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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 195 144
Rank change year-on-year +71 -51 +41
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 168 74 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.81% 1.14% 2.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.00% 8.06% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 90 63 93
10th Percentile £26,500 £36,400 £31,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,238 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% -16.27% +23.08%
75th Percentile £52,594 £63,167 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% -0.87% +4.55%

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 1,120 918 1,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.09% 14.19% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 739 473 998
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £26,350
25th Percentile £34,750 £38,250 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +35 82 £51,000 +4.36% 29
Cheshire -4 34 £40,000 -36.13% 19
Merseyside +48 33 £34,000 -15.00% 10
Lancashire -15 12 £40,000 +24.70% 8
Cumbria - 7 £31,000 - 3
GDPR
England

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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 20 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.57%) CMS
2 6 (3.57%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.38%) Confluence
5 2 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.19%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.19%) iTrent
3 1 (0.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.64%) GCP
2 31 (18.45%) Azure
3 23 (13.69%) Power Platform
4 20 (11.90%) AWS
4 20 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.36%) SaaS
7 8 (4.76%) OCI
8 6 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.38%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.79%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.19%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.19%) Commercetools
11 2 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.19%) Serverless
11 2 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.60%) IaaS
12 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) Intranet
2 4 (2.38%) Firewall
2 4 (2.38%) Skype
2 4 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.79%) VoIP
4 2 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.19%) Network Security
4 2 (1.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) HTTP
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
5 1 (0.60%) SMTP
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.64%) BigQuery
2 32 (19.05%) Looker
3 24 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.74%) Power BI
5 10 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.17%) Metadata
7 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.38%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.19%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.19%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (10.12%) JIRA
2 6 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 66 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.31%) Legal
3 53 (31.55%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (22.62%) Finance
5 28 (16.67%) Banking
6 16 (9.52%) Law
7 7 (4.17%) Retail
8 5 (2.98%) Marketing
9 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.79%) Games
10 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (16.07%) Data Engineer
1 27 (16.07%) Platform Engineer
1 27 (16.07%) Principal Data Engineer
1 27 (16.07%) Principal Engineer
2 25 (14.88%) Analyst
3 22 (13.10%) Senior
4 20 (11.90%) Lead
5 16 (9.52%) Architect
5 16 (9.52%) Developer
5 16 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 7 (4.17%) .NET Developer
7 7 (4.17%) Azure Developer
7 7 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (4.17%) C# Developer
7 7 (4.17%) Head of IT
7 7 (4.17%) Integration Developer
7 7 (4.17%) Systems Developer
8 6 (3.57%) Umbraco Developer
9 5 (2.98%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.14%) HTML
2 9 (5.36%) .NET
3 6 (3.57%) CSS
3 6 (3.57%) HTML5
3 6 (3.57%) jQuery
4 5 (2.98%) XML
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.57%) Blog
4 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.57%) NHS
5 5 (2.98%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.79%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.79%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.19%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.19%) IoT
8 2 (1.19%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.60%) Animation
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.60%) Life Science
9 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.60%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Windows
2 5 (2.98%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.38%) Linux
3 4 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.19%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (35.12%) Data Protection
3 44 (26.19%) DevOps
4 42 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 39 (23.21%) Agile
5 39 (23.21%) Mentoring
6 37 (22.02%) Data Management
7 34 (20.24%) Data Science
8 33 (19.64%) Data Engineering
8 33 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (19.05%) Data Privacy
9 32 (19.05%) Process Improvement
10 31 (18.45%) Change Management
11 29 (17.26%) Matrix Management
11 29 (17.26%) Risk Management
12 28 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
13 27 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (16.07%) DataOps
14 24 (14.29%) Information Security
15 22 (13.10%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.93%) C#
2 9 (5.36%) SQL
3 7 (4.17%) Python
4 5 (2.98%) Java
5 2 (1.19%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (14.88%) Degree
2 24 (14.29%) CISM
3 19 (11.31%) CRISC
4 15 (8.93%) CISA
4 15 (8.93%) CISSP
5 14 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.17%) PMP
7 6 (3.57%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.98%) CEH
9 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (2.38%) ISSMP
9 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.19%) SAS Certification
12 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 19 (11.31%) GRC
4 11 (6.55%) NIST
5 10 (5.95%) QA
6 9 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.36%) PCI DSS
7 7 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (3.57%) Accessibility
8 6 (3.57%) WCAG
9 3 (1.79%) NCSC
9 3 (1.79%) SLA
10 2 (1.19%) ISO 9001
10 2 (1.19%) PMO
11 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.60%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
1 2 (1.19%) Terminal Services
1 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.38%) Autotask
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.19%) SELinux
Vendors
1 32 (19.05%) Google
2 27 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.14%) Oracle
4 6 (3.57%) Cisco
4 6 (3.57%) HP
5 5 (2.98%) Citrix
5 5 (2.98%) SAP
6 4 (2.38%) Datto
6 4 (2.38%) Dell
7 2 (1.19%) Sage
7 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.19%) VMware
7 2 (1.19%) Workday
8 1 (0.60%) Adobe
8 1 (0.60%) Apple
8 1 (0.60%) Avaya
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) Planview
8 1 (0.60%) Qualys