Data Protection Jobs in Reading

Data Protection
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 96 122
Rank change year-on-year +42 +26 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 9 30 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.81% 1.68% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.92% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 1
10th Percentile £52,750 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £53,875 £45,125 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% -10.34% +1.75%
75th Percentile £75,500 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,450 £89,500 -
Berkshire median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Protection 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 1,562 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 85.89% 87.26% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 219 928 761
10th Percentile £31,100 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,748 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -12.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £80,000 £95,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £53,263 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.65% -11.23% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Reading.

Salary trend for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Reading over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Reading

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
General
1 6 (66.67%) Publishing
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Governance Manager
1 6 (66.67%) Information Governance Manager
1 6 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 6 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Freedom of Information
1 8 (88.89%) Management Information System
2 7 (77.78%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (66.67%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security Management
1 6 (66.67%) ISMS
1 6 (66.67%) Psychology
1 6 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Records Management
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CISA
1 6 (66.67%) CISM
1 6 (66.67%) CISSP
1 6 (66.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) HIPAA
1 7 (77.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (33.33%) GDPR
4 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus