Data Protection Act Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 156 197
Rank change year-on-year -11 +41 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 28 6 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.41% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 0.55% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 26 6 16
10th Percentile - £55,000 £32,438
25th Percentile - £58,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +60.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,872 £90,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £91,250 £71,216
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -13.04%

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,503 1,098 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.80% 31.84% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 999 552 1,095
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -2.99% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,834 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £75,909
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -15.38%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection Act in Yorkshire

Data Protection Act
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
West Yorkshire -27 10 £87,500 +9.38% 2
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Entra ID
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) Apigee
3 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) Maven
1 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (67.86%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Lead
2 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Information Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Information Security Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Security Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
1 2 (7.14%) Jest
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Drools
2 1 (3.57%) Flask
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.57%) OpenID
2 1 (3.57%) Vue
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cyber Security Posture
1 6 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 24 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (85.71%) Incident Response
2 24 (85.71%) Risk Register
2 24 (85.71%) SIEM
3 19 (67.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (67.86%) Decision-Making
3 19 (67.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (64.29%) BCP
4 18 (64.29%) Business Continuity
4 18 (64.29%) Business Continuity Planning
4 18 (64.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (64.29%) Information Governance
4 18 (64.29%) Risk Management
4 18 (64.29%) Security Architecture
5 6 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 6 (21.43%) Information Security
5 6 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Bash
1 2 (7.14%) Groovy
1 2 (7.14%) Java
1 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
1 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (85.71%) GDPR
1 24 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (85.71%) NIST
2 18 (64.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) HP Fortify
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft