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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 261 281
Rank change year-on-year +49 +20 -52
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 948 772 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.30% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.49% 9.20% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 401 571 1,206
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,385
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +14.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,166 8,389 24,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 14.11% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,629 6,172 12,678
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +6.38%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England +43 882 £60,000 - 459
UK excluding London +15 609 £57,500 +4.55% 329
London +61 315 £71,250 +1.79% 152
Work from Home -6 312 £67,500 +12.04% 241
South East +30 182 £65,000 +13.04% 93
North of England -10 170 £41,250 -23.61% 81
North West -8 89 £32,500 -28.57% 49
South West +14 78 £64,500 +134.55% 37
Midlands -10 75 £60,000 +9.09% 67
Yorkshire +11 66 £52,500 -4.55% 22
East of England -18 58 £67,500 -3.57% 37
West Midlands -21 52 £58,500 +17.00% 40
Scotland -13 30 £46,250 -15.91% 16
East Midlands -19 21 £62,500 +4.17% 27
Wales +26 16 £54,000 +96.36% 7
North East -18 15 £35,000 -40.43% 11
Northern Ireland +20 1 £60,000 -20.00% 3

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (3.16%) CMS
4 19 (2.00%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.74%) Confluence
6 6 (0.63%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Apache
8 3 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 60 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.32%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.21%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.84%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.53%) iTrent
5 5 (0.53%) Magento
6 4 (0.42%) Aareon QL
6 4 (0.42%) MIS ActiveH
6 4 (0.42%) OPENHousing
6 4 (0.42%) Orchard Housing
6 4 (0.42%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.21%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 321 (33.86%) Azure
2 173 (18.25%) AWS
3 157 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (14.77%) GCP
5 130 (13.71%) Cloud Computing
6 62 (6.54%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 32 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (3.27%) SonarCloud
11 26 (2.74%) SaaS
12 21 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.69%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.48%) Serverless
15 12 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.27%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.27%) Snowflake
16 10 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 190 (20.04%) Network Security
2 110 (11.60%) Broadband
3 93 (9.81%) Firewall
4 42 (4.43%) VPN
5 39 (4.11%) DNS
6 31 (3.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 25 (2.64%) WAN
7 25 (2.64%) Wireless
8 24 (2.53%) Intranet
8 24 (2.53%) TCP/IP
9 23 (2.43%) LAN
10 21 (2.22%) DHCP
11 15 (1.58%) VLAN
12 10 (1.05%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.95%) Internet
14 8 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (0.84%) DMARC
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.74%) Skype
15 7 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.06%) Power BI
3 39 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.48%) Metadata
6 14 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.05%) Big Data
7 10 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 10 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.95%) Tableau
9 6 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.63%) MySQL
9 6 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.53%) GIS
10 5 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (4.11%) Git
2 34 (3.59%) Visual Studio
3 32 (3.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 31 (3.27%) MSBuild
4 31 (3.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 18 (1.90%) JIRA
6 15 (1.58%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.53%) GitLab
8 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.21%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.11%) Maven
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 305 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 179 (18.88%) Finance
3 128 (13.50%) Legal
4 127 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.91%) Law
6 69 (7.28%) Marketing
7 67 (7.07%) Retail
8 35 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.27%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.85%) Banking
11 26 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.43%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.00%) Games
14 18 (1.90%) Local Government
14 18 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.27%) Back Office
17 10 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 7 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 260 (27.43%) Analyst
2 161 (16.98%) Senior
3 152 (16.03%) Security Analyst
4 109 (11.50%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 102 (10.76%) Senior Analyst
6 95 (10.02%) Architect
7 78 (8.23%) Senior Security Analyst
8 59 (6.22%) Consultant
9 55 (5.80%) IT Manager
10 45 (4.75%) Security Manager
11 42 (4.43%) Developer
12 38 (4.01%) Data Analyst
12 38 (4.01%) Lead
12 38 (4.01%) Technical Architect
13 34 (3.59%) Security Consultant
14 32 (3.38%) Information Manager
15 28 (2.95%) Information Security Manager
15 28 (2.95%) Security Architect
16 26 (2.74%) Data Manager
17 25 (2.64%) Data Protection Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.17%) CSS
2 65 (6.86%) HTML
3 41 (4.32%) .NET
4 38 (4.01%) REST
5 33 (3.48%) JSON
5 33 (3.48%) XML
6 32 (3.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 31 (3.27%) ASP.NET
7 31 (3.27%) gRPC
8 20 (2.11%) HTML5
8 20 (2.11%) jQuery
9 12 (1.27%) Web Services
10 11 (1.16%) EDI
10 11 (1.16%) Kafka
11 10 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (1.05%) React
12 8 (0.84%) RESTful
12 8 (0.84%) SailPoint
13 6 (0.63%) Next.js
13 6 (0.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 171 (18.04%) Cyber Threat
2 126 (13.29%) Cyberattack
3 123 (12.97%) Management Information System
4 120 (12.66%) Social Media
5 119 (12.55%) Cloud Native
6 111 (11.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 62 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (4.11%) Security Posture
8 39 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (3.48%) Data Centre
9 33 (3.48%) NHS
10 23 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.00%) Driving Licence
12 15 (1.58%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (1.27%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
15 9 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.95%) PKI
16 8 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.29%) Windows
2 45 (4.75%) Linux
3 38 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.69%) Android
6 15 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.63%) Unix
9 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (33.44%) Cybersecurity
2 235 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (23.52%) Data Protection
4 206 (21.73%) Information Security
5 198 (20.89%) Incident Response
6 190 (20.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 156 (16.46%) Cloud Security
8 155 (16.35%) DevOps
9 154 (16.24%) Identity Access Management
10 141 (14.87%) Agile
11 124 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 118 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (11.92%) Threat Detection
14 109 (11.50%) Programme Delivery
15 105 (11.08%) Risk Management
16 103 (10.86%) Customer Service
17 93 (9.81%) Data Management
18 88 (9.28%) Data Governance
19 85 (8.97%) Computer Science
20 84 (8.86%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 146 (15.40%) SQL
2 62 (6.54%) C#
3 57 (6.01%) Python
4 48 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 39 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.58%) Java
7 14 (1.48%) Bash
8 9 (0.95%) PHP
8 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.63%) C++
11 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.32%) C
12 3 (0.32%) Go
12 3 (0.32%) R
12 3 (0.32%) RPG
12 3 (0.32%) RPG IV
12 3 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.21%) ABAP
13 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (20.78%) Degree
2 139 (14.66%) CISSP
3 105 (11.08%) CISM
4 52 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 48 (5.06%) CISA
6 47 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.16%) DBS Check
8 29 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.06%) SC Cleared
9 26 (2.74%) CEH
10 25 (2.64%) Master's Degree
10 25 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (2.22%) PMI Certification
13 20 (2.11%) CRISC
14 19 (2.00%) PMP
15 18 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (1.69%) GIAC
17 15 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (1.27%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (37.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 237 (25.00%) NIST
3 162 (17.09%) HIPAA
4 114 (12.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (8.12%) PCI DSS
6 44 (4.64%) Data Quality
7 38 (4.01%) Accessibility
8 34 (3.59%) GRC
9 33 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (2.64%) WCAG
11 22 (2.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (2.32%) COBIT
12 21 (2.22%) SLA
13 20 (2.11%) SOC 2
14 19 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 19 (2.00%) QA
15 17 (1.79%) NCSC
16 10 (1.05%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.84%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 119 (12.55%) Docker
2 70 (7.38%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.84%) vSphere
6 7 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.32%) KVM
8 2 (0.21%) LXC
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 94 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.64%) Terraform
3 22 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.48%) Ansible
5 9 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.84%) CASB
7 7 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.74%) SCCM
8 5 (0.53%) Puppet
8 5 (0.53%) QRadar
9 4 (0.42%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.42%) Grafana
9 4 (0.42%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
11 1 (0.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 230 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.38%) Google
3 24 (2.53%) VMware
4 20 (2.11%) HP
4 20 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.00%) SAP
6 18 (1.90%) Oracle
7 16 (1.69%) Adobe
7 16 (1.69%) Databricks
8 15 (1.58%) Cisco
8 15 (1.58%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.27%) Epicor
10 11 (1.16%) Veeam
11 10 (1.05%) Splunk
11 10 (1.05%) Zscaler
12 8 (0.84%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.84%) Darktrace
12 8 (0.84%) Juniper
12 8 (0.84%) NEC
13 7 (0.74%) Sage