GDPR Job Trends in Aberdeenshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Aberdeenshire requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Aberdeenshire 6.67% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £55,625 £55,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year +1.14% +20.22% -23.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Aberdeenshire

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 Aberdeenshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeenshire 6.67% - 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.89%
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -13.64%

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Job Locations in Aberdeenshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Aberdeenshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Westhill - 1 - - 1
GDPR
Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeenshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft