General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 281 237
Rank change year-on-year +112 -44 -10
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,721 1,273 2,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.29% 1.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.69% 6.87% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 735 1,316
10th Percentile £25,700 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £57,384
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -4.15% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,300 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £50,238 £53,250
% change year-on-year -14.41% -5.66% +12.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR.

Salary trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
England +108 1,580 £47,000 -14.55% 764
UK excluding London +125 1,322 £43,000 -14.41% 613
North of England +189 390 £42,000 -12.04% 108
South East +52 375 £47,500 -13.64% 222
Work from Home -32 367 £50,000 -9.09% 258
London +32 341 £55,000 -12.00% 266
Midlands +73 233 £37,500 -31.82% 120
North West +91 176 £40,000 -20.38% 56
Yorkshire +163 155 £43,742 -6.93% 39
West Midlands +67 155 £43,806 -20.35% 61
South West +11 133 £37,500 +17.19% 63
East of England +37 90 £42,375 -32.20% 52
East Midlands +34 76 £32,500 -43.97% 57
Scotland -21 67 £50,000 -9.09% 36
North East +45 59 £40,250 +0.00% 15
Wales +18 30 £32,500 +18.18% 27
Northern Ireland +24 4 - - 5

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 131 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.34%) Confluence
4 22 (1.28%) WordPress
5 18 (1.05%) SAS
6 17 (0.99%) CMS
7 15 (0.87%) Captiva
7 15 (0.87%) FileNet
7 15 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.35%) Apache
10 5 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.23%) Site Server
11 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 161 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
4 28 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.28%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.58%) Revit
7 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.058%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.058%) InDesign
11 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.058%) Sketch
11 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.058%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.058%) FastStats
7 1 (0.058%) iTrent
7 1 (0.058%) Primavera
7 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.058%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.058%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.058%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 429 (24.93%) Azure
2 318 (18.48%) GCP
3 276 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (14.24%) AWS
5 193 (11.21%) Power Platform
6 52 (3.02%) Entra ID
7 39 (2.27%) SaaS
8 33 (1.92%) Serverless
9 30 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (1.74%) GitHub
10 28 (1.63%) IaaS
11 24 (1.39%) PaaS
12 23 (1.34%) Snowflake
13 22 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (1.10%) Matillion
14 19 (1.10%) OneDrive
15 18 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.19%) Firewall
2 47 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
3 36 (2.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 36 (2.09%) Wireless
4 35 (2.03%) VPN
5 30 (1.74%) DNS
5 30 (1.74%) WAN
6 24 (1.39%) Intranet
7 22 (1.28%) Network Security
8 21 (1.22%) 4G
9 19 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.05%) VLAN
11 17 (0.99%) Internet
11 17 (0.99%) LAN
12 16 (0.93%) SAN
12 16 (0.93%) VoIP
13 15 (0.87%) DHCP
13 15 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.81%) MPLS
15 12 (0.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (16.04%) Looker
2 273 (15.86%) BigQuery
3 167 (9.70%) Power BI
4 155 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 47 (2.73%) Metadata
8 32 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.57%) Big Data
9 27 (1.57%) Tableau
10 26 (1.51%) MySQL
11 23 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.58%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.52%) QlikView
16 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 7 (0.41%) MongoDB
18 6 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 115 (6.68%) JIRA
2 37 (2.15%) Git
3 16 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.64%) GitLab
5 11 (0.64%) Selenium
6 8 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.46%) JUnit
7 5 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.29%) Xcode
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.058%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.058%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.058%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.058%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.058%) Vite
General
1 548 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 508 (29.52%) Finance
3 466 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (17.78%) Legal
5 182 (10.58%) Banking
6 90 (5.23%) Retail
7 88 (5.11%) Law
8 77 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (4.47%) Marketing
9 69 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 66 (3.83%) Public Sector
11 48 (2.79%) Games
12 42 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.34%) Mandarin Language
17 17 (0.99%) Digital Economy
18 16 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 222 (12.90%) Analyst
2 208 (12.09%) Senior
3 178 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 177 (10.28%) Architect
5 161 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
5 161 (9.36%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (9.36%) Principal Engineer
6 145 (8.43%) Data Architect
7 122 (7.09%) Lead
8 103 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
9 82 (4.76%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.95%) Developer
11 57 (3.31%) Support Engineer
12 56 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 52 (3.02%) Data Manager
14 51 (2.96%) Security Analyst
15 50 (2.91%) IT Support
16 47 (2.73%) Consultant
17 45 (2.61%) Project Manager
18 38 (2.21%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.09%) HTML
2 29 (1.69%) RESTful
3 28 (1.63%) .NET
4 26 (1.51%) CSS
5 16 (0.93%) REST
5 16 (0.93%) Web Services
6 15 (0.87%) React
6 15 (0.87%) XML
7 14 (0.81%) EDI
7 14 (0.81%) Node.js
8 13 (0.76%) jQuery
9 11 (0.64%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (0.58%) Spring
11 9 (0.52%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.52%) HTML5
12 8 (0.46%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.46%) Unreal Engine
12 8 (0.46%) V-Ray
13 7 (0.41%) Ajax
13 7 (0.41%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 357 (20.74%) Self-Motivation
2 191 (11.10%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 80 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 64 (3.72%) Security Posture
6 53 (3.08%) NHS
7 45 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.28%) e-Learning
12 20 (1.16%) IoT
13 19 (1.10%) CCTV
13 19 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.05%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
15 15 (0.87%) DataPower
15 15 (0.87%) Private Cloud
16 14 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 202 (11.74%) Windows
2 78 (4.53%) Windows Server
3 72 (4.18%) Linux
4 53 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.74%) Android
6 27 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.99%) Unix
9 12 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.58%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.058%) AIX
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (34.51%) Problem-Solving
2 428 (24.87%) Data Protection
3 359 (20.86%) Data Governance
3 359 (20.86%) Mentoring
4 332 (19.29%) Cybersecurity
5 313 (18.19%) Agile
6 299 (17.37%) Data Engineering
7 289 (16.79%) Information Security
8 276 (16.04%) Platform Engineering
9 270 (15.69%) Data Management
10 266 (15.46%) DevOps
11 222 (12.90%) Data Privacy
12 213 (12.38%) Change Management
13 212 (12.32%) Data Science
14 191 (11.10%) Risk Management
15 189 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
16 184 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
17 182 (10.58%) Data Modelling
18 179 (10.40%) Data Security
19 176 (10.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.31%) SQL
2 47 (2.73%) JavaScript
2 47 (2.73%) Python
3 38 (2.21%) Java
4 37 (2.15%) C#
5 31 (1.80%) T-SQL
6 30 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 19 (1.10%) PHP
8 18 (1.05%) C
8 18 (1.05%) C++
9 11 (0.64%) Go
9 11 (0.64%) Ruby
10 6 (0.35%) R
11 5 (0.29%) Bash
11 5 (0.29%) COBOL
11 5 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 5 (0.29%) Swift
11 5 (0.29%) VB
12 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 252 (14.64%) Degree
2 131 (7.61%) CISSP
3 101 (5.87%) DBS Check
4 83 (4.82%) CISM
5 58 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 50 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.73%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.32%) CISA
9 38 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (2.21%) SC Cleared
10 37 (2.15%) CRISC
11 32 (1.86%) GIAC
12 24 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (1.22%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.87%) CEH
17 14 (0.81%) GSEC
17 14 (0.81%) ISEB
17 14 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 223 (12.96%) Data Quality
3 155 (9.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 126 (7.32%) NIST
5 88 (5.11%) PCI DSS
6 58 (3.37%) GRC
7 48 (2.79%) SLA
8 39 (2.27%) HIPAA
9 35 (2.03%) QA
10 34 (1.98%) NCSC
11 29 (1.69%) Accessibility
11 29 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 26 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 25 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (1.10%) COBIT
15 17 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.70%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.64%) COSHH
17 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
18 10 (0.58%) PSD2
System Software
1 103 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 26 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.64%) Docker
4 11 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.58%) Firmware
6 6 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.29%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) vSphere
10 1 (0.058%) LXC
Systems Management
1 40 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.63%) Terraform
3 22 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.93%) FortiGate
5 15 (0.87%) SCCM
6 13 (0.76%) CASB
7 12 (0.70%) Ansible
8 10 (0.58%) Nessus
9 8 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.35%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.35%) SCDPM
11 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.23%) Autotask
12 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.17%) SELinux
14 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
14 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 476 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 305 (17.72%) Google
3 45 (2.61%) SAP
4 43 (2.50%) Cisco
5 39 (2.27%) Databricks
6 37 (2.15%) VMware
7 29 (1.69%) Oracle
8 25 (1.45%) Apple
9 24 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 23 (1.34%) Dell
10 23 (1.34%) Sophos
11 22 (1.28%) Adobe
12 21 (1.22%) Citrix
13 19 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 17 (0.99%) IBM
15 16 (0.93%) Qualys
16 15 (0.87%) HP
16 15 (0.87%) Kofax
16 15 (0.87%) Pega
16 15 (0.87%) Sage