GDPR Jobs in the Thames Valley

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 120 112
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +6
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 53 130 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.56% 1.93% 2.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.00% 13.79% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 48 62 35
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,150 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £28,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £44,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.39% -28.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £69,688 £75,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -9.87%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 482 943 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.21% 14.03% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 209 547 513
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.74% -2.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £84,750
South East median annual salary £62,000 £46,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +34.78% -9.80% -2.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for GDPR in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +34 37 £82,500 +26.92% 62
Oxfordshire +11 11 £43,750 +65.09% 27
Buckinghamshire -15 5 £52,500 +45.83% 18
GDPR
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) Azure
2 26 (49.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 26 (49.06%) Azure DevOps
2 26 (49.06%) Azure Service Bus
2 26 (49.06%) SonarCloud
3 4 (7.55%) SaaS
4 3 (5.66%) AWS
4 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) IaaS
6 1 (1.89%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) DHCP
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (49.06%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.77%) Big Data
2 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.77%) DTS
2 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (49.06%) Git
1 26 (49.06%) MSBuild
1 26 (49.06%) Octopus Deploy
1 26 (49.06%) Team Foundation Server
1 26 (49.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (47.17%) Retail
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Architect
1 27 (50.94%) Technical Architect
2 5 (9.43%) Technical Support
3 3 (5.66%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 3 (5.66%) Identity Management Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) Data Analytics Director
4 2 (3.77%) Digital Transformation
4 2 (3.77%) Head of Digital
4 2 (3.77%) Head of Digital Transformation
4 2 (3.77%) IT Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Architect
5 1 (1.89%) Head of Information
5 1 (1.89%) Head of Information Security
5 1 (1.89%) Head of Security
5 1 (1.89%) Lead
5 1 (1.89%) Senior
5 1 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Support Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (49.06%) .NET
1 26 (49.06%) ASP.NET
1 26 (49.06%) Bootstrap
1 26 (49.06%) CSS
1 26 (49.06%) gRPC
1 26 (49.06%) HTML
1 26 (49.06%) JSON
1 26 (49.06%) REST
1 26 (49.06%) XML
2 3 (5.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) CMDB
3 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Tandem
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) DevOps
2 27 (50.94%) Event-Driven
2 27 (50.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 27 (50.94%) Microservices
3 26 (49.06%) API Integration
3 26 (49.06%) Code Quality
3 26 (49.06%) Data Encryption
3 26 (49.06%) Design Patterns
3 26 (49.06%) MVC
3 26 (49.06%) Performance Optimisation
3 26 (49.06%) Performance Testing
4 25 (47.17%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.09%) Data Management
7 7 (13.21%) Data Security
7 7 (13.21%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
8 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
9 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.55%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 26 (49.06%) C#
2 26 (49.06%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) CISM
5 1 (1.89%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.32%) NIST
3 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.77%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.89%) QA
6 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (50.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.89%) Grafana
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Databricks
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle