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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 211 192
Rank change year-on-year +81 -19 -133
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 15 66 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.53% 0.98% 0.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.59% 8.20% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 34 7
10th Percentile £50,125 £22,250 £35,645
25th Percentile £54,063 £27,438 £40,269
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +32.28%
75th Percentile £69,375 £69,375 £62,833
90th Percentile £90,450 £82,548 £64,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £46,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.78% -15.45% -

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 418 805 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.83% 11.95% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 342 207
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,300 £31,441
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,433 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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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

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 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
Edinburgh +6 11 £55,000 -21.43% 10
Glasgow +155 3 £60,000 +53.85% 15
Renfrewshire -12 2 £90,500 +158.57% 6
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 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Tableau
2 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Data Science Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Head of IT
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Database Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) gRPC
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Adaptive Web Design
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 5 (33.33%) DAMA
3 5 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Personalization
3 5 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Data Management
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) NIST
3 2 (13.33%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle