GDPR Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 128 225
Rank change year-on-year -88 +97 -125
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 74 177 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 1.70% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.93% 13.84% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 57 93 58
10th Percentile - £27,000 £36,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £40,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -20.38% -23.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,781
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,438
England median annual salary £62,500 £47,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +32.28% -14.09% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,248 1,279 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.90% 12.29% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 452 897 488
10th Percentile £30,125 £25,900 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for GDPR in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +7 39 £62,500 +22.55% 68
Merseyside +23 20 £32,500 -4.41% 6
Cheshire -27 6 £48,306 +20.77% 14
Cumbria -70 4 £35,698 -
Lancashire -72 4 £24,500 -38.75% 37
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (24.32%) CMS
1 18 (24.32%) Umbraco
2 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) AWS
3 8 (10.81%) GCP
4 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.05%) Facebook Ads
5 3 (4.05%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.05%) SaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.70%) IaaS
6 2 (2.70%) PaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.35%) Collibra
7 1 (1.35%) Stripe
7 1 (1.35%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.97%) Intranet
2 9 (12.16%) Firewall
3 6 (8.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.70%) Network Security
4 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.70%) WAN
5 1 (1.35%) BGP
5 1 (1.35%) Broadband
5 1 (1.35%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.35%) IPsec
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) MPLS
5 1 (1.35%) OSPF
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) VPN
5 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.05%) Power BI
4 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.70%) Tableau
5 1 (1.35%) Looker
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.35%) Git
3 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 52 (70.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Marketing
4 6 (8.11%) Retail
5 5 (6.76%) Legal
6 4 (5.41%) Advertising
7 3 (4.05%) Brand Awareness
7 3 (4.05%) Law
8 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.35%) Aviation
9 1 (1.35%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Developer
2 17 (22.97%) Umbraco Developer
3 14 (18.92%) Architect
4 13 (17.57%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Lead
6 6 (8.11%) AWS Architect
6 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.11%) AWS Solution Architect
6 6 (8.11%) DevOps Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.11%) TOGAF Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) IT Assistant
9 3 (4.05%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.32%) CSS
1 18 (24.32%) HTML
1 18 (24.32%) HTML5
2 17 (22.97%) jQuery
3 4 (5.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (1.35%) .NET
5 1 (1.35%) CSS3
5 1 (1.35%) Express.js
5 1 (1.35%) LAMP
5 1 (1.35%) Laravel
5 1 (1.35%) Memcached
5 1 (1.35%) Node.js
5 1 (1.35%) NumPy
5 1 (1.35%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.35%) Pandas
5 1 (1.35%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) RESTful
5 1 (1.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) NHS
2 13 (17.57%) Management Information System
3 9 (12.16%) Social Media
4 7 (9.46%) Security Posture
4 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 6 (8.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (5.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.05%) FMCG
8 2 (2.70%) Blockchain
8 2 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.70%) Derivative
8 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.70%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.35%) Housing Association
9 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
3 6 (8.11%) Windows Vista
4 3 (4.05%) CentOS
4 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.70%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (22.97%) Clean Code
2 17 (22.97%) Content Management
2 17 (22.97%) Customer Requirements
2 17 (22.97%) Web Development
3 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 14 (18.92%) Containerisation
4 14 (18.92%) DevOps
4 14 (18.92%) TOGAF
5 13 (17.57%) Agile
5 13 (17.57%) Risk Management
6 12 (16.22%) Data Privacy
7 11 (14.86%) Analytics
7 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (14.86%) Data Protection
7 11 (14.86%) Vulnerability Management
8 10 (13.51%) Information Security
8 10 (13.51%) Microservices
9 9 (12.16%) Data Management
9 9 (12.16%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.54%) SQL
2 24 (32.43%) C#
3 15 (20.27%) Python
4 11 (14.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.81%) Bash
6 7 (9.46%) Java
6 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.35%) C++
8 1 (1.35%) Julia
8 1 (1.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.35%) Progress 4GL
8 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (45.95%) Degree
2 13 (17.57%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.16%) AWS Certification
4 8 (10.81%) CISA
4 8 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (10.81%) CISM
4 8 (10.81%) CISSP
5 6 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.11%) CEH
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (8.11%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.05%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (4.05%) RHCE
7 1 (1.35%) CCIE
7 1 (1.35%) CCNA
7 1 (1.35%) CCNP
7 1 (1.35%) GSEC
7 1 (1.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.32%) NIST
2 17 (22.97%) Accessibility
2 17 (22.97%) WCAG
3 14 (18.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (17.57%) HIPAA
5 7 (9.46%) PCI DSS
6 6 (8.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (5.41%) SOC 2
8 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.35%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.05%) Dovecot
3 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.05%) Postfix
3 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.11%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) SCCM
3 4 (5.41%) SCOM
3 4 (5.41%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) HP
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.86%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) Facebook
4 3 (4.05%) Okta
4 3 (4.05%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.05%) VMware
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco
5 2 (2.70%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.35%) Capita
6 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.35%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) Juniper
6 1 (1.35%) Meraki
6 1 (1.35%) PayPal
6 1 (1.35%) Progress