Data Protection Jobs in Leeds

Data Protection
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 89 150
Rank change year-on-year +35 +61 -26
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 22 43 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.82% 1.81% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.16% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 14 27 14
10th Percentile £51,500 £42,375 £39,125
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.48% +18.37%
75th Percentile £90,938 £58,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £96,306 £61,600 £80,850
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,398
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.23% +23.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 729 1,991 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.58% 83.90% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 476 1,415 1,626
10th Percentile £26,125 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Leeds.

Salary trend for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Leeds over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) CMS
1 4 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (18.18%) Adobe Premiere
1 4 (18.18%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Law
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Security Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Management Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Information
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Information Management
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Technology
4 2 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) CSS
1 4 (18.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (27.27%) Cyberattack
1 6 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (18.18%) Credit Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Market Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
2 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (31.82%) Incident Response
4 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
4 6 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (27.27%) Data Management
4 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 6 (27.27%) Information Security
4 6 (27.27%) Risk Register
4 6 (27.27%) Security Auditing
4 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
4 6 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 6 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (22.73%) IT Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) PHP
2 4 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) GDPR
2 6 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (18.18%) Basel II
3 4 (18.18%) Basel III
3 4 (18.18%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (18.18%) IFRS
3 4 (18.18%) IFRS 9
3 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.55%) pfSense
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) OneTrust
3 1 (4.55%) Sage
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Veeam
3 1 (4.55%) VMware