Data Protection Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 301 203
Rank change year-on-year +79 -98 +65
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 940 609 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.09% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.14% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 624 371 904
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,199 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +0.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,318 53,527 70,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.49% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43,040 28,509 41,589
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Protection in the UK excluding London

Data Protection
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +96 274 £50,000 -0.47% 85
Midlands +82 224 £50,000 -9.09% 73
South East +11 217 £45,802 -16.72% 87
North West +38 151 £42,500 -15.40% 47
West Midlands +45 148 £54,000 +2.86% 47
South West +20 104 £48,750 -11.36% 37
Yorkshire +98 94 £52,500 +1.40% 26
East Midlands +19 71 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Scotland -64 51 £45,000 -16.23% 16
East of England -22 39 £51,500 +27.15% 44
North East +4 29 £36,000 -24.38% 13
Wales +22 23 £37,000 -7.58% 4
Northern Ireland +24 7 £42,500 +13.33% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 92 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.49%) IIS
4 11 (1.17%) WordPress
5 9 (0.96%) Apache
6 6 (0.64%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) Site Server
8 3 (0.32%) CMS
8 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.21%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Confluence
10 1 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.11%) Totara
Applications
1 84 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 160 (17.02%) Azure
2 100 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 93 (9.89%) AWS
4 74 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.19%) GCP
7 24 (2.55%) SaaS
8 19 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (1.81%) Serverless
10 15 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (1.60%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.28%) IaaS
14 11 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.64%) Firewall
2 31 (3.30%) DNS
2 31 (3.30%) Network Security
3 24 (2.55%) DHCP
3 24 (2.55%) Internet
4 22 (2.34%) LAN
5 15 (1.60%) Cisco IPT
5 15 (1.60%) Intranet
5 15 (1.60%) VPN
5 15 (1.60%) WAN
5 15 (1.60%) Wireless
6 14 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.06%) SNMP
7 10 (1.06%) VoIP
7 10 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.85%) SAN
10 6 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.79%) Power BI
2 56 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 35 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.45%) Data Lake
6 21 (2.23%) MySQL
7 19 (2.02%) Metadata
8 16 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.85%) Big Data
13 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 8 (0.85%) Power Query
14 6 (0.64%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
16 3 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 58 (6.17%) JIRA
2 8 (0.85%) Git
3 4 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.43%) Moq
4 3 (0.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.21%) Hudson
6 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.11%) NUnit
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.11%) Storybook
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 300 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 249 (26.49%) Finance
3 231 (24.57%) Legal
4 138 (14.68%) Banking
5 119 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (7.98%) Law
7 63 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (6.38%) Retail
9 54 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (4.47%) Marketing
11 34 (3.62%) Manufacturing
12 30 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.98%) Public Sector
14 23 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.06%) Police
18 8 (0.85%) Local Government
19 7 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
20 6 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (15.85%) Senior
2 127 (13.51%) Analyst
3 86 (9.15%) Senior Analyst
4 76 (8.09%) Developer
5 73 (7.77%) Lead
6 54 (5.74%) Data Manager
7 39 (4.15%) Security Manager
8 37 (3.94%) IT Manager
9 35 (3.72%) Data Protection Manager
9 35 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (3.62%) Data Protection Officer
11 29 (3.09%) Architect
12 27 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (2.87%) Data Analyst
13 26 (2.77%) Administrator
13 26 (2.77%) Information Manager
14 25 (2.66%) Consultant
15 24 (2.55%) Support Engineer
16 23 (2.45%) Project Manager
17 22 (2.34%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.72%) .NET
2 30 (3.19%) RESTful
3 22 (2.34%) Web Services
4 17 (1.81%) Node.js
5 15 (1.60%) React
6 11 (1.17%) gRPC
7 10 (1.06%) CSS
7 10 (1.06%) HTML
8 9 (0.96%) ModSecurity
9 8 (0.85%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.85%) EDI
10 7 (0.74%) XML
11 6 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.64%) LDAP
12 4 (0.43%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.43%) JSON
12 4 (0.43%) Knex.js
12 4 (0.43%) PySpark
12 4 (0.43%) React Native
12 4 (0.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 158 (16.81%) Data Protection Act
2 134 (14.26%) Management Information System
3 40 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 39 (4.15%) Freedom of Information
5 35 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.98%) NHS
7 22 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.81%) CCTV
9 17 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.70%) IoT
11 15 (1.60%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.49%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.96%) Social Media
15 8 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.02%) Windows
2 28 (2.98%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.55%) Linux
4 20 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.81%) Android
6 15 (1.60%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.32%) Unix
11 1 (0.11%) NetWare
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (22.23%) Information Security
2 195 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
3 179 (19.04%) Data Governance
4 178 (18.94%) Data Management
5 173 (18.40%) Data Privacy
6 164 (17.45%) Cybersecurity
7 149 (15.85%) Risk Management
8 141 (15.00%) Process Improvement
9 128 (13.62%) Impact Assessments
9 128 (13.62%) Matrix Management
9 128 (13.62%) Matrix Organization
10 123 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
11 122 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (10.85%) DevOps
13 94 (10.00%) Coaching
14 84 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
15 83 (8.83%) Project Management
16 81 (8.62%) Agile
17 80 (8.51%) Customer Service
18 74 (7.87%) Supplier Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (8.30%) SQL
2 53 (5.64%) PowerShell
3 52 (5.53%) Python
4 27 (2.87%) T-SQL
5 20 (2.13%) C#
6 17 (1.81%) Bash
6 17 (1.81%) Java
6 17 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.38%) Bicep
8 13 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.28%) Swift
10 7 (0.74%) PHP
11 5 (0.53%) R
12 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.43%) JSX
13 3 (0.32%) C++
13 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.32%) VB
14 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 167 (17.77%) Degree
2 72 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.02%) CISSP
4 50 (5.32%) CISM
5 46 (4.89%) SC Cleared
6 44 (4.68%) CISA
7 31 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.77%) CRISC
10 24 (2.55%) DBS Check
11 21 (2.23%) AWS Certification
12 19 (2.02%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.28%) ISEB
14 12 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 12 (1.28%) PMP
15 11 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (1.06%) GIAC
17 9 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (35.32%) GDPR
2 127 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 83 (8.83%) Data Quality
4 61 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (4.04%) NIST
6 35 (3.72%) GRC
7 32 (3.40%) PCI DSS
8 31 (3.30%) QA
9 17 (1.81%) NCSC
10 16 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 15 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (1.28%) SLA
13 9 (0.96%) COBIT
13 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.74%) ISO 14000
15 7 (0.74%) PMO
16 5 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.53%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (3.51%) Docker
4 30 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.64%) SRDF
7 5 (0.53%) XenApp
8 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.40%) Terraform
3 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.96%) CASB
5 7 (0.74%) Ansible
6 5 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.53%) Suricata
6 5 (0.53%) WSUS
7 3 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.21%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 222 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.36%) VMware
3 30 (3.19%) Google
4 22 (2.34%) Cisco
5 16 (1.70%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.38%) Databricks
6 13 (1.38%) Oracle
6 13 (1.38%) SAP
7 11 (1.17%) Meraki
8 9 (0.96%) Apple
8 9 (0.96%) Veeam
9 8 (0.85%) Aruba
9 8 (0.85%) EMC
10 7 (0.74%) Citrix
10 7 (0.74%) Dell
10 7 (0.74%) HP
10 7 (0.74%) Minitab
11 6 (0.64%) Brocade
11 6 (0.64%) Juniper
11 6 (0.64%) Sage