GDPR Job Trends in the West Midlands

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 104 122
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +41
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 108 73 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 2.19% 1.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.38% 12.78% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 73 56 80
10th Percentile £41,400 £41,250 £35,736
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £92,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -1.64% +25.13% -11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 751 571 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.41% 17.11% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 497 359 808
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,314 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,887 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -3.02% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,575
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

GDPR job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Birmingham -5 48 £72,500 +31.82% 5
Coventry -3 14 £62,500 - 2
Staffordshire 0 12 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Warwickshire -2 8 £42,500 -5.56% 7
Worcestershire -12 5 £50,000 -
Shropshire -17 4 £51,356 -8.70% 3
Halesowen - 4 £47,500 -
Solihull +6 3 £85,000 +70.00% 1
Wolverhampton -19 3 £57,500 -10.51% 2
Herefordshire - 2 £57,500 -
Bilston - 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.78%) WordPress
2 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.70%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (2.78%) Magento
3 3 (2.78%) Shopify
4 1 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.93%) Power Platform
2 19 (17.59%) Azure
3 12 (11.11%) AWS
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.70%) GCP
5 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.85%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.85%) Salesforce Einstein
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) Datadog
8 1 (0.93%) dbt
8 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.93%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Broadband
2 2 (1.85%) SMS
3 1 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.07%) Power BI
2 9 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.48%) Tableau
4 6 (5.56%) MySQL
5 5 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.78%) Metadata
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.85%) Power Query
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.93%) Looker
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Yeoman
2 2 (1.85%) Git
2 2 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
General
1 55 (50.93%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.59%) Finance
4 10 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.48%) Legal
6 6 (5.56%) Marketing
7 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.93%) Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Analyst
2 18 (16.67%) Architect
3 11 (10.19%) Security Architect
3 11 (10.19%) Senior
4 8 (7.41%) Data Manager
4 8 (7.41%) Data Protection Analyst
5 7 (6.48%) Administrator
5 7 (6.48%) Data Governance Analyst
5 7 (6.48%) Data Governance Manager
5 7 (6.48%) Governance Manager
5 7 (6.48%) Security Analyst
6 6 (5.56%) Head of QA
7 5 (4.63%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 4 (3.70%) DBA
8 4 (3.70%) Digital Architect
8 4 (3.70%) HR Specialist
8 4 (3.70%) Information Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Information Security Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.63%) HTML
2 4 (3.70%) RESTful
3 3 (2.78%) CSS
4 2 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.93%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.78%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.89%) Data Protection
2 30 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (26.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (24.07%) Analytics
4 26 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (22.22%) Data Governance
6 23 (21.30%) Information Security
7 22 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (16.67%) Risk Management
9 17 (15.74%) AI
10 16 (14.81%) TOGAF
11 15 (13.89%) Agile
11 15 (13.89%) Change Management
11 15 (13.89%) Data Management
12 14 (12.96%) Decision-Making
13 13 (12.04%) Customer Experience
13 13 (12.04%) Data Security
13 13 (12.04%) Service Delivery
13 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.59%) SQL
2 9 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.93%) Bash
4 1 (0.93%) C#
4 1 (0.93%) Java
4 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.93%) R
4 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) CISM
1 17 (15.74%) CISSP
2 16 (14.81%) Degree
3 11 (10.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 11 (10.19%) CCSP
3 11 (10.19%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.56%) IRCA
5 5 (4.63%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.78%) CRISC
7 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.85%) HND
7 2 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (17.59%) NIST
3 13 (12.04%) Data Quality
4 12 (11.11%) GRC
5 10 (9.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (8.33%) ISO 9001
6 9 (8.33%) PCI DSS
6 9 (8.33%) QA
7 8 (7.41%) Accessibility
7 8 (7.41%) HIPAA
8 5 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (2.78%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.93%) PSD2
10 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Grafana
1 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.89%) SAP
3 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.70%) Databricks
5 3 (2.78%) BT
5 3 (2.78%) Google
5 3 (2.78%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle
6 2 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Adobe
7 1 (0.93%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.93%) Planon
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk