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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 101 97
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +114
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 54 57 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.58% 1.84% 2.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.71% 13.19% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 46
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,925 £35,579
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,600 £40,936
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +22.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £78,776 £65,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -

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 367 432 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.71% 13.91% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 198 172 404
10th Percentile £25,813 £27,450 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,716 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,436 £50,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £64,844 £66,563 £66,778
90th Percentile £78,830 £82,375 £83,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.56% +1.74%

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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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -6 34 £42,500 -29.75% 8
South Yorkshire -17 5 £50,750 +4.10% 12
East Yorkshire - 4 £45,000 - 2
North Yorkshire +3 2 £55,000 +77.42% 6
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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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) SaaS
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 4 (7.41%) Azure
5 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.70%) Collibra
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) dbt
7 1 (1.85%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) Network Security
3 7 (12.96%) DNS
4 3 (5.56%) DHCP
4 3 (5.56%) LAN
4 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.56%) VLAN
4 3 (5.56%) VPN
4 3 (5.56%) WAN
4 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.70%) SMS
6 1 (1.85%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Tableau
3 3 (5.56%) Metadata
3 3 (5.56%) MySQL
3 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) Looker
5 1 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 10 (18.52%) Legal
4 9 (16.67%) Retail
5 8 (14.81%) Manufacturing
5 8 (14.81%) Marketing
6 4 (7.41%) Law
6 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
7 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.56%) Local Government
7 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.70%) Advertising
8 2 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (14.81%) Analyst
2 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Consultant
3 6 (11.11%) IT Support
3 6 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) HR Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (5.56%) IT Technician
5 3 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Senior IT Support
5 3 (5.56%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
1 2 (3.70%) CSS
1 2 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Cordova
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.85%) HTML5
2 1 (1.85%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (1.85%) jQuery
2 1 (1.85%) LDAP
2 1 (1.85%) React
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) SLSA
2 1 (1.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 3 (5.56%) Learning Management System
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.70%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Blog
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
1 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (25.93%) Data Protection
2 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 11 (20.37%) Analytics
4 11 (20.37%) User Experience
5 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (12.96%) Data Governance
6 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (12.96%) Risk Management
7 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.11%) DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) ITIL
7 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.11%) Security Architecture
7 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
8 5 (9.26%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) SQL
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.70%) Bicep
3 2 (3.70%) C#
3 2 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (7.41%) CISSP
3 2 (3.70%) CISMP
3 2 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.70%) GSEC
4 1 (1.85%) CISA
4 1 (1.85%) CRISC
4 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
4 6 (11.11%) NIST
5 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (7.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (5.56%) EU AI Act
7 3 (5.56%) GRC
7 3 (5.56%) NCSC
7 3 (5.56%) QA
7 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.85%) PMO
8 1 (1.85%) SLA
8 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.56%) Firmware
2 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Adobe
3 3 (5.56%) Apple
3 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.56%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Talend
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) New Relic
5 1 (1.85%) Sitecore