GDPR Job Trends in Bedfordshire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 55 29
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 +47
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 0.33% 2.54% 1.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 34.38% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £61,000 £39,425
25th Percentile £58,250 £69,375 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £72,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +71.60% -
75th Percentile £60,750 £75,000 £43,375
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £61,250 £61,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% +13.89% -5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 35 32 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.71% 7.39% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £71,250 £41,125
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +73.25% -11.08%
75th Percentile £50,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,325 £88,375 £70,625
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

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Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing GDPR

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Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Luton +3 1 £59,500 -19.32% 6
GDPR
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Security
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft