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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.