Data Protection Jobs in Scotland

Data Protection
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 149 238 181
Rank change year-on-year +89 -57 -45
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 15 50 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.73% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.80% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7 27 17
10th Percentile £51,150 £30,250 £37,615
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,441 £45,000 £48,628
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -7.46% +8.06%
75th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £76,086
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Scotland

Data Protection
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +11 9 £54,441 +20.98% 31
Glasgow +135 4 £56,250 +19.68% 28
Renfrewshire - 1 £90,000 - 8
Aberdeen - 1 £52,500 - 19
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) CMS
1 3 (20.00%) Drupal
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Collibra
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Firebase
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) ERwin
2 2 (13.33%) Gradle
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Advertising
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Head of IT
4 1 (6.67%) IT Director
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Web Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Web Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Web Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) React
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) React Native
3 1 (6.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (20.00%) Blog
2 3 (20.00%) Social Media
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) User Experience
4 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Development
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Content Development
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Information Security
4 3 (20.00%) Multichannel Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) OpenUP
4 3 (20.00%) Pay per click
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (6.67%) Swift
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) PMO
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec