Data Protection Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Protection
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 59 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 3 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.31% 1.12% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.24% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £62,050 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £31,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £37,338 £40,191
Median % change year-on-year +72.75% -7.10% -0.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 - £51,563
90th Percentile £66,150 - £56,625
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +22.55% -2.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 482 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.46% 90.26% 85.65%
Number of salaries quoted 337 304 331
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,822 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 3 £64,500 -
Data Protection
West Midlands

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) IFS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft