GDPR Job Trends in the East of England

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

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 128 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +71
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 31 40 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.59% 1.39% 1.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.83% 12.66% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 61
10th Percentile £30,850 £35,194 £24,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,938 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +55.71% -45.95%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £77,600 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 396 316 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.58% 10.95% 11.51%
Number of salaries quoted 247 162 425
10th Percentile £28,900 £28,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £64,100 £67,350 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Hertfordshire -1 14 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Cambridgeshire -8 9 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Essex -17 5 £28,000 -41.05% 8
Suffolk +5 2 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Norfolk -5 1 £55,000 +92.61% 6
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (19.35%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.90%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) CMS
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) AWS KMS
3 5 (16.13%) Boomi
3 5 (16.13%) Matillion
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) DMZ
2 4 (12.90%) Network Security
3 3 (9.68%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (22.58%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (19.35%) Tableau
3 5 (16.13%) Pentaho
3 5 (16.13%) Star Schema
4 4 (12.90%) Apache Hive
4 4 (12.90%) Impala
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database
4 4 (12.90%) Parquet
4 4 (12.90%) Power BI
4 4 (12.90%) Spark SQL
5 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.45%) Looker
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
1 4 (12.90%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (6.45%) MLflow
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Law
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Legal
5 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Games
7 1 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Banking Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Consultant
2 4 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Transformation Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Administrator
3 3 (9.68%) Audio Visual Technician
3 3 (9.68%) Information Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) IT Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) IT Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) LangChain
2 2 (6.45%) LlamaIndex
2 2 (6.45%) pgvector
2 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.90%) Blog
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (12.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (12.90%) Driving Licence
3 4 (12.90%) PKI
3 4 (12.90%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.68%) CCTV
4 3 (9.68%) Clustering
4 3 (9.68%) Life Science
4 3 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Data Engineering
2 11 (35.48%) ETL
2 11 (35.48%) RBAC
3 10 (32.26%) AI
4 9 (29.03%) Data Transformation
4 9 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (25.81%) Analytics
5 8 (25.81%) Data Governance
6 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (22.58%) ISMS
7 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (19.35%) Use Case
8 5 (16.13%) Agile
8 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.13%) Data Extraction
8 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
8 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
8 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 12 (38.71%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CCNA
4 1 (3.23%) CCNP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (45.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (41.94%) NIST
3 11 (35.48%) Data Quality
4 9 (29.03%) HIPAA
5 6 (19.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (16.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (12.90%) GRC
7 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (12.90%) JSP 440
7 4 (12.90%) NCSC
7 4 (12.90%) PCI DSS
8 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Informatica
1 5 (16.13%) MuleSoft
1 5 (16.13%) Talend
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.68%) Databricks
4 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
4 2 (6.45%) Dell
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds