPress
4 4 (0.38%) Apache
4 4 (0.38%) CMS
4 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 2 (0.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.094%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.094%) Documentum
6 1 (0.094%) JBoss
6 1 (0.094%) Moodle
6 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.47%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.094%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.094%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.094%) InDesign
8 1 (0.094%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.04%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.57%) Shopify
4 5 (0.47%) SystmOne
5 4 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.28%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.19%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.094%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.094%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.094%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 240 (22.62%) Azure
2 192 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (13.10%) AWS
4 96 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 81 (7.63%) Entra ID
6 73 (6.88%) SaaS
7 46 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (3.58%) GCP
9 37 (3.49%) Power Automate
10 35 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 32 (3.02%) Serverless
12 27 (2.54%) PowerApps
13 25 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (2.07%) OneDrive
16 19 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (1.70%) Copilot Studio
18 15 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
19 14 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.28%) Network Security
2 37 (3.49%) Firewall
3 26 (2.45%) VPN
4 24 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (2.17%) DNS
6 20 (1.89%) DHCP
7 16 (1.51%) WAN
8 15 (1.41%) LAN
9 14 (1.32%) Internet
9 14 (1.32%) VLAN
10 13 (1.23%) Wireless
11 11 (1.04%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.85%) CHAP
13 6 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
13 6 (0.57%) SSL
14 5 (0.47%) SMS
15 4 (0.38%) Intranet
15 4 (0.38%) VoIP
16 3 (0.28%) SAN
17 2 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.88%) Power BI
2 31 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.64%) Metadata
4 21 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.79%) Tableau
7 17 (1.60%) MySQL
8 14 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.23%) Power Query
10 12 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.94%) MariaDB
12 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.57%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.47%) Big Data
15 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 22 (2.07%) Git
2 18 (1.70%) JIRA
3 8 (0.75%) GitLab
3 8 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.47%) MLflow
5 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.28%) JMeter
7 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) git-flow
7 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.19%) Maven
7 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.094%) Gatling
8 1 (0.094%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.094%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.094%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.094%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.094%) Yeoman
General
1 408 (38.45%) Social Skills
2 218 (20.55%) Finance
3 179 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (15.74%) Legal
5 96 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 95 (8.95%) Retail
7 92 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (8.67%) Law
8 72 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
9 67 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (3.77%) Marketing
11 36 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 32 (3.02%) Banking
13 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.79%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.60%) Local Government
16 15 (1.41%) Fire and Rescue
17 14 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (10.27%) Senior
2 94 (8.86%) Analyst
3 78 (7.35%) Architect
4 75 (7.07%) Lead
5 63 (5.94%) Data Manager
6 54 (5.09%) IT Manager
7 51 (4.81%) Developer
8 45 (4.24%) IT Support
9 35 (3.30%) Data Protection Manager
9 35 (3.30%) Data Protection Officer
10 32 (3.02%) Consultant
11 31 (2.92%) Sales Manager
12 30 (2.83%) Governance Manager
12 30 (2.83%) Information Manager
12 30 (2.83%) IT Engineer
13 29 (2.73%) Service Manager
14 26 (2.45%) Security Manager
15 24 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.26%) Service Delivery Manager
16 22 (2.07%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.64%) HTML
2 25 (2.36%) CSS
3 22 (2.07%) OpenID
4 19 (1.79%) SAML
5 18 (1.70%) OAuth
6 16 (1.51%) AWS CDK
7 13 (1.23%) REST
8 12 (1.13%) LDAP
8 12 (1.13%) ModSecurity
8 12 (1.13%) React
9 10 (0.94%) .NET
10 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (0.85%) Node.js
11 8 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
11 8 (0.75%) SPFx
12 7 (0.66%) Kafka
12 7 (0.66%) PySpark
13 6 (0.57%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.57%) RESTful
13 6 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 131 (12.35%) Management Information System
2 115 (10.84%) Data Protection Act
3 96 (9.05%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 50 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 47 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
7 39 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (3.49%) Product Ownership
9 35 (3.30%) Driving Licence
10 34 (3.20%) Virtual Team
11 27 (2.54%) Social Media
12 20 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.79%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 18 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
15 16 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (1.41%) Freedom of Information Act
17 14 (1.32%) CCTV
18 13 (1.23%) Life Science
18 13 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.45%) Windows
2 18 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.51%) Linux
4 8 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.47%) Android
6 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.28%) Unix
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.094%) AIX
9 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
2 259 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
3 256 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 207 (19.51%) AI
5 187 (17.62%) Information Security
6 180 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 167 (15.74%) Decision-Making
8 161 (15.17%) Agile
9 159 (14.99%) Risk Management
10 128 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 112 (10.56%) Data Governance
12 111 (10.46%) Incident Response
13 108 (10.18%) Service Delivery
14 107 (10.08%) Analytics
15 104 (9.80%) Roadmaps
16 101 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
17 94 (8.86%) ITIL
18 90 (8.48%) Business Continuity
18 90 (8.48%) Mentoring
19 87 (8.20%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (8.39%) SQL
2 82 (7.73%) Python
3 44 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 31 (2.92%) Java
6 29 (2.73%) PHP
7 22 (2.07%) Bash
8 17 (1.60%) C#
9 14 (1.32%) Perl
9 14 (1.32%) Ruby
10 13 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.28%) Go
11 3 (0.28%) Groovy
11 3 (0.28%) VBA
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
1 146 (13.76%) Degree
2 93 (8.77%) CISSP
3 78 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 66 (6.22%) CISM
5 40 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (2.36%) CRISC
9 23 (2.17%) CISA
10 20 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.89%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.51%) CCSP
12 16 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (1.13%) SANS
14 11 (1.04%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (30.07%) GDPR
2 127 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 104 (9.80%) Data Quality
4 90 (8.48%) NIST
5 63 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 49 (4.62%) GRC
7 36 (3.39%) Accessibility
8 34 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 27 (2.54%) QA
10 23 (2.17%) COBIT
11 22 (2.07%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.98%) PCI DSS
13 18 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.23%) SLA
15 12 (1.13%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.94%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.94%) PERC
17 8 (0.75%) NCSC
18 7 (0.66%) PMO
18 7 (0.66%) SOC 1
System Software
1 75 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.79%) Docker
3 13 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.85%) vSphere
5 8 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.094%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 39 (3.68%) Terraform
2 35 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (2.07%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.85%) Ansible
6 7 (0.66%) CASB
6 7 (0.66%) Nessus
7 6 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) SCCM
10 3 (0.28%) Argo
11 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.19%) Grafana
11 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.094%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.094%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 279 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.02%) Google
3 24 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.79%) Oracle
5 18 (1.70%) SAP
6 16 (1.51%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.51%) VMware
7 13 (1.23%) Okta
8 12 (1.13%) Databricks
8 12 (1.13%) ForgeRock
9 10 (0.94%) Cisco
9 10 (0.94%) iManage
9 10 (0.94%) Infor
10 9 (0.85%) Palo Alto
10 9 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.75%) Sage
12 7 (0.66%) Informatica
13 6 (0.57%) IBM
13 6 (0.57%) Veeam
13 6 (0.57%) Workday