GDPR Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 118 305
Rank change year-on-year -60 +187 -149
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 136 392 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 2.27% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.73% 16.68% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 111 192 111
10th Percentile - £27,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £41,341 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -13.42% -3.54%
75th Percentile £73,125 £59,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £71,875
England median annual salary £64,500 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +40.22% -16.36% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,760 2,350 3,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.06% 13.60% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 820 1,638 1,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £65,305
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £78,750
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for GDPR in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -45 86 £43,250 +8.13% 117
Yorkshire -23 38 £54,250 +12.44% 62
North East +4 12 £57,500 +41.98% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (15.44%) CMS
1 21 (15.44%) Umbraco
2 8 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.15%) SAS
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.18%) Azure
2 16 (11.76%) AWS
3 14 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (9.56%) GCP
5 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.94%) SaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.21%) Facebook Ads
8 3 (2.21%) IaaS
8 3 (2.21%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.21%) PaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.18%) Firewall
2 21 (15.44%) Intranet
3 19 (13.97%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (5.88%) Network Security
5 6 (4.41%) VPN
6 3 (2.21%) Broadband
6 3 (2.21%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.21%) WAN
7 2 (1.47%) LAN
7 2 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.74%) BGP
8 1 (0.74%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.74%) IPsec
8 1 (0.74%) MPLS
8 1 (0.74%) OSPF
8 1 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.88%) Power BI
4 6 (4.41%) Tableau
5 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.74%) Endeca
8 1 (0.74%) Looker
8 1 (0.74%) Metadata
8 1 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.21%) Selenium
3 2 (1.47%) Git
3 2 (1.47%) GitLab
3 2 (1.47%) JIRA
3 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.74%) Gradle
4 1 (0.74%) JUnit
4 1 (0.74%) Maven
4 1 (0.74%) Postman
4 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.74%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.74%) TestNG
General
1 85 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Finance
4 12 (8.82%) Legal
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.41%) Advertising
6 6 (4.41%) Law
7 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Retail
8 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.94%) Marketing
8 4 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.21%) Brand Awareness
9 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.59%) Architect
2 21 (15.44%) Developer
2 21 (15.44%) Lead
2 21 (15.44%) Umbraco Developer
3 16 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 12 (8.82%) Security Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Senior
6 10 (7.35%) Lead Architect
6 10 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Management Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Consultant
10 6 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Information Security Consultant
10 6 (4.41%) Security Consultant
11 5 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.44%) CSS
1 21 (15.44%) HTML
1 21 (15.44%) HTML5
1 21 (15.44%) jQuery
2 4 (2.94%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.21%) RESTful
3 3 (2.21%) SOAP
4 2 (1.47%) .NET
4 2 (1.47%) Kafka
4 2 (1.47%) LDAP
5 1 (0.74%) JSON
5 1 (0.74%) JWT
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.74%) Management Information System
2 24 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 23 (16.91%) NHS
4 19 (13.97%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (13.24%) Social Media
6 14 (10.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (6.62%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (5.88%) Credit Risk
9 8 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
9 8 (5.88%) Market Risk
9 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
10 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (3.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (2.94%) Cyberattack
12 4 (2.94%) Operational Technology
13 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
13 3 (2.21%) FMCG
14 2 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.44%) Windows
2 14 (10.29%) Windows Vista
3 7 (5.15%) Linux
4 3 (2.21%) CentOS
4 3 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (28.68%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (27.94%) Risk Management
4 37 (27.21%) Data Protection
5 34 (25.00%) Information Security
6 30 (22.06%) DevOps
7 29 (21.32%) CI/CD
8 28 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (17.65%) Agile
9 24 (17.65%) Incident Response
10 23 (16.91%) Vulnerability Management
11 22 (16.18%) Data Management
11 22 (16.18%) TOGAF
12 21 (15.44%) Clean Code
12 21 (15.44%) Content Management
12 21 (15.44%) Customer Requirements
12 21 (15.44%) Web Development
13 20 (14.71%) Analytics
13 20 (14.71%) SIEM
14 18 (13.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.74%) SQL
2 26 (19.12%) C#
3 19 (13.97%) Python
4 12 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.62%) Bash
6 7 (5.15%) Java
6 7 (5.15%) R
7 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.74%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 46 (33.82%) Degree
2 22 (16.18%) CISSP
3 21 (15.44%) CISA
4 18 (13.24%) CISM
5 16 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (11.03%) CEH
6 15 (11.03%) Master's Degree
7 14 (10.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (10.29%) DBS Check
8 10 (7.35%) Azure Certification
9 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
11 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.21%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (2.21%) RHCE
12 1 (0.74%) GIAC
12 1 (0.74%) GSEC
12 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (28.68%) NIST
3 22 (16.18%) Accessibility
4 21 (15.44%) WCAG
5 20 (14.71%) PCI DSS
6 11 (8.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (8.09%) HIPAA
7 8 (5.88%) Basel III
7 8 (5.88%) IFRS
7 8 (5.88%) IFRS 9
7 8 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (5.15%) Basel II
8 7 (5.15%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
10 5 (3.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (2.94%) SOC 2
12 3 (2.21%) GRC
13 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.74%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (8.09%) Docker
2 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.21%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.21%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.21%) Postfix
5 1 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.15%) Terraform
3 4 (2.94%) SCCM
3 4 (2.94%) SCOM
3 4 (2.94%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.44%) HP
3 7 (5.15%) Google
4 4 (2.94%) VMware
5 3 (2.21%) Cisco
5 3 (2.21%) Facebook
5 3 (2.21%) Informatica
5 3 (2.21%) Okta
5 3 (2.21%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.21%) Rapid7
5 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Capita
6 1 (0.74%) Citrix
6 1 (0.74%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.74%) Meraki
6 1 (0.74%) New Relic
6 1 (0.74%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.74%) Sophos