GDPR Job Trends in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow 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 48 65 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 +61 -27
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 4 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.60% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.41% 4.90% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £36,750 £35,900
25th Percentile £67,500 £39,375 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -3.23% +9.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £51,875 £57,500
90th Percentile - £55,250 £60,101
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £46,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.22% -15.91% +32.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 102 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.12% 14.76% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 27 51 52
10th Percentile £22,129 £40,000 £32,875
25th Percentile £25,000 £52,500 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +25.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £110,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 - £72,250
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GDPR

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Account Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) HNC
1 1 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens