Data Protection Jobs in the South West

Data Protection
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 183 216
Rank change year-on-year +19 +33 -65
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 17 104 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 1.06% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.31% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12 86 34
10th Percentile £37,425 £33,301 £33,900
25th Percentile £43,193 £37,500 £46,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% -16.27%
75th Percentile £84,375 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,277 7,953 6,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.10% 81.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,844 5,709 3,498
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the South West

Data Protection
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol +22 7 £80,000 +64.10% 25
Devon +22 6 £62,500 +140.38% 38
Gloucestershire +67 1 £28,500 -29.60% 41
Wiltshire +27 1 £44,590 -24.10% 25
Somerset -2 1 £40,000 -33.33% 24
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Collibra
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Officer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Officer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) CCTV
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.88%) FMCG
3 1 (5.88%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) API Integration
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
2 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
2 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
3 3 (17.65%) Information Security
3 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (11.76%) Key Management
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CEH
3 2 (11.76%) CISM
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) GIAC
3 2 (11.76%) ISSAP
3 2 (11.76%) SANS
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) MBA
4 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) GDPR
2 4 (23.53%) GRC
2 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 3 (17.65%) SOC 2
4 2 (11.76%) COBIT
4 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Informatica
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) Verint
1 1 (5.88%) VMware