Data Protection Act Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in Newport

Data Protection Act (DPA)
South Wales > Newport

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in Newport. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Feb 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	20
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act	0	0	1
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport	-	-	1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	-	-	5.56%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	1
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£43,067
South Wales median annual salary	-	£55,000	£43,067
% change year-on-year	-	+27.71%	+0.30%

All Generic Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	49	20	18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport	26.34%	38.46%	18.37%
Number of salaries quoted	22	11	17
10^th Percentile	£38,750	£32,500	£34,600
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£36,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,750	£48,000	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+11.98%	-4.00%	+6.38%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£62,875	£52,500
90^th Percentile	£95,500	£70,600	£57,762
South Wales median annual salary	£52,500	£47,307	£47,052
% change year-on-year	+10.98%	+0.54%	+4.56%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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