Data Protection Jobs in England

Data Protection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection 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 212 280 266
Rank change year-on-year +68 -14 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 1,234 1,081 2,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.28% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.35% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 889 660 1,419
10th Percentile £31,114 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +0.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Protection 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the England region 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
London +32 377 £55,000 -12.00% 161
North of England +108 272 £50,000 -0.47% 89
South East +5 218 £45,802 -16.72% 95
Midlands +75 217 £50,000 -9.09% 76
North West +44 149 £42,500 -15.40% 48
West Midlands +49 144 £54,000 +2.86% 45
South West +26 104 £48,750 -11.36% 42
Yorkshire +92 94 £52,500 +1.40% 29
East Midlands +19 68 £50,000 -16.67% 31
East of England -8 38 £51,500 +27.15% 48
North East +11 29 £36,000 -24.38% 14
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 108 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.13%) IIS
4 11 (0.89%) Confluence
4 11 (0.89%) WordPress
5 8 (0.65%) CMS
5 8 (0.65%) nginx
6 7 (0.57%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) Site Server
8 3 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.16%) Kentico
9 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.081%) Moodle
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.081%) Totara
Applications
1 106 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
4 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) Adobe Premiere
5 7 (0.57%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.081%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 28 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.05%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.081%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.081%) Primavera
8 1 (0.081%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 217 (17.59%) Azure
2 131 (10.62%) Power Platform
3 127 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (9.64%) AWS
5 36 (2.92%) Entra ID
6 33 (2.67%) GCP
7 27 (2.19%) SaaS
8 23 (1.86%) Power Automate
9 22 (1.78%) PowerApps
10 19 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (1.54%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.54%) IaaS
10 19 (1.54%) PaaS
11 17 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.38%) Serverless
12 16 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (7.13%) Firewall
2 47 (3.81%) DNS
3 36 (2.92%) Network Security
4 35 (2.84%) Wireless
5 33 (2.67%) Internet
5 33 (2.67%) LAN
6 26 (2.11%) DHCP
6 26 (2.11%) WAN
7 24 (1.94%) Intranet
8 23 (1.86%) VPN
9 17 (1.38%) Cisco IPT
10 16 (1.30%) Broadband
11 15 (1.22%) TCP/IP
12 14 (1.13%) SNMP
13 13 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
13 13 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.97%) NAS
14 12 (0.97%) VoIP
15 9 (0.73%) HTTP
15 9 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (9.97%) Power BI
2 79 (6.40%) SQL Server
3 53 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 29 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 25 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (1.94%) Metadata
8 20 (1.62%) MySQL
9 17 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (1.13%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.05%) Big Data
13 11 (0.89%) Power Query
14 9 (0.73%) Tableau
15 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.65%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (6.08%) JIRA
2 24 (1.94%) Git
3 11 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.49%) Mercurial
4 6 (0.49%) Selenium
5 4 (0.32%) Moq
6 3 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.16%) Hudson
7 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.081%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.081%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.081%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.081%) NUnit
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.081%) Postman
8 1 (0.081%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.081%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.081%) Storybook
General
1 401 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 331 (26.82%) Finance
3 271 (21.96%) Legal
4 166 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (11.67%) Banking
6 80 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
7 79 (6.40%) Retail
8 75 (6.08%) Law
9 72 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 64 (5.19%) Marketing
11 40 (3.24%) Public Sector
12 39 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (2.59%) Manufacturing
15 25 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.94%) Local Government
17 21 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.22%) Games
19 11 (0.89%) Advertising
20 9 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 205 (16.61%) Senior
2 153 (12.40%) Analyst
3 108 (8.75%) Developer
4 93 (7.54%) Lead
5 85 (6.89%) Senior Analyst
6 79 (6.40%) Data Manager
7 58 (4.70%) IT Manager
8 48 (3.89%) Consultant
9 47 (3.81%) Security Manager
10 43 (3.48%) Architect
10 43 (3.48%) Data Protection Manager
11 37 (3.00%) Information Manager
12 36 (2.92%) Security Analyst
13 35 (2.84%) Data Protection Officer
14 33 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (2.67%) Governance Manager
15 32 (2.59%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.43%) Administrator
18 28 (2.27%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.48%) .NET
2 28 (2.27%) RESTful
3 24 (1.94%) Web Services
4 20 (1.62%) Node.js
5 19 (1.54%) React
6 14 (1.13%) CSS
6 14 (1.13%) gRPC
6 14 (1.13%) HTML
7 11 (0.89%) EDI
8 10 (0.81%) Vue
9 9 (0.73%) ModSecurity
10 8 (0.65%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.65%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.65%) Spring
10 8 (0.65%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.65%) XML
11 7 (0.57%) Hibernate
11 7 (0.57%) JPA
11 7 (0.57%) REST
12 6 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 229 (18.56%) Data Protection Act
2 177 (14.34%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (3.89%) Freedom of Information
5 45 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 32 (2.59%) NHS
7 30 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
8 28 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 24 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.54%) CCTV
13 18 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.38%) IoT
15 16 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.30%) Driving Licence
15 16 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.13%) Taxonomies
17 13 (1.05%) Social Media
17 13 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.97%) Windows
2 54 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.76%) Linux
4 24 (1.94%) Mac OS
5 21 (1.70%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.30%) Android
8 12 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.41%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.32%) Unix
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.081%) NetWare
13 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.081%) Solaris
13 1 (0.081%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (21.47%) Information Security
2 248 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
3 246 (19.94%) Cybersecurity
4 212 (17.18%) Data Management
5 194 (15.72%) Data Governance
6 189 (15.32%) Data Privacy
6 189 (15.32%) Risk Management
7 152 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
8 142 (11.51%) Impact Assessments
8 142 (11.51%) Process Improvement
9 135 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (10.70%) Matrix Organization
11 130 (10.53%) DevOps
12 127 (10.29%) Agile
13 126 (10.21%) Matrix Management
14 106 (8.59%) Disaster Recovery
15 105 (8.51%) Coaching
16 101 (8.18%) Customer Service
17 99 (8.02%) Project Management
18 88 (7.13%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 115 (9.32%) SQL
2 71 (5.75%) Python
3 66 (5.35%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.00%) C#
5 36 (2.92%) Bash
6 32 (2.59%) T-SQL
7 31 (2.51%) Java
8 22 (1.78%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.05%) Bicep
11 10 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.81%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.73%) Scala
12 9 (0.73%) Swift
13 8 (0.65%) R
14 6 (0.49%) C++
15 5 (0.41%) JSX
15 5 (0.41%) PHP
16 2 (0.16%) Go
16 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 231 (18.72%) Degree
2 91 (7.37%) CISSP
3 74 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 67 (5.43%) CISM
5 55 (4.46%) Master's Degree
6 50 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (3.89%) SC Cleared
8 42 (3.40%) CISA
9 32 (2.59%) CRISC
10 31 (2.51%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.70%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.22%) PMI Certification
15 14 (1.13%) PMP
16 12 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.97%) ISEB
17 11 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (31.28%) GDPR
2 165 (13.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 96 (7.78%) Data Quality
4 82 (6.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 54 (4.38%) NIST
6 52 (4.21%) GRC
7 49 (3.97%) PCI DSS
8 38 (3.08%) QA
9 25 (2.03%) NCSC
10 17 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 17 (1.38%) SOC 2
11 16 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.89%) ISO 14000
12 11 (0.89%) SLA
13 10 (0.81%) COBIT
13 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.73%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.65%) Accessibility
16 7 (0.57%) PMO
17 6 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 75 (6.08%) Active Directory
2 59 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.32%) Docker
4 36 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.49%) SRDF
6 6 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.49%) XenApp
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.081%) Ceph
8 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.92%) Terraform
3 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.97%) Ansible
5 12 (0.97%) CASB
6 6 (0.49%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.41%) Suricata
7 5 (0.41%) WSUS
8 3 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.16%) Control-M
9 2 (0.16%) Istio
9 2 (0.16%) Nessus
9 2 (0.16%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.081%) Grafana
10 1 (0.081%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.081%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 297 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.19%) VMware
3 49 (3.97%) Google
4 33 (2.67%) Cisco
5 28 (2.27%) SAP
6 26 (2.11%) Apple
7 24 (1.94%) Oracle
8 17 (1.38%) Aruba
8 17 (1.38%) Meraki
8 17 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.13%) HP
10 13 (1.05%) Databricks
11 12 (0.97%) Adobe
11 12 (0.97%) Citrix
12 9 (0.73%) Sage
13 8 (0.65%) Dell
13 8 (0.65%) EMC
14 7 (0.57%) Minitab
14 7 (0.57%) Veeam
15 6 (0.49%) Splunk