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

 6 months to
17 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 96 83
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +163
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 108 41 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.91% 1.79% 2.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.77% 13.58% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 86 33 73
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,090 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,716 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £53,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% +12.63% +3.26%
75th Percentile £76,875 £64,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,875 £87,000 £99,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +41.30% -16.36%

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 520 302 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.18% 13.19% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 335 212 548
10th Percentile £28,850 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,185
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,725 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.49% -7.83%

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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

GDPR
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 17 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 17 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 -1 62 £55,000 -24.14% 14
South Yorkshire -29 13 £75,000 +63.93% 4
East Yorkshire - 6 £70,000 - 5
Humberside - 1 - - 2
GDPR
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 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.85%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.37%) Entra ID
2 21 (19.44%) Microsoft Purview
3 15 (13.89%) Azure
4 12 (11.11%) AWS
5 11 (10.19%) SaaS
6 10 (9.26%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.63%) GCP
8 5 (4.63%) Serverless
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.85%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.85%) Collibra
9 2 (1.85%) dbt
9 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.00%) Firewall
2 8 (7.41%) Network Security
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
4 4 (3.70%) DHCP
4 4 (3.70%) HTTP
4 4 (3.70%) VLAN
4 4 (3.70%) VPN
5 3 (2.78%) Internet
5 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.85%) LAN
6 2 (1.85%) WAN
7 1 (0.93%) Broadband
7 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) Power BI
2 8 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.48%) Tableau
4 6 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 4 (3.70%) Metadata
5 4 (3.70%) SAP BW
5 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.78%) MySQL
6 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.85%) Ataccama
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) Looker
7 2 (1.85%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.93%) Power Query
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Git
1 3 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) GitLab
2 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.85%) JUnit
2 2 (1.85%) Postman
2 2 (1.85%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 37 (34.26%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (24.07%) Finance
4 14 (12.96%) Legal
5 10 (9.26%) Retail
6 9 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 8 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
9 6 (5.56%) Marketing
10 4 (3.70%) Advertising
10 4 (3.70%) Law
11 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.85%) Banking
12 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.93%) Aviation
13 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (26.85%) Lead
2 17 (15.74%) Analyst
3 16 (14.81%) Senior
4 11 (10.19%) Data Analyst
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
6 7 (6.48%) Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Head of QA
7 6 (5.56%) Information Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Information Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Information Security Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Security Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) HR Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) CSS
1 6 (5.56%) HTML
2 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.63%) PySpark
2 5 (4.63%) REST
3 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.70%) HTML5
3 4 (3.70%) jQuery
4 2 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.93%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.93%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) LangChain
5 1 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.93%) pgvector
5 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.93%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.15%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.48%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.85%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.85%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.93%) Blog
9 1 (0.93%) Clustering
9 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) NHS
9 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Windows
1 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 35 (32.41%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (32.41%) Decision-Making
3 34 (31.48%) SIEM
4 32 (29.63%) Data Protection
5 28 (25.93%) Analytics
5 28 (25.93%) Incident Response
6 26 (24.07%) Risk Register
7 25 (23.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (23.15%) Risk Management
7 25 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (22.22%) Security Architecture
9 22 (20.37%) Business Continuity
9 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (19.44%) BCP
10 21 (19.44%) Business Continuity Planning
10 21 (19.44%) Information Governance
11 18 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.81%) SQL
2 9 (8.33%) Python
3 4 (3.70%) ABAP
3 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.85%) Bicep
5 2 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) CISSP
3 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.56%) CISM
4 6 (5.56%) IRCA
5 2 (1.85%) City & Guilds
5 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.85%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (28.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (25.00%) NIST
4 16 (14.81%) Data Quality
5 11 (10.19%) QA
6 9 (8.33%) PCI DSS
7 7 (6.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (5.56%) Accessibility
8 6 (5.56%) ISO 9001
9 4 (3.70%) NCSC
9 4 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.85%) EU AI Act
10 2 (1.85%) GRC
10 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) Databricks
2 6 (5.56%) SAP
3 4 (3.70%) OpenText
4 3 (2.78%) VMware
5 2 (1.85%) Adobe
5 2 (1.85%) Talend
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Google
29 GDPR jobs in Yorkshire