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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 115 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 -25 +91
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 97 47 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 1.36% 2.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.73% 16.73% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 75 36 43
10th Percentile £40,000 £20,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £48,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.63% +13.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £49,700
% change year-on-year -1.23% +22.23% -9.64%

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 547 281 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.91% 8.16% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 420 213 411
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £74,750 £68,113
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

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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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +3 53 £60,000 -12.73% 14
South Yorkshire -25 14 £82,500 +37.50% 1
East Yorkshire -13 13 £40,750 -18.50% 4
Humberside - 1 - - 1
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 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.03%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 12 (12.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.09%) Aareon QL
2 3 (3.09%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (3.09%) NEC Housing
2 3 (3.09%) OPENHousing
2 3 (3.09%) Orchard Housing
3 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.06%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.03%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.80%) Azure
2 19 (19.59%) Entra ID
3 17 (17.53%) Microsoft Purview
4 16 (16.49%) AWS
5 10 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Functions
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (9.28%) GCP
6 9 (9.28%) SaaS
6 9 (9.28%) Serverless
7 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.09%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.06%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.06%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.53%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) HTTP
3 2 (2.06%) DHCP
3 2 (2.06%) DNS
3 2 (2.06%) Internet
3 2 (2.06%) LAN
3 2 (2.06%) VLAN
3 2 (2.06%) VPN
3 2 (2.06%) WAN
4 1 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (10.31%) Spark SQL
3 7 (7.22%) SAP BW
4 5 (5.15%) Metadata
5 3 (3.09%) Power BI
5 3 (3.09%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.06%) Tableau
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.03%) Looker
7 1 (1.03%) Power Query
7 1 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.06%) JUnit
2 2 (2.06%) Postman
2 2 (2.06%) Selenium
3 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (24.74%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Legal
5 7 (7.22%) Law
6 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Local Government
8 3 (3.09%) Aviation
8 3 (3.09%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 3 (3.09%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Aeronautics
9 1 (1.03%) Games
9 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Lead
2 12 (12.37%) Analyst
2 12 (12.37%) Data Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Architect
3 11 (11.34%) Senior
4 10 (10.31%) Data Architect
5 9 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Security Manager
6 8 (8.25%) Information Manager
6 8 (8.25%) Information Security Manager
7 7 (7.22%) Consultant
7 7 (7.22%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (7.22%) Security Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Information Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Information Security Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) ARM Templates
1 9 (9.28%) PySpark
1 9 (9.28%) REST
2 5 (5.15%) CSS
2 5 (5.15%) HTML
2 5 (5.15%) Middleware
3 3 (3.09%) .NET
3 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.09%) HTML5
3 3 (3.09%) jQuery
4 1 (1.03%) Kafka
4 1 (1.03%) LangChain
4 1 (1.03%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.03%) pgvector
4 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.03%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (11.34%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (6.19%) Cyber Security Posture
4 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.09%) e-Learning
6 3 (3.09%) Robotics
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.06%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.03%) Clustering
8 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (32.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (31.96%) SIEM
4 25 (25.77%) Data Protection
5 24 (24.74%) Decision-Making
5 24 (24.74%) Incident Response
5 24 (24.74%) Risk Register
6 22 (22.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (21.65%) Analytics
8 20 (20.62%) Data Modelling
8 20 (20.62%) Risk Management
9 19 (19.59%) Data Governance
9 19 (19.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (18.56%) Business Continuity
10 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (17.53%) Information Security
12 16 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (15.46%) Business Continuity Planning
13 15 (15.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (15.46%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) Python
1 16 (16.49%) SQL
2 7 (7.22%) ABAP
3 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.09%) Perl
4 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.19%) CISM
3 6 (6.19%) CISSP
3 6 (6.19%) IRCA
4 5 (5.15%) SAP Certification
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.06%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (36.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (23.71%) NIST
3 22 (22.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (15.46%) Data Quality
5 10 (10.31%) QA
6 7 (7.22%) PCI DSS
6 7 (7.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (6.19%) ISO 9001
8 5 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (3.09%) HIPAA
9 3 (3.09%) NCSC
10 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
11 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.03%) GRC
11 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) SAP
3 10 (10.31%) Databricks
4 7 (7.22%) OpenText
5 3 (3.09%) Aareon
5 3 (3.09%) Capita
5 3 (3.09%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) NEC
5 3 (3.09%) Orchard
6 2 (2.06%) Foundry
6 2 (2.06%) Freshdesk
6 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.03%) Adobe
7 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.03%) DocuSign