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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 215 250
Rank change year-on-year +62 +35 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,299 636 713
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.25% 1.48% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.67% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 809 423 390
10th Percentile £31,650 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,650 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,887 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.52% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £78,501
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +1.69%

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 76,552 38,090 53,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 88.90% 82.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,565 21,805 28,465
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +17 462 £65,000 -1.41% 585
North of England +52 260 £50,000 - 196
South East +41 241 £45,000 -1.10% 154
Midlands +46 156 £52,500 +1.18% 91
North West +36 145 £45,000 -10.00% 98
West Midlands +23 102 £53,600 -8.72% 48
South West -20 90 £49,375 +27.64% 60
Yorkshire +13 85 £40,000 -33.33% 83
East of England +2 79 £46,250 +42.31% 50
East Midlands +4 54 £45,000 +12.50% 42
North East -44 30 £80,500 +40.00% 16
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
1 118 (9.08%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.92%) WordPress
4 5 (0.38%) Confluence
4 5 (0.38%) IIS
5 4 (0.31%) Apache
5 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.077%) Documentum
8 1 (0.077%) Moodle
8 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.38%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.31%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.077%) Elementor
8 1 (0.077%) InDesign
8 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.92%) Raiser’s Edge
2 11 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) SystmOne
4 5 (0.38%) Shopify
5 4 (0.31%) iTrent
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.077%) FastStats
8 1 (0.077%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.077%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.077%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.077%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.077%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 281 (21.63%) Azure
2 237 (18.24%) Microsoft 365
3 145 (11.16%) AWS
4 125 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 101 (7.78%) SaaS
6 98 (7.54%) Entra ID
7 71 (5.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 62 (4.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 57 (4.39%) Power Automate
10 50 (3.85%) PowerApps
11 48 (3.70%) OneDrive
12 42 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
12 42 (3.23%) Serverless
13 40 (3.08%) GCP
14 35 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
18 20 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.39%) Network Security
2 44 (3.39%) Firewall
3 41 (3.16%) DNS
4 38 (2.93%) VPN
5 37 (2.85%) DHCP
6 23 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.77%) VLAN
6 23 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.46%) Wireless
8 17 (1.31%) Internet
9 14 (1.08%) LAN
10 12 (0.92%) SSL
11 11 (0.85%) Cisco IPT
11 11 (0.85%) WAN
12 5 (0.38%) VoIP
13 4 (0.31%) Intranet
13 4 (0.31%) IPsec
13 4 (0.31%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.23%) BGP
14 3 (0.23%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (6.39%) Power BI
2 42 (3.23%) Metadata
3 37 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.69%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.54%) Power Query
7 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.15%) Tableau
9 14 (1.08%) MySQL
10 13 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.92%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.77%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (2.08%) Git
2 12 (0.92%) JIRA
3 9 (0.69%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.23%) GitLab
4 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.15%) git-flow
5 2 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.077%) Ant
6 1 (0.077%) Appium
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.077%) Yeoman
General
1 507 (39.03%) Social Skills
2 309 (23.79%) Finance
3 252 (19.40%) Legal
4 237 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (10.93%) Organisational Skills
6 138 (10.62%) Public Sector
7 132 (10.16%) Law
8 127 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 108 (8.31%) Retail
10 106 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
11 84 (6.47%) Marketing
12 43 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.69%) Banking
14 30 (2.31%) Local Government
15 25 (1.92%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (1.31%) Back Office
17 17 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
18 15 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (10.85%) Senior
2 132 (10.16%) Architect
3 94 (7.24%) Lead
4 81 (6.24%) Analyst
5 73 (5.62%) Data Manager
6 54 (4.16%) Developer
7 49 (3.77%) IT Manager
8 45 (3.46%) IT Support
9 44 (3.39%) Data Protection Manager
10 37 (2.85%) Consultant
11 34 (2.62%) Governance Manager
12 33 (2.54%) Sales Manager
12 33 (2.54%) Security Architect
13 32 (2.46%) Service Manager
14 31 (2.39%) Business Manager
15 30 (2.31%) IT Engineer
16 28 (2.16%) Administrator
16 28 (2.16%) Information Manager
17 27 (2.08%) Data Governance Manager
17 27 (2.08%) Data Protection Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.93%) Terraform
2 31 (2.39%) REST
3 30 (2.31%) HTML
4 24 (1.85%) OpenID
5 21 (1.62%) OAuth
5 21 (1.62%) SAML
6 17 (1.31%) CSS
7 16 (1.23%) AWS CDK
7 16 (1.23%) Middleware
8 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (1.00%) LDAP
10 12 (0.92%) ModSecurity
10 12 (0.92%) React
10 12 (0.92%) SPFx
11 10 (0.77%) .NET
11 10 (0.77%) SOAP
12 9 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
13 8 (0.62%) EDI
13 8 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 180 (13.86%) Management Information System
2 122 (9.39%) Onboarding
3 99 (7.62%) Data Protection Act
4 65 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 55 (4.23%) Security Posture
6 51 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 51 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 43 (3.31%) Driving Licence
8 38 (2.93%) Social Media
9 36 (2.77%) Virtual Team
10 31 (2.39%) AI Agents
11 28 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 28 (2.16%) Freedom of Information
12 27 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (1.85%) NHS
14 21 (1.62%) Life Science
15 19 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 19 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 92 (7.08%) Windows
2 26 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.31%) Linux
4 13 (1.00%) macOS
5 6 (0.46%) Android
5 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.077%) AIX
9 1 (0.077%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 324 (24.94%) Cybersecurity
3 301 (23.17%) AI
4 298 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
5 254 (19.55%) Information Security
6 248 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 200 (15.40%) Risk Management
8 197 (15.17%) Agile
9 192 (14.78%) Decision-Making
10 171 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 150 (11.55%) Roadmaps
12 137 (10.55%) Collaborative Working
13 135 (10.39%) Service Delivery
14 131 (10.08%) Analytics
15 121 (9.31%) Incident Response
16 117 (9.01%) CRM
17 113 (8.70%) Data Governance
18 108 (8.31%) Information Governance
19 107 (8.24%) Business Continuity
20 100 (7.70%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 93 (7.16%) SQL
2 90 (6.93%) Python
3 54 (4.16%) PowerShell
4 42 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 26 (2.00%) PHP
6 25 (1.92%) C#
6 25 (1.92%) Java
7 18 (1.39%) Bash
8 17 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.08%) Perl
9 14 (1.08%) Ruby
10 13 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.46%) Bicep
12 3 (0.23%) Go
12 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.15%) R
14 1 (0.077%) Pascal
14 1 (0.077%) VBA
14 1 (0.077%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 169 (13.01%) Degree
2 108 (8.31%) CISSP
3 103 (7.93%) Security Cleared
4 77 (5.93%) CISM
5 54 (4.16%) SC Cleared
6 47 (3.62%) DBS Check
7 39 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 37 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.00%) DV Cleared
12 24 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 23 (1.77%) CCSP
14 20 (1.54%) CRISC
15 19 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (1.39%) ACCA
17 16 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (1.23%) CISA
18 15 (1.15%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (29.33%) GDPR
2 170 (13.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 117 (9.01%) Data Quality
4 104 (8.01%) NIST
5 80 (6.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 60 (4.62%) GRC
7 51 (3.93%) Accessibility
8 42 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 41 (3.16%) QA
10 27 (2.08%) PCI DSS
11 26 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 21 (1.62%) SLA
12 21 (1.62%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.54%) ISO 22301
14 19 (1.46%) ISO 9001
15 18 (1.39%) NCSC
16 13 (1.00%) COBIT
17 10 (0.77%) NIST 800
18 9 (0.69%) PERC
19 6 (0.46%) SOC 1
System Software
1 72 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.08%) Docker
4 13 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.85%) vSphere
6 8 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) UAG
8 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.077%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.62%) Nessus
5 7 (0.54%) Ansible
6 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.38%) Autotask
6 5 (0.38%) Grafana
6 5 (0.38%) Puppet
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
7 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.23%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.077%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.077%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.077%) SCOM
Vendors
1 394 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.16%) Google
3 26 (2.00%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.69%) VMware
5 19 (1.46%) Oracle
6 17 (1.31%) Informatica
7 16 (1.23%) Cisco
8 15 (1.15%) SAP
8 15 (1.15%) YouTube
9 14 (1.08%) Okta
9 14 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.00%) ForgeRock
11 11 (0.85%) Adobe
11 11 (0.85%) Databricks
12 10 (0.77%) Infor
12 10 (0.77%) OneTrust
12 10 (0.77%) Xero
13 9 (0.69%) Talend
14 7 (0.54%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.54%) ServiceNow