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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 223 226
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,078 662 915
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.13% 1.52% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.70% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 732 454 570
10th Percentile £33,500 £27,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £35,797 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,387
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,883 £54,744 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.73% -0.47% -6.78%

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 70,019 38,976 58,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.51% 89.20% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 49,558 22,475 37,906
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%
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 21 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 21 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 +21 436 £65,000 -8.45% 189
South East +16 178 £45,000 +5.88% 129
North of England +3 174 £51,000 +2.00% 129
Midlands +50 155 £53,600 +15.27% 82
West Midlands +30 102 £53,600 -2.49% 53
North West -15 94 £50,000 +27.80% 68
South West -35 64 £49,375 +12.86% 55
Yorkshire -8 63 £53,750 -10.42% 42
East of England -8 60 £40,000 +23.08% 53
East Midlands +11 53 £55,000 +60.77% 28
North East -43 17 £80,500 +40.00% 19
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 (8.07%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.56%) Confluence
3 6 (0.56%) WordPress
4 4 (0.37%) Apache
5 3 (0.28%) CMS
5 3 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.19%) nginx
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.093%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.093%) Documentum
7 1 (0.093%) JBoss
7 1 (0.093%) Moodle
7 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.46%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.093%) InDesign
8 1 (0.093%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.02%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.56%) Shopify
3 6 (0.56%) SystmOne
4 4 (0.37%) iTrent
5 3 (0.28%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
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
7 1 (0.093%) FastStats
7 1 (0.093%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.093%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.093%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 240 (22.26%) Azure
2 194 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
3 138 (12.80%) AWS
4 95 (8.81%) Power Platform
5 90 (8.35%) SaaS
6 81 (7.51%) Entra ID
7 46 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (3.53%) GCP
9 36 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 36 (3.34%) Power Automate
10 33 (3.06%) Serverless
11 28 (2.60%) PowerApps
12 25 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (2.04%) OneDrive
15 19 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
17 15 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.29%) Network Security
2 37 (3.43%) Firewall
3 27 (2.50%) VPN
4 25 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (2.23%) DNS
6 21 (1.95%) DHCP
7 17 (1.58%) LAN
7 17 (1.58%) VLAN
7 17 (1.58%) WAN
8 16 (1.48%) Internet
9 15 (1.39%) Wireless
10 13 (1.21%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.83%) CHAP
12 6 (0.56%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.56%) SSL
12 6 (0.56%) VoIP
13 4 (0.37%) Intranet
13 4 (0.37%) SMS
14 3 (0.28%) SAN
14 3 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.68%) Power BI
2 32 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.60%) Metadata
4 24 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.58%) MySQL
6 17 (1.58%) Tableau
7 14 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.21%) Power Query
9 12 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.93%) MariaDB
11 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.56%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.46%) Big Data
14 5 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 24 (2.23%) Git
2 18 (1.67%) JIRA
3 8 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.65%) GitLab
5 5 (0.46%) MLflow
6 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.19%) git-flow
8 2 (0.19%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.19%) Maven
8 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.093%) Appium
9 1 (0.093%) Gatling
9 1 (0.093%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.093%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.093%) Yeoman
General
1 408 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 219 (20.32%) Finance
3 188 (17.44%) Legal
4 179 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 95 (8.81%) Retail
7 94 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (8.72%) Law
8 71 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
9 69 (6.40%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (3.90%) Marketing
11 38 (3.53%) Manufacturing
12 33 (3.06%) Banking
13 20 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.58%) Local Government
16 15 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
17 12 (1.11%) Back Office
17 12 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (10.30%) Senior
2 88 (8.16%) Analyst
3 81 (7.51%) Architect
4 80 (7.42%) Lead
5 62 (5.75%) Data Manager
6 54 (5.01%) IT Manager
7 51 (4.73%) Developer
8 48 (4.45%) IT Support
9 36 (3.34%) Data Protection Manager
10 35 (3.25%) Data Protection Officer
11 31 (2.88%) Information Manager
11 31 (2.88%) Sales Manager
12 30 (2.78%) Consultant
12 30 (2.78%) IT Engineer
13 29 (2.69%) Service Manager
14 28 (2.60%) Governance Manager
15 27 (2.50%) Security Manager
16 24 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 24 (2.23%) Service Delivery Manager
17 21 (1.95%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.43%) Terraform
2 28 (2.60%) HTML
3 24 (2.23%) CSS
4 22 (2.04%) OpenID
5 19 (1.76%) SAML
6 18 (1.67%) OAuth
7 16 (1.48%) AWS CDK
8 14 (1.30%) REST
9 12 (1.11%) LDAP
9 12 (1.11%) ModSecurity
9 12 (1.11%) React
10 10 (0.93%) .NET
11 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (0.83%) Node.js
12 8 (0.74%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (0.74%) SPFx
13 7 (0.65%) Kafka
13 7 (0.65%) PySpark
13 7 (0.65%) SOAP
14 6 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (12.43%) Management Information System
2 110 (10.20%) Data Protection Act
3 99 (9.18%) Onboarding
4 51 (4.73%) Security Posture
5 49 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 47 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
7 43 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (3.53%) Product Ownership
9 34 (3.15%) Driving Licence
9 34 (3.15%) Virtual Team
10 26 (2.41%) Social Media
11 20 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 18 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
14 16 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.39%) Freedom of Information Act
16 14 (1.30%) CCTV
16 14 (1.30%) Life Science
16 14 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.42%) Windows
2 16 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 15 (1.39%) Linux
4 9 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.46%) Android
6 5 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.093%) AIX
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (25.97%) Cybersecurity
2 260 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
3 256 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 209 (19.39%) AI
5 205 (19.02%) Information Security
6 183 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 165 (15.31%) Risk Management
8 164 (15.21%) Agile
9 162 (15.03%) Decision-Making
10 151 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 114 (10.58%) Incident Response
12 110 (10.20%) Data Governance
13 108 (10.02%) Analytics
13 108 (10.02%) Disaster Recovery
13 108 (10.02%) Service Delivery
14 104 (9.65%) Roadmaps
15 94 (8.72%) Business Continuity
16 93 (8.63%) ITIL
17 89 (8.26%) Mentoring
18 85 (7.88%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.16%) SQL
2 79 (7.33%) Python
3 43 (3.99%) JavaScript
4 33 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 32 (2.97%) Java
6 29 (2.69%) PHP
7 21 (1.95%) Bash
8 18 (1.67%) C#
9 14 (1.30%) Perl
9 14 (1.30%) Ruby
10 13 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.28%) Go
11 3 (0.28%) 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
12 2 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (13.64%) Degree
2 94 (8.72%) CISSP
3 76 (7.05%) Security Cleared
4 67 (6.22%) CISM
5 39 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.53%) SC Cleared
7 33 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.41%) CRISC
10 23 (2.13%) CISA
11 20 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.86%) DBS Check
11 20 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 17 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (1.48%) CCSP
13 16 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (1.11%) SANS
15 11 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (30.15%) GDPR
2 133 (12.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 101 (9.37%) Data Quality
4 94 (8.72%) NIST
5 65 (6.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 50 (4.64%) GRC
7 36 (3.34%) Accessibility
8 35 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 26 (2.41%) QA
10 22 (2.04%) COBIT
10 22 (2.04%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.86%) PCI DSS
12 19 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (1.21%) ISO 22301
13 13 (1.21%) SLA
14 11 (1.02%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.93%) PERC
16 8 (0.74%) NCSC
17 7 (0.65%) PMO
17 7 (0.65%) SOC 1
System Software
1 73 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.76%) Docker
3 14 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.93%) vSphere
5 7 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.093%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 36 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.83%) Ansible
5 8 (0.74%) Nessus
6 6 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.46%) CASB
8 4 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) Argo
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.19%) Grafana
10 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.093%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.093%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.093%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 279 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.88%) Google
3 24 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 21 (1.95%) Oracle
5 17 (1.58%) SAP
5 17 (1.58%) VMware
6 16 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.21%) Okta
8 12 (1.11%) Cisco
8 12 (1.11%) Databricks
8 12 (1.11%) ForgeRock
9 10 (0.93%) iManage
9 10 (0.93%) Infor
10 9 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.74%) Informatica
11 8 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.65%) Sage
13 6 (0.56%) IBM
13 6 (0.56%) Veeam
13 6 (0.56%) Workday