GDPR Jobs in the North East

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 58 106
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 -3
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 16 59 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.05% 3.17% 0.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.53% 18.44% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile £37,423 £32,500 £30,917
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,250 £40,249
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +0.00% +3.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £57,875
90th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £46,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +34.41% -15.45% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 152 320 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.44% 17.17% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 70 219 107
10th Percentile £29,100 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +23.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,084 £60,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,000 £69,649
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the North East.

Salary trend for GDPR in the North East

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the North East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear +3 11 £57,500 +43.75% 10
Durham +12 5 £37,500 -16.67% 3
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (31.25%) Legal
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Law
2 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Risk Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Compliance Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Governance Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Information Governance Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Information Risk Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Risk Manager
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Learning Management System
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Risk Management
2 7 (43.75%) Business Continuity
3 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (31.25%) Information Security
4 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (25.00%) BCP
5 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) SIEM
6 3 (18.75%) Budgeting
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Management
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CISSP
2 4 (25.00%) CISA
3 3 (18.75%) CISM
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) CEH
5 1 (6.25%) GIAC
5 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (50.00%) NIST
3 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (6.25%) GRC
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 14001
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
5 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS