GDPR Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 94 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +162
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 106 41 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.97% 1.80% 2.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.78% 13.53% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 84 33 68
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,090 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £37,716 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £53,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% +9.18% +6.52%
75th Percentile £75,625 £64,250 £72,200
90th Percentile £87,625 £87,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +39.78% -15.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 510 303 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.46% 13.30% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 325 214 536
10th Percentile £28,850 £26,900 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,925 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,250 £60,741
90th Percentile £83,500 £79,625 £81,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +11.03% -6.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GDPR

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Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GDPR in Yorkshire

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Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
West Yorkshire -5 60 £55,750 -23.10% 15
South Yorkshire -28 12 £67,500 +47.54% 5
East Yorkshire - 6 £70,000 - 3
Humberside - 1 - - 3
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.89%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.75%) Entra ID
2 21 (19.81%) Microsoft Purview
3 14 (13.21%) Azure
4 11 (10.38%) AWS
4 11 (10.38%) SaaS
5 10 (9.43%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.72%) GCP
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.77%) Serverless
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.89%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.89%) Collibra
9 2 (1.89%) dbt
9 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.47%) Firewall
2 8 (7.55%) Network Security
3 6 (5.66%) DNS
4 4 (3.77%) DHCP
4 4 (3.77%) VLAN
4 4 (3.77%) VPN
5 3 (2.83%) HTTP
5 3 (2.83%) Internet
5 3 (2.83%) LAN
5 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.83%) WAN
5 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.94%) Broadband
6 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) Power BI
2 7 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.60%) Tableau
3 5 (4.72%) Spark SQL
4 4 (3.77%) Metadata
4 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.83%) MySQL
5 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.83%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.89%) Ataccama
6 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.89%) Looker
6 2 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.94%) Power Query
7 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Git
1 3 (2.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) GitLab
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) JUnit
2 2 (1.89%) Postman
2 2 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 43 (40.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (34.91%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (24.53%) Finance
4 13 (12.26%) Legal
5 10 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 10 (9.43%) Retail
6 7 (6.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.66%) Marketing
8 4 (3.77%) Advertising
8 4 (3.77%) Law
9 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.89%) Banking
10 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.94%) Aviation
11 1 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (26.42%) Lead
2 16 (15.09%) Analyst
3 15 (14.15%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Data Analyst
5 9 (8.49%) Consultant
6 7 (6.60%) Architect
7 6 (5.66%) Head of QA
8 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) HR Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) HR Data Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Information Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Information Manager
8 5 (4.72%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Information Security Manager
8 5 (4.72%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Security Manager
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Information Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Security Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) CSS
1 6 (5.66%) HTML
2 4 (3.77%) .NET
2 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.77%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.77%) HTML5
2 4 (3.77%) jQuery
2 4 (3.77%) PySpark
2 4 (3.77%) REST
3 2 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.94%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (0.94%) Kafka
4 1 (0.94%) LangChain
4 1 (0.94%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (0.94%) pgvector
4 1 (0.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.94%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.58%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.60%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.83%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.89%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.94%) Blog
8 1 (0.94%) Clustering
8 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.94%) NHS
8 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.77%) Windows
1 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 35 (33.02%) Decision-Making
3 34 (32.08%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (31.13%) SIEM
5 32 (30.19%) Data Protection
6 28 (26.42%) Incident Response
7 27 (25.47%) Analytics
8 26 (24.53%) Risk Register
9 25 (23.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (23.58%) Risk Management
9 25 (23.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (22.64%) Security Architecture
11 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (20.75%) Business Continuity
13 21 (19.81%) BCP
13 21 (19.81%) Business Continuity Planning
13 21 (19.81%) Information Governance
14 17 (16.04%) Data Governance
15 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (14.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.15%) SQL
2 8 (7.55%) Python
3 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.83%) ABAP
4 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.89%) Bicep
5 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.94%) C#
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) CISSP
3 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.66%) IRCA
4 5 (4.72%) CISM
5 2 (1.89%) City & Guilds
5 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.89%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (41.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (29.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (25.47%) NIST
4 16 (15.09%) Data Quality
5 11 (10.38%) QA
6 9 (8.49%) PCI DSS
7 7 (6.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (5.66%) Accessibility
8 6 (5.66%) ISO 9001
9 4 (3.77%) NCSC
10 3 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (1.89%) EU AI Act
11 2 (1.89%) GRC
11 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.89%) Firmware
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Terraform
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.72%) Databricks
2 5 (4.72%) SAP
3 3 (2.83%) Adobe
3 3 (2.83%) OpenText
3 3 (2.83%) VMware
4 2 (1.89%) Apple
4 2 (1.89%) Talend
5 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.94%) Dell
5 1 (0.94%) Google
29 GDPR jobs in Yorkshire