GDPR Job Trends in Edinburgh

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 65 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +28
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 13 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.23% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.77% 8.47% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £38,992 £41,170 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,688 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,721 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.79% -8.80% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,472 £65,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £87,500
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -16.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 88 118 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.32% 14.22% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 46 44 97
10th Percentile £25,500 £37,968 £25,750
25th Percentile £45,313 £54,312 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,374 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +36.75% -9.16%
75th Percentile £84,733 £85,444 £62,200
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £40,848 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -31.92% +26.32% -9.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.69%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Collibra
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (15.38%) Alation
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (7.69%) Dataform
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) ERwin
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Governance Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Data Governance Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Data Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Governance Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Security Manager
2 3 (23.08%) IT Manager
2 3 (23.08%) IT Operations Manager
2 3 (23.08%) IT Security Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Operational Security Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Operations Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Security Operations Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Service Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Governance
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (23.08%) Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) Due Diligence
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security Management
4 3 (23.08%) ISMS
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 3 (23.08%) Security Management
4 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISM
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CISA
2 1 (7.69%) CRISC
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (23.08%) SOC 2
4 2 (15.38%) GRC
5 1 (7.69%) NCSC
5 1 (7.69%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Informatica
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Meraki
3 2 (15.38%) Pega
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow