Data Privacy Job Trends in the North of England

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 235 279
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 +97
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 80 28 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.46% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.43% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 73 18 32
10th Percentile - - £27,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £25,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £30,628 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.93% -38.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £56,750 £75,437
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £61,418 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.26% +7.69% +29.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Privacy 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,644 6,448 13,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.46% 94.46% 83.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,715 3,720 11,006
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,475 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Privacy
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in the North of England

Data Privacy
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Yorkshire -32 38 £41,250 +55.66% 12
North West -1 33 £60,000 - 22
North East - 9 £37,500 - 5
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (35.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Chatbot
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.75%) AWS
2 29 (36.25%) Cloud Computing
3 20 (25.00%) SaaS
4 18 (22.50%) Azure
5 16 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.50%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.50%) GCP
8 2 (2.50%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.50%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.25%) dbt
9 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.25%) IaaS
9 1 (1.25%) PaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
1 2 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Power BI
2 7 (8.75%) Tableau
3 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.50%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.50%) Looker
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) DB2
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 50 (62.50%) Finance
2 41 (51.25%) Retail
3 30 (37.50%) Manufacturing
4 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
5 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.50%) Legal
7 8 (10.00%) Marketing
8 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.50%) Banking
12 1 (1.25%) Advertising
12 1 (1.25%) Automotive
12 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (35.00%) Programmer
1 28 (35.00%) Trainee
1 28 (35.00%) Trainee Programmer
2 9 (11.25%) Analyst
3 7 (8.75%) Data Analyst
3 7 (8.75%) Product Manager
4 6 (7.50%) Data Scientist
4 6 (7.50%) Lead
5 5 (6.25%) 1st Line Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) HR Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Principal Data Scientist
5 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.00%) Hugging Face
1 28 (35.00%) Matplotlib
1 28 (35.00%) NumPy
1 28 (35.00%) Pandas
1 28 (35.00%) scikit-learn
1 28 (35.00%) Streamlit
2 5 (6.25%) EDI
3 4 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 4 (5.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.00%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.50%) Social Media
9 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (68.75%) AI
2 41 (51.25%) Visualisation
3 39 (48.75%) Machine Learning
4 33 (41.25%) Customer Service
4 33 (41.25%) LLM
5 29 (36.25%) Analytics
6 28 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 28 (35.00%) Conversational UI
6 28 (35.00%) Neural Network
6 28 (35.00%) OO
6 28 (35.00%) OOP
6 28 (35.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 28 (35.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 28 (35.00%) Sentiment Analysis
6 28 (35.00%) Workflow
7 22 (27.50%) Decision-Making
8 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.50%) Data Governance
9 14 (17.50%) Roadmaps
10 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.75%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (2.50%) Bicep
4 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) AWS Certification
1 28 (35.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 8 (10.00%) ACCA
2 8 (10.00%) CIMA
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) CISM
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) GDPR
2 11 (13.75%) Data Quality
3 9 (11.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.50%) GRC
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) NIST
4 2 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.25%) GxP
5 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Zoho
3 2 (2.50%) Google
3 2 (2.50%) IFS
3 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.25%) SAP