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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 106 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +16
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 70 43 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.92% 1.27% 1.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.01% 16.17% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 56 30 24
10th Percentile £27,000 £20,250 £26,400
25th Percentile £35,875 £28,078 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £42,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +34.52% -8.20% -16.06%
75th Percentile £83,750 £62,563 £61,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -

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 538 266 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.03% 7.88% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 403 179 230
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,466 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £75,180 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £58,465
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.36% -2.56%

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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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -15 36 £56,500 +5.85% 56
East Yorkshire -4 10 £27,000 -41.30% 3
South Yorkshire -21 10 £82,500 - 27
North Yorkshire +5 6 £63,114 +207.87% 7
Humberside - 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 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.71%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 10 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.29%) Aareon QL
2 3 (4.29%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (4.29%) NEC Housing
2 3 (4.29%) OPENHousing
2 3 (4.29%) Orchard Housing
2 3 (4.29%) SystmOne
3 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.43%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 11 (15.71%) AWS
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Functions
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (8.57%) GCP
3 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.57%) Serverless
4 5 (7.14%) SaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.29%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.86%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.86%) IaaS
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Broadband
2 5 (7.14%) Internet
3 3 (4.29%) DHCP
3 3 (4.29%) DNS
3 3 (4.29%) Firewall
3 3 (4.29%) HTTP
3 3 (4.29%) LAN
3 3 (4.29%) VPN
4 2 (2.86%) VLAN
4 2 (2.86%) WAN
5 1 (1.43%) DSL
5 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.57%) SAP BW
2 6 (8.57%) Spark SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Metadata
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
4 3 (4.29%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.14%) Legal
4 12 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.14%) Law
6 5 (7.14%) Local Government
6 5 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.71%) Games
8 3 (4.29%) Aviation
8 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.29%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.86%) Marketing
10 1 (1.43%) Advertising
10 1 (1.43%) Aeronautics
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Information Manager
2 9 (12.86%) Architect
2 9 (12.86%) Data Architect
2 9 (12.86%) Security Manager
3 8 (11.43%) Data Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Information Security Manager
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Consultant
4 6 (8.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Databricks Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) IT Support
4 6 (8.57%) Lead
4 6 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (7.14%) Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 5 (7.14%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) ARM Templates
1 6 (8.57%) PySpark
1 6 (8.57%) REST
1 6 (8.57%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (5.71%) Middleware
3 1 (1.43%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 6 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (8.57%) Driving Licence
4 5 (7.14%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.29%) e-Learning
6 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.29%) Robotics
6 3 (4.29%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) Social Media
8 1 (1.43%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.86%) CRM
3 16 (22.86%) Data Governance
3 16 (22.86%) Information Security
4 15 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 14 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (18.57%) AI
6 13 (18.57%) SIEM
7 10 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
7 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
8 9 (12.86%) Incident Response
8 9 (12.86%) Performance Testing
8 9 (12.86%) Risk Register
8 9 (12.86%) System Integration Testing
8 9 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (12.86%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) Python
2 8 (11.43%) SQL
3 6 (8.57%) ABAP
4 3 (4.29%) Perl
5 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.14%) CISM
3 5 (7.14%) CISSP
3 5 (7.14%) DBS Check
4 4 (5.71%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.86%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.43%) NIST
3 6 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (5.71%) QA
5 3 (4.29%) HIPAA
5 3 (4.29%) ISO 19650
5 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (4.29%) NCSC
6 1 (1.43%) GRC
6 1 (1.43%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) SAP
3 6 (8.57%) Databricks
3 6 (8.57%) OpenText
4 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.29%) Aareon
5 3 (4.29%) Capita
5 3 (4.29%) Google
5 3 (4.29%) NEC
5 3 (4.29%) Orchard
6 2 (2.86%) Foundry
6 2 (2.86%) Freshdesk
6 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.43%) Adobe
7 1 (1.43%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.43%) Workday
7 1 (1.43%) Zoho