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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 215 263
Rank change year-on-year +45 +48 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,127 644 748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.15% 1.49% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.69% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 749 435 489
10th Percentile £34,300 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,844 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,887 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -5.66% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -0.02% -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 71,905 38,217 56,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.53% 80.99%
Number of salaries quoted 51,202 22,024 33,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,397 £41,750
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 £76,250
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 5 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 5 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 +22 433 £65,000 -7.14% 524
South East +33 200 £45,000 +5.88% 166
North of England +3 196 £51,000 +2.00% 179
Midlands +55 157 £53,600 +9.39% 114
North West +11 107 £50,000 +25.00% 106
West Midlands +33 104 £53,600 -6.73% 77
South West -34 73 £55,000 +42.18% 80
Yorkshire -13 68 £48,250 -18.57% 53
East of England -26 59 £39,250 +20.77% 68
East Midlands -4 53 £50,000 +25.00% 37
North East -47 21 £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 95 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.80%) WordPress
4 6 (0.53%) Confluence
5 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) nginx
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.089%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.089%) Documentum
8 1 (0.089%) JBoss
8 1 (0.089%) Moodle
8 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.44%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.35%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.089%) InDesign
9 1 (0.089%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.98%) Raiser’s Edge
3 7 (0.62%) SystmOne
4 5 (0.44%) Shopify
5 4 (0.35%) iTrent
6 3 (0.27%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.089%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.089%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.089%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 249 (22.09%) Azure
2 200 (17.75%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (12.42%) AWS
4 104 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 92 (8.16%) SaaS
6 82 (7.28%) Entra ID
7 46 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 41 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 41 (3.64%) Power Automate
9 40 (3.55%) GCP
10 36 (3.19%) PowerApps
11 33 (2.93%) Serverless
12 29 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
13 28 (2.48%) OneDrive
14 24 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
16 16 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.24%) Network Security
2 40 (3.55%) Firewall
3 30 (2.66%) VPN
4 29 (2.57%) DNS
5 25 (2.22%) DHCP
5 25 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.60%) Internet
6 18 (1.60%) VLAN
7 16 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.42%) Wireless
8 15 (1.33%) LAN
9 13 (1.15%) WAN
10 7 (0.62%) CHAP
10 7 (0.62%) VoIP
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.53%) SSL
12 4 (0.35%) Intranet
12 4 (0.35%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.27%) SMS
14 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.74%) Power BI
2 36 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (3.19%) Metadata
3 28 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.42%) Power Query
5 16 (1.42%) Tableau
6 14 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.24%) MySQL
7 12 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.89%) MariaDB
9 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.71%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.71%) Star Schema
11 7 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (2.22%) Git
2 16 (1.42%) JIRA
3 8 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.53%) GitLab
5 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.35%) MLflow
6 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.27%) JMeter
7 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.18%) git-flow
7 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.18%) Maven
7 2 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.089%) Appium
8 1 (0.089%) Gatling
8 1 (0.089%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.089%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.089%) Yeoman
General
1 430 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 247 (21.92%) Finance
3 207 (18.37%) Legal
4 196 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (9.58%) Law
6 105 (9.32%) Public Sector
7 100 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 96 (8.52%) Retail
9 95 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (4.17%) Marketing
12 42 (3.73%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.75%) Banking
14 23 (2.04%) Local Government
15 19 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.60%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.60%) Fire and Rescue
17 13 (1.15%) Back Office
18 12 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 116 (10.29%) Senior
2 93 (8.25%) Architect
3 84 (7.45%) Analyst
4 81 (7.19%) Lead
5 68 (6.03%) Data Manager
6 53 (4.70%) IT Manager
7 49 (4.35%) Developer
8 47 (4.17%) IT Support
9 41 (3.64%) Data Protection Manager
10 33 (2.93%) Consultant
10 33 (2.93%) Governance Manager
11 32 (2.84%) Data Protection Officer
11 32 (2.84%) Information Manager
11 32 (2.84%) Sales Manager
12 30 (2.66%) IT Engineer
12 30 (2.66%) Service Manager
13 28 (2.48%) Security Manager
14 26 (2.31%) Security Architect
15 25 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
15 25 (2.22%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.19%) Terraform
2 26 (2.31%) HTML
3 22 (1.95%) OpenID
4 21 (1.86%) REST
5 19 (1.69%) CSS
5 19 (1.69%) SAML
6 18 (1.60%) OAuth
7 16 (1.42%) AWS CDK
8 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (1.06%) LDAP
9 12 (1.06%) ModSecurity
9 12 (1.06%) SPFx
10 11 (0.98%) React
11 9 (0.80%) .NET
11 9 (0.80%) SOAP
12 8 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
13 6 (0.53%) Kafka
13 6 (0.53%) Node.js
13 6 (0.53%) PySpark
13 6 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 144 (12.78%) Management Information System
2 107 (9.49%) Data Protection Act
3 106 (9.41%) Onboarding
4 53 (4.70%) Security Posture
5 51 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 46 (4.08%) Product Ownership
9 34 (3.02%) Virtual Team
10 30 (2.66%) Driving Licence
11 29 (2.57%) Social Media
12 24 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.86%) Freedom of Information
14 19 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (1.51%) NHS
16 15 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
17 14 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.24%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.63%) Windows
2 16 (1.42%) Linux
2 16 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.44%) Android
4 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.089%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
2 274 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 226 (20.05%) AI
5 217 (19.25%) Information Security
6 199 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 175 (15.53%) Agile
8 173 (15.35%) Risk Management
9 169 (15.00%) Decision-Making
10 157 (13.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 117 (10.38%) Incident Response
12 116 (10.29%) Analytics
12 116 (10.29%) Service Delivery
13 113 (10.03%) Roadmaps
14 112 (9.94%) Data Governance
15 110 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
16 95 (8.43%) Business Continuity
17 94 (8.34%) Collaborative Working
18 93 (8.25%) ITIL
19 90 (7.99%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (7.81%) SQL
2 81 (7.19%) Python
3 39 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 38 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 32 (2.84%) Java
6 27 (2.40%) PHP
7 21 (1.86%) C#
8 20 (1.77%) Bash
9 14 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.24%) Perl
9 14 (1.24%) Ruby
10 12 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.27%) Go
11 3 (0.27%) Groovy
12 2 (0.18%) Bicep
12 2 (0.18%) C
12 2 (0.18%) R
12 2 (0.18%) RPG
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.089%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 153 (13.58%) Degree
2 100 (8.87%) CISSP
3 76 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 71 (6.30%) CISM
5 37 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 33 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (2.22%) CRISC
8 25 (2.22%) DBS Check
9 22 (1.95%) CISA
10 21 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 21 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.77%) CCSP
12 16 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (31.14%) GDPR
2 147 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 109 (9.67%) Data Quality
4 101 (8.96%) NIST
5 69 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 55 (4.88%) GRC
7 40 (3.55%) Accessibility
8 37 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.57%) QA
10 23 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (1.95%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.86%) PCI DSS
13 20 (1.77%) COBIT
14 16 (1.42%) ISO 22301
15 14 (1.24%) SLA
16 12 (1.06%) ISO 9001
17 11 (0.98%) PERC
18 9 (0.80%) NCSC
19 7 (0.62%) SOC 1
19 7 (0.62%) TickIT
System Software
1 73 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.60%) Docker
3 14 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.89%) vSphere
5 8 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.089%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.71%) Ansible
3 8 (0.71%) Nessus
4 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.35%) Puppet
6 3 (0.27%) CASB
6 3 (0.27%) SCCM
7 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.18%) Grafana
7 2 (0.18%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.18%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.089%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.089%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.089%) QRadar
8 1 (0.089%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 308 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.66%) Google
3 24 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.04%) Oracle
5 17 (1.51%) VMware
6 16 (1.42%) SAP
7 15 (1.33%) Informatica
7 15 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.24%) Cisco
9 13 (1.15%) Okta
10 12 (1.06%) Databricks
10 12 (1.06%) ForgeRock
11 10 (0.89%) Infor
12 9 (0.80%) Adobe
12 9 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.80%) YouTube
13 8 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.62%) iManage
14 7 (0.62%) OneTrust
14 7 (0.62%) Talend