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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 99 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 +166
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 115 47 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.82% 1.86% 2.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.38% 15.77% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 93 34 75
10th Percentile £30,400 £23,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,716 £33,415
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £50,375 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.63% +9.51% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £99,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +34.41% -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 538 298 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.50% 11.77% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 365 207 531
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% -10.01%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

GDPR
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

GDPR
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GDPR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GDPR

GDPR
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 May 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 68 £57,000 -24.00% 11
South Yorkshire -28 15 £82,500 +80.33% 2
East Yorkshire -27 6 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Humberside - 1 - - 2
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 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.87%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Magento
3 1 (0.87%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.87%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.87%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.87%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 22 (19.13%) Azure
3 21 (18.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 14 (12.17%) AWS
5 10 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (7.83%) Azure Functions
6 9 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (7.83%) GCP
6 9 (7.83%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.83%) Serverless
7 7 (6.09%) SaaS
8 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.74%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.74%) dbt
9 2 (1.74%) IaaS
9 2 (1.74%) PaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.61%) Firewall
2 6 (5.22%) Network Security
3 5 (4.35%) DHCP
3 5 (4.35%) DNS
3 5 (4.35%) HTTP
3 5 (4.35%) VLAN
3 5 (4.35%) VPN
4 3 (2.61%) Internet
4 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.74%) LAN
5 2 (1.74%) WAN
6 1 (0.87%) Broadband
6 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.70%) Spark SQL
3 9 (7.83%) Power BI
4 7 (6.09%) SAP BW
5 6 (5.22%) Tableau
6 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.48%) Metadata
8 3 (2.61%) MySQL
8 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.61%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.74%) Looker
9 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.87%) Power Query
10 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Git
1 3 (2.61%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) GitLab
2 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.74%) JUnit
2 2 (1.74%) Postman
2 2 (1.74%) Selenium
3 1 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.91%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (22.61%) Finance
4 15 (13.04%) Legal
5 11 (9.57%) Manufacturing
6 9 (7.83%) Retail
7 6 (5.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.35%) Marketing
9 3 (2.61%) Advertising
9 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.61%) Aviation
9 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Law
9 3 (2.61%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Lead
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
2 16 (13.91%) Senior
3 13 (11.30%) Consultant
4 12 (10.43%) Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Data Analyst
7 9 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Lead Data Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Security Manager
8 8 (6.96%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Information Manager
8 8 (6.96%) Information Security Manager
9 7 (6.09%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (5.22%) Information Analyst
10 6 (5.22%) Information Security Analyst
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) ARM Templates
1 9 (7.83%) PySpark
1 9 (7.83%) REST
2 6 (5.22%) CSS
2 6 (5.22%) HTML
3 5 (4.35%) Middleware
4 4 (3.48%) .NET
4 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.48%) HTML5
4 4 (3.48%) jQuery
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.87%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) LangChain
5 1 (0.87%) pgvector
5 1 (0.87%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.87%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.48%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (7.83%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (5.22%) Cyber Security Posture
4 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.61%) Robotics
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.87%) Blog
7 1 (0.87%) Clustering
7 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.87%) IoT
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Windows
1 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 36 (31.30%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (31.30%) Decision-Making
2 36 (31.30%) SIEM
3 30 (26.09%) Data Protection
3 30 (26.09%) Incident Response
3 30 (26.09%) Risk Register
4 27 (23.48%) Disaster Recovery
4 27 (23.48%) Risk Management
4 27 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (22.61%) Analytics
6 24 (20.87%) Business Continuity
6 24 (20.87%) Security Architecture
7 22 (19.13%) Data Governance
8 21 (18.26%) BCP
8 21 (18.26%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (18.26%) Information Governance
8 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (16.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) SQL
2 14 (12.17%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) ABAP
4 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.61%) Perl
5 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.87%) C#
7 1 (0.87%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (15.65%) Degree
2 11 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.83%) CISSP
4 6 (5.22%) CISM
4 6 (5.22%) IRCA
5 5 (4.35%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.74%) City & Guilds
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (41.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (26.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (23.48%) NIST
4 18 (15.65%) Data Quality
5 10 (8.70%) QA
6 8 (6.96%) PCI DSS
7 7 (6.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (6.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (5.22%) ISO 9001
8 6 (5.22%) NCSC
9 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
10 3 (2.61%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) SAP
3 10 (8.70%) Databricks
4 7 (6.09%) OpenText
5 3 (2.61%) VMware
6 2 (1.74%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Aareon
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Capita
7 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.87%) Dell
7 1 (0.87%) NEC
7 1 (0.87%) Orchard