Data Protection Act Job Trends in London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 309 421
Rank change year-on-year -53 +112 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 52 78 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.25% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 1.42% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 27 47 69
10th Percentile £55,752 £55,000 £32,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £108,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £121,400 £103,750
England median annual salary £57,239 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% +20.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
London

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,981 5,485 9,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.21% 44.36% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,242 3,175 6,786
10th Percentile £40,625 £41,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in London

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
West London - 15 £60,000 -
Central London -12 4 - - 1
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) AWS
3 7 (13.46%) SaaS
4 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (11.54%) Serverless
5 4 (7.69%) Azure AI
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.77%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub
7 2 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (3.85%) IaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) DHCP
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Data Lake
1 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) Delta Lake
2 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) Big Data
3 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.92%) KDB
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) MLflow
3 2 (3.85%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Appium
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (13.46%) Legal
5 4 (7.69%) Back Office
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 3 (5.77%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Front Office
8 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Architect
1 9 (17.31%) Data Manager
1 9 (17.31%) Data Protection Manager
2 7 (13.46%) Data Protection Officer
3 5 (9.62%) Analyst
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Information Officer
5 3 (5.77%) Information Security Officer
5 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Officer
5 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.85%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) IT Support
6 2 (3.85%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Kafka
1 3 (5.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) ADO
3 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.92%) Jest
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) OpenID
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) React Native
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (5.77%) Data Fabric
5 3 (5.77%) Freedom of Information Act
5 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.92%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.92%) Replication
7 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 16 (30.77%) Information Governance
3 15 (28.85%) Agile
4 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (23.08%) DevOps
5 12 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 10 (19.23%) Mentoring
6 10 (19.23%) Risk Management
7 9 (17.31%) AI
7 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
7 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.38%) Information Security
8 8 (15.38%) Presales
9 7 (13.46%) Analytics
9 7 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (13.46%) Generative AI
9 7 (13.46%) Migration
9 7 (13.46%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Python
2 8 (15.38%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) Go
5 2 (3.85%) Ruby
5 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (15.38%) CISSP
4 7 (13.46%) CISM
4 7 (13.46%) CRISC
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.77%) CISA
6 3 (5.77%) ISACA
6 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.85%) PhD
8 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.92%) CASP
8 1 (1.92%) CCSP
8 1 (1.92%) CEPT
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (40.38%) GDPR
2 9 (17.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (13.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (7.69%) SOC 2
5 3 (5.77%) COBIT
5 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
5 3 (5.77%) NIST
5 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.77%) SOC 1
6 2 (3.85%) QA
7 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.46%) Ansible
4 2 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Google
2 3 (5.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.85%) Okta
3 2 (3.85%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) Citrix
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) IFS
4 1 (1.92%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat