GDPR Job Trends in Manchester

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 107 109
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +95
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 33 49 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.13% 1.84% 1.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.35% 8.36% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22 30 35
10th Percentile - £23,827 £21,800
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £22,905
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -5.68% +8.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £81,477 £82,010 £80,500
North West median annual salary £46,000 £34,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.69% -4.92%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 230 586 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.88% 21.97% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 143 190 213
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £27,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £73,908 £73,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £82,328 £84,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -4.21% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Manchester

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Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Salford +7 5 £35,500 - 2
Wigan +2 2 £35,000 +34.62%
GDPR
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) SaaS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Boomi
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Broadband
1 2 (6.06%) LAN
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.06%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (6.06%) WAN
1 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (3.03%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Legal
4 8 (24.24%) Law
5 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Billing
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) IT Sales Executive
1 5 (15.15%) Sales Executive
2 4 (12.12%) Compliance Manager
3 3 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Accountant
4 2 (6.06%) Assistant Accountant
4 2 (6.06%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Data Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Integration Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Management Accountant
5 1 (3.03%) Data Compliance Manager
5 1 (3.03%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Information Governance Officer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.06%) Blazor
1 2 (6.06%) Entity Framework
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Android
1 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 8 (24.24%) CRM
2 8 (24.24%) Information Security
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (21.21%) Data Privacy
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Risk Management
4 6 (18.18%) Data Management
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) Business Development
5 5 (15.15%) Business Strategy
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Generation
6 4 (12.12%) Attestation
6 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.09%) Microservices
7 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) AAT
2 2 (6.06%) ACCA
2 2 (6.06%) CIMA
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) MBA
3 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (18.18%) GLBA
1 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) GRC
2 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 14001
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.03%) NIST
4 1 (3.03%) PERC
4 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
2 2 (6.06%) Puppet
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) iManage
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Software AG
4 2 (6.06%) Sage
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) webMethods
4 2 (6.06%) Xamarin
4 2 (6.06%) Xero
5 1 (3.03%) Concur
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) IFS
5 1 (3.03%) Infor
5 1 (3.03%) Jitterbit
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.03%) Talend
5 1 (3.03%) Workday