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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 157 281
Rank change year-on-year -58 +124 -111
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 515 1,318 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 1.79% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.99% 13.64% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 384 739 396
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,350 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,385 £37,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.40% -8.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £47,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +35.11% -14.55% -4.35%

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 6,443 9,660 11,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.12% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,027 6,325 4,520
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK 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 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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
South East -36 172 £57,500 +21.05% 223
North of England -103 133 £50,000 +22.91% 218
Midlands -42 97 £52,500 +40.00% 141
North West -88 73 £48,306 +20.77% 136
West Midlands -10 64 £55,000 +25.55% 95
South West +40 49 £70,000 +86.67% 76
Yorkshire -31 43 £50,750 +16.02% 68
East Midlands -4 33 £36,250 +11.54% 44
East of England -13 32 £47,500 +12.09% 105
Scotland +76 18 £55,000 +20.22% 37
North East +6 17 £57,500 +42.86% 14
Northern Ireland +45 6 - - 14
Channel Islands - 5 £80,000 - 6
Wales +21 4 £55,000 +69.23% 19
Isle of Man - 4 £91,000 -
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 23 (4.47%) CMS
1 23 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.69%) Umbraco
4 16 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.36%) WordPress
6 4 (0.78%) SAS
7 3 (0.58%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) Confluence
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.19%) Apache
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (9.71%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.55%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.52%) SAP HCM
2 13 (2.52%) SAP HR
2 13 (2.52%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (0.97%) Maximo
4 4 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) iTrent
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.54%) Azure
2 63 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (9.32%) AWS
4 37 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 32 (6.21%) GCP
7 29 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 29 (5.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (5.63%) SonarCloud
8 27 (5.24%) Entra ID
9 18 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 17 (3.30%) SaaS
11 16 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (3.11%) SuccessFactors
12 14 (2.72%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.33%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (1.94%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 54 (10.49%) Firewall
2 33 (6.41%) Network Security
3 26 (5.05%) Intranet
4 19 (3.69%) VPN
5 15 (2.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (1.94%) DHCP
6 10 (1.94%) DNS
7 9 (1.75%) SAN
8 8 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.17%) NAS
9 6 (1.17%) VoIP
9 6 (1.17%) WAN
10 5 (0.97%) VLAN
10 5 (0.97%) Wireless
11 4 (0.78%) LAN
11 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.39%) BGP
13 2 (0.39%) EIGRP
13 2 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (6.60%) Power BI
3 32 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.72%) Metadata
7 13 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.33%) Big Data
9 9 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.17%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (1.17%) Tableau
12 5 (0.97%) Looker
12 5 (0.97%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.78%) MS Access
14 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.58%) MySQL
14 3 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (6.21%) Git
2 29 (5.63%) MSBuild
2 29 (5.63%) Octopus Deploy
2 29 (5.63%) Team Foundation Server
2 29 (5.63%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.33%) JIRA
4 7 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.58%) ERwin
5 3 (0.58%) GitLab
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 218 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 119 (23.11%) Finance
3 81 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (14.17%) Legal
5 71 (13.79%) Law
6 56 (10.87%) Retail
7 37 (7.18%) Marketing
8 22 (4.27%) Financial Institution
8 22 (4.27%) Prime Brokerage
9 18 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.30%) Games
11 16 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.91%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.55%) Banking
17 8 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (1.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (12.82%) Architect
2 56 (10.87%) Analyst
3 46 (8.93%) Lead
4 36 (6.99%) Senior
5 35 (6.80%) IT Support
6 34 (6.60%) Technical Architect
7 28 (5.44%) Security Engineer
8 27 (5.24%) Risk Manager
9 24 (4.66%) Developer
10 19 (3.69%) IT Manager
10 19 (3.69%) Support Analyst
10 19 (3.69%) Umbraco Developer
11 16 (3.11%) SAP Analyst
12 15 (2.91%) Head of IT
12 15 (2.91%) Security Analyst
13 14 (2.72%) Consultant
13 14 (2.72%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 13 (2.52%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.52%) SAP Support
14 13 (2.52%) SAP Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.65%) CSS
1 60 (11.65%) HTML
2 34 (6.60%) .NET
3 33 (6.41%) JSON
4 32 (6.21%) REST
5 31 (6.02%) ASP.NET
5 31 (6.02%) XML
6 30 (5.83%) Bootstrap
6 30 (5.83%) gRPC
7 21 (4.08%) jQuery
8 20 (3.88%) HTML5
9 19 (3.69%) Kafka
10 18 (3.50%) SAP Fiori
11 9 (1.75%) PySpark
12 6 (1.17%) Laravel
12 6 (1.17%) Node.js
13 5 (0.97%) CodeIgniter
13 5 (0.97%) SAPUI5
14 4 (0.78%) ARM Templates
14 4 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.04%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.05%) Security Posture
3 24 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.27%) Blockchain
4 22 (4.27%) Derivative
4 22 (4.27%) Hedge funds
5 21 (4.08%) NHS
6 20 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.50%) Driving Licence
8 17 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
9 13 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.33%) Social Media
11 10 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.75%) e-Learning
13 8 (1.55%) Cyberattack
13 8 (1.55%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.20%) Windows
2 21 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.72%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.75%) Android
4 9 (1.75%) Linux
5 8 (1.55%) Windows Vista
6 6 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.17%) Windows 7
6 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.58%) CentOS
8 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (19.42%) Cybersecurity
3 91 (17.67%) Data Protection
4 79 (15.34%) Risk Management
5 74 (14.37%) DevOps
5 74 (14.37%) Information Security
6 71 (13.79%) Analytics
7 70 (13.59%) Data Security
8 61 (11.84%) Data Management
9 59 (11.46%) Agile
10 58 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (10.68%) Decision-Making
12 52 (10.10%) Regulatory Compliance
13 50 (9.71%) Data Governance
13 50 (9.71%) Data Privacy
14 49 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (8.93%) Computer Science
15 46 (8.93%) Microservices
15 46 (8.93%) Roadmaps
16 45 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (17.48%) SQL
2 58 (11.26%) C#
3 57 (11.07%) Python
4 49 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 45 (8.74%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.69%) Bash
7 16 (3.11%) Java
8 13 (2.52%) ABAP
8 13 (2.52%) PHP
9 5 (0.97%) R
10 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
13 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.19%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 99 (19.22%) Degree
2 43 (8.35%) CISSP
3 38 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 34 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (6.21%) CISM
6 24 (4.66%) Master's Degree
7 22 (4.27%) CEH
8 20 (3.88%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.69%) CISA
10 16 (3.11%) Security Cleared
11 14 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (2.14%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.75%) SC Cleared
15 8 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.97%) OSCP
18 4 (0.78%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (19.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (13.59%) NIST
3 51 (9.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 50 (9.71%) PCI DSS
5 40 (7.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 36 (6.99%) Accessibility
7 29 (5.63%) HIPAA
8 27 (5.24%) Data Quality
9 18 (3.50%) WCAG
10 15 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 15 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (2.91%) SOC 2
11 13 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (2.14%) QA
13 10 (1.94%) GRC
13 10 (1.94%) SLA
14 9 (1.75%) PERC
15 6 (1.17%) COBIT
16 4 (0.78%) Basel II
16 4 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 51 (9.90%) Active Directory
2 43 (8.35%) Docker
3 16 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 16 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.58%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.58%) Postfix
7 2 (0.39%) Squid
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.55%) Terraform
4 5 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.78%) QRadar
5 4 (0.78%) SCCM
5 4 (0.78%) SCOM
5 4 (0.78%) SCOrch
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.39%) Ansible
7 2 (0.39%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Nessus
8 1 (0.19%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 139 (26.99%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.21%) Google
3 22 (4.27%) SAP
4 18 (3.50%) Cisco
4 18 (3.50%) HP
5 17 (3.30%) VMware
6 15 (2.91%) Meraki
7 13 (2.52%) Adobe
8 11 (2.14%) Citrix
9 10 (1.94%) Apple
10 8 (1.55%) OneTrust
10 8 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.36%) Databricks
11 7 (1.36%) Oracle
12 6 (1.17%) Dell
12 6 (1.17%) Facebook
12 6 (1.17%) Veeam
13 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.97%) Splunk