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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 219 252
Rank change year-on-year +45 +33 -54
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 719 750 598
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.51% 1.32% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.52% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 490 444 499
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,825 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,650 £47,188 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% +4.58% +6.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.97% +6.67% +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 40,074 49,232 41,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.94% 86.64% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,111 25,640 32,120
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% - -4.00%
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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +76 323 £70,500 -3.90% 137
South East +41 118 £46,000 -18.22% 118
North of England +7 116 £50,000 -9.09% 58
Midlands +7 65 £49,500 -17.50% 59
North West +18 64 £50,000 -9.09% 36
South West +29 50 £36,018 -29.38% 49
East of England +30 40 £44,000 -37.14% 20
Yorkshire -3 37 £50,000 -6.98% 19
East Midlands +27 34 £37,500 -9.09% 23
West Midlands -9 31 £57,500 -8.00% 35
North East +18 15 £65,000 +52.94% 3
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 52 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.25%) Confluence
4 7 (0.97%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
5 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.42%) IIS
5 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.42%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.70%) Adobe XD
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 12 (1.67%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.42%) Yoast SEO
5 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) Odoo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 174 (24.20%) Azure
2 120 (16.69%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (9.32%) AWS
4 58 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 51 (7.09%) Entra ID
6 39 (5.42%) SaaS
7 32 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.48%) GCP
9 24 (3.34%) OneDrive
10 23 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.36%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.09%) GitHub
12 15 (2.09%) Serverless
13 13 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.25%) PowerApps
16 8 (1.11%) Amazon S3
17 7 (0.97%) Figma
17 7 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.40%) Firewall
2 36 (5.01%) VPN
3 33 (4.59%) WAN
4 26 (3.62%) DNS
5 25 (3.48%) Network Security
6 24 (3.34%) DHCP
7 23 (3.20%) LAN
8 18 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.53%) Unified Communications
12 10 (1.39%) SAN
13 9 (1.25%) VLAN
14 8 (1.11%) VoIP
15 7 (0.97%) SSL
15 7 (0.97%) Wireless
16 6 (0.83%) CHAP
16 6 (0.83%) NAS
17 5 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
17 5 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.54%) Power BI
2 21 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.23%) Tableau
4 15 (2.09%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.11%) Metadata
8 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.70%) Power Query
11 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.56%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.42%) MySQL
12 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (4.45%) Git
2 18 (2.50%) JIRA
3 14 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.53%) ERwin
5 9 (1.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
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
1 313 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 166 (23.09%) Finance
3 124 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.96%) Legal
5 56 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.56%) Law
7 36 (5.01%) Public Sector
8 35 (4.87%) Marketing
9 29 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (3.20%) Retail
11 21 (2.92%) Banking
11 21 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.11%) Back Office
16 8 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.97%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 119 (16.55%) Analyst
2 71 (9.87%) Senior
3 61 (8.48%) Lead
4 60 (8.34%) Architect
5 46 (6.40%) Developer
6 41 (5.70%) IT Support
7 39 (5.42%) IT Manager
8 36 (5.01%) Technology Director
9 31 (4.31%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.17%) Administrator
11 28 (3.89%) Data Analyst
11 28 (3.89%) Enterprise Architect
11 28 (3.89%) Enterprise Information Architect
11 28 (3.89%) Enterprise Security Architect
11 28 (3.89%) Information Architect
11 28 (3.89%) Information Security Architect
12 26 (3.62%) Support Engineer
13 23 (3.20%) IT Engineer
13 23 (3.20%) Support Analyst
14 22 (3.06%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.34%) .NET
2 18 (2.50%) HTML
2 18 (2.50%) JSON
3 14 (1.95%) CSS
4 12 (1.67%) XML
5 11 (1.53%) REST
5 11 (1.53%) RESTful
5 11 (1.53%) Web Services
6 10 (1.39%) React
7 8 (1.11%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.11%) WPF
8 7 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (0.97%) Universal Windows Platform
8 7 (0.97%) WinUI
9 6 (0.83%) Node.js
9 6 (0.83%) OAuth
9 6 (0.83%) React Native
10 5 (0.70%) Handlebars
11 4 (0.56%) SAML
12 3 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.31%) Data Protection Act
2 80 (11.13%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.98%) Driving Licence
4 39 (5.42%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.92%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.64%) Social Media
8 17 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 17 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.23%) NHS
10 10 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.97%) CCTV
12 7 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 99 (13.77%) Windows
2 41 (5.70%) Windows Server
3 28 (3.89%) Linux
4 16 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 9 (1.25%) Android
6 9 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Unix
8 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (23.78%) Cybersecurity
2 147 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
3 139 (19.33%) Information Security
4 132 (18.36%) Agile
5 118 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 117 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (14.74%) Decision-Making
8 90 (12.52%) Analytics
9 84 (11.68%) Risk Management
10 80 (11.13%) ITIL
11 77 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 74 (10.29%) Service Delivery
13 72 (10.01%) DevOps
13 72 (10.01%) Roadmaps
14 68 (9.46%) Mentoring
15 65 (9.04%) Computer Science
16 64 (8.90%) Coaching
17 63 (8.76%) Project Management
18 62 (8.62%) IT Strategy
19 60 (8.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 67 (9.32%) SQL
2 62 (8.62%) Python
3 40 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 25 (3.48%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.92%) C#
6 13 (1.81%) Bash
7 11 (1.53%) Java
7 11 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.39%) Go
9 8 (1.11%) Bicep
10 7 (0.97%) C++
10 7 (0.97%) R
11 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.28%) Groovy
12 2 (0.28%) PHP
12 2 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.28%) Rust
12 2 (0.28%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (20.58%) Degree
2 85 (11.82%) CISSP
3 77 (10.71%) CISM
4 57 (7.93%) DBS Check
5 40 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (4.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 27 (3.76%) CISA
9 24 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (2.92%) CRISC
11 18 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.50%) PMI Certification
11 18 (2.50%) PMP
12 14 (1.95%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.53%) CCNP
13 11 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (1.39%) Security Cleared
15 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.25%) CCNA
16 8 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (23.64%) GDPR
2 90 (12.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (7.93%) Accessibility
4 49 (6.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (5.98%) GRC
6 37 (5.15%) QA
7 35 (4.87%) NIST
8 33 (4.59%) Data Quality
9 24 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 15 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (1.39%) PCI DSS
12 8 (1.11%) EU AI Act
12 8 (1.11%) ISAE 3402
12 8 (1.11%) SLA
13 7 (0.97%) COBIT
13 7 (0.97%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.97%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.83%) PERC
15 5 (0.70%) ISO 14001
16 3 (0.42%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 70 (9.74%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.23%) Docker
4 11 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.11%) BitLocker
6 7 (0.97%) 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 58 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.59%) Terraform
3 21 (2.92%) Ansible
4 20 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 18 (2.50%) SCCM
6 15 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.11%) Grafana
8 6 (0.83%) Avamar
8 6 (0.83%) CASB
8 6 (0.83%) Nagios
8 6 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.70%) Autotask
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%) QRadar
12 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.28%) SCOM
12 2 (0.28%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 207 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.76%) Cisco
3 26 (3.62%) VMware
4 18 (2.50%) Oracle
4 18 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.36%) Google
6 14 (1.95%) Dell
6 14 (1.95%) HP
6 14 (1.95%) SAP
7 12 (1.67%) Apple
8 10 (1.39%) Veeam
9 9 (1.25%) Adobe
10 8 (1.11%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.11%) NetApp
10 8 (1.11%) Splunk
11 7 (0.97%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.97%) Syncfusion
11 7 (0.97%) Telerik
11 7 (0.97%) YouTube