GDPR Job Trends in Leeds

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +70
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 25 15 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.87% 1.46% 2.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.03% 8.77% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 23
10th Percentile £28,925 £54,375 £38,890
25th Percentile £30,000 £55,000 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +8.70% +17.95%
75th Percentile £73,457 £66,875 £91,274
90th Percentile £80,643 £82,987 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% -3.23% +24.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 156 171 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 11.69% 16.67% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 79 87 139
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.26%
75th Percentile £64,875 £71,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £79,521 £82,850 £88,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,958 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.94% -8.70% +9.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Leeds over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Leeds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) SaaS
2 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.00%) dbt
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
1 4 (16.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.00%) Looker
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Legal
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.00%) Law
4 3 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.00%) Advertising
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Data Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) HR Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) HR Data Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Lead Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Lead Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Accountant
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Assistant Accountant
3 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) CRM Executive
4 1 (4.00%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Educational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Blog
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
3 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (20.00%) Validation
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (12.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) SABSA
5 3 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (12.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
3 3 (12.00%) NCSC
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud