GDPR Jobs in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 93 111
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -12
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 3 29 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.27% 1.40% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.48% 10.25% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 18
10th Percentile - £27,753 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £28,290 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +18.18% -47.62%
75th Percentile £57,500 £38,000 £39,500
90th Percentile - £50,000 £53,096
UK median annual salary £65,000 £46,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.41% -15.23% -3.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 203 283 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 18.19% 13.65% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 135 165 139
10th Percentile £40,600 £25,128 £26,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,250 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £40,000 £43,067
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -7.12% -9.33%
75th Percentile £70,600 £52,884 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £64,000 £61,631
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for GDPR in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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 Wales +29 2 £55,000 +94.41% 25
North Wales +3 1 - - 1
GDPR
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) VMware