GDPR Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 267 245
Rank change year-on-year +105 -22 -21
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,581 1,135 2,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.74% 1.35% 1.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.08% 7.19% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 958 661 1,187
10th Percentile £25,468 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12,084 15,787 23,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.28% 18.76% 16.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,321 7,618 11,992
10th Percentile £26,500 £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% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for GDPR in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for GDPR in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +184 396 £40,681 -18.83% 104
South East +55 374 £48,500 -11.82% 159
London +32 333 £59,250 -5.20% 203
Midlands +73 236 £37,500 -31.82% 118
North West +88 180 £40,000 -20.38% 58
Yorkshire +151 157 £43,742 -10.73% 36
West Midlands +50 156 £43,806 -20.35% 64
South West +2 132 £37,500 +33.93% 66
East of England +28 92 £42,500 -32.00% 46
East Midlands +24 78 £32,500 -44.44% 52
North East +42 59 £40,250 +0.00% 11
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UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 126 (7.97%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.27%) WordPress
4 18 (1.14%) Confluence
5 16 (1.01%) SAS
6 15 (0.95%) CMS
7 8 (0.51%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.38%) Apache
9 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.25%) Site Server
10 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) Captiva
11 2 (0.13%) FileNet
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 145 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (6.83%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
4 23 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.33%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.57%) Revit
7 5 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.063%) InDesign
10 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
10 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.25%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.19%) Shopify
5 2 (0.13%) iTrent
5 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.063%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.063%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.063%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.063%) FastStats
6 1 (0.063%) Primavera
6 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.063%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 387 (24.48%) Azure
2 277 (17.52%) GCP
3 259 (16.38%) Microsoft 365
4 225 (14.23%) AWS
5 187 (11.83%) Power Platform
6 39 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.40%) SaaS
8 33 (2.09%) Serverless
9 31 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (1.58%) IaaS
11 22 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (1.33%) PaaS
13 19 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (1.14%) Matillion
15 17 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.01%) OneDrive
17 13 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (0.82%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 137 (8.67%) Firewall
2 43 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (2.34%) Wireless
4 35 (2.21%) VPN
5 33 (2.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 33 (2.09%) WAN
6 31 (1.96%) DNS
7 23 (1.45%) Intranet
8 22 (1.39%) 4G
8 22 (1.39%) Network Security
9 20 (1.27%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.20%) LAN
11 18 (1.14%) VLAN
12 16 (1.01%) Internet
12 16 (1.01%) SAN
12 16 (1.01%) VoIP
13 15 (0.95%) DHCP
13 15 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.89%) MPLS
15 13 (0.82%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (16.19%) Looker
2 255 (16.13%) BigQuery
3 158 (9.99%) Power BI
4 154 (9.74%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 46 (2.91%) Metadata
8 33 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.71%) Big Data
9 27 (1.71%) MySQL
10 23 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.39%) Tableau
12 14 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.63%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (0.51%) QlikView
16 7 (0.44%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 92 (5.82%) JIRA
2 38 (2.40%) Git
3 13 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.70%) Selenium
5 10 (0.63%) GitLab
6 8 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.51%) JUnit
7 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.32%) Xcode
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) MLflow
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.063%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.063%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.063%) Subversion
11 1 (0.063%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.063%) Vite
General
1 531 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 437 (27.64%) Analytical Skills
3 433 (27.39%) Finance
4 272 (17.20%) Legal
5 149 (9.42%) Banking
6 83 (5.25%) Retail
7 81 (5.12%) Law
8 76 (4.81%) Marketing
9 73 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.85%) Games
13 43 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.66%) Public Sector
15 26 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
18 18 (1.14%) Digital Economy
19 16 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (12.90%) Analyst
2 187 (11.83%) Senior
3 173 (10.94%) Architect
4 159 (10.06%) Data Engineer
5 143 (9.04%) Data Architect
5 143 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
5 143 (9.04%) Principal Data Engineer
5 143 (9.04%) Principal Engineer
6 116 (7.34%) Lead
7 89 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
8 82 (5.19%) IT Manager
9 69 (4.36%) Developer
10 56 (3.54%) Security Manager
11 53 (3.35%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.23%) Security Analyst
13 48 (3.04%) IT Support
14 45 (2.85%) Data Manager
14 45 (2.85%) Project Manager
15 44 (2.78%) Consultant
16 38 (2.40%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.21%) HTML
2 29 (1.83%) RESTful
3 28 (1.77%) .NET
4 25 (1.58%) CSS
5 17 (1.08%) REST
6 16 (1.01%) React
6 16 (1.01%) Web Services
7 15 (0.95%) XML
8 14 (0.89%) EDI
8 14 (0.89%) jQuery
9 10 (0.63%) Spring
10 9 (0.57%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.57%) HTML5
11 8 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) Ajax
12 7 (0.44%) gRPC
12 7 (0.44%) Unreal Engine
12 7 (0.44%) V-Ray
13 6 (0.38%) ASP.NET
13 6 (0.38%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 339 (21.44%) Self-Motivation
2 173 (10.94%) Management Information System
3 82 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 80 (5.06%) Driving Licence
5 59 (3.73%) Security Posture
6 53 (3.35%) NHS
7 44 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
9 25 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.33%) e-Learning
10 21 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.27%) IoT
12 19 (1.20%) CCTV
13 18 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
14 17 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
15 15 (0.95%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
17 12 (0.76%) PKI
17 12 (0.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.76%) Windows
2 78 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 55 (3.48%) Windows 10
4 49 (3.10%) Linux
5 33 (2.09%) Android
6 29 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.63%) Mac OS X
10 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.25%) Unix
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.13%) VMS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.13%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 386 (24.41%) Data Protection
3 337 (21.32%) Data Governance
4 329 (20.81%) Mentoring
5 315 (19.92%) Cybersecurity
6 281 (17.77%) Information Security
7 280 (17.71%) Data Engineering
8 265 (16.76%) Agile
9 258 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
10 241 (15.24%) Data Management
11 226 (14.29%) DevOps
12 201 (12.71%) Data Privacy
13 193 (12.21%) Data Science
14 186 (11.76%) Risk Management
15 182 (11.51%) Change Management
16 181 (11.45%) Data Modelling
17 179 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
17 179 (11.32%) Data Security
18 173 (10.94%) ETL
19 170 (10.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.72%) SQL
2 48 (3.04%) JavaScript
3 37 (2.34%) C#
3 37 (2.34%) Python
4 30 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 30 (1.90%) T-SQL
5 25 (1.58%) Java
6 19 (1.20%) C
7 18 (1.14%) C++
7 18 (1.14%) PHP
8 6 (0.38%) R
9 5 (0.32%) Bash
9 5 (0.32%) COBOL
9 5 (0.32%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.32%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 5 (0.32%) Swift
9 5 (0.32%) VB
10 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.19%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (14.80%) Degree
2 125 (7.91%) CISSP
3 81 (5.12%) DBS Check
4 78 (4.93%) CISM
5 56 (3.54%) Security Cleared
6 47 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 45 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (2.40%) SC Cleared
9 37 (2.34%) CISA
9 37 (2.34%) CRISC
10 31 (1.96%) GIAC
11 23 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.95%) CEH
13 15 (0.95%) GSEC
14 14 (0.89%) SSCP
15 13 (0.82%) ISEB
15 13 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 216 (13.66%) Data Quality
3 148 (9.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 113 (7.15%) NIST
5 87 (5.50%) PCI DSS
6 59 (3.73%) GRC
7 49 (3.10%) SLA
8 42 (2.66%) HIPAA
9 36 (2.28%) QA
10 31 (1.96%) NCSC
11 29 (1.83%) Accessibility
12 26 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 23 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 22 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (1.20%) COBIT
15 19 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.89%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.70%) COSHH
17 11 (0.70%) ISO 9001
18 10 (0.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 91 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 23 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.70%) Docker
6 10 (0.63%) Firmware
7 6 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
11 1 (0.063%) LXC
Systems Management
1 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.14%) Terraform
3 16 (1.01%) FortiGate
3 16 (1.01%) SCCM
4 13 (0.82%) CASB
5 12 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.57%) Nessus
7 8 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.38%) CSIRT
8 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (0.38%) SCDPM
9 4 (0.25%) Autotask
9 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.19%) SELinux
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) QRadar
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 458 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 287 (18.15%) Google
3 43 (2.72%) Cisco
4 39 (2.47%) Databricks
5 34 (2.15%) VMware
6 33 (2.09%) SAP
7 22 (1.39%) Citrix
7 22 (1.39%) Dell
7 22 (1.39%) Sophos
8 19 (1.20%) Adobe
8 19 (1.20%) Apple
9 17 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.01%) Oracle
10 16 (1.01%) Sage
11 15 (0.95%) Qualys
12 14 (0.89%) HP
13 12 (0.76%) Meraki
13 12 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.70%) Facebook
15 10 (0.63%) Mitel