Data Protection Act Job Trends in the South East

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 294 272
Rank change year-on-year +19 -22 +119
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 15 33 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.88% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 18
10th Percentile £30,138 - £32,927
25th Percentile £30,750 £24,500 £48,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £41,452 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% -24.70% +2.23%
75th Percentile £57,250 £57,063 £62,313
90th Percentile £140,000 £60,869 £69,500
England median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,564 3,769 2,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.84% 32.55% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 1,691 2,004
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,469 £41,741 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -0.09% -0.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection Act.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the South East over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in the South East

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Surrey +20 7 £31,500 -
Middlesex - 4 - - 1
Thames Valley -4 3 £56,500 +4.39%
Berkshire -7 2 £56,500 +4.39%
Hampshire +56 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire +17 1 £24,750 -
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Legal
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Games
6 1 (6.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Network Support
1 5 (33.33%) Support Assistant
2 2 (13.33%) Head of Digital
2 2 (13.33%) Head of E-Commerce
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Information Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Information Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Information Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CakePHP
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) Laravel
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (13.33%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (26.67%) Coaching
3 4 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (26.67%) Information Security
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) OWASP
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Cyber Assurance
4 3 (20.00%) Data Collection
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Records Management
5 2 (13.33%) Software Distribution
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 5 (33.33%) MCSA
1 5 (33.33%) MCSE
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CISM
2 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Aruba
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) HP
2 5 (33.33%) Sage
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce