Data Protection Act Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 208 291
Rank change year-on-year -36 +83 -47
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 17 21 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.38% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.90% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 18
10th Percentile - £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile - £30,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -17.02% +17.50%
75th Percentile £51,356 £57,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,150 £65,625 £66,775
England median annual salary £57,370 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +20.00% -13.04%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,712 2,324 4,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.58% 41.69% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,838 1,173 2,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,375 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,147 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -9.71% -7.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,055
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Protection Act.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in the Midlands

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
East Midlands -18 12 £45,000 +57.89% 3
West Midlands -33 5 £54,428 +8.86% 5
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Power Query
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.88%) JMeter
1 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
2 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Delphi Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
3 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) AI
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Data Management
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Delphi
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) PSD2
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft