GDPR Job Trends in Northamptonshire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 48 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +17
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 6 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.46% 0.89% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 12.12% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £33,200 - £27,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +25.00%
75th Percentile £55,938 £52,500 -
90th Percentile £66,625 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% -30.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 66 33 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 16.10% 7.37% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 39 14 32
10th Percentile - £25,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,625 £64,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 -
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

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Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Northamptonshire

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Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Northampton -6 4 £50,000 - 1
Wellingborough - 1 £27,000 -
Brackley - 1 - -
GDPR
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Power Query
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Information Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft