Data Protection Jobs in the South East

Data Protection
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 214 267
Rank change year-on-year +10 +53 -58
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 211 227 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.27% 1.50% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.59% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 169 134 153
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,802 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £90,000 £84,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,365 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +0.66% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,122 14,301 18,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.88% 94.48% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,946 8,298 12,047
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +17 76 £42,750 -14.50% 26
Hampshire +17 46 £40,000 -54.29% 6
Berkshire +18 40 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Kent +2 29 £65,000 +30.00% 4
West Sussex +44 26 £42,500 -19.05% 3
Surrey +5 25 £45,802 -28.15% 11
Buckinghamshire +3 25 £42,500 -12.82% 5
Oxfordshire -1 11 £26,000 -45.26% 6
East Sussex -19 5 £46,000 -16.36% 9
Sussex - 4 £51,250 -
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (6.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) nginx
3 3 (1.42%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Moodle
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.47%) Totara
Applications
1 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (3.79%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (25.12%) Azure
2 45 (21.33%) AWS
3 23 (10.90%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.58%) Serverless
5 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
5 14 (6.64%) GCP
6 13 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (5.69%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.27%) CloudFront
8 9 (4.27%) Route 53
9 8 (3.79%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.79%) IaaS
9 8 (3.79%) PaaS
10 7 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.74%) Firewall
2 18 (8.53%) Internet
3 16 (7.58%) DNS
4 13 (6.16%) Intranet
5 11 (5.21%) DHCP
6 10 (4.74%) SNMP
7 9 (4.27%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.79%) Network Security
9 7 (3.32%) HTTP
9 7 (3.32%) VPN
10 6 (2.84%) Wireless
11 4 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.90%) LAN
11 4 (1.90%) MQTT
11 4 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.90%) WAN
12 3 (1.42%) Broadband
12 3 (1.42%) VoIP
13 1 (0.47%) Skype
13 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.00%) Power BI
1 19 (9.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (6.64%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.16%) MySQL
5 12 (5.69%) Power Query
6 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.27%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.32%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.90%) Metadata
12 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Git
1 2 (0.95%) Hudson
1 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.75%) Legal
3 41 (19.43%) Finance
3 41 (19.43%) Law
4 22 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (8.53%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.21%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.74%) Marketing
8 8 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.37%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 3 (1.42%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.95%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.95%) Local Government
12 2 (0.95%) Publishing
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (13.74%) Developer
2 19 (9.00%) Senior
3 17 (8.06%) Data Protection Officer
4 16 (7.58%) Lead
5 15 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.64%) Architect
7 12 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 12 (5.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 12 (5.69%) Power BI Developer
8 11 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (5.21%) IT Manager
8 11 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) Senior Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.16%) Web Services
2 11 (5.21%) .NET
2 11 (5.21%) gRPC
2 11 (5.21%) RESTful
3 6 (2.84%) Node.js
4 5 (2.37%) HTML
5 4 (1.90%) CSS
5 4 (1.90%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.90%) Knex.js
5 4 (1.90%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (1.90%) React
5 4 (1.90%) React Native
5 4 (1.90%) Sequelize
6 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.95%) PySpark
7 1 (0.47%) Blazor
7 1 (0.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.17%) Management Information System
2 30 (14.22%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (9.48%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.79%) IoT
7 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.84%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Social Media
11 3 (1.42%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.42%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.74%) Windows
2 10 (4.74%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.27%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.37%) Linux
5 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.42%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (17.06%) DevOps
2 36 (17.06%) Information Security
3 29 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (12.80%) Computer Science
5 26 (12.32%) Data Security
6 23 (10.90%) Decision-Making
6 23 (10.90%) Risk Management
7 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (10.43%) Project Delivery
8 21 (9.95%) Data Privacy
8 21 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (9.48%) Agile
10 19 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (9.00%) Data Management
11 18 (8.53%) CI/CD
11 18 (8.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (8.06%) Containerisation
12 17 (8.06%) Line Management
13 16 (7.58%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.11%) SQL
2 22 (10.43%) Python
3 12 (5.69%) T-SQL
4 11 (5.21%) C#
5 9 (4.27%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.37%) R
7 4 (1.90%) JSX
7 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.95%) Bash
8 2 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 52 (24.64%) Degree
2 24 (11.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.53%) AWS Certification
3 18 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.27%) CISSP
6 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.84%) ISEB
8 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.37%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.42%) CCNA
9 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.42%) CISM
9 3 (1.42%) GIAC
9 3 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.22%) GDPR
2 29 (13.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.74%) PCI DSS
4 9 (4.27%) HIPAA
5 7 (3.32%) NIST
6 6 (2.84%) ISO 9001
7 5 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.90%) ISO 14001
8 4 (1.90%) PMO
9 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.95%) GRC
10 2 (0.95%) NCSC
10 2 (0.95%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (8.06%) Docker
2 12 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.69%) Hyper-V
2 12 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.37%) XenApp
4 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.21%) Terraform
3 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.42%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.42%) Suricata
Vendors
1 55 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.69%) VMware
3 11 (5.21%) Google
4 8 (3.79%) Cisco
5 6 (2.84%) Nuix
5 6 (2.84%) Sage
5 6 (2.84%) SAP
6 5 (2.37%) Citrix
7 4 (1.90%) Aruba
7 4 (1.90%) HP
7 4 (1.90%) Informatica
7 4 (1.90%) Splunk
7 4 (1.90%) Talend
8 3 (1.42%) Acronis
8 3 (1.42%) Apple
8 3 (1.42%) Juniper
8 3 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.42%) Veeam
9 2 (0.95%) BMC
9 2 (0.95%) Facebook