GDPR Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 286 291
Rank change year-on-year +120 +5 -37
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,288 851 2,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.64% 1.20% 1.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 7.81% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 716 585 1,236
10th Percentile £24,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £42,257 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,499 10,896 25,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.33% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 7,032 12,574
10th Percentile £27,400 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

GDPR
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in England.

Salary trend for GDPR in England

GDPR
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +126 341 £40,000 -20.38% 111
South East +93 296 £55,000 -8.33% 107
London +26 259 £58,500 -7.36% 93
Midlands +60 189 £53,500 -4.46% 91
North West +71 168 £40,000 -20.38% 67
Yorkshire +105 129 £49,000 +4.48% 36
West Midlands +43 118 £54,250 -1.36% 53
South West +21 113 £37,500 +36.36% 53
East of England +35 78 £50,000 -13.04% 46
East Midlands +19 68 £35,250 -42.91% 36
North East +27 44 £40,000 -11.36% 13
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UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 110 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.16%) CMS
4 11 (0.85%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.70%) Confluence
5 9 (0.70%) WordPress
6 8 (0.62%) SAS
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
8 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 117 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.78%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.078%) InDesign
7 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.078%) Revit
7 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.31%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.16%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.16%) iTrent
5 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.078%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.078%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.078%) FastStats
6 1 (0.078%) Primavera
6 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.078%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.078%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 300 (23.29%) Azure
2 222 (17.24%) GCP
3 211 (16.38%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (12.11%) Power Platform
5 154 (11.96%) AWS
6 34 (2.64%) Entra ID
7 33 (2.56%) SaaS
8 25 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (1.86%) Serverless
10 23 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (1.79%) IaaS
11 20 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (1.55%) PaaS
12 19 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.40%) OneDrive
14 16 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (0.85%) Azure Functions
17 11 (0.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 99 (7.69%) Firewall
2 39 (3.03%) WAN
3 38 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (2.95%) Wireless
4 36 (2.80%) DNS
4 36 (2.80%) VPN
5 34 (2.64%) Network Security
6 26 (2.02%) LAN
7 19 (1.48%) 4G
8 18 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (1.40%) VLAN
9 17 (1.32%) Internet
10 16 (1.24%) TCP/IP
11 15 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
12 13 (1.01%) 3G
12 13 (1.01%) MQTT
12 13 (1.01%) RS-485
13 11 (0.85%) Intranet
13 11 (0.85%) MPLS
14 10 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (16.61%) Looker
2 212 (16.46%) BigQuery
3 130 (10.09%) Power BI
4 105 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (5.51%) SQL Server
6 33 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 30 (2.33%) Metadata
9 19 (1.48%) MySQL
9 19 (1.48%) Tableau
10 16 (1.24%) Big Data
11 15 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.85%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.70%) SAP HANA
15 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 7 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (5.90%) JIRA
2 35 (2.72%) Git
3 14 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.54%) MSBuild
6 7 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.39%) Xcode
8 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.16%) MLflow
11 1 (0.078%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.078%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.078%) Selenium
11 1 (0.078%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.078%) Subversion
11 1 (0.078%) TeamCity
General
1 436 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 347 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
3 319 (24.77%) Finance
4 253 (19.64%) Legal
5 136 (10.56%) Banking
6 70 (5.43%) Law
7 65 (5.05%) Marketing
8 60 (4.66%) Retail
9 56 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.80%) Games
13 27 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (1.79%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.63%) Mandarin Language
16 16 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.01%) Public Sector
18 11 (0.85%) Environmental Health
19 10 (0.78%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 192 (14.91%) Analyst
2 176 (13.66%) Senior
3 155 (12.03%) Data Engineer
4 142 (11.02%) Principal Engineer
5 141 (10.95%) Platform Engineer
5 141 (10.95%) Principal Data Engineer
6 128 (9.94%) Architect
7 88 (6.83%) Data Architect
8 87 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
9 74 (5.75%) Lead
10 61 (4.74%) Developer
11 58 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 57 (4.43%) Security Manager
13 55 (4.27%) IT Support
14 54 (4.19%) IT Manager
15 49 (3.80%) Security Analyst
16 44 (3.42%) Consultant
17 42 (3.26%) IT Engineer
18 40 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
19 38 (2.95%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.03%) HTML
2 36 (2.80%) .NET
3 31 (2.41%) CSS
4 26 (2.02%) REST
5 25 (1.94%) RESTful
6 20 (1.55%) XML
7 19 (1.48%) Web Services
8 14 (1.09%) gRPC
8 14 (1.09%) React
9 13 (1.01%) jQuery
10 11 (0.85%) ASP.NET
11 10 (0.78%) HTML5
11 10 (0.78%) JSON
12 9 (0.70%) EDI
12 9 (0.70%) Spring
13 8 (0.62%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 6 (0.47%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.47%) ARM Templates
14 6 (0.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 282 (21.89%) Self-Motivation
2 125 (9.70%) Management Information System
3 69 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 61 (4.74%) Driving Licence
5 43 (3.34%) NHS
6 41 (3.18%) Data Centre
7 40 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 38 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
9 20 (1.55%) IoT
10 18 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.93%) CCTV
14 12 (0.93%) PKI
15 11 (0.85%) e-Learning
15 11 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 173 (13.43%) Windows
2 71 (5.51%) Windows Server
3 59 (4.58%) Windows 10
4 50 (3.88%) Linux
5 34 (2.64%) Android
6 27 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 13 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.62%) Mac OS X
10 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.16%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.16%) Unix
12 2 (0.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.16%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (36.26%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (25.85%) Data Protection
3 272 (21.12%) Mentoring
4 268 (20.81%) Data Governance
5 250 (19.41%) Agile
6 246 (19.10%) Information Security
7 240 (18.63%) Cybersecurity
8 236 (18.32%) Data Engineering
9 228 (17.70%) Data Management
10 216 (16.77%) DevOps
11 213 (16.54%) Platform Engineering
12 185 (14.36%) Data Privacy
13 174 (13.51%) Data Science
14 172 (13.35%) Change Management
15 160 (12.42%) Risk Management
16 149 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
17 148 (11.49%) Process Improvement
18 146 (11.34%) DataOps
19 143 (11.10%) Customer Service
20 133 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.84%) SQL
2 47 (3.65%) JavaScript
3 43 (3.34%) C#
4 38 (2.95%) Python
5 37 (2.87%) PowerShell
6 26 (2.02%) Java
7 19 (1.48%) T-SQL
8 17 (1.32%) C++
9 14 (1.09%) C
10 12 (0.93%) PHP
11 6 (0.47%) Bash
12 5 (0.39%) COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.39%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 5 (0.39%) Swift
12 5 (0.39%) VB
13 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.31%) R
14 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.078%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 197 (15.30%) Degree
2 109 (8.46%) CISSP
3 91 (7.07%) CISM
4 65 (5.05%) Security Cleared
5 48 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.49%) DBS Check
7 43 (3.34%) CISA
7 43 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 39 (3.03%) SC Cleared
9 33 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (2.41%) CRISC
11 25 (1.94%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.40%) GIAC
12 18 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (1.24%) CEH
14 15 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 13 (1.01%) PMI Certification
15 13 (1.01%) PMP
16 11 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (13.90%) Data Quality
3 121 (9.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 106 (8.23%) NIST
5 95 (7.38%) PCI DSS
6 68 (5.28%) GRC
7 53 (4.11%) HIPAA
8 41 (3.18%) SLA
9 33 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 29 (2.25%) QA
11 25 (1.94%) COBIT
12 24 (1.86%) Accessibility
13 23 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (1.40%) SOC 2
15 17 (1.32%) NCSC
16 15 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.62%) COSHH
18 8 (0.62%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 96 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.41%) Hyper-V
3 26 (2.02%) Docker
4 25 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 6 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.23%) vSphere
9 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.71%) Terraform
3 16 (1.24%) SCCM
4 13 (1.01%) CASB
5 8 (0.62%) Ansible
5 8 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
5 8 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.54%) Nessus
7 6 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (0.47%) SCDPM
8 5 (0.39%) Puppet
9 4 (0.31%) Autotask
9 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.23%) Grafana
10 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 347 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 227 (17.62%) Google
3 37 (2.87%) Cisco
4 33 (2.56%) VMware
5 29 (2.25%) Databricks
6 28 (2.17%) SAP
7 20 (1.55%) Dell
8 18 (1.40%) Oracle
9 15 (1.16%) Citrix
10 13 (1.01%) Adobe
10 13 (1.01%) Apple
10 13 (1.01%) HP
10 13 (1.01%) Qualys
10 13 (1.01%) Sage
10 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 12 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.78%) CheckPoint
12 10 (0.78%) Meraki
13 9 (0.70%) Sophos
14 8 (0.62%) ServiceNow