Data Protection Act Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 606 522
Rank change year-on-year +130 -84 -75
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 102 159 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.62% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 63 116 134
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,750 £38,400
25th Percentile £29,000 £33,563 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £44,672 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% -14.91% -
75th Percentile £63,125 £55,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £65,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £55,554
% change year-on-year +26.32% -14.50% +1.01%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,602 25,560 23,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.29% 31.78% 42.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,054 15,544 10,799
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North of England +55 43 £35,500 -29.00% 17
North West +38 37 £25,480 -31.14% 5
Midlands +72 26 £50,000 -13.04% 11
West Midlands +58 25 £50,000 -13.04% 5
South East +85 20 £61,134 +88.11% 11
Yorkshire +48 6 £80,000 +60.00% 7
Scotland +115 5 £54,000 +103.77% 2
East of England +45 4 £60,000 -14.29% 1
South West +90 3 £80,000 +77.78% 5
East Midlands +53 1 £28,500 -19.72% 6
Wales - 1 £55,000 -
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.92%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.98%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (15.69%) Azure
3 6 (5.88%) AWS
4 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.92%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Firewall
1 4 (3.92%) Intranet
2 3 (2.94%) Network Security
2 3 (2.94%) VLAN
2 3 (2.94%) VPN
3 2 (1.96%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Power BI
2 3 (2.94%) Tableau
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) DTS
4 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Git
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) GitLab
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (0.98%) Android Studio
General
1 55 (53.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.67%) Legal
3 14 (13.73%) Law
4 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Finance
6 6 (5.88%) Retail
7 5 (4.90%) Publishing
8 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Automotive
9 2 (1.96%) Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Games
9 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (17.65%) Administrator
2 16 (15.69%) IT Administrator
3 14 (13.73%) Analyst
3 14 (13.73%) Senior
4 10 (9.80%) Developer
4 10 (9.80%) Lead
5 7 (6.86%) Information Officer
5 7 (6.86%) Risk Officer
6 6 (5.88%) Consultant
6 6 (5.88%) Governance Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Information Governance Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Information Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Information Security Consultant
6 6 (5.88%) Security Consultant
7 5 (4.90%) Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Information Security Manager
7 5 (4.90%) Security Manager
7 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) Middleware
2 5 (4.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.92%) .NET
3 4 (3.92%) Node.js
4 3 (2.94%) React
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.98%) Express.js
6 1 (0.98%) Fastify
6 1 (0.98%) Kafka
6 1 (0.98%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.98%) Next.js
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.98%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.98%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.98%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Social Media
2 15 (14.71%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.84%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (7.84%) Freedom of Information
4 7 (6.86%) Freedom of Information Act
4 7 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.88%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.92%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Tandem
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) Android
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 32 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (29.41%) Information Security
4 22 (21.57%) Customer Service
5 21 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (18.63%) Agile
6 19 (18.63%) Incident Management
6 19 (18.63%) Line Management
6 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.69%) Asset Management
7 16 (15.69%) Process Improvement
8 15 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 15 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (13.73%) Risk Management
10 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.78%) ITIL
12 10 (9.80%) Incident Response
13 9 (8.82%) Coaching
13 9 (8.82%) OWASP
14 8 (7.84%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.73%) SQL
2 7 (6.86%) C#
2 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.90%) Java
3 5 (4.90%) Python
4 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.98%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) Bicep
6 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 15 (14.71%) CISM
2 15 (14.71%) CISSP
3 8 (7.84%) CISA
3 8 (7.84%) CRISC
4 7 (6.86%) Degree
5 5 (4.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (1.96%) CEH
6 2 (1.96%) GIAC
6 2 (1.96%) ISSAP
6 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.96%) SANS
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.98%) OCA
7 1 (0.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (30.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (28.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (20.59%) GDPR
4 16 (15.69%) SLA
5 14 (13.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (12.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (5.88%) PCI DSS
8 5 (4.90%) HIPAA
9 4 (3.92%) NIST
9 4 (3.92%) PERC
10 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
10 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.96%) COBIT
11 2 (1.96%) NCSC
11 2 (1.96%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.98%) PMO
12 1 (0.98%) QA
12 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.94%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Argo
3 1 (0.98%) Grafana
3 1 (0.98%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 38 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) Oracle
3 6 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (3.92%) Adobe
4 4 (3.92%) OneTrust
4 4 (3.92%) VMware
5 2 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (0.98%) Apple
6 1 (0.98%) Avaya
6 1 (0.98%) Citrix
6 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Symantec
6 1 (0.98%) Verint