GDPR Job Trends in Gloucestershire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 6 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.58% - 0.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.11% - 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £27,720
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £29,440
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile £73,500 - £31,595
South West median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -36.00% +66.67% -29.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 74 24 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.19% 5.12% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51 19 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,900 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £75,754 £57,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.97% +4.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

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Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Gloucestershire

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Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Gloucester - 2 £40,000 - 4
Cheltenham - 1 £65,000 - 1
GDPR
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Information Systems Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) BCP
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Meraki
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) HubSpot
4 1 (16.67%) Xero