Data Protection Act Job Trends in the North of England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 214 336
Rank change year-on-year -68 +122 -54
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 43 51 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.69% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.62% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 32 36 26
10th Percentile - - £27,750
25th Percentile - £25,480 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £36,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.00% -28.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £67,466
England median annual salary £57,239 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% +20.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,924 3,141 5,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.71% 42.31% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,453 1,415 3,934
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,413 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,716 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,525 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,727 £87,500 £82,500
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 the North of England

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in the North of England

Data Protection Act
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 Protection Act within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire -29 31 £57,239 -4.60% 3
North West -51 10 £75,000 +175.33% 2
North East - 2 - - 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
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 1 (2.33%) JBoss
1 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Entra ID
1 21 (48.84%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (6.98%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
2 3 (6.98%) Serverless
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.65%) Apigee
3 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.65%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.33%) Figma
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
1 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
1 2 (4.65%) GitLab
1 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.65%) Maven
1 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.33%) JMeter
2 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.33%) Selenium
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (53.49%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Lead
2 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 6 (13.95%) Information Manager
2 6 (13.95%) Information Security Manager
2 6 (13.95%) Security Manager
3 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) Consultant
6 1 (2.33%) CRM Consultant
6 1 (2.33%) Designer
6 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.33%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) User Experience Researcher
6 1 (2.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
1 2 (4.65%) Jest
1 2 (4.65%) React Native
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) Drools
2 1 (2.33%) Flask
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) Node.js
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.33%) OpenID
2 1 (2.33%) Vue
2 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cyber Security Posture
1 6 (13.95%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Pharmacovigilance
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
1 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 27 (62.79%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (62.79%) Incident Response
2 27 (62.79%) Risk Register
2 27 (62.79%) SIEM
3 24 (55.81%) Risk Management
4 22 (51.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (51.16%) Decision-Making
4 22 (51.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (48.84%) BCP
5 21 (48.84%) Business Continuity
5 21 (48.84%) Business Continuity Planning
5 21 (48.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (48.84%) Information Governance
5 21 (48.84%) Security Architecture
6 8 (18.60%) Incident Management
7 6 (13.95%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (13.95%) Information Security
7 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.95%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) Java
1 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
1 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
2 2 (4.65%) Bash
2 2 (4.65%) Groovy
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (76.74%) GDPR
2 32 (74.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (62.79%) NIST
4 21 (48.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (6.98%) GRC
5 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) HP Fortify
1 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Meraki
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe
3 1 (2.33%) Braze