GDPR Jobs in the UK excluding London

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 290 214
Rank change year-on-year +133 -76 +15
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,096 553 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.15% 1.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.21% 7.61% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 551 371 732
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,295 7,271 14,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.71% 15.10% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,000 4,151 7,367
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,290 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,996 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +126 341 £40,000 -20.38% 111
South East +93 296 £55,000 -8.33% 107
Midlands +60 189 £53,500 -4.46% 91
North West +71 168 £40,000 -20.38% 67
Yorkshire +105 129 £49,000 +4.48% 36
West Midlands +43 118 £54,250 -1.36% 53
South West +21 113 £37,500 +36.36% 53
East of England +35 78 £50,000 -13.04% 46
East Midlands +19 68 £35,250 -42.91% 36
Scotland -20 57 £50,000 -16.00% 24
North East +27 44 £40,000 -11.36% 13
Wales +24 18 £54,000 +96.36% 8
Northern Ireland +19 4 - - 10
GDPR
UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 104 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.00%) Confluence
4 10 (0.91%) CMS
5 7 (0.64%) SAS
5 7 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.46%) Apache
6 5 (0.46%) WordPress
7 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.091%) IIS
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 111 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.82%) AutoCAD
4 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.091%) InDesign
8 1 (0.091%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.36%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.27%) iTrent
4 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.091%) FastStats
6 1 (0.091%) Primavera
6 1 (0.091%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.091%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 263 (24.00%) Azure
2 211 (19.25%) GCP
3 204 (18.61%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (12.32%) AWS
5 132 (12.04%) Power Platform
6 40 (3.65%) Entra ID
7 27 (2.46%) SaaS
8 23 (2.10%) Serverless
9 21 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (1.92%) IaaS
10 17 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (1.55%) OneDrive
10 17 (1.55%) PaaS
11 15 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (0.91%) Azure Functions
15 10 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.66%) Firewall
2 41 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (3.38%) WAN
4 36 (3.28%) Wireless
5 32 (2.92%) DNS
6 28 (2.55%) VPN
7 26 (2.37%) LAN
8 22 (2.01%) Network Security
9 19 (1.73%) 4G
10 17 (1.55%) VLAN
11 15 (1.37%) TCP/IP
12 13 (1.19%) 3G
12 13 (1.19%) MQTT
12 13 (1.19%) RS-485
13 12 (1.09%) Internet
14 11 (1.00%) MPLS
15 10 (0.91%) SAN
16 9 (0.82%) DHCP
16 9 (0.82%) Intranet
16 9 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (18.98%) BigQuery
2 207 (18.89%) Looker
3 106 (9.67%) Power BI
4 88 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (5.02%) SQL Server
6 29 (2.65%) Metadata
7 26 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.37%) Big Data
9 15 (1.37%) MySQL
10 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (1.00%) Tableau
13 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 7 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (6.84%) JIRA
2 29 (2.65%) Git
3 10 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.64%) MSBuild
5 7 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.46%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.46%) Xcode
7 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.27%) GitLab
9 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) MLflow
10 1 (0.091%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.091%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.091%) Subversion
10 1 (0.091%) TeamCity
General
1 330 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 305 (27.83%) Analytical Skills
3 282 (25.73%) Finance
4 224 (20.44%) Legal
5 140 (12.77%) Banking
6 53 (4.84%) Law
7 48 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (4.20%) Marketing
9 45 (4.11%) Retail
10 37 (3.38%) Telecoms
11 35 (3.19%) Games
12 32 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (2.19%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
14 21 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.00%) Environmental Health
16 11 (1.00%) Public Sector
17 10 (0.91%) Digital Economy
17 10 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (15.24%) Analyst
2 160 (14.60%) Data Engineer
3 147 (13.41%) Platform Engineer
3 147 (13.41%) Principal Data Engineer
3 147 (13.41%) Principal Engineer
4 141 (12.86%) Senior
5 115 (10.49%) Architect
6 88 (8.03%) Senior Analyst
7 77 (7.03%) Data Architect
8 60 (5.47%) Support Engineer
9 59 (5.38%) Lead
10 54 (4.93%) Developer
10 54 (4.93%) IT Support
11 43 (3.92%) Security Manager
12 41 (3.74%) IT Engineer
13 40 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
14 39 (3.56%) Security Analyst
15 34 (3.10%) IT Manager
16 33 (3.01%) Consultant
17 26 (2.37%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.28%) HTML
2 34 (3.10%) .NET
3 28 (2.55%) CSS
4 26 (2.37%) REST
5 23 (2.10%) RESTful
6 16 (1.46%) Web Services
7 14 (1.28%) gRPC
8 13 (1.19%) XML
9 11 (1.00%) ASP.NET
10 10 (0.91%) HTML5
10 10 (0.91%) jQuery
10 10 (0.91%) JSON
11 9 (0.82%) EDI
11 9 (0.82%) React
12 8 (0.73%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (0.55%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.55%) Spring
14 5 (0.46%) OSGi
14 5 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (24.27%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (9.31%) Management Information System
3 60 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
3 60 (5.47%) Driving Licence
4 39 (3.56%) NHS
5 33 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 29 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (1.64%) IoT
7 18 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.09%) EPoS
11 11 (1.00%) CCTV
11 11 (1.00%) PKI
12 10 (0.91%) Smartphone
12 10 (0.91%) Taxonomies
13 9 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.82%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 157 (14.32%) Windows
2 59 (5.38%) Windows 10
3 58 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 39 (3.56%) Linux
5 33 (3.01%) Android
6 25 (2.28%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.92%) Mac OS
8 13 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.64%) Mac OS X
9 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.091%) CentOS
11 1 (0.091%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (37.23%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (25.46%) Data Protection
3 255 (23.27%) Mentoring
4 254 (23.18%) Data Governance
5 231 (21.08%) Agile
6 230 (20.99%) Data Engineering
7 212 (19.34%) Data Management
8 209 (19.07%) Platform Engineering
9 207 (18.89%) DevOps
10 201 (18.34%) Cybersecurity
11 186 (16.97%) Information Security
12 176 (16.06%) Change Management
13 172 (15.69%) Data Science
14 167 (15.24%) Data Privacy
15 156 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
16 152 (13.87%) DataOps
17 147 (13.41%) Process Improvement
18 133 (12.14%) Customer Service
19 129 (11.77%) Matrix Management
20 128 (11.68%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 83 (7.57%) SQL
2 43 (3.92%) JavaScript
3 39 (3.56%) C#
4 25 (2.28%) Python
5 24 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 20 (1.82%) Java
7 19 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.46%) C++
9 15 (1.37%) C
10 12 (1.09%) PHP
11 5 (0.46%) COBOL
11 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.46%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 5 (0.46%) Swift
12 4 (0.36%) Bash
12 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.36%) VB
13 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.091%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.091%) R
Qualifications
1 142 (12.96%) Degree
2 70 (6.39%) CISSP
3 65 (5.93%) CISM
4 40 (3.65%) Security Cleared
5 37 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 35 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (3.01%) DBS Check
8 32 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.83%) CISA
10 24 (2.19%) CRISC
10 24 (2.19%) SC Cleared
11 16 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.19%) CEH
14 12 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.91%) GIAC
16 10 (0.91%) PhD
17 9 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
17 9 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (15.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (14.69%) Data Quality
3 108 (9.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 83 (7.57%) NIST
5 79 (7.21%) PCI DSS
6 50 (4.56%) GRC
7 34 (3.10%) HIPAA
7 34 (3.10%) SLA
8 22 (2.01%) QA
9 20 (1.82%) Accessibility
9 20 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 18 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (1.46%) COBIT
13 15 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (1.28%) NCSC
15 9 (0.82%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.82%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.73%) COSHH
17 7 (0.64%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 97 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.46%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.55%) Docker
5 10 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (1.46%) SCCM
3 13 (1.19%) Terraform
4 10 (0.91%) Kubernetes
5 9 (0.82%) CASB
6 8 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.64%) Nessus
8 6 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (0.55%) SCDPM
9 5 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.36%) Ansible
10 4 (0.36%) Autotask
10 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
10 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.18%) QRadar
11 2 (0.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 308 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 214 (19.53%) Google
3 28 (2.55%) Cisco
4 23 (2.10%) Databricks
5 21 (1.92%) Dell
5 21 (1.92%) VMware
6 20 (1.82%) SAP
7 15 (1.37%) Apple
7 15 (1.37%) Oracle
8 14 (1.28%) HP
9 13 (1.19%) Qualys
9 13 (1.19%) Sage
10 12 (1.09%) Citrix
11 10 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.82%) Sophos
13 8 (0.73%) Darktrace
13 8 (0.73%) Draytek
13 8 (0.73%) Meraki
14 7 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.64%) Mitel