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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 109 79
Rank change year-on-year +17 -30 +146
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 116 44 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.74% 1.63% 2.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.13% 15.07% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 92 34 66
10th Percentile £30,000 £20,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £32,750 £32,332
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £50,375 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year +13.63% +15.16% -10.73%
75th Percentile £80,938 £65,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £89,875 £90,875 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% -13.64%

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 549 292 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.25% 10.84% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 391 200 511
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,225 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £30,000 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.89% -9.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £59,773 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.95% +9.52% -8.70%

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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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +4 64 £56,500 -23.39% 16
East Yorkshire -19 13 £40,750 -18.50% 4
South Yorkshire -28 13 £82,500 +54.93% 5
Humberside - 1 - - 2
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England

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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 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 12 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.59%) Aareon QL
2 3 (2.59%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (2.59%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.59%) OPENHousing
2 3 (2.59%) Orchard Housing
3 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.86%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.83%) Azure
1 23 (19.83%) Entra ID
2 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Purview
3 14 (12.07%) AWS
4 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Functions
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (7.76%) SaaS
5 9 (7.76%) Serverless
6 8 (6.90%) GCP
7 7 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.72%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.72%) IaaS
9 2 (1.72%) PaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.86%) MailChimp
10 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.41%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) Network Security
3 5 (4.31%) DHCP
3 5 (4.31%) DNS
3 5 (4.31%) HTTP
3 5 (4.31%) VLAN
3 5 (4.31%) VPN
4 3 (2.59%) Internet
4 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.72%) LAN
5 2 (1.72%) WAN
6 1 (0.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.62%) Spark SQL
3 7 (6.03%) SAP BW
4 6 (5.17%) Power BI
5 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.31%) Tableau
6 4 (3.45%) Metadata
7 3 (2.59%) MySQL
7 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.59%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.86%) Looker
8 1 (0.86%) Power Query
8 1 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
2 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.72%) JUnit
2 2 (1.72%) Postman
2 2 (1.72%) Selenium
3 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.55%) Finance
4 19 (16.38%) Legal
5 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.03%) Law
7 6 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.17%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) Local Government
9 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.59%) Aviation
9 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.72%) Advertising
10 2 (1.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.86%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.86%) Games
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (28.45%) Lead
2 15 (12.93%) Analyst
3 14 (12.07%) Senior
4 13 (11.21%) Architect
4 13 (11.21%) Consultant
5 12 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Architect
6 9 (7.76%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Security Manager
7 8 (6.90%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) Information Manager
7 8 (6.90%) Information Security Manager
8 7 (6.03%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (6.03%) Security Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Information Security Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) ARM Templates
1 9 (7.76%) PySpark
1 9 (7.76%) REST
2 5 (4.31%) CSS
2 5 (4.31%) HTML
2 5 (4.31%) Middleware
3 3 (2.59%) .NET
3 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.59%) HTML5
3 3 (2.59%) jQuery
4 1 (0.86%) Kafka
4 1 (0.86%) LangChain
4 1 (0.86%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (0.86%) pgvector
4 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.86%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.86%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.28%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (8.62%) Security Posture
3 8 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.17%) Cyber Security Posture
5 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.31%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.59%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.59%) Robotics
8 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.86%) Clustering
9 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.59%) Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (33.62%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (31.90%) SIEM
4 34 (29.31%) Decision-Making
5 33 (28.45%) Data Protection
6 30 (25.86%) Incident Response
6 30 (25.86%) Risk Register
7 29 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 28 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (20.69%) Business Continuity
10 24 (20.69%) Security Architecture
11 23 (19.83%) Analytics
12 21 (18.10%) BCP
12 21 (18.10%) Business Continuity Planning
12 21 (18.10%) Information Governance
12 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (17.24%) Data Governance
14 19 (16.38%) Data Modelling
15 18 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.52%) SQL
2 13 (11.21%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) ABAP
4 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.59%) Perl
4 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 11 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.76%) CISSP
4 6 (5.17%) CISM
4 6 (5.17%) IRCA
5 5 (4.31%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.72%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.72%) City & Guilds
6 2 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (39.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (26.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 28 (24.14%) NIST
4 17 (14.66%) Data Quality
5 10 (8.62%) QA
6 7 (6.03%) PCI DSS
6 7 (6.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (5.17%) ISO 9001
7 6 (5.17%) NCSC
8 5 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
10 3 (2.59%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.59%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Terraform
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) SAP
3 10 (8.62%) Databricks
4 7 (6.03%) OpenText
5 3 (2.59%) Aareon
5 3 (2.59%) Capita
5 3 (2.59%) NEC
5 3 (2.59%) Orchard
5 3 (2.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) Adobe
7 1 (0.86%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.86%) Dell
7 1 (0.86%) DocuSign
27 GDPR jobs in Yorkshire