data protection jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, data protection appears in 803 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning data protection, with demand down 50% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is data protection in demand in 2026?
Yes. data protection appears in 803 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 50% vs the prior 4 weeks. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning data protection (5.7% of all postings mentioning data protection).
+What jobs require data protection?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning data protection are Sales Systems Engineer (70.4% of that role’s postings mention data protection), AI Security Specialist (34.6% of that role’s postings mention data protection), Enterprise Security Engineer (26.5% of that role’s postings mention data protection).
+What skills are commonly paired with data protection?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), data protection most often appears alongside AWS, Cloud Security, incident response, threat modeling, Python.
+Where is data protection most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring data protection are London, New York City, Bengaluru, San Francisco, San Jose, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring data protection — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require data protection
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Systems Engineer | 19 | 70.4% |
| AI Security Specialist | 9 | 34.6% |
| Enterprise Security Engineer | 9 | 26.5% |
| Business Information Security Officer | 6 | 26.1% |
| Information Security Architect | 5 | 22.7% |
| Chief Information Security Officer | 11 | 19.0% |
| AI Security Architect | 4 | 16.7% |
| Cybersecurity Director | 4 | 14.3% |
| Information Security Intern | 4 | 13.3% |
| Cloud Security Architect | 6 | 12.5% |
Roles with the most data protection postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 46 | 5.7% |
| Product Manager | 30 | 3.7% |
| Security Engineer | 28 | 3.5% |
| Sales Systems Engineer | 19 | 2.4% |
| AI Security Engineer | 13 | 1.6% |
| Backend Engineer | 12 | 1.5% |
| Chief Information Security Officer | 11 | 1.4% |
| Cybersecurity Consultant | 11 | 1.4% |
| Product Security Engineer | 11 | 1.4% |
| Solution Architect | 11 | 1.4% |
Top metros hiring for data protection
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| London | 32 | 4.0% |
| New York City | 21 | 2.6% |
| Bengaluru | 20 | 2.5% |
| San Francisco | 16 | 2.0% |
| San Jose | 16 | 2.0% |
| Chicago | 12 | 1.5% |
| Hyderabad | 11 | 1.4% |
| Singapore | 10 | 1.2% |
| Berlin | 9 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with data protection
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- Sales Systems Engineer
- AI Security Specialist
- Enterprise Security Engineer
- Business Information Security Officer
- Information Security Architect
- Chief Information Security Officer
- AI Security Architect
- Cybersecurity Director
- AWS
- Cloud Security
- incident response
- threat modeling
- Python
- security architecture
- vulnerability management
- identity and access management
How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning data protection by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s data protection postings by all data protection postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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