GDPR Jobs in Scotland

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 217 183
Rank change year-on-year +66 -34 -113
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 17 65 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.43% 8.68% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12 29 10
10th Percentile £47,875 £22,250 £34,706
25th Percentile £53,643 £25,750 £41,654
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,500 £57,263
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -27.53% +9.07%
75th Percentile £69,375 £67,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £91,350 £82,548 £68,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 496 749 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 16.15% 10.95% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 96 335 202
10th Percentile £37,500 £22,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,813 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £74,444 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,250 £70,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Scotland.

Salary trend for GDPR in Scotland

GDPR
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Edinburgh +13 12 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Glasgow +120 3 £60,000 +53.85% 13
Renfrewshire -9 2 £90,500 +158.57% 4
Aberdeen +36 1 - -
GDPR
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) SaaS
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) Collibra
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.76%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Prime Brokerage
5 1 (5.88%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Database Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Director
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) gRPC
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Blockchain
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
1 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
1 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (29.41%) Data Privacy
1 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
1 5 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (23.53%) Application Security
2 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
2 4 (23.53%) Data Management
2 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (23.53%) Technology Transformation
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Data Security
3 3 (17.65%) Information Security
3 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) RBAC
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
3 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CISM
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 3 (17.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (11.76%) QA
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) Informatica
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle