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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 216 254
Rank change year-on-year +50 +38 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,175 648 750
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.17% 1.49% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.68% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 770 436 467
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,221 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -1.42% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 73,230 38,473 56,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 88.68% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52,112 22,159 32,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,229 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 +22 432 £65,000 -3.70% 531
North of England +19 213 £51,000 +2.00% 169
South East +37 210 £45,000 -1.10% 184
Midlands +56 163 £53,600 +4.08% 115
North West +6 112 £50,000 +5.26% 96
West Midlands +31 107 £53,600 -10.67% 79
South West -32 80 £55,000 +15.79% 80
Yorkshire -6 76 £52,500 -12.50% 53
East of England -1 67 £42,500 +30.77% 71
East Midlands -3 56 £45,000 +12.50% 36
North East -43 25 £80,500 +40.00% 23
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 97 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.77%) WordPress
4 6 (0.51%) Confluence
5 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.34%) Apache
6 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.085%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.085%) CMS
8 1 (0.085%) Documentum
8 1 (0.085%) JBoss
8 1 (0.085%) Moodle
8 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.43%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.085%) InDesign
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.94%) Raiser’s Edge
3 7 (0.60%) SystmOne
4 4 (0.34%) iTrent
4 4 (0.34%) Shopify
5 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.085%) FastStats
7 1 (0.085%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.085%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 255 (21.70%) Azure
2 208 (17.70%) Microsoft 365
3 143 (12.17%) AWS
4 103 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 90 (7.66%) SaaS
6 84 (7.15%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 47 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 41 (3.49%) Power Automate
10 40 (3.40%) GCP
11 36 (3.06%) PowerApps
12 33 (2.81%) Serverless
13 32 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (2.64%) OneDrive
15 25 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.19%) Network Security
2 43 (3.66%) Firewall
3 33 (2.81%) VPN
4 32 (2.72%) DNS
5 28 (2.38%) DHCP
6 25 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.62%) Internet
7 19 (1.62%) VLAN
8 18 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.53%) Wireless
9 15 (1.28%) LAN
10 13 (1.11%) WAN
11 7 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (0.60%) VoIP
12 6 (0.51%) SSL
13 5 (0.43%) CHAP
14 4 (0.34%) Intranet
14 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.26%) BGP
16 2 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.38%) Power BI
2 36 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (3.06%) Metadata
3 28 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.36%) Power Query
5 16 (1.36%) Tableau
6 14 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.19%) MySQL
7 12 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.85%) MariaDB
9 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.68%) Star Schema
11 7 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.60%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (2.13%) Git
2 16 (1.36%) JIRA
3 8 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.51%) GitLab
5 5 (0.43%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.26%) JMeter
7 3 (0.26%) MLflow
8 2 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) git-flow
8 2 (0.17%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.17%) Maven
8 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.085%) Appium
9 1 (0.085%) Gatling
9 1 (0.085%) Selenium
9 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.085%) Yeoman
General
1 455 (38.72%) Social Skills
2 270 (22.98%) Finance
3 220 (18.72%) Legal
4 207 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (9.96%) Law
6 115 (9.79%) Public Sector
7 108 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (9.19%) Organisational Skills
8 99 (8.43%) Retail
9 90 (7.66%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (4.34%) Marketing
11 43 (3.66%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.64%) Banking
13 28 (2.38%) Local Government
14 20 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.45%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
16 14 (1.19%) Back Office
16 14 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (10.38%) Senior
2 100 (8.51%) Architect
3 86 (7.32%) Lead
4 83 (7.06%) Analyst
5 68 (5.79%) Data Manager
6 54 (4.60%) IT Manager
7 49 (4.17%) IT Support
8 48 (4.09%) Developer
9 41 (3.49%) Data Protection Manager
10 35 (2.98%) Consultant
10 35 (2.98%) Sales Manager
11 34 (2.89%) IT Engineer
12 33 (2.81%) Information Manager
13 32 (2.72%) Governance Manager
14 30 (2.55%) Security Manager
14 30 (2.55%) Service Manager
15 29 (2.47%) Data Protection Officer
16 28 (2.38%) Business Manager
16 28 (2.38%) Security Architect
17 25 (2.13%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.06%) Terraform
2 25 (2.13%) HTML
3 23 (1.96%) OpenID
4 22 (1.87%) REST
5 20 (1.70%) SAML
6 19 (1.62%) OAuth
7 18 (1.53%) CSS
8 16 (1.36%) AWS CDK
9 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 12 (1.02%) LDAP
10 12 (1.02%) ModSecurity
10 12 (1.02%) SPFx
11 11 (0.94%) React
12 10 (0.85%) Middleware
12 10 (0.85%) SOAP
13 9 (0.77%) .NET
14 8 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
15 7 (0.60%) EDI
16 6 (0.51%) Kafka
16 6 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.68%) Management Information System
2 110 (9.36%) Data Protection Act
2 110 (9.36%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.77%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 47 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 34 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 31 (2.64%) Driving Licence
9 29 (2.47%) Social Media
10 25 (2.13%) Freedom of Information
11 24 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 19 (1.62%) NHS
13 18 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.45%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.36%) Life Science
16 15 (1.28%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.32%) Windows
2 17 (1.45%) Linux
3 16 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.17%) Unix
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.085%) AIX
10 1 (0.085%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (26.13%) Cybersecurity
2 293 (24.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 283 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (20.77%) AI
5 226 (19.23%) Information Security
6 217 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 182 (15.49%) Decision-Making
8 181 (15.40%) Risk Management
9 180 (15.32%) Agile
10 159 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 122 (10.38%) Roadmaps
11 122 (10.38%) Service Delivery
12 119 (10.13%) Incident Response
13 114 (9.70%) Analytics
14 111 (9.45%) Data Governance
15 109 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
16 101 (8.60%) Business Continuity
16 101 (8.60%) Collaborative Working
17 96 (8.17%) Information Governance
17 96 (8.17%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 87 (7.40%) SQL
2 81 (6.89%) Python
3 39 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 38 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.72%) Java
6 26 (2.21%) PHP
7 21 (1.79%) C#
8 20 (1.70%) Bash
9 14 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.19%) Perl
9 14 (1.19%) Ruby
10 12 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.26%) Go
11 3 (0.26%) Groovy
12 2 (0.17%) Bicep
12 2 (0.17%) C
12 2 (0.17%) R
12 2 (0.17%) RPG
12 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.085%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 156 (13.28%) Degree
2 106 (9.02%) CISSP
3 83 (7.06%) Security Cleared
4 75 (6.38%) CISM
5 39 (3.32%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.32%) SC Cleared
6 38 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.55%) DBS Check
9 29 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.13%) CRISC
12 22 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 22 (1.87%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.79%) CCSP
13 21 (1.79%) CISA
14 20 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (1.19%) ACCA
17 13 (1.11%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (30.89%) GDPR
2 161 (13.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 110 (9.36%) Data Quality
4 106 (9.02%) NIST
5 74 (6.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 58 (4.94%) GRC
7 43 (3.66%) Accessibility
8 39 (3.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 31 (2.64%) QA
10 24 (2.04%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 23 (1.96%) SOC 2
12 19 (1.62%) COBIT
13 18 (1.53%) ISO 22301
14 15 (1.28%) SLA
15 14 (1.19%) ISO 9001
16 11 (0.94%) NCSC
16 11 (0.94%) PERC
17 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.60%) TickIT
System Software
1 72 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.45%) Docker
3 16 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.94%) vSphere
5 10 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.085%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.085%) UAG
9 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.68%) Nessus
5 7 (0.60%) Ansible
6 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 4 (0.34%) SCCM
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.17%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.085%) Argo
9 1 (0.085%) CASB
9 1 (0.085%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.085%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.085%) QRadar
Vendors
1 329 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.55%) Google
3 23 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.87%) Oracle
5 19 (1.62%) VMware
6 16 (1.36%) Cisco
7 15 (1.28%) Informatica
7 15 (1.28%) SAP
8 14 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.11%) Okta
10 12 (1.02%) Databricks
10 12 (1.02%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.85%) Infor
11 10 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.85%) YouTube
12 9 (0.77%) Adobe
13 8 (0.68%) OneTrust
13 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.68%) Xero
14 7 (0.60%) Workday