GDPR Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 113 204
Rank change year-on-year -20 +91 -104
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 65 149 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.46% 2.06% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.02% 13.29% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 82 48
10th Percentile £37,673 £31,114 £40,137
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,653 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.99% -19.16% +8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £63,425 £84,875
England median annual salary £64,500 £46,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.46% -15.91% -4.35%

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 810 1,121 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.14% 15.48% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 395 861 733
10th Percentile £28,993 £27,300 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £51,201
Median % change year-on-year - +2.54% +7.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £81,250
England 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 the West Midlands

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for GDPR in the West Midlands

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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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
Birmingham +9 30 £55,000 +46.67% 32
Solihull +5 14 £55,000 +144.44% 7
Staffordshire +6 11 £70,000 +86.67% 24
Warwickshire -17 3 £42,500 +84.78% 11
Shropshire - 3 £40,000 - 1
Coventry -4 2 - - 3
Walsall -1 1 £95,000 +18.75%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (3.08%) Apache
1 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (16.92%) SAP HCM
1 11 (16.92%) SAP HR
1 11 (16.92%) SAP Payroll
1 11 (16.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) SuccessFactors
2 10 (15.38%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.15%) AWS
5 2 (3.08%) Asana
6 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.54%) Figma
6 1 (1.54%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.62%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Network Security
3 1 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.54%) RFID
3 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.85%) Metadata
3 8 (12.31%) Metadata Repository
4 6 (9.23%) Power BI
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.08%) Big Data
6 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.08%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (29.23%) Finance
2 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Legal
5 6 (9.23%) Marketing
5 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Law
7 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Retail
8 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) SAP Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) SAP Support
2 11 (16.92%) SAP Support Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Support Analyst
3 7 (10.77%) IT Manager
4 6 (9.23%) Marketing Manager
4 6 (9.23%) Operations Manager
5 5 (7.69%) Development Manager
5 5 (7.69%) IT Development Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Technology Director
7 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Information Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Information Security Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Quality Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (7.69%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (7.69%) Laravel
2 5 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) NumPy
3 2 (3.08%) Pandas
3 2 (3.08%) SciPy
4 1 (1.54%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) EDI
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) Sass
4 1 (1.54%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Marketing Technology
1 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
1 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
2 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.08%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.08%) PKI
3 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Replication
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Android
1 5 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Data Security
2 20 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 15 (23.08%) Data Governance
3 15 (23.08%) Data Management
4 14 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 13 (20.00%) Workflow
6 11 (16.92%) Time Management
7 10 (15.38%) Agile
7 10 (15.38%) Information Security
8 9 (13.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (13.85%) CRM
8 9 (13.85%) Data Privacy
9 8 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (12.31%) Analytics
9 8 (12.31%) Budgeting
9 8 (12.31%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) ABAP
2 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.69%) PHP
4 4 (6.15%) C++
4 4 (6.15%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) Python
5 2 (3.08%) R
5 2 (3.08%) SQL
6 1 (1.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) CISSP
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) CISM
4 2 (3.08%) CEH
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.08%) PMP
5 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.54%) CISA
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CRISC
5 1 (1.54%) ISEB
5 1 (1.54%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (21.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (16.92%) Data Quality
4 8 (12.31%) NIST
4 8 (12.31%) QA
5 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.62%) SOC 2
7 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
7 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.54%) GRC
8 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) SAP
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Snow
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) VMware