GDPR Jobs in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 163 170
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 -26
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 49 136 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.38% 1.47% 1.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.52% 10.82% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 38 89 80
10th Percentile £41,750 £23,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £37,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% +2.74% -30.48%
75th Percentile £74,688 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £75,000 £70,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +35.87% -16.36% -4.35%

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 575 1,257 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.14% 13.58% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 268 832 620
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,716 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -1.49% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £65,688
90th Percentile £84,117 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the South West.

Salary trend for GDPR in the South West

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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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Bristol +28 30 £60,000 +14.29% 38
Somerset -5 10 £72,500 +93.33% 12
Wiltshire +36 3 £51,000 +101.98% 17
Devon +13 3 £63,750 +131.82% 13
Dorset +22 2 £45,000 - 4
Gloucestershire +54 1 £28,500 -3.19% 30
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.08%) ArcGIS
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 9 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.16%) Collibra
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (28.57%) Network Security
2 6 (12.24%) Firewall
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
4 2 (4.08%) DHCP
4 2 (4.08%) DNS
5 1 (2.04%) BGP
5 1 (2.04%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.04%) Internet
5 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.04%) LAN
5 1 (2.04%) OSPF
5 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.04%) SSL
5 1 (2.04%) VLAN
5 1 (2.04%) VoIP
5 1 (2.04%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.04%) Wireless
5 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Power BI
2 5 (10.20%) Metadata
3 3 (6.12%) Ataccama
4 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.08%) GIS
5 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Tableau
General
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Finance
3 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Retail
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Law
6 2 (4.08%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Lead
2 10 (20.41%) Head of IT
3 5 (10.20%) Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Security Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Security Manager
5 3 (6.12%) IT Security Manager
5 3 (6.12%) IT Support
5 3 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) IT Support Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Risk Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.04%) Kafka
1 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.16%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.08%) Derivative
4 2 (4.08%) Educational Technology
4 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.04%) CCTV
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) FMCG
5 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Linux
4 2 (4.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Regulatory Compliance
2 16 (32.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (30.61%) IT Strategy
4 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (26.53%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (24.49%) Budget Management
6 12 (24.49%) Project Management
7 11 (22.45%) ERP
8 10 (20.41%) Analytics
8 10 (20.41%) Risk Management
9 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (16.33%) Data Protection
10 8 (16.33%) Information Security
10 8 (16.33%) ITIL
11 7 (14.29%) Application Security
11 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
12 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Python
2 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) CISM
1 7 (14.29%) CISSP
2 6 (12.24%) Degree
3 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) CEH
4 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.08%) GIAC
5 2 (4.08%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.08%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.08%) PMP
5 2 (4.08%) SANS
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.04%) MBA
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PhD
6 1 (2.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) NIST
2 9 (18.37%) PCI DSS
3 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
4 6 (12.24%) Accessibility
5 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (8.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (8.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (6.12%) HIPAA
8 2 (4.08%) COBIT
8 2 (4.08%) SLA
8 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.08%) vSphere
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.04%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
3 2 (4.08%) Cisco
3 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 2 (4.08%) Veeam
3 2 (4.08%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.04%) Dell
4 1 (2.04%) Informatica
4 1 (2.04%) Meraki
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.04%) Verint