Data Protection Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Protection
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 133 122
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 61 31 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.82% 0.88% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.00% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 46 19 29
10th Percentile £31,500 £45,304 £44,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £54,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £75,938 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,250 £70,487
England median annual salary £58,000 £54,744 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.95% -0.47% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,931 3,114 4,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.63% 88.52% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 1,526 2,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,875 £29,638
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,531 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -7.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Protection
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in Yorkshire

Data Protection
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 -14 40 £60,850 +1.42% 23
South Yorkshire -24 11 £40,000 -52.94% 8
East Yorkshire - 3 £44,000 - 4
North Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
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 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) SystmOne
2 3 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) AWS
1 16 (26.23%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.11%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (9.84%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (9.84%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.84%) SaaS
7 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.92%) Serverless
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.28%) Apigee
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.28%) GCP
9 2 (3.28%) Mimecast
9 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
1 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) MariaDB
1 10 (16.39%) MySQL
2 8 (13.11%) Power BI
3 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.92%) Metadata
3 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.28%) Git
1 2 (3.28%) GitLab
1 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.28%) Maven
1 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.64%) Selenium
2 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (16.39%) Finance
1 10 (16.39%) Legal
2 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.84%) Marketing
4 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.56%) Retail
5 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Lead
2 12 (19.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.03%) Software Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Senior Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Senior Software Developer
5 9 (14.75%) IT Manager
6 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 7 (11.48%) Security Manager
7 6 (9.84%) Information Manager
7 6 (9.84%) Information Security Manager
8 5 (8.20%) IT Operations Manager
8 5 (8.20%) Operations Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.92%) IT Support
9 3 (4.92%) Lead Data Scientist
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (4.92%) Support Officer
10 2 (3.28%) Lead Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
1 2 (3.28%) Gherkin
1 2 (3.28%) Jest
1 2 (3.28%) PySpark
1 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
1 2 (3.28%) XML
2 1 (1.64%) CSS
2 1 (1.64%) Drools
2 1 (1.64%) Flask
2 1 (1.64%) HTML
2 1 (1.64%) Node.js
2 1 (1.64%) OAuth
2 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.64%) OpenID
2 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (13.11%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.84%) Cyber Security Posture
4 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.92%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) NHS
6 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.28%) Social Media
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.64%) PKI
7 1 (1.64%) PMI
7 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (22.95%) AI
3 11 (18.03%) Clean Code
3 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (18.03%) Secure Coding
3 11 (18.03%) Service Delivery
4 10 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (16.39%) Decision-Making
5 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
5 9 (14.75%) Information Security
6 8 (13.11%) Analytics
6 8 (13.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (13.11%) Incident Management
6 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.48%) Risk Management
7 7 (11.48%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) JavaScript
2 10 (16.39%) PHP
3 7 (11.48%) SQL
4 6 (9.84%) Python
5 2 (3.28%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) Groovy
5 2 (3.28%) Java
5 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.64%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) CRISC
5 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) GDPR
2 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.48%) NIST
4 6 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (4.92%) QA
6 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.64%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) HP Fortify
3 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Cisco
2 2 (3.28%) Google
2 2 (3.28%) VMware