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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +137
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 80 47 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.88% 1.94% 2.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.28% 13.09% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 63 23 67
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,716 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% +7.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £64,375 £64,625 £68,693
90th Percentile £78,776 £93,779 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,373 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.51% +38.75% -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 415 359 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.74% 14.83% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 222 169 469
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,650 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,336 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,480 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -10 40 £55,000 -26.67% 10
South Yorkshire -31 7 £50,750 +12.78% 6
East Yorkshire - 4 £57,500 - 3
North Yorkshire +4 2 £55,000 +50.68% 2
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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 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.25%) CMS
1 1 (1.25%) Confluence
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Entra ID
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft Purview
2 13 (16.25%) SaaS
3 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.00%) AWS
5 4 (5.00%) Azure
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.50%) Collibra
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.50%) Firewall
2 8 (10.00%) Network Security
3 7 (8.75%) DNS
4 3 (3.75%) DHCP
4 3 (3.75%) LAN
4 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.75%) VLAN
4 3 (3.75%) VPN
4 3 (3.75%) WAN
4 3 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.50%) Internet
6 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.25%) HTTP
6 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 6 (7.50%) Tableau
3 3 (3.75%) Metadata
3 3 (3.75%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.50%) Ataccama
4 2 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) Looker
5 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
1 2 (2.50%) GitLab
1 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) JUnit
2 1 (1.25%) Postman
2 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 37 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (36.25%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Finance
4 12 (15.00%) Legal
5 9 (11.25%) Retail
6 8 (10.00%) Manufacturing
7 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
8 6 (7.50%) Law
8 6 (7.50%) Marketing
9 4 (5.00%) Advertising
10 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Lead
2 11 (13.75%) Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) IT Support
5 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) HR Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) HR Data Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) E-Commerce Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Applications Support
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Support Technician
8 3 (3.75%) Trainee
8 3 (3.75%) Trainee Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Trainee Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) .NET
1 5 (6.25%) CSS
1 5 (6.25%) HTML
2 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.00%) HTML5
2 4 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.25%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (1.25%) LDAP
3 1 (1.25%) React
3 1 (1.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) SLSA
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Blog
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
1 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 29 (36.25%) Data Protection
4 25 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (31.25%) Risk Management
5 24 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (30.00%) Security Architecture
6 23 (28.75%) Incident Response
6 23 (28.75%) SIEM
6 23 (28.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (26.25%) BCP
7 21 (26.25%) Business Continuity
7 21 (26.25%) Business Continuity Planning
7 21 (26.25%) Information Governance
7 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (26.25%) Risk Register
8 20 (25.00%) Analytics
9 15 (18.75%) User Experience
10 12 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.50%) Bicep
3 2 (2.50%) C#
3 2 (2.50%) Java
3 2 (2.50%) Python
4 1 (1.25%) Bash
4 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) CISSP
3 2 (2.50%) City & Guilds
3 2 (2.50%) IRCA
4 1 (1.25%) CISA
4 1 (1.25%) CRISC
4 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (30.00%) NIST
4 13 (16.25%) Data Quality
5 8 (10.00%) PCI DSS
6 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
7 6 (7.50%) QA
8 5 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (3.75%) EU AI Act
9 3 (3.75%) GRC
9 3 (3.75%) NCSC
9 3 (3.75%) SOC 2
10 2 (2.50%) ISO 9001
11 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.25%) PMO
11 1 (1.25%) SLA
11 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Firmware
2 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Adobe
3 3 (3.75%) Apple
3 3 (3.75%) VMware
4 2 (2.50%) Talend
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) New Relic
5 1 (1.25%) Sitecore