GDPR Job Trends in Portsmouth

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 16 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 4.80% 1.02% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.53% 9.09% -
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £55,250 £52,109 -
25th Percentile £63,125 £54,465 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,539 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile - £64,717 -
90th Percentile £67,125 £67,137 -
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 68 33 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 20.42% 11.26% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 47 22 30
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,125 £27,000 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -13.27% +2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,313 £62,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £96,575 £72,750
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Portsmouth

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
General
1 14 (87.50%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 14 (87.50%) Security Assurance Manager
1 14 (87.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Security Posture
2 4 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (93.75%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (87.50%) Information Security
3 8 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
4 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) BPMN
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Lean Six Sigma
6 1 (6.25%) Logical Data Model
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Validation
6 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (93.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 15 (93.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 15 (93.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (93.75%) NCSC
1 15 (93.75%) NIST
1 15 (93.75%) SOC 2
2 14 (87.50%) GRC
2 14 (87.50%) SOC 3
3 10 (62.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.25%) SAP