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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 232 245
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 717 713 600
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 1.18% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.41% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 495 409 500
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,281 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,650 £46,250 £47,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,625
UK median annual salary £53,994 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.61% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process and 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 39,652 50,712 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.51% 84.01% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,627 26,332 33,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +69 318 £75,250 +3.79% 295
South East +60 124 £46,000 -16.36% 134
North of England +17 119 £50,000 -1.96% 67
North West +26 69 £50,000 -1.96% 41
Midlands +20 68 £49,500 -20.80% 71
South West +35 46 £36,563 -26.88% 80
East of England +28 37 £32,500 -55.17% 36
East Midlands +41 36 £37,460 -9.19% 23
Yorkshire +1 36 £50,000 -9.09% 20
West Midlands 0 32 £61,250 -2.00% 47
North East +12 14 £65,000 +52.94% 6
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 55 (7.67%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.53%) CMS
4 9 (1.26%) Confluence
5 5 (0.70%) IIS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.70%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.28%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.56%) Endur
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.42%) Yoast SEO
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.14%) Odoo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (24.69%) Azure
2 120 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (9.90%) AWS
4 61 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 55 (7.67%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (4.74%) SaaS
8 26 (3.63%) OneDrive
9 23 (3.21%) GCP
10 19 (2.65%) GitHub
10 19 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.95%) Serverless
14 12 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (1.26%) Google Workspace
17 8 (1.12%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.28%) Firewall
2 35 (4.88%) VPN
3 32 (4.46%) WAN
4 26 (3.63%) Network Security
5 25 (3.49%) DNS
6 23 (3.21%) DHCP
7 22 (3.07%) LAN
8 17 (2.37%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.53%) Unified Communications
11 11 (1.53%) Wireless
12 10 (1.39%) SAN
12 10 (1.39%) VLAN
13 8 (1.12%) SSL
13 8 (1.12%) VoIP
14 7 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.84%) CHAP
15 6 (0.84%) NAS
16 5 (0.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.56%) Power BI
2 22 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.23%) Tableau
4 13 (1.81%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.26%) Metadata
7 8 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.70%) MySQL
10 5 (0.70%) Power Query
11 4 (0.56%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 32 (4.46%) Git
2 21 (2.93%) JIRA
3 13 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.53%) ERwin
5 8 (1.12%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.28%) Vite
7 1 (0.14%) ESLint
7 1 (0.14%) GCC
7 1 (0.14%) GDB
7 1 (0.14%) git-flow
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.14%) Storybook
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 310 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 163 (22.73%) Finance
3 119 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.44%) Legal
5 52 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.44%) Law
6 39 (5.44%) Marketing
7 36 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.35%) Retail
10 22 (3.07%) Banking
11 16 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.39%) Back Office
14 10 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 124 (17.29%) Analyst
2 69 (9.62%) Senior
3 63 (8.79%) Lead
4 61 (8.51%) Architect
5 55 (7.67%) Developer
6 43 (6.00%) IT Support
7 36 (5.02%) Technology Director
8 35 (4.88%) IT Manager
9 31 (4.32%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.18%) Administrator
10 30 (4.18%) Data Analyst
11 28 (3.91%) Enterprise Architect
11 28 (3.91%) Enterprise Information Architect
11 28 (3.91%) Enterprise Security Architect
11 28 (3.91%) Information Architect
11 28 (3.91%) Information Security Architect
12 27 (3.77%) Support Engineer
13 23 (3.21%) Support Analyst
14 22 (3.07%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.07%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.18%) .NET
2 23 (3.21%) HTML
3 19 (2.65%) CSS
3 19 (2.65%) JSON
4 13 (1.81%) RESTful
4 13 (1.81%) XML
5 12 (1.67%) React
5 12 (1.67%) REST
6 10 (1.39%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.39%) Web Services
7 8 (1.12%) WPF
8 7 (0.98%) ASP.NET
8 7 (0.98%) OAuth
8 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (0.98%) Universal Windows Platform
8 7 (0.98%) WinUI
9 6 (0.84%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.84%) Node.js
9 6 (0.84%) React Native
10 5 (0.70%) Handlebars
Miscellaneous
1 137 (19.11%) Data Protection Act
2 75 (10.46%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.00%) Driving Licence
4 38 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 20 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.65%) Social Media
9 14 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.95%) NHS
10 12 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.98%) CCTV
14 7 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 100 (13.95%) Windows
2 42 (5.86%) Windows Server
3 29 (4.04%) Linux
4 18 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.81%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.53%) Android
8 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (23.15%) Cybersecurity
2 151 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (18.69%) Agile
4 133 (18.55%) Information Security
5 121 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 118 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 102 (14.23%) Decision-Making
8 92 (12.83%) Analytics
9 81 (11.30%) ITIL
10 77 (10.74%) Risk Management
11 75 (10.46%) Service Delivery
12 74 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 73 (10.18%) DevOps
14 70 (9.76%) Mentoring
15 63 (8.79%) Coaching
15 63 (8.79%) Computer Science
15 63 (8.79%) Customer Service
15 63 (8.79%) Roadmaps
16 61 (8.51%) IT Strategy
17 60 (8.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (10.60%) SQL
2 62 (8.65%) Python
3 38 (5.30%) PowerShell
4 35 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 27 (3.77%) C#
6 14 (1.95%) Bash
7 13 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.53%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.39%) Java
10 9 (1.26%) Bicep
10 9 (1.26%) Go
11 7 (0.98%) C++
11 7 (0.98%) R
12 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.42%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) Groovy
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (20.36%) Degree
2 78 (10.88%) CISSP
3 71 (9.90%) CISM
4 56 (7.81%) DBS Check
5 40 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (3.35%) CISA
8 24 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.65%) CRISC
10 18 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 16 (2.23%) PMI Certification
11 16 (2.23%) PMP
12 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.53%) CCNP
15 9 (1.26%) CCNA
15 9 (1.26%) Security Cleared
16 8 (1.12%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (24.55%) GDPR
2 85 (11.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (8.23%) Accessibility
4 46 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (6.00%) GRC
6 36 (5.02%) QA
7 35 (4.88%) Data Quality
8 33 (4.60%) NIST
9 22 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 9 (1.26%) SLA
12 8 (1.12%) EU AI Act
12 8 (1.12%) ISAE 3402
13 7 (0.98%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.84%) COBIT
14 6 (0.84%) PERC
14 6 (0.84%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.70%) ISO 14001
16 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 73 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.65%) Docker
4 10 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.12%) BitLocker
6 7 (0.98%) Firmware
7 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) IAG
8 2 (0.28%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) QEMU
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 60 (8.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.60%) Terraform
3 21 (2.93%) Kubernetes
4 20 (2.79%) Ansible
5 18 (2.51%) SCCM
6 14 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.12%) Grafana
8 6 (0.84%) Avamar
8 6 (0.84%) Nagios
8 6 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.70%) Autotask
10 4 (0.56%) CASB
10 4 (0.56%) Rancher
10 4 (0.56%) vRealize
11 3 (0.42%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.42%) QRadar
11 3 (0.42%) SCOM
12 2 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 209 (29.15%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.77%) Cisco
3 26 (3.63%) VMware
4 20 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.65%) Google
6 18 (2.51%) Oracle
7 15 (2.09%) Apple
8 14 (1.95%) Dell
8 14 (1.95%) HP
9 13 (1.81%) SAP
10 10 (1.39%) Veeam
11 9 (1.26%) Databricks
11 9 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.12%) Adobe
12 8 (1.12%) HubSpot
12 8 (1.12%) NetApp
12 8 (1.12%) Samsung
12 8 (1.12%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.98%) Syncfusion