GDPR Job Trends in Aberdeen

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Aberdeen requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 10 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 -
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Aberdeen 1.07% 2.13% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 40.00% 25.00% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year -2.27% +41.94% -34.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Aberdeen

GDPR falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Aberdeen.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5 4 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeen 2.67% 8.51% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 27
10th Percentile £30,250 £47,875 £24,240
25th Percentile £30,625 £48,438 £24,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £51,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% +28.13% -2.03%
75th Percentile £41,875 £53,438 £45,000
90th Percentile £46,750 £53,625 £64,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £46,034
% change year-on-year -28.00% +35.77% -16.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen.

GDPR job vacancy trend in Aberdeen

GDPR
Salary Trend in Aberdeen

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing GDPR

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeen by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CIO Advisory
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Presales
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Google