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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 105 126
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +73
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 44 82 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.34% 1.66% 2.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.66% 13.76% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 32 25 33
10th Percentile £20,250 £26,450 £28,400
25th Percentile £31,193 £31,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £49,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% -9.26% +0.93%
75th Percentile £60,188 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £66,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -4.17% +7.62%

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 281 596 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.54% 12.08% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 193 261 493
10th Percentile £26,520 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £64,875 £60,741 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,550 £71,250 £87,185
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR 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 16 September 2025.

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 September 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
West Yorkshire -2 18 £53,375 +16.67% 20
North Yorkshire +6 13 £33,500 -37.67% 8
East Yorkshire - 9 £46,000 - 3
South Yorkshire -3 2 - - 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) SaaS
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) SMS
3 1 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.27%) Endeca
2 1 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) GitLab
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (38.64%) Law
3 12 (27.27%) Finance
4 7 (15.91%) Legal
5 5 (11.36%) Financial Institution
5 5 (11.36%) Prime Brokerage
6 3 (6.82%) Local Government
6 3 (6.82%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 5 (11.36%) Consultant
2 5 (11.36%) Coordinator
2 5 (11.36%) Information Security Consultant
2 5 (11.36%) IT Support
2 5 (11.36%) Risk Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Security Consultant
2 5 (11.36%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 2 (4.55%) Business Development Executive
4 2 (4.55%) CRM Executive
4 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Junior
4 2 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Operations Manager
4 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (2.27%) ERP Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) LDAP
1 3 (6.82%) RESTful
1 3 (6.82%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) JSON
2 1 (2.27%) JWT
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.27%) SLSA
2 1 (2.27%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (11.36%) Blockchain
2 5 (11.36%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.36%) Cyberattack
2 5 (11.36%) Derivative
2 5 (11.36%) Driving Licence
2 5 (11.36%) Hedge funds
2 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.82%) e-Learning
3 3 (6.82%) Learning Management System
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Information Security
2 11 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 10 (22.73%) Business Continuity
4 9 (20.45%) CRM
5 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (18.18%) ISMS
6 7 (15.91%) Data Privacy
6 7 (15.91%) Logistics
6 7 (15.91%) Risk Management
6 7 (15.91%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.64%) ITIL
7 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.64%) Security Operations
8 5 (11.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (11.36%) Risk Register
8 5 (11.36%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) C#
1 3 (6.82%) Java
2 2 (4.55%) Bash
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) CISMP
2 7 (15.91%) GSEC
3 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) CEH
4 1 (2.27%) CISA
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) CRISC
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.55%) GRC
6 2 (4.55%) QA
7 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.27%) NIST
7 1 (2.27%) SLA
7 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) New Relic
3 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) CyberSource
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle