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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 125 83
Rank change year-on-year +4 -42 +65
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 85 47 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.15% 1.32% 2.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.63% 15.61% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 62 36 29
10th Percentile £36,250 £20,250 £26,650
25th Percentile £45,313 £32,750 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,057 £42,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -14.29% -2.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £64,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,875 £67,750
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +20.00% -16.00%

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 544 301 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.39% 8.47% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 416 228 347
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £74,125 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -8.33%

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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 August 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 August 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 +8 50 £57,000 -5.00% 16
South Yorkshire -22 17 £82,500 +37.50% 6
East Yorkshire -14 12 £37,500 -18.48% 5
North Yorkshire -5 2 £63,114 +162.97% 1
Humberside - 1 - -
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 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 12 (14.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.53%) Aareon QL
2 3 (3.53%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (3.53%) NEC Housing
2 3 (3.53%) OPENHousing
2 3 (3.53%) Orchard Housing
3 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.35%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.35%) SystmOne
4 1 (1.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.18%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.59%) Azure
2 16 (18.82%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Functions
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.59%) Serverless
5 8 (9.41%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.06%) SaaS
7 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.71%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.71%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.53%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.35%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.35%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (3.53%) Broadband
2 3 (3.53%) Internet
3 2 (2.35%) DHCP
3 2 (2.35%) DNS
3 2 (2.35%) Firewall
3 2 (2.35%) LAN
3 2 (2.35%) VLAN
3 2 (2.35%) VPN
3 2 (2.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (10.59%) Spark SQL
3 7 (8.24%) SAP BW
4 5 (5.88%) Metadata
4 5 (5.88%) Power BI
5 3 (3.53%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.35%) Tableau
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.18%) Looker
7 1 (1.18%) Power Query
7 1 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) GitLab
2 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.35%) JUnit
2 2 (2.35%) Postman
2 2 (2.35%) Selenium
3 1 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
2 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.47%) Legal
5 8 (9.41%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (7.06%) Law
7 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
7 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.88%) Local Government
9 3 (3.53%) Aviation
9 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Marketing
9 3 (3.53%) Retail
9 3 (3.53%) Social Housing
9 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.18%) Aeronautics
10 1 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) Analyst
1 12 (14.12%) Architect
2 11 (12.94%) Data Architect
2 11 (12.94%) Data Engineer
2 11 (12.94%) Information Manager
3 9 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (10.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 9 (10.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (10.59%) Lead
3 9 (10.59%) Lead Data Engineer
3 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (10.59%) Security Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Information Security Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Consultant
5 7 (8.24%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (8.24%) Security Analyst
5 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Information Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) Information Security Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) ARM Templates
1 9 (10.59%) PySpark
1 9 (10.59%) REST
2 5 (5.88%) Middleware
3 2 (2.35%) CSS
3 2 (2.35%) HTML
3 2 (2.35%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.18%) Kafka
4 1 (1.18%) LangChain
4 1 (1.18%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.18%) pgvector
4 1 (1.18%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.18%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Security Posture
2 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.06%) Cyber Security Posture
3 6 (7.06%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.71%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.53%) Robotics
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.18%) Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (25.88%) Data Governance
3 20 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 19 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (20.00%) Analytics
6 17 (20.00%) Information Security
7 16 (18.82%) SIEM
8 15 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (16.47%) AI
10 13 (15.29%) ETL
11 12 (14.12%) Data Protection
11 12 (14.12%) Decision-Making
11 12 (14.12%) DevOps
11 12 (14.12%) Regulatory Compliance
11 12 (14.12%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
12 11 (12.94%) Computer Science
12 11 (12.94%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) Python
1 15 (17.65%) SQL
2 7 (8.24%) ABAP
3 3 (3.53%) Perl
4 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.06%) CISM
3 6 (7.06%) CISSP
3 6 (7.06%) IRCA
4 5 (5.88%) SAP Certification
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.35%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (14.12%) QA
3 11 (12.94%) Data Quality
4 8 (9.41%) NIST
5 7 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (8.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (7.06%) ISO 9001
7 5 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (4.71%) PCI DSS
9 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
9 3 (3.53%) ISO 19650
9 3 (3.53%) NCSC
10 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.18%) GRC
11 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Terraform
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.12%) SAP
3 10 (11.76%) Databricks
4 7 (8.24%) OpenText
5 3 (3.53%) Aareon
5 3 (3.53%) Capita
5 3 (3.53%) Google
5 3 (3.53%) NEC
5 3 (3.53%) Orchard
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.35%) Foundry
6 2 (2.35%) Freshdesk
6 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.18%) Dell
7 1 (1.18%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.18%) Workday