GDPR Jobs in the UK excluding London

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 272 170
Rank change year-on-year +120 -102 +29
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,337 728 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.87% 1.23% 2.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.89% 6.00% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 759 404 723
10th Percentile £24,375 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,385 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,238 £52,725
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -4.72% +11.00%
75th Percentile £60,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,648 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £46,625 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -15.23% -3.51% -0.87%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,628 12,130 12,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.44% 20.51% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,308 4,563 6,971
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,603
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

GDPR
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
North of England +180 395 £42,000 -11.81% 116
South East +64 383 £47,500 -13.64% 161
Midlands +66 231 £37,500 -31.82% 112
North West +89 177 £40,000 -20.38% 64
Yorkshire +166 159 £43,742 -7.91% 43
West Midlands +70 153 £43,806 -18.88% 54
South West +3 135 £37,500 -11.76% 56
East of England +39 91 £42,250 -32.40% 51
East Midlands +23 76 £32,500 -43.97% 57
Scotland -25 69 £55,000 - 34
North East +50 59 £40,250 +0.00% 12
Wales +17 29 £32,500 +18.18% 25
Northern Ireland +29 4 - - 3
GDPR
UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 118 (8.83%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.27%) Captiva
3 17 (1.27%) Confluence
3 17 (1.27%) FileNet
3 17 (1.27%) SAS
3 17 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 16 (1.20%) WordPress
5 12 (0.90%) CMS
6 6 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) Site Server
7 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.075%) nginx
9 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.075%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 132 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.24%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.05%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 1 (0.075%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.075%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.075%) InDesign
10 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.075%) Sketch
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.30%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.22%) Shopify
5 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.075%) FastStats
6 1 (0.075%) iTrent
6 1 (0.075%) Primavera
6 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.075%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.075%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 334 (24.98%) Azure
2 272 (20.34%) GCP
3 239 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
4 181 (13.54%) AWS
5 156 (11.67%) Power Platform
6 48 (3.59%) Entra ID
7 33 (2.47%) Serverless
8 29 (2.17%) SaaS
9 24 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (1.65%) IaaS
10 22 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 20 (1.50%) GitHub
12 19 (1.42%) Matillion
13 18 (1.35%) PaaS
14 17 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (1.20%) OneDrive
16 13 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 11 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
18 10 (0.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (7.26%) Firewall
2 43 (3.22%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (2.54%) Wireless
4 30 (2.24%) WAN
5 28 (2.09%) VPN
6 26 (1.94%) DNS
7 21 (1.57%) 4G
7 21 (1.57%) Intranet
8 18 (1.35%) Network Security
9 17 (1.27%) LAN
9 17 (1.27%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.20%) VLAN
10 16 (1.20%) VoIP
11 14 (1.05%) DHCP
11 14 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (1.05%) MPLS
12 12 (0.90%) 3G
12 12 (0.90%) MQTT
12 12 (0.90%) RS-485
13 11 (0.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (18.40%) BigQuery
2 245 (18.32%) Looker
3 131 (9.80%) Power BI
4 128 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 46 (3.44%) Metadata
7 44 (3.29%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.57%) Big Data
10 20 (1.50%) MySQL
11 17 (1.27%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.82%) Tableau
14 10 (0.75%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 4 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.30%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 101 (7.55%) JIRA
2 32 (2.39%) Git
3 18 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
4 10 (0.75%) GitLab
4 10 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.60%) JUnit
5 8 (0.60%) Selenium
6 5 (0.37%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.37%) Xcode
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.15%) MLflow
9 1 (0.075%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.075%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.075%) Subversion
9 1 (0.075%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.075%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.075%) Vite
General
1 416 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 390 (29.17%) Finance
3 377 (28.20%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (16.38%) Legal
5 168 (12.57%) Banking
6 72 (5.39%) Retail
7 57 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.74%) Law
9 49 (3.66%) Marketing
10 39 (2.92%) Games
11 34 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.09%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.57%) Mandarin Language
16 19 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.27%) Digital Economy
18 14 (1.05%) Environmental Health
18 14 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (13.69%) Analyst
2 163 (12.19%) Data Engineer
3 151 (11.29%) Senior
4 149 (11.14%) Architect
4 149 (11.14%) Platform Engineer
4 149 (11.14%) Principal Data Engineer
4 149 (11.14%) Principal Engineer
5 126 (9.42%) Data Architect
6 89 (6.66%) Senior Analyst
7 79 (5.91%) Lead
8 57 (4.26%) IT Manager
9 56 (4.19%) Developer
9 56 (4.19%) Support Engineer
10 45 (3.37%) IT Support
11 39 (2.92%) Project Manager
11 39 (2.92%) Security Analyst
12 37 (2.77%) Security Manager
13 36 (2.69%) Consultant
14 35 (2.62%) IT Engineer
15 31 (2.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.24%) HTML
2 26 (1.94%) .NET
3 24 (1.80%) RESTful
4 20 (1.50%) CSS
5 16 (1.20%) REST
6 14 (1.05%) EDI
7 12 (0.90%) Web Services
8 9 (0.67%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.67%) HTML5
9 8 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.60%) jQuery
10 7 (0.52%) gRPC
11 6 (0.45%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.45%) CSS3
11 6 (0.45%) Entity Framework
11 6 (0.45%) React
11 6 (0.45%) XML
12 5 (0.37%) Core Animation
12 5 (0.37%) OSGi
12 5 (0.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 314 (23.49%) Self-Motivation
2 128 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.83%) Driving Licence
4 65 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
5 47 (3.52%) NHS
6 35 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
9 23 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (1.35%) IoT
12 17 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.27%) DataPower
12 17 (1.27%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
14 15 (1.12%) CCTV
14 15 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.90%) e-Learning
15 12 (0.90%) EPoS
16 11 (0.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 167 (12.49%) Windows
2 65 (4.86%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.11%) Linux
4 54 (4.04%) Windows 10
5 27 (2.02%) Android
6 23 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.57%) Mac OS
8 18 (1.35%) Unix
9 12 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
10 9 (0.67%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.15%) VMS
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.075%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (24.23%) Data Protection
3 312 (23.34%) Data Governance
4 301 (22.51%) Mentoring
5 267 (19.97%) Data Engineering
6 261 (19.52%) Agile
7 249 (18.62%) Platform Engineering
8 245 (18.32%) Cybersecurity
9 226 (16.90%) Data Management
10 220 (16.45%) DevOps
11 202 (15.11%) Information Security
12 199 (14.88%) Change Management
13 190 (14.21%) Data Science
14 172 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
15 170 (12.72%) Data Privacy
16 162 (12.12%) DataOps
17 151 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
17 151 (11.29%) ETL
18 150 (11.22%) Data Modelling
19 149 (11.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.53%) SQL
2 40 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 32 (2.39%) Java
4 30 (2.24%) T-SQL
5 28 (2.09%) C#
6 24 (1.80%) PowerShell
7 17 (1.27%) C
7 17 (1.27%) PHP
8 16 (1.20%) C++
9 15 (1.12%) Python
10 5 (0.37%) COBOL
10 5 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.37%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 5 (0.37%) Swift
11 4 (0.30%) VB
12 3 (0.22%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.22%) R
13 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.075%) Perl
Qualifications
1 165 (12.34%) Degree
2 70 (5.24%) CISSP
3 62 (4.64%) DBS Check
4 49 (3.66%) CISM
5 39 (2.92%) Security Cleared
6 37 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.17%) CISA
10 28 (2.09%) CRISC
11 24 (1.80%) SC Cleared
12 21 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
15 13 (0.97%) GIAC
15 13 (0.97%) ISEB
16 12 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.82%) CCSP
18 10 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 175 (13.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (9.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 90 (6.73%) NIST
5 63 (4.71%) PCI DSS
6 44 (3.29%) GRC
7 41 (3.07%) SLA
8 29 (2.17%) HIPAA
9 26 (1.94%) QA
10 25 (1.87%) NCSC
11 23 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 21 (1.57%) Accessibility
13 20 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 15 (1.12%) COBIT
16 14 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.82%) COSHH
17 11 (0.82%) ISO 9001
18 9 (0.67%) PSD2
19 7 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 95 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.39%) Hyper-V
3 22 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.37%) Docker
6 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.12%) SCCM
3 11 (0.82%) Terraform
4 10 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.67%) CASB
5 9 (0.67%) Nessus
6 8 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (0.45%) SCDPM
8 5 (0.37%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.30%) Autotask
9 4 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.22%) SELinux
11 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.15%) QRadar
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 1 (0.075%) Stealthwatch
12 1 (0.075%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 377 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 261 (19.52%) Google
3 37 (2.77%) SAP
4 34 (2.54%) Databricks
5 33 (2.47%) Cisco
6 27 (2.02%) Oracle
7 25 (1.87%) VMware
8 23 (1.72%) Dell
9 22 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.65%) Sophos
10 19 (1.42%) IBM
11 18 (1.35%) Apple
12 17 (1.27%) Kofax
12 17 (1.27%) Pega
13 15 (1.12%) Citrix
13 15 (1.12%) Sage
14 14 (1.05%) HP
15 13 (0.97%) Salesforce
16 11 (0.82%) Darktrace
16 11 (0.82%) Facebook