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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 276 234
Rank change year-on-year +110 -42 -11
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,792 1,303 2,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.29% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.17% 6.81% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 754 1,309
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £31,028 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,375 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,238 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.40% -4.31% +10.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,602 19,143 26,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.89% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 8,888 13,070
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDPR.

Salary trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +116 1,649 £46,500 -15.45% 608
UK excluding London +125 1,355 £42,500 -15.40% 466
North of England +199 404 £42,500 -11.23% 107
South East +36 388 £47,500 -9.95% 128
London +48 378 £52,000 -13.33% 181
Work from Home -38 363 £50,000 -9.64% 204
Midlands +78 230 £37,500 -33.04% 101
North West +116 183 £40,000 -20.38% 54
Yorkshire +174 161 £48,250 +3.21% 42
West Midlands +76 153 £43,806 -20.35% 50
South West +10 136 £37,500 -16.67% 45
East of England +51 95 £42,250 -40.70% 47
East Midlands +21 75 £32,500 -44.44% 50
Scotland -25 69 £55,000 +5.24% 31
North East +46 60 £40,500 -15.18% 14
Wales +17 29 £32,500 -16.67% 22
Northern Ireland +25 4 - - 2

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 132 (7.37%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (1.56%) Captiva
3 28 (1.56%) FileNet
3 28 (1.56%) WebSphere
4 22 (1.23%) Confluence
4 22 (1.23%) WordPress
5 18 (1.00%) SAS
6 17 (0.95%) CMS
7 8 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.33%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.22%) Site Server
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 162 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
4 30 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.34%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.67%) Revit
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.056%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.056%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.056%) InDesign
11 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.056%) Sketch
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.056%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.056%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.056%) FastStats
6 1 (0.056%) iTrent
6 1 (0.056%) Primavera
6 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.056%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 450 (25.11%) Azure
2 331 (18.47%) GCP
3 282 (15.74%) Microsoft 365
4 242 (13.50%) AWS
5 192 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.01%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.40%) GitHub
8 41 (2.29%) SaaS
9 34 (1.90%) Serverless
10 31 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
11 30 (1.67%) IaaS
12 26 (1.45%) PaaS
13 25 (1.40%) Snowflake
14 23 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.12%) Matillion
16 19 (1.06%) OneDrive
17 16 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 15 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 138 (7.70%) Firewall
2 47 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (2.12%) Wireless
4 36 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 35 (1.95%) VPN
6 33 (1.84%) DNS
7 30 (1.67%) WAN
8 24 (1.34%) Intranet
9 22 (1.23%) Network Security
10 21 (1.17%) 4G
10 21 (1.17%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.06%) LAN
12 18 (1.00%) DHCP
12 18 (1.00%) VLAN
13 17 (0.95%) Internet
14 16 (0.89%) SAN
14 16 (0.89%) VoIP
15 15 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.78%) MPLS
17 12 (0.67%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (15.40%) Looker
2 273 (15.23%) BigQuery
3 167 (9.32%) Power BI
4 154 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 49 (2.73%) Metadata
8 31 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.51%) Tableau
10 26 (1.45%) Big Data
10 26 (1.45%) MySQL
11 21 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.50%) QlikView
16 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 7 (0.39%) MongoDB
17 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 130 (7.25%) JIRA
2 37 (2.06%) Git
3 28 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (0.61%) GitLab
4 11 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.61%) Selenium
5 8 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.45%) JUnit
6 5 (0.28%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.28%) Xcode
7 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) MLflow
9 1 (0.056%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.056%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.056%) Subversion
9 1 (0.056%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.056%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.056%) Vite
General
1 558 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 528 (29.46%) Finance
3 462 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (17.41%) Legal
5 195 (10.88%) Banking
6 112 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 91 (5.08%) Retail
8 89 (4.97%) Law
9 76 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 76 (4.24%) Marketing
10 68 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (2.79%) Games
12 47 (2.62%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
16 23 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.95%) Digital Economy
17 17 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (12.72%) Analyst
2 209 (11.66%) Senior
3 177 (9.88%) Architect
3 177 (9.88%) Data Engineer
4 161 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
4 161 (8.98%) Principal Data Engineer
4 161 (8.98%) Principal Engineer
5 147 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 122 (6.81%) Lead
7 105 (5.86%) Senior Analyst
8 86 (4.80%) IT Manager
9 69 (3.85%) Developer
10 58 (3.24%) Support Engineer
11 57 (3.18%) Security Manager
12 53 (2.96%) Security Analyst
13 52 (2.90%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.79%) IT Support
15 47 (2.62%) Consultant
16 45 (2.51%) Project Manager
17 44 (2.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.01%) HTML
2 29 (1.62%) RESTful
3 28 (1.56%) .NET
4 26 (1.45%) CSS
5 16 (0.89%) REST
5 16 (0.89%) Web Services
6 15 (0.84%) React
6 15 (0.84%) XML
7 14 (0.78%) EDI
7 14 (0.78%) Node.js
8 13 (0.73%) jQuery
9 11 (0.61%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (0.56%) Spring
10 10 (0.56%) Unreal Engine
10 10 (0.56%) V-Ray
11 9 (0.50%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.50%) HTML5
12 8 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.39%) Ajax
13 7 (0.39%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 357 (19.92%) Self-Motivation
2 197 (10.99%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 79 (4.41%) Driving Licence
5 64 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 50 (2.79%) NHS
7 45 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.56%) DataPower
9 28 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 25 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.34%) e-Learning
12 21 (1.17%) IoT
12 21 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
13 20 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
14 18 (1.00%) CCTV
14 18 (1.00%) Cloud Native
15 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.44%) Windows
2 87 (4.85%) Linux
3 77 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.67%) Unix
6 29 (1.62%) Android
7 26 (1.45%) Apple iOS
8 22 (1.23%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.56%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.11%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.056%) AIX
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
2 428 (23.88%) Data Protection
3 363 (20.26%) Mentoring
4 361 (20.15%) Data Governance
5 343 (19.14%) Cybersecurity
6 328 (18.30%) Agile
7 298 (16.63%) Data Engineering
8 289 (16.13%) Information Security
9 279 (15.57%) DevOps
10 276 (15.40%) Platform Engineering
11 272 (15.18%) Data Management
12 228 (12.72%) Change Management
13 220 (12.28%) Data Privacy
14 213 (11.89%) Data Science
15 190 (10.60%) Risk Management
16 189 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
17 187 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
18 183 (10.21%) Data Modelling
19 178 (9.93%) Data Security
20 176 (9.82%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 154 (8.59%) SQL
2 51 (2.85%) Java
3 49 (2.73%) Python
4 47 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 37 (2.06%) C#
6 31 (1.73%) T-SQL
7 30 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 19 (1.06%) PHP
9 18 (1.00%) C
9 18 (1.00%) C++
10 11 (0.61%) Go
10 11 (0.61%) Ruby
11 6 (0.33%) Bash
11 6 (0.33%) R
12 5 (0.28%) COBOL
12 5 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 5 (0.28%) Swift
13 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 252 (14.06%) Degree
2 143 (7.98%) DBS Check
3 127 (7.09%) CISSP
4 78 (4.35%) CISM
5 58 (3.24%) Security Cleared
6 50 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (2.12%) SC Cleared
10 37 (2.06%) CRISC
11 36 (2.01%) CISA
12 31 (1.73%) GIAC
13 26 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (1.23%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.84%) CEH
18 14 (0.78%) CCSP
18 14 (0.78%) GSEC
18 14 (0.78%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (14.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (12.67%) Data Quality
3 155 (8.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 132 (7.37%) NIST
5 88 (4.91%) PCI DSS
6 58 (3.24%) GRC
7 48 (2.68%) SLA
8 36 (2.01%) HIPAA
9 35 (1.95%) NCSC
9 35 (1.95%) QA
10 30 (1.67%) Accessibility
11 26 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 26 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 25 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 20 (1.12%) COBIT
14 16 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.67%) PSD2
15 12 (0.67%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.61%) COSHH
16 11 (0.61%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.34%) Hyper-V
3 27 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.56%) Docker
4 10 (0.56%) Firmware
4 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.28%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 1 (0.056%) LXC
Systems Management
1 39 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.40%) Terraform
3 21 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.89%) FortiGate
5 15 (0.84%) SCCM
6 13 (0.73%) CASB
7 12 (0.67%) Ansible
8 11 (0.61%) Nessus
9 8 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.33%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.33%) SCDPM
11 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.22%) Autotask
11 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.22%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.17%) SELinux
13 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 479 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 305 (17.02%) Google
3 58 (3.24%) SAP
4 43 (2.40%) Cisco
5 41 (2.29%) Databricks
5 41 (2.29%) Oracle
6 38 (2.12%) VMware
7 37 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.67%) IBM
9 28 (1.56%) Kofax
9 28 (1.56%) Pega
10 25 (1.40%) Apple
11 24 (1.34%) Adobe
12 23 (1.28%) Citrix
12 23 (1.28%) Dell
12 23 (1.28%) Sophos
13 18 (1.00%) Salesforce
14 16 (0.89%) Qualys
15 15 (0.84%) HP
15 15 (0.84%) Sage