Data Privacy Job Trends

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 379 478
Rank change year-on-year +190 +99 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 787 445 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.54% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.80% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 219 134 163
10th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £41,886
25th Percentile £30,000 £56,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +1.79% +19.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £89,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £59,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.67% -15.00% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Privacy 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,153 55,778 50,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.67% 82.84% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,474 29,039 38,573
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +2.86% -

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Privacy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Privacy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the UK over the 6 months to 9 November 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
England +174 751 £60,000 -14.29% 640
UK excluding London +215 603 £41,250 -30.67% 444
Work from Home +172 570 £45,000 -30.77% 286
Midlands +154 218 £30,000 -50.00% 45
South East +134 200 £67,500 +22.73% 286
London +43 158 £73,750 -7.81% 337
North of England +57 155 £57,500 - 41
East Midlands +119 149 £30,000 -47.83% 17
Yorkshire +68 82 £70,000 +27.27% 21
West Midlands +70 69 £76,250 +22.00% 26
North West +3 62 £56,500 -22.07% 17
Scotland +19 17 £48,750 -39.06% 15
North East +16 11 £70,000 - 3
South West +30 7 - - 25
East of England +22 6 £36,250 -51.01% 25

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.40%) IIS
3 9 (1.14%) CMS
4 6 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.76%) WordPress
5 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.25%) Confluence
6 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.38%) InDesign
4 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (1.27%) Shopify
3 8 (1.02%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.64%) Magento
5 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 135 (17.15%) SaaS
2 129 (16.39%) Azure
3 88 (11.18%) AWS
4 77 (9.78%) GCP
5 35 (4.45%) Power Platform
6 28 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.30%) GitHub
8 19 (2.41%) Azure AI
9 17 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.03%) Vertex AI
11 14 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (1.52%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.02%) Boomi
15 7 (0.89%) Google Ads
16 6 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
17 5 (0.64%) BigCommerce
17 5 (0.64%) Collibra
18 4 (0.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.96%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (1.65%) VPN
3 7 (0.89%) Firewall
4 5 (0.64%) Internet
5 3 (0.38%) VoIP
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.25%) ATM
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) DMARC
6 2 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) SSL
6 2 (0.25%) VLAN
6 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.70%) Metadata
3 32 (4.07%) Power BI
4 28 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.27%) Data Hub
7 10 (1.27%) SQL CLR
8 9 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.14%) MySQL
8 9 (1.14%) Tableau
9 4 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.38%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (1.91%) JIRA
2 5 (0.64%) ERwin
3 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.25%) Git
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.25%) JMeter
4 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.25%) MLflow
4 2 (0.25%) Postman
4 2 (0.25%) Selenium
4 2 (0.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 421 (53.49%) Retail
2 349 (44.35%) Manufacturing
3 170 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (20.58%) Social Skills
5 149 (18.93%) Finance
6 98 (12.45%) Dutch Language
6 98 (12.45%) Finnish Language
7 83 (10.55%) Legal
8 80 (10.17%) Law
9 61 (7.75%) Marketing
10 49 (6.23%) Catalan Language
11 48 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (3.56%) Banking
13 27 (3.43%) Back Office
14 24 (3.05%) Financial Institution
14 24 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (2.92%) Retail Banking
16 19 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (2.03%) Public Sector
18 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 344 (43.71%) Trainer
2 58 (7.37%) Senior
3 53 (6.73%) Lead
4 47 (5.97%) Architect
5 44 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support
6 38 (4.83%) Developer
7 35 (4.45%) Analyst
8 33 (4.19%) Data Architect
9 27 (3.43%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 26 (3.30%) Senior Manager
11 25 (3.18%) SaaS Developer
12 17 (2.16%) Product Manager
13 15 (1.91%) Product Delivery Manager
14 13 (1.65%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
14 13 (1.65%) Consultant
14 13 (1.65%) ERP Analyst
14 13 (1.65%) ERP Support
14 13 (1.65%) SaaS Analyst
14 13 (1.65%) Support Analyst
14 13 (1.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.75%) HTML
2 19 (2.41%) TensorFlow
3 18 (2.29%) PyTorch
4 16 (2.03%) XML
5 15 (1.91%) LangChain
5 15 (1.91%) REST
6 13 (1.65%) Hugging Face
6 13 (1.65%) RESTful
6 13 (1.65%) SOAP
7 9 (1.14%) CSS
7 9 (1.14%) Web Services
8 8 (1.02%) .NET
8 8 (1.02%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.02%) .NET Framework
8 8 (1.02%) Entity Framework
8 8 (1.02%) SAML
9 7 (0.89%) Dapper ORM
10 5 (0.64%) Middleware
10 5 (0.64%) Next.js
10 5 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 343 (43.58%) Robotics
2 52 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.41%) AI Agents
5 19 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.16%) Mobile App
7 15 (1.91%) NHS
8 14 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.14%) Social Media
11 8 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.89%) FMCG
12 7 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.76%) EPoS
14 5 (0.64%) Blog
14 5 (0.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.30%) Windows
2 13 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.38%) Android
4 2 (0.25%) Linux
4 2 (0.25%) Unix
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (62.39%) AI
2 457 (58.07%) Machine Learning
3 448 (56.93%) Problem-Solving
4 380 (48.28%) LLM
5 376 (47.78%) Generative AI
6 343 (43.58%) Red Team
7 114 (14.49%) Agile
8 112 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (12.07%) Roadmaps
10 91 (11.56%) Computer Science
11 90 (11.44%) Mentoring
12 80 (10.17%) Analytics
13 69 (8.77%) CRM
14 67 (8.51%) Data Management
14 67 (8.51%) ERP
15 62 (7.88%) Customer Service
15 62 (7.88%) E-Commerce
16 56 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
17 54 (6.86%) Data Governance
17 54 (6.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 129 (16.39%) SQL
2 120 (15.25%) C#
3 95 (12.07%) Python
4 72 (9.15%) Java
5 71 (9.02%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.75%) C
7 53 (6.73%) R
8 49 (6.23%) C++
8 49 (6.23%) Dart
8 49 (6.23%) MATLAB
8 49 (6.23%) PHP
8 49 (6.23%) Ruby
8 49 (6.23%) Rust
8 49 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.25%) Delphi
11 2 (0.25%) VBA
12 1 (0.13%) Bicep
12 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 462 (58.70%) Degree
2 86 (10.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.19%) Azure Certification
4 32 (4.07%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.52%) CISSP
7 11 (1.40%) CISM
8 10 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.14%) CISA
9 9 (1.14%) PMP
10 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.02%) CRISC
11 5 (0.64%) CAPM
11 5 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.64%) Security Cleared
12 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.38%) HNC
13 3 (0.38%) MCP
13 3 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.28%) GDPR
2 42 (5.34%) QA
3 36 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (4.45%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 20 (2.54%) NIST
7 15 (1.91%) ISO 9001
8 11 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.27%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.89%) PMO
12 5 (0.64%) GLBA
13 4 (0.51%) GRC
13 4 (0.51%) PSD2
14 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.38%) SLA
15 2 (0.25%) DICOM
15 2 (0.25%) GxP
15 2 (0.25%) HL7
15 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.30%) Docker
2 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.65%) Grafana
2 13 (1.65%) Prometheus
3 12 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.64%) Automic
5 5 (0.64%) SCCM
6 3 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.38%) Terraform
7 2 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 388 (49.30%) Google
2 350 (44.47%) Databricks
3 348 (44.22%) Adobe
4 111 (14.10%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.41%) Foundry
6 17 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.78%) Oracle
9 13 (1.65%) SAP
9 13 (1.65%) VMware
9 13 (1.65%) Workday
10 9 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.76%) Cisco
12 5 (0.64%) Broadcom
12 5 (0.64%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.64%) iManage
13 4 (0.51%) Informatica
13 4 (0.51%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.38%) Siemens
14 3 (0.38%) Sophos