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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 98 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +150
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 94 38 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.84% 1.71% 2.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.34% 12.88% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 74 31 66
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £37,716 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £53,500 £49,413
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% +8.27% +7.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,625 £79,099
90th Percentile £82,625 £90,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +39.78% -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 486 295 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.51% 13.29% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 300 209 531
10th Percentile £28,700 £26,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,925 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £49,136
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -3.33% -1.73%
75th Percentile £65,640 £64,100 £60,741
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%

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

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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 4 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 4 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 -2 50 £55,000 -26.67% 15
South Yorkshire -33 11 £67,500 +47.54% 5
East Yorkshire - 5 £70,000 - 3
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 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.34%) Entra ID
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft Purview
2 11 (11.70%) Azure
2 11 (11.70%) SaaS
3 10 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.45%) AWS
4 7 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.26%) GCP
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.19%) Serverless
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.13%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.13%) Collibra
7 2 (2.13%) dbt
7 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.66%) Firewall
2 8 (8.51%) Network Security
3 6 (6.38%) DNS
4 3 (3.19%) DHCP
4 3 (3.19%) LAN
4 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.19%) VLAN
4 3 (3.19%) VPN
4 3 (3.19%) WAN
4 3 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.13%) HTTP
5 2 (2.13%) Internet
6 1 (1.06%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Power BI
2 7 (7.45%) Tableau
3 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) Metadata
4 4 (4.26%) Spark SQL
5 3 (3.19%) MySQL
5 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.13%) Ataccama
6 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.13%) Looker
6 2 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.06%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.06%) Power Query
7 1 (1.06%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Git
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) GitLab
2 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.13%) JUnit
2 2 (2.13%) Postman
2 2 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (1.06%) MLflow
General
1 42 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 36 (38.30%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (25.53%) Finance
4 11 (11.70%) Legal
5 10 (10.64%) Retail
6 9 (9.57%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.38%) Marketing
7 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.26%) Advertising
8 4 (4.26%) Law
8 4 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.19%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Banking
10 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.06%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Lead
2 13 (13.83%) Analyst
3 12 (12.77%) Senior
4 11 (11.70%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) Consultant
6 6 (6.38%) Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Head of QA
6 6 (6.38%) IT Support
6 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) HR Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) HR Data Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) E-Commerce Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) CSS
1 6 (6.38%) HTML
2 4 (4.26%) .NET
2 4 (4.26%) AngularJS
2 4 (4.26%) HTML5
2 4 (4.26%) jQuery
3 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.19%) PySpark
3 3 (3.19%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.06%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (1.06%) Kafka
4 1 (1.06%) LangChain
4 1 (1.06%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) pgvector
4 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.06%) Blog
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) NHS
7 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Linux
1 3 (3.19%) Windows
1 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (56.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 35 (37.23%) Decision-Making
3 29 (30.85%) Data Protection
4 27 (28.72%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (27.66%) Analytics
5 26 (27.66%) SIEM
6 24 (25.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (25.53%) Incident Response
6 24 (25.53%) Risk Management
6 24 (25.53%) Security Architecture
6 24 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (23.40%) Risk Register
9 21 (22.34%) BCP
9 21 (22.34%) Business Continuity
9 21 (22.34%) Business Continuity Planning
9 21 (22.34%) Information Governance
10 16 (17.02%) User Experience
11 15 (15.96%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (15.96%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) SQL
2 7 (7.45%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.13%) Bicep
5 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.06%) ABAP
6 1 (1.06%) C#
6 1 (1.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) IRCA
3 5 (5.32%) CISSP
3 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.13%) CISM
4 2 (2.13%) City & Guilds
4 2 (2.13%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (38.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (30.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (25.53%) NIST
4 15 (15.96%) Data Quality
5 11 (11.70%) QA
6 9 (9.57%) PCI DSS
7 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
7 6 (6.38%) ISO 9001
8 5 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (3.19%) NCSC
10 2 (2.13%) EU AI Act
10 2 (2.13%) GRC
10 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.06%) PMO
11 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) Firmware
2 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (35.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Adobe
2 4 (4.26%) Databricks
3 3 (3.19%) Apple
3 3 (3.19%) VMware
4 2 (2.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.13%) Talend
5 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.06%) Dell
5 1 (1.06%) Google
5 1 (1.06%) OpenText