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Market evidence report — data-protection-officer

Source: 34 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 34), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority Ads Share
mid 16 47 %
senior 12 35 %
lead 4 12 %
junior 1 3 %
n/a 1 3 %

Tools — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 Microsoft Excel 5 15 %
2 Microsoft PowerPoint 4 12 %
3 OneTrust 4 12 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 risk assessment 16 47 %
2 data protection 12 35 %
3 regulatory compliance 12 35 %
4 incident response 10 29 %
5 risk management 9 26 %
6 data governance 8 24 %
7 privacy law 6 18 %
8 compliance monitoring 5 15 %
9 contract drafting 4 12 %
10 data analysis 4 12 %
11 government contract law 4 12 %
12 policy development 4 12 %
13 privacy governance 4 12 %
14 cybersecurity risk management 3 9 %
15 gdpr compliance 3 9 %
16 privacy compliance 3 9 %
17 privacy risk assessment 3 9 %
18 regulatory interpretation 3 9 %

Methods — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 privacy impact assessments 4 12 %
2 privacy-by-design 4 12 %
3 compliance audits 3 9 %
4 data protection impact assessments (dpias) 3 9 %
5 privacy by design 3 9 %
6 records of data processing activities 3 9 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

# Item Ads Share
1 policy implementation 6 18 %
2 regulatory monitoring 5 15 %
3 compliance assessment 4 12 %
4 employee training 4 12 %
5 training delivery 4 12 %
6 training development 4 12 %
7 contract negotiation 3 9 %
8 cross-functional collaboration 3 9 %
9 incident coordination 3 9 %
10 incident investigation 3 9 %
11 legal counsel 3 9 %
12 policy development 3 9 %
13 policy maintenance 3 9 %
14 privacy program advice 3 9 %
15 regulatory engagement 3 9 %
16 training program development 3 9 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 34 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

34 ads.

Top hard skills:

  • risk assessment — 47 % (16 ads)
  • data protection — 35 % (12 ads)
  • regulatory compliance — 35 % (12 ads)
  • incident response — 29 % (10 ads)
  • risk management — 26 % (9 ads)
  • data governance — 24 % (8 ads)
  • privacy law — 18 % (6 ads)
  • compliance monitoring — 15 % (5 ads)
  • contract drafting — 12 % (4 ads)
  • data analysis — 12 % (4 ads)

Top tools:

  • Microsoft Excel — 15 % (5 ads)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint — 12 % (4 ads)
  • OneTrust — 12 % (4 ads)
  • Anomalo — 6 % (2 ads)
  • Atlan — 6 % (2 ads)
  • BigQuery — 6 % (2 ads)
  • Confluence — 6 % (2 ads)
  • DataBricks — 6 % (2 ads)
  • Jira — 6 % (2 ads)
  • Microsoft Word — 6 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 47 % · senior 35 % · lead 12 % · junior 3 % · n/a 3 %

UK (gb)

Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

Job title variants in the market

Title Ads
Associate General Counsel - Government Contracts & Data Protection Officer 4
Senior Analyst, Data Privacy - Americas 3
Data Privacy Officer 2
Data Protection Officer 2
Chief Data Protection and Privacy Officer 1
Chief Privacy & Data Protection Officer 1
Chief Privacy Officer 21 1
Compliance Officer/ Manager/Data Protection Officer 1
Compliance Privacy Advisor, Principal Associate 1
Corporate Vice President - Data Protection & Data Risk Management Lead 1
Data Compliance and Monitoring Specialist 1
Data Privacy & Compliance Counsel 1
Data Privacy and Security Coordinator 1
Data Privacy Operations Manager 1
Data Privacy Risk Officer - STAAI PO 1
Data Protection & Risk Management Lead 1
Data Protection Manager (Associate) 1
HR Data Privacy Officer 1
Information Security & Data Privacy Officer 1
Legal & Data Compliance - Hedge Fund 1
Privacy & Data Protection Specialist, CHAMP 1
Privacy Officer 1
Privacy Officer and Counsel 1
Senior Data Protection Officer (DPO) Remote/Hybrid 1
Senior Director Compliance and Privacy 1

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.