GDPR Job Trends in the South West

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 110 161
Rank change year-on-year -22 +51 +52
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 75 47 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.06% 1.79% 1.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 10.78% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 54 33 82
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,313 £55,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £62,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +66.67% -29.25%
75th Percentile £69,375 £73,750 £49,645
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +39.78% -15.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 675 436 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.52% 16.57% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 390 243 851
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,575 £56,745 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +8.30% +0.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,417 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +11.03% -6.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the South West over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Bristol -14 24 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Dorset 0 21 £30,000 -33.33% 3
Wiltshire -8 12 £43,953 +62.79% 1
Gloucestershire - 7 £42,500 - 6
Devon -18 5 £40,000 -37.25% 3
Somerset -29 4 £95,000 +31.03% 2
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England

GDPR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) IIS
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) AWS
3 12 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.33%) Twilio
5 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.00%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.00%) IaaS
7 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.00%) PaaS
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.67%) Canva
8 2 (2.67%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.33%) Asana
9 1 (1.33%) GCP
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.33%) Firewall
2 8 (10.67%) VPN
3 7 (9.33%) LAN
3 7 (9.33%) PBX
3 7 (9.33%) VoIP
3 7 (9.33%) WAN
3 7 (9.33%) WebEx
3 7 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (8.00%) Network Security
5 5 (6.67%) DNS
6 3 (4.00%) DHCP
6 3 (4.00%) DMZ
6 3 (4.00%) SMS
6 3 (4.00%) SSL
6 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Power BI
2 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.67%) OLAP
3 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
1 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 22 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing
5 4 (5.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (20.00%) Lead
2 7 (9.33%) Architect
2 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (9.33%) IT Engineer
2 7 (9.33%) Security Manager
3 6 (8.00%) Head of QA
3 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Senior
5 4 (5.33%) Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Information Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Information Security Manager
5 4 (5.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) IT Support
5 4 (5.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Coordinator
7 2 (2.67%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) JWT
1 1 (1.33%) OAuth
1 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (16.00%) NHS
3 7 (9.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (9.33%) IVR
4 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.67%) PKI
5 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.67%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.67%) EPoS
7 2 (2.67%) Replication
8 1 (1.33%) CCTV
8 1 (1.33%) DataPower
8 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 5 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) Data Protection
2 22 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (24.00%) Incident Response
4 15 (20.00%) Analytics
5 14 (18.67%) Cloud Security
5 14 (18.67%) Data Security
6 13 (17.33%) Customer Experience
6 13 (17.33%) Information Governance
7 11 (14.67%) Service Delivery
8 10 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
10 8 (10.67%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (10.67%) Security Architecture
11 7 (9.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.33%) Information Security
11 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.00%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) C#
5 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) CISSP
4 9 (12.00%) CISM
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.33%) CTC Cleared
6 6 (8.00%) Degree
6 6 (8.00%) IRCA
7 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (4.00%) CCNA
9 3 (4.00%) CCNP
9 3 (4.00%) CIPD
10 2 (2.67%) CEH
10 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (41.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 20 (26.67%) PCI DSS
3 15 (20.00%) NIST
4 8 (10.67%) NCSC
5 6 (8.00%) ISO 9001
5 6 (8.00%) QA
6 5 (6.67%) SOC 2
7 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (4.00%) GRC
7 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (2.67%) COBIT
8 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
8 2 (2.67%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.67%) CASB
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) VMware
3 8 (10.67%) Cisco
4 7 (9.33%) Genesys
4 7 (9.33%) Verint
5 3 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.00%) Dell
5 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) Tenable
6 2 (2.67%) Veeam
7 1 (1.33%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) Meraki
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.33%) Sophos
7 1 (1.33%) Xero