Data Protection Job Trends in Swansea

Data Protection
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.72% - 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% - 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £66,500 - -
25th Percentile £68,750 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £32,500
75th Percentile £76,250 - £33,750
90th Percentile £78,500 - -
West Wales median annual salary £72,500 - £32,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 41 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.46% 82.00% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 26 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,355 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £68,494 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,160 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Swansea

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Swansea over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Swansea

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) CSPO
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform