Data Privacy Job Trends in Kent

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 82 64
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 5 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.66% 0.10% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.14% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,813 £28,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,330 £29,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.62% - -
75th Percentile £39,848 £29,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £48,687
% change year-on-year +23.81% +7.83% -18.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Data Privacy 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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 734 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 75.96% 76.38% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 353 328 355
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,511 £60,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,300
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in Kent

Data Privacy
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the Kent region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Canterbury - 3 - -
Maidstone - 1 £39,330 - 2
Data Privacy
South East

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Jest
1 3 (60.00%) jQuery
1 3 (60.00%) LAMP
1 3 (60.00%) Laravel
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Educational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Social Media
2 2 (40.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) B2B
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Fintech
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile First
1 3 (60.00%) OOP
1 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
1 3 (60.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Content Development
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker