Data Protection Act Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 101 128
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 4 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 1.51% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile - £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile - £53,750 £43,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,520 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £39,265 £65,000 £134,356
90th Percentile £62,206 £66,500 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £26,520 £50,000 £60,624
% change year-on-year -46.96% -17.52% +6.36%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 579 464 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 31.95% 31.65% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 303 197 568
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £34,450
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £63,624
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.41% +6.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £82,512
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,689 £95,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year - -9.81% +0.80%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Protection Act.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in West Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Huddersfield - 3 £26,520 -
Leeds -19 1 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Data Protection Act
Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Django
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform