Data Protection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 262 266
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,356 1,475 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.41% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.47% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 829 1,521
10th Percentile £31,210 £36,100 £32,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,398 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +0.72% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £71,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the UK

Data Protection
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +53 1,217 £50,000 -9.36% 334
UK excluding London +30 893 £48,750 -7.14% 227
Work from Home -13 431 £54,500 -0.91% 139
London +46 396 £60,000 -4.00% 116
North of England +35 249 £46,066 -8.30% 53
South East +23 212 £45,802 -16.72% 65
Midlands +61 211 £50,000 -9.09% 35
West Midlands +57 138 £50,000 -4.76% 23
North West -13 127 £41,867 -16.66% 34
South West +45 103 £48,750 -8.02% 31
Yorkshire +95 94 £51,250 +1.21% 16
East Midlands +19 68 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Scotland -63 47 £50,000 +11.11% 19
East of England -2 40 £49,000 +10.42% 23
North East +10 28 £42,000 -11.91% 4
Wales +24 23 £37,000 -28.26% 3
Northern Ireland +32 7 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 122 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.55%) IIS
4 11 (0.81%) Confluence
4 11 (0.81%) WordPress
5 8 (0.59%) nginx
6 7 (0.52%) CMS
7 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 5 (0.37%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.29%) Site Server
10 2 (0.15%) Kentico
10 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.074%) Moodle
11 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.074%) Totara
Applications
1 130 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 34 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.074%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.074%) Primavera
6 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (17.33%) Azure
2 150 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
2 150 (11.06%) Power Platform
3 121 (8.92%) AWS
4 38 (2.80%) Entra ID
5 36 (2.65%) GCP
6 35 (2.58%) SaaS
7 28 (2.06%) Power Automate
7 28 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 21 (1.55%) Google Workspace
9 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (1.25%) IaaS
10 17 (1.25%) Serverless
11 16 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.11%) PaaS
13 14 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (6.71%) Firewall
2 45 (3.32%) DNS
3 38 (2.80%) Network Security
4 36 (2.65%) LAN
5 35 (2.58%) Internet
6 34 (2.51%) Wireless
7 29 (2.14%) WAN
8 25 (1.84%) DHCP
8 25 (1.84%) Intranet
9 24 (1.77%) VPN
10 23 (1.70%) SAN
11 16 (1.18%) Cisco IPT
11 16 (1.18%) NAS
11 16 (1.18%) TCP/IP
12 15 (1.11%) Broadband
12 15 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (1.03%) SNMP
14 12 (0.88%) VoIP
14 12 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (10.10%) Power BI
2 80 (5.90%) SQL Server
3 58 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.70%) Metadata
8 22 (1.62%) MySQL
9 18 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.18%) Tableau
12 15 (1.11%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.03%) Power Query
14 11 (0.81%) Big Data
14 11 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.52%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
17 6 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 82 (6.05%) JIRA
2 25 (1.84%) Git
3 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.59%) Selenium
5 6 (0.44%) Mercurial
6 4 (0.29%) GitLab
6 4 (0.29%) Moq
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.15%) Hudson
8 2 (0.15%) NUnit
8 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.074%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.074%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.074%) Postman
9 1 (0.074%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.074%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.074%) Storybook
9 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 456 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 366 (26.99%) Finance
3 274 (20.21%) Legal
4 191 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (10.32%) Banking
6 89 (6.56%) Law
7 88 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
9 78 (5.75%) Retail
10 70 (5.16%) Marketing
11 51 (3.76%) Public Sector
12 48 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (2.51%) Local Government
15 32 (2.36%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.11%) Games
19 13 (0.96%) Police
20 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 201 (14.82%) Senior
2 145 (10.69%) Analyst
3 134 (9.88%) Developer
4 102 (7.52%) Lead
5 88 (6.49%) Data Manager
6 72 (5.31%) Senior Analyst
7 68 (5.01%) IT Manager
8 50 (3.69%) Consultant
9 47 (3.47%) Architect
10 46 (3.39%) Security Manager
11 45 (3.32%) Data Protection Manager
12 35 (2.58%) Security Analyst
13 34 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (2.36%) Information Manager
16 31 (2.29%) Administrator
16 31 (2.29%) Senior Manager
17 30 (2.21%) Governance Manager
18 29 (2.14%) Data Protection Officer
19 27 (1.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (4.06%) .NET
2 33 (2.43%) RESTful
3 22 (1.62%) Node.js
3 22 (1.62%) Web Services
4 18 (1.33%) HTML
5 17 (1.25%) CSS
5 17 (1.25%) React
6 14 (1.03%) EDI
6 14 (1.03%) gRPC
7 13 (0.96%) ASP.NET
8 10 (0.74%) Vue
9 8 (0.59%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.59%) REST
9 8 (0.59%) Spring
9 8 (0.59%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.59%) XML
10 7 (0.52%) Hibernate
10 7 (0.52%) JPA
10 7 (0.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 239 (17.63%) Data Protection Act
2 211 (15.56%) Management Information System
3 64 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 50 (3.69%) Freedom of Information
6 36 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 32 (2.36%) NHS
7 32 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 28 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 26 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.40%) CCTV
11 19 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 18 (1.33%) Replication
13 17 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.18%) IoT
15 15 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 14 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.66%) Windows
2 53 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.65%) Linux
4 26 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 19 (1.40%) Android
8 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.59%) Unix
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Vista
12 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (21.83%) Information Security
2 288 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
3 271 (19.99%) Cybersecurity
4 228 (16.81%) Data Management
5 202 (14.90%) Risk Management
6 200 (14.75%) Data Governance
7 189 (13.94%) Data Privacy
8 169 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
9 144 (10.62%) Process Improvement
10 143 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (10.32%) Agile
11 140 (10.32%) DevOps
12 133 (9.81%) Impact Assessments
13 126 (9.29%) Matrix Organization
14 124 (9.14%) Disaster Recovery
15 120 (8.85%) Matrix Management
16 117 (8.63%) Coaching
17 115 (8.48%) Project Management
18 103 (7.60%) Customer Service
18 103 (7.60%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 130 (9.59%) SQL
2 78 (5.75%) PowerShell
3 72 (5.31%) Python
4 42 (3.10%) C#
5 41 (3.02%) T-SQL
6 32 (2.36%) Bash
7 29 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 28 (2.06%) Java
9 21 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.96%) Bicep
11 13 (0.96%) Swift
12 10 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.66%) Scala
14 8 (0.59%) R
15 6 (0.44%) C++
16 5 (0.37%) JSX
16 5 (0.37%) PHP
17 3 (0.22%) Go
17 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 274 (20.21%) Degree
2 104 (7.67%) CISSP
3 79 (5.83%) CISM
4 74 (5.46%) Security Cleared
5 65 (4.79%) Master's Degree
6 62 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.61%) SC Cleared
8 42 (3.10%) CISA
9 29 (2.14%) CRISC
10 27 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.11%) GIAC
15 13 (0.96%) ISEB
16 11 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (0.81%) SANS
17 10 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (29.20%) GDPR
2 170 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 114 (8.41%) Data Quality
4 70 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (4.13%) NIST
6 54 (3.98%) GRC
7 51 (3.76%) PCI DSS
8 47 (3.47%) QA
9 23 (1.70%) NCSC
10 21 (1.55%) SOC 2
11 18 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (0.96%) SLA
13 11 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 11 (0.81%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.81%) ISO 14000
14 8 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.52%) COBIT
15 7 (0.52%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 83 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 62 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.17%) Docker
4 40 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.52%) SRDF
5 7 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.44%) XenApp
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.074%) Ceph
8 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.51%) Terraform
3 24 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.96%) CASB
6 9 (0.66%) Ansible
7 6 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.44%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.44%) WSUS
8 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 3 (0.22%) Suricata
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.074%) Istio
10 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 341 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.79%) VMware
3 50 (3.69%) Google
4 35 (2.58%) SAP
5 30 (2.21%) Cisco
6 26 (1.92%) Oracle
7 24 (1.77%) Apple
8 17 (1.25%) Aruba
8 17 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.18%) Meraki
10 13 (0.96%) HP
11 12 (0.88%) Dell
11 12 (0.88%) Veeam
12 11 (0.81%) Adobe
12 11 (0.81%) Citrix
12 11 (0.81%) Databricks
13 9 (0.66%) IBM
13 9 (0.66%) Sage
14 8 (0.59%) EMC
15 7 (0.52%) Minitab