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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 210 184
Rank change year-on-year +71 -26 -121
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 18 69 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 1.03% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.40% 8.52% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 7
10th Percentile £47,500 £22,250 £35,645
25th Percentile £52,846 £25,750 £40,269
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,548 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £46,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.41% -15.23% -3.51%

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 530 810 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.56% 12.08% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 114 339 208
10th Percentile £37,500 £22,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,769 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +21.96%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,596 £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 21 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 21 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 +13 13 £55,000 -18.92% 18
Glasgow +153 3 £60,000 +53.85% 15
Renfrewshire -15 2 £90,500 +158.57% 5
Aberdeen +26 1 - - 7
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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (11.11%) Collibra
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Prime Brokerage
5 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Science Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Head of IT
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
2 3 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.56%) gRPC
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Blockchain
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Derivative
1 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
1 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Data Privacy
1 5 (27.78%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (22.22%) Application Security
2 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
2 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
2 4 (22.22%) Data Management
2 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) RBAC
3 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
3 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Groovy
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
1 5 (27.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle