Data Protection Jobs in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 109 182
Rank change year-on-year +20 +73 -38
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 23 50 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.68% 1.63% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.94% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 21
10th Percentile £51,200 £42,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,398
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.23% +23.11%
75th Percentile £90,625 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,584 £70,446 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £52,137
% change year-on-year +17.07% -1.70% +4.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,299 2,575 4,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 95.03% 83.96% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 674 1,857 2,253
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,262
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,978 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +7.66%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in West Yorkshire

Data Protection
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Leeds +33 22 £61,250 +16.67% 29
Data Protection
Yorkshire

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (17.39%) CMS
1 4 (17.39%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe Premiere
1 4 (17.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Endeca
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (30.43%) Law
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
1 6 (26.09%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (26.09%) Security Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Management Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Lead Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Information
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Information Management
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Technology
4 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) CSS
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) JWT
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (26.09%) Cyberattack
1 6 (26.09%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (17.39%) Credit Risk
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Market Risk
2 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Analytics
2 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (30.43%) Incident Response
4 6 (26.09%) Business Continuity
4 6 (26.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (26.09%) Data Management
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Management
4 6 (26.09%) Information Security
4 6 (26.09%) Risk Register
4 6 (26.09%) Security Auditing
4 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
4 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
4 6 (26.09%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PHP
2 4 (17.39%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) R
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) GDPR
2 6 (26.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
4 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (17.39%) Basel II
4 4 (17.39%) Basel III
4 4 (17.39%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (17.39%) IFRS
4 4 (17.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.35%) pfSense
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) Commvault
3 1 (4.35%) CyberSource
3 1 (4.35%) OneTrust
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Sage
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam
3 1 (4.35%) VMware