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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 99 102
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 +93
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 44 62 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.25% 1.77% 2.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.29% 13.45% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 32 27 36
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,925 £32,790
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,716 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -9.48% +26.09%
75th Percentile £66,563 £64,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £79,878 £65,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +9.09%

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 331 461 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.42% 13.18% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 187 201 365
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £64,875 £66,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £78,848 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 17 December 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 17 December 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 0 28 £53,000 -12.40% 19
South Yorkshire -16 5 £50,750 +4.10% 12
East Yorkshire - 5 £43,500 - 4
North Yorkshire -7 2 £55,000 +54.93% 4
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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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) SaaS
2 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.09%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.55%) Collibra
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) Network Security
3 3 (6.82%) LAN
3 3 (6.82%) WAN
4 2 (4.55%) SMS
5 1 (2.27%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (6.82%) Metadata
2 3 (6.82%) Tableau
3 2 (4.55%) Ataccama
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) Looker
4 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Legal
3 8 (18.18%) Marketing
4 6 (13.64%) Retail
5 5 (11.36%) Manufacturing
6 4 (9.09%) Law
6 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.82%) Local Government
7 3 (6.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.55%) Advertising
8 2 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (9.09%) Data Analyst
2 4 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) IT Support
3 3 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) CRM Executive
4 2 (4.55%) Data Quality Manager
4 2 (4.55%) HR Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) HR Data Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Lead Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Lead Security Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) .NET
1 2 (4.55%) CSS
1 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Cordova
2 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.27%) HTML5
2 1 (2.27%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (2.27%) jQuery
2 1 (2.27%) LDAP
2 1 (2.27%) React
2 1 (2.27%) RESTful
2 1 (2.27%) SLSA
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) e-Learning
2 3 (6.82%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.55%) Educational Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Blog
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.00%) User Experience
3 10 (22.73%) Analytics
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Data Protection
5 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
6 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 6 (13.64%) DevOps
6 6 (13.64%) Logistics
6 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.36%) Data Privacy
7 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.36%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (11.36%) Information Security
7 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (9.09%) E-Commerce
8 4 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) Bicep
2 2 (4.55%) C#
2 2 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.27%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) CISMP
2 3 (6.82%) CISSP
2 3 (6.82%) GSEC
3 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.27%) CISA
4 1 (2.27%) CRISC
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (20.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (15.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.82%) EU AI Act
5 3 (6.82%) GRC
5 3 (6.82%) NIST
5 3 (6.82%) QA
5 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.55%) NCSC
7 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (2.27%) PMO
7 1 (2.27%) SLA
7 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.82%) Firmware
2 1 (2.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Adobe
3 3 (6.82%) Apple
3 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Talend
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) New Relic
5 1 (2.27%) Sitecore
40 GDPR jobs in Yorkshire