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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 273 240
Rank change year-on-year +102 -33 -12
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,723 1,265 2,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.30% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.64% 7.02% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 733 1,324
10th Percentile £25,600 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -4.35% +0.93%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,238 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.40% -8.66% +15.79%

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 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
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% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

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 28 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 28 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 +106 1,583 £47,000 -14.55% 720
UK excluding London +120 1,323 £42,500 -15.40% 545
North of England +185 390 £40,681 -14.58% 112
South East +56 376 £47,500 -13.64% 166
Work from Home -26 369 £50,000 -9.09% 257
London +37 342 £55,000 -12.00% 203
Midlands +81 233 £37,500 -31.82% 113
North West +100 177 £40,000 -15.79% 59
Yorkshire +166 154 £43,742 -8.87% 40
West Midlands +72 154 £43,806 -20.35% 59
South West +3 132 £37,500 +17.19% 64
East of England +28 92 £42,500 -32.00% 49
East Midlands +25 77 £32,500 -43.97% 54
Scotland -22 66 £45,750 -23.14% 31
North East +46 59 £40,250 +0.00% 14
Wales +11 30 £32,500 +18.18% 24
Northern Ireland +17 4 - - 4

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
1 133 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.33%) Confluence
4 22 (1.28%) WordPress
5 18 (1.04%) SAS
6 17 (0.99%) CMS
7 8 (0.46%) Captiva
7 8 (0.46%) FileNet
7 8 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.35%) Apache
9 5 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.23%) Site Server
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 162 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.22%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.52%) 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 7 (0.41%) 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
1 423 (24.55%) Azure
2 311 (18.05%) GCP
3 279 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (14.22%) AWS
5 194 (11.26%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 39 (2.26%) SaaS
8 32 (1.86%) Serverless
9 30 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
10 28 (1.63%) IaaS
11 24 (1.39%) PaaS
12 23 (1.33%) GitHub
13 22 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.22%) OneDrive
15 18 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (1.04%) Matillion
16 17 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.18%) Firewall
2 47 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
3 36 (2.09%) VPN
3 36 (2.09%) Wireless
4 35 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
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 (1.04%) Internet
10 18 (1.04%) VLAN
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%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (16.02%) Looker
2 273 (15.84%) BigQuery
3 167 (9.69%) Power BI
4 155 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 46 (2.67%) 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 (1.33%) 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
1 108 (6.27%) JIRA
2 37 (2.15%) Git
3 13 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.64%) GitLab
4 11 (0.64%) Selenium
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
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%) Subversion
10 1 (0.058%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.058%) Vite
General
1 551 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 501 (29.08%) Finance
3 468 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (17.76%) Legal
5 175 (10.16%) Banking
6 90 (5.22%) Retail
7 88 (5.11%) Law
8 77 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (4.47%) Marketing
9 69 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 67 (3.89%) Public Sector
11 48 (2.79%) Games
12 45 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
18 17 (0.99%) Digital Economy
18 17 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 222 (12.88%) Analyst
2 208 (12.07%) Senior
3 178 (10.33%) Data Engineer
4 177 (10.27%) Architect
5 161 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
5 161 (9.34%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (9.34%) Principal Engineer
6 144 (8.36%) Data Architect
7 122 (7.08%) Lead
8 103 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
9 81 (4.70%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.95%) Developer
11 57 (3.31%) Support Engineer
12 56 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 53 (3.08%) Data Manager
14 51 (2.96%) Security Analyst
15 50 (2.90%) 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 (1.68%) 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 (0.75%) 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
13 7 (0.41%) Ajax
13 7 (0.41%) gRPC
13 7 (0.41%) Unreal Engine
13 7 (0.41%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 358 (20.78%) Self-Motivation
2 192 (11.14%) Management Information System
3 83 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
4 80 (4.64%) Driving Licence
5 65 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 53 (3.08%) NHS
7 46 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.22%) e-Learning
12 20 (1.16%) IoT
13 19 (1.10%) CCTV
13 19 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.04%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.04%) Cloud Native
15 17 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
16 14 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
17 12 (0.70%) EPoS
17 12 (0.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 203 (11.78%) Windows
2 79 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 66 (3.83%) Linux
4 54 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.86%) Android
6 28 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.58%) Mac OS X
9 10 (0.58%) Unix
10 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.058%) AIX
13 1 (0.058%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (34.71%) Problem-Solving
2 430 (24.96%) Data Protection
3 360 (20.89%) Data Governance
4 358 (20.78%) Mentoring
5 331 (19.21%) Cybersecurity
6 307 (17.82%) Agile
7 299 (17.35%) Data Engineering
8 288 (16.72%) Information Security
9 276 (16.02%) Platform Engineering
10 272 (15.79%) Data Management
11 260 (15.09%) DevOps
12 223 (12.94%) Data Privacy
13 211 (12.25%) Data Science
14 206 (11.96%) Change Management
15 193 (11.20%) Risk Management
16 190 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
17 183 (10.62%) Data Pipeline
18 181 (10.50%) Data Modelling
19 179 (10.39%) Data Security
20 176 (10.21%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 137 (7.95%) SQL
2 48 (2.79%) Python
3 47 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 37 (2.15%) C#
5 31 (1.80%) Java
6 30 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 30 (1.74%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.10%) PHP
8 18 (1.04%) C
8 18 (1.04%) 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 (14.63%) Degree
2 132 (7.66%) CISSP
3 102 (5.92%) DBS Check
4 84 (4.88%) CISM
5 59 (3.42%) Security Cleared
6 51 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.73%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.38%) CISA
9 39 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (2.21%) SC Cleared
11 37 (2.15%) CRISC
12 32 (1.86%) GIAC
13 24 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
15 21 (1.22%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.87%) CEH
18 14 (0.81%) CCSP
18 14 (0.81%) GSEC
18 14 (0.81%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 226 (13.12%) Data Quality
3 157 (9.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 128 (7.43%) NIST
5 88 (5.11%) PCI DSS
6 58 (3.37%) GRC
7 48 (2.79%) SLA
8 40 (2.32%) HIPAA
9 36 (2.09%) QA
10 34 (1.97%) NCSC
11 31 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 29 (1.68%) Accessibility
13 26 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 25 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (1.10%) COBIT
16 18 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.70%) SOC 2
18 11 (0.64%) COSHH
18 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
19 10 (0.58%) PSD2
System Software
1 104 (6.04%) 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 41 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.63%) Terraform
3 22 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.93%) FortiGate
4 16 (0.93%) SCCM
5 13 (0.75%) CASB
6 12 (0.70%) Ansible
7 10 (0.58%) Nessus
8 8 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.35%) CSIRT
9 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (0.35%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.23%) Autotask
11 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.17%) SELinux
13 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 482 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 305 (17.70%) Google
3 44 (2.55%) Cisco
4 40 (2.32%) SAP
5 38 (2.21%) Databricks
6 37 (2.15%) VMware
7 26 (1.51%) Apple
8 23 (1.33%) Dell
8 23 (1.33%) Oracle
8 23 (1.33%) Sophos
9 22 (1.28%) Citrix
10 21 (1.22%) Adobe
11 20 (1.16%) Salesforce
12 17 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.93%) Qualys
14 15 (0.87%) HP
14 15 (0.87%) Sage
15 12 (0.70%) Meraki
16 11 (0.64%) Darktrace
16 11 (0.64%) Facebook