GDPR Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 277 242
Rank change year-on-year +125 -35 -21
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,627 1,231 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.32% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.76% 6.72% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 702 1,194
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,600 £33,644
25th Percentile £30,385 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,475 £91,250 £88,953
UK median annual salary £46,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.91% - -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,826 18,317 21,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 19.65% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,354 8,390 11,772
10th Percentile £27,015 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,915 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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

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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 27 April 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 27 April 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
South East +52 390 £47,500 -9.52% 127
North of England +198 389 £40,681 -14.36% 106
London +53 380 £52,000 -13.33% 175
Midlands +83 224 £37,500 -33.04% 87
North West +106 174 £40,000 -20.38% 63
Yorkshire +168 157 £48,250 +4.89% 35
West Midlands +84 149 £43,653 -19.16% 48
South West +33 135 £37,500 -18.03% 40
East of England +44 91 £38,500 -45.00% 57
East Midlands +22 73 £32,500 -44.44% 38
North East +47 58 £40,500 +23.67% 10
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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
1 121 (7.44%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.29%) WordPress
4 18 (1.11%) Captiva
4 18 (1.11%) FileNet
4 18 (1.11%) WebSphere
5 16 (0.98%) CMS
5 16 (0.98%) SAS
6 13 (0.80%) Confluence
7 8 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.43%) Apache
9 5 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.25%) Site Server
10 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 143 (8.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (5.96%) Spreadsheet
4 25 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.48%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.74%) Revit
7 5 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.061%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 23 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.25%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.061%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.061%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.061%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.061%) FastStats
6 1 (0.061%) iTrent
6 1 (0.061%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.061%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.061%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.061%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.061%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 408 (25.08%) Azure
2 292 (17.95%) GCP
3 257 (15.80%) Microsoft 365
4 223 (13.71%) AWS
5 178 (10.94%) Power Platform
6 35 (2.15%) SaaS
6 35 (2.15%) Serverless
7 34 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (1.60%) IaaS
10 25 (1.54%) Snowflake
11 23 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (1.35%) GitHub
12 22 (1.35%) PaaS
13 21 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (1.29%) Matillion
14 15 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 15 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 134 (8.24%) Firewall
2 39 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (2.27%) Wireless
4 34 (2.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 34 (2.09%) VPN
5 31 (1.91%) DNS
5 31 (1.91%) WAN
6 23 (1.41%) Intranet
7 22 (1.35%) Network Security
8 21 (1.29%) 4G
9 20 (1.23%) LAN
9 20 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.11%) VLAN
11 17 (1.04%) DHCP
11 17 (1.04%) VoIP
12 16 (0.98%) Internet
12 16 (0.98%) SAN
13 15 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.86%) MPLS
15 12 (0.74%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (15.73%) Looker
2 255 (15.67%) BigQuery
3 156 (9.59%) Power BI
4 150 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 51 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 50 (3.07%) Metadata
8 26 (1.60%) MySQL
8 26 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.48%) Big Data
10 22 (1.35%) Tableau
11 21 (1.29%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.61%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.49%) QlikView
15 7 (0.43%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
17 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 107 (6.58%) JIRA
2 37 (2.27%) Git
3 18 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (0.68%) GitLab
4 11 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.68%) Selenium
5 8 (0.49%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.49%) JUnit
6 5 (0.31%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.31%) Xcode
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) MLflow
10 1 (0.061%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.061%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.061%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.061%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.061%) Vite
General
1 526 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 464 (28.52%) Finance
3 431 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (15.61%) Legal
5 147 (9.04%) Banking
6 110 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 84 (5.16%) Law
8 81 (4.98%) Retail
9 73 (4.49%) Marketing
10 71 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 62 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.70%) Games
14 38 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (1.41%) Mandarin Language
18 21 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
20 17 (1.04%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 188 (11.56%) Analyst
2 173 (10.63%) Architect
3 171 (10.51%) Senior
4 155 (9.53%) Data Engineer
5 148 (9.10%) Data Architect
6 143 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
6 143 (8.79%) Principal Data Engineer
6 143 (8.79%) Principal Engineer
7 116 (7.13%) Lead
8 84 (5.16%) IT Manager
9 74 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
10 68 (4.18%) Developer
11 54 (3.32%) Security Manager
12 53 (3.26%) Support Engineer
13 51 (3.13%) Security Analyst
14 47 (2.89%) IT Support
15 46 (2.83%) Project Manager
16 45 (2.77%) Data Manager
17 41 (2.52%) Consultant
18 37 (2.27%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.09%) HTML
2 28 (1.72%) .NET
2 28 (1.72%) RESTful
3 24 (1.48%) CSS
4 16 (0.98%) REST
4 16 (0.98%) Web Services
5 15 (0.92%) React
5 15 (0.92%) XML
6 14 (0.86%) EDI
7 13 (0.80%) jQuery
8 10 (0.61%) Spring
8 10 (0.61%) Unreal Engine
8 10 (0.61%) V-Ray
9 9 (0.55%) .NET Framework
9 9 (0.55%) HTML5
10 8 (0.49%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.43%) Ajax
11 7 (0.43%) gRPC
12 6 (0.37%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.37%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 336 (20.65%) Self-Motivation
2 180 (11.06%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.86%) Driving Licence
4 74 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 61 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 46 (2.83%) NHS
7 41 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (1.48%) e-Learning
9 24 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.41%) IoT
11 20 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
11 20 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.11%) CCTV
13 18 (1.11%) DataPower
13 18 (1.11%) Private Cloud
14 16 (0.98%) Cloud Native
15 14 (0.86%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.31%) Windows
2 73 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 63 (3.87%) Linux
4 55 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.54%) Android
6 22 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.23%) Unix
8 16 (0.98%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.61%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.061%) AIX
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
2 355 (21.82%) Data Protection
3 329 (20.22%) Mentoring
4 323 (19.85%) Cybersecurity
5 322 (19.79%) Data Governance
6 284 (17.46%) Agile
7 278 (17.09%) Information Security
8 277 (17.03%) Data Engineering
9 258 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
10 240 (14.75%) DevOps
11 228 (14.01%) Data Management
12 199 (12.23%) Change Management
13 198 (12.17%) Data Science
14 181 (11.12%) Data Privacy
15 180 (11.06%) Data Modelling
16 179 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
16 179 (11.00%) Data Security
17 176 (10.82%) Risk Management
18 172 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
19 171 (10.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 135 (8.30%) SQL
2 45 (2.77%) JavaScript
3 41 (2.52%) Java
4 40 (2.46%) Python
5 37 (2.27%) C#
6 29 (1.78%) T-SQL
7 26 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.11%) C
8 18 (1.11%) PHP
9 17 (1.04%) C++
10 7 (0.43%) Bash
11 6 (0.37%) R
12 5 (0.31%) COBOL
12 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.31%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 5 (0.31%) Swift
13 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.25%) VB
14 3 (0.18%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (14.63%) Degree
2 141 (8.67%) DBS Check
3 114 (7.01%) CISSP
4 71 (4.36%) CISM
5 55 (3.38%) Security Cleared
6 48 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (2.83%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.34%) SC Cleared
9 37 (2.27%) CRISC
10 33 (2.03%) CISA
10 33 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.78%) GIAC
12 26 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.86%) GSEC
16 14 (0.86%) SSCP
17 13 (0.80%) CCSP
17 13 (0.80%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (15.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (13.34%) Data Quality
3 135 (8.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 119 (7.31%) NIST
5 88 (5.41%) PCI DSS
6 57 (3.50%) GRC
7 46 (2.83%) SLA
8 39 (2.40%) HIPAA
9 34 (2.09%) QA
10 31 (1.91%) Accessibility
11 29 (1.78%) NCSC
12 24 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 23 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 21 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 20 (1.23%) COBIT
16 16 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.74%) PSD2
17 12 (0.74%) SOC 2
18 11 (0.68%) COSHH
18 11 (0.68%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 91 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.58%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.61%) Firmware
4 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.55%) Docker
6 6 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.061%) LXC
Systems Management
1 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (0.98%) FortiGate
3 13 (0.80%) CASB
3 13 (0.80%) SCCM
4 12 (0.74%) Terraform
5 10 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.61%) Nessus
6 9 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.37%) CSIRT
8 6 (0.37%) SCDPM
9 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.25%) Autotask
9 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.18%) SELinux
11 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.12%) QRadar
11 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 447 (27.47%) Microsoft
2 288 (17.70%) Google
3 47 (2.89%) SAP
4 42 (2.58%) Cisco
4 42 (2.58%) Databricks
5 35 (2.15%) VMware
6 30 (1.84%) Oracle
7 28 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.41%) Citrix
8 23 (1.41%) Dell
9 22 (1.35%) Adobe
9 22 (1.35%) Sophos
10 20 (1.23%) IBM
11 18 (1.11%) Apple
11 18 (1.11%) Kofax
11 18 (1.11%) Pega
12 17 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 15 (0.92%) Qualys
13 15 (0.92%) Sage
14 14 (0.86%) HP