GDPR Job Trends in Leicester

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Leicestershire > Leicester

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 5 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 1.51% - 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.89% - 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80,000 - £12,980
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £16,520
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £22,780
90th Percentile - - £24,412
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,195 £35,000 £20,760
% change year-on-year +29.13% +68.59% -64.66%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 36 27 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 10.88% 14.06% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28 16 28
10th Percentile £39,525 £29,000 £23,975
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 £30,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £42,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -20.56% +21.59%
75th Percentile £68,125 £53,375 £64,986
90th Percentile £86,625 £70,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £32,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +38.46% -34.99% +5.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Leicester

GDPR
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing GDPR

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (60.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (60.00%) Electronics
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Post-Merger Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Six Sigma
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (60.00%) MBA
2 3 (60.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (60.00%) PMP
3 2 (40.00%) CISM
3 2 (40.00%) CISMP
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) QAD
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft