Data Privacy Jobs

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Privacy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Privacy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 590 363
Rank change year-on-year +153 -227 +116
Permanent jobs citing Data Privacy 587 391 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.41% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.43% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 322 314 1,112
10th Percentile £32,250 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.32% +8.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,188 £82,970
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £48,687 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -7.26% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Privacy 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Privacy in the UK

Data Privacy
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +152 523 £65,000 +33.51% 211
UK excluding London +126 377 £61,500 +26.32% 122
Work from Home +12 215 £61,500 +26.32% 105
London +115 194 £77,500 +47.62% 101
North of England +104 118 £50,000 +11.11% 25
South East +8 79 £61,500 +26.32% 34
Midlands +30 69 £58,250 -13.70% 27
North West +31 61 £60,000 +33.33% 13
West Midlands +12 51 £57,500 -17.86% 17
South West 0 47 £61,500 +22.42% 11
Scotland -27 43 £75,000 +36.36% 16
Yorkshire +88 42 £37,500 - 11
East Midlands -1 18 £110,000 +69.23% 10
North East +1 15 - - 1
East of England +1 13 £75,000 +163.16% 8
Wales +13 5 £27,500 -45.00% 2
Northern Ireland +17 4 £37,500 -48.28%

Data Privacy
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 76 (12.95%) SharePoint
2 46 (7.84%) CMS
3 41 (6.98%) Kentico
4 38 (6.47%) Umbraco
5 36 (6.13%) Headless CMS
5 36 (6.13%) IIS
5 36 (6.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.02%) Confluence
6 6 (1.02%) SAS
7 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.68%) WordPress
8 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.34%) Drupal
9 2 (0.34%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 79 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.90%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.53%) SAP HR
3 9 (1.53%) SAP SCM
4 5 (0.85%) SAP BPC
4 5 (0.85%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.85%) SAP EWM
4 5 (0.85%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.34%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (21.29%) Azure
2 115 (19.59%) Power Platform
3 64 (10.90%) AWS
4 42 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (6.98%) Kontent
6 29 (4.94%) SaaS
7 28 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.60%) GCP
9 18 (3.07%) Serverless
10 16 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (2.56%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.39%) IaaS
12 14 (2.39%) PaaS
13 12 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (1.53%) Boomi
15 8 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (1.36%) Matillion
16 7 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.67%) Firewall
2 20 (3.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 19 (3.24%) Internet
4 17 (2.90%) Wireless
5 7 (1.19%) HTTP
6 6 (1.02%) Network Security
6 6 (1.02%) WAN
7 5 (0.85%) LAN
8 4 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.51%) VoIP
9 3 (0.51%) VPN
9 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.34%) Intranet
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
10 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.17%) DNS
11 1 (0.17%) RFID
11 1 (0.17%) SAN
11 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (18.74%) Power BI
2 41 (6.98%) Data Lake
2 41 (6.98%) Metadata
3 35 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.43%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (2.90%) DB2
8 16 (2.73%) Big Data
9 13 (2.21%) Tableau
10 11 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.87%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.70%) MySQL
12 8 (1.36%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.85%) CockroachDB
13 5 (0.85%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.68%) Metabase
15 3 (0.51%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 73 (12.44%) JIRA
2 9 (1.53%) Git
2 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.85%) Jaeger
3 5 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.51%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.34%) GitLab
6 2 (0.34%) MLflow
7 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 265 (45.14%) Finance
1 265 (45.14%) Social Skills
2 204 (34.75%) Legal
3 162 (27.60%) Banking
4 106 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.16%) Law
6 40 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (5.79%) Marketing
7 34 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (5.79%) Retail
8 29 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 24 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 23 (3.92%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 22 (3.75%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.90%) Retail Banking
14 16 (2.73%) Advertising
14 16 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 212 (36.12%) Senior
2 114 (19.42%) Analyst
3 91 (15.50%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (9.71%) Developer
5 50 (8.52%) Lead
6 48 (8.18%) Consultant
7 42 (7.16%) Architect
8 41 (6.98%) .NET Developer
9 36 (6.13%) .NET Applications Developer
9 36 (6.13%) Applications Developer
9 36 (6.13%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (6.13%) C# Developer
9 36 (6.13%) CMS Developer
10 34 (5.79%) C# Application Developer
10 34 (5.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 34 (5.79%) Senior .NET Applications Developer
10 34 (5.79%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 34 (5.79%) Senior C# Application Developer
10 34 (5.79%) Senior C# ASP.NET Developer
10 34 (5.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.20%) .NET
2 43 (7.33%) RESTful
3 42 (7.16%) React
4 39 (6.64%) .NET Core
4 39 (6.64%) .NET Framework
5 36 (6.13%) ASP.NET
5 36 (6.13%) ASP.NET MVC
5 36 (6.13%) Next.js
6 11 (1.87%) Middleware
7 7 (1.19%) gRPC
7 7 (1.19%) Web Services
8 6 (1.02%) Kafka
8 6 (1.02%) XML
9 5 (0.85%) Django
9 5 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.85%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.68%) CSS
11 3 (0.51%) PySpark
11 3 (0.51%) REST
12 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.69%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.62%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 17 (2.90%) Life Science
8 15 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.56%) NHS
9 14 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.19%) Biopharmaceutical
12 6 (1.02%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.68%) IoT
14 4 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.67%) Windows
2 36 (6.13%) Windows Server
3 34 (5.79%) Linux
4 17 (2.90%) Unix
5 9 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.36%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.51%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (36.80%) Data Management
2 211 (35.95%) Data Protection
3 191 (32.54%) Data Governance
4 154 (26.24%) Process Improvement
5 144 (24.53%) Matrix Organization
6 143 (24.36%) Matrix Management
7 112 (19.08%) Agile
7 112 (19.08%) Project Delivery
8 104 (17.72%) Project Management
9 103 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (17.04%) Information Security
11 98 (16.70%) Business Intelligence
12 97 (16.52%) Impact Assessments
13 89 (15.16%) Risk Management
14 85 (14.48%) DevOps
15 82 (13.97%) Supplier Relationship Management
16 77 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
17 76 (12.95%) Coaching
18 63 (10.73%) Analytics
19 62 (10.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (14.99%) SQL
2 49 (8.35%) C#
3 41 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 39 (6.64%) Python
5 23 (3.92%) T-SQL
6 18 (3.07%) Java
7 7 (1.19%) R
8 6 (1.02%) Bash
9 5 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.68%) C
11 3 (0.51%) Bicep
11 3 (0.51%) Scala
12 2 (0.34%) PHP
12 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) SAPscript
13 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (17.89%) Degree
2 54 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.26%) CISSP
6 24 (4.09%) CISA
7 23 (3.92%) CREST Certified
8 19 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.90%) OSCP
10 14 (2.39%) CISM
11 12 (2.04%) GIAC
11 12 (2.04%) GSEC
11 12 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.04%) SSCP
12 9 (1.53%) PCI QSA
12 9 (1.53%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 7 (1.19%) ISEB
14 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.02%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (37.99%) GDPR
2 93 (15.84%) Data Quality
3 41 (6.98%) QA
4 40 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (3.41%) PMO
6 19 (3.24%) GRC
7 17 (2.90%) ITGC
7 17 (2.90%) NIST
8 15 (2.56%) PCI DSS
9 12 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (1.53%) Accessibility
12 8 (1.36%) HIPAA
13 7 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (1.02%) CDISC
15 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.51%) SLA
18 2 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 28 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.53%) Docker
4 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (3.24%) Terraform
2 10 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.19%) Ansible
4 5 (0.85%) Kiali
5 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.51%) Nessus
6 3 (0.51%) Nmap
7 2 (0.34%) Autotask
7 2 (0.34%) CASB
7 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) WSUS
8 1 (0.17%) yum
Vendors
1 132 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.61%) SAP
3 36 (6.13%) Optimizely
3 36 (6.13%) Sitecore
4 27 (4.60%) Oracle
5 24 (4.09%) Databricks
6 23 (3.92%) Sage
7 12 (2.04%) VMware
8 11 (1.87%) BT
9 9 (1.53%) Cisco
9 9 (1.53%) Dell
9 9 (1.53%) HP
10 8 (1.36%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.36%) Google
11 7 (1.19%) Citrix
11 7 (1.19%) Workday
12 6 (1.02%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.02%) iManage
12 6 (1.02%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.02%) Splunk