Data Protection Job Trends in Leicester

Data Protection
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.40% 0.66% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.82% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £43,300
25th Percentile - £72,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +50.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £30,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -60.00% +50.00% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 245 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 86.23% 81.40% 91.84%
Number of salaries quoted 147 133 204
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £84,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% +11.11%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISMP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft