GDPR Jobs in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 136 224 100
Rank change year-on-year +88 -124 +68
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 180 69 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.69% 0.93% 3.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.01% 4.33% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 95 58 91
10th Percentile £26,850 £36,775 £36,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,238 £65,689
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% -23.52% +20.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,833 £88,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,063 £90,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,285 1,593 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.04% 21.55% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 901 487 890
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for GDPR in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for GDPR in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the North West 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
Manchester +46 90 £51,000 +4.36% 25
Cheshire +20 40 £40,000 -38.46% 16
Merseyside +34 30 £34,000 -15.00% 10
Lancashire -4 14 £40,000 -52.94% 3
Cumbria - 6 - - 2
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 20 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.67%) CMS
3 3 (1.67%) Confluence
3 3 (1.67%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.67%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.56%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.56%) iTrent
3 1 (0.56%) Primavera
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.11%) GCP
2 34 (18.89%) Azure
3 28 (15.56%) AWS
4 20 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.44%) SaaS
6 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.78%) OCI
6 5 (2.78%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.22%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (1.67%) Commercetools
8 3 (1.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.11%) Serverless
9 2 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.56%) IaaS
10 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) Firewall
1 5 (2.78%) VoIP
2 4 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.67%) Intranet
3 3 (1.67%) Network Security
3 3 (1.67%) Skype
4 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) SMTP
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.11%) BigQuery
2 35 (19.44%) Looker
3 20 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.22%) Power BI
5 7 (3.89%) Metadata
6 4 (2.22%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.11%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.89%) JIRA
2 6 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.78%) Legal
3 58 (32.22%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (19.44%) Finance
5 28 (15.56%) Banking
6 13 (7.22%) Law
7 9 (5.00%) Retail
8 6 (3.33%) Marketing
8 6 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Games
9 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (16.11%) Data Engineer
1 29 (16.11%) Platform Engineer
1 29 (16.11%) Principal Data Engineer
1 29 (16.11%) Principal Engineer
2 24 (13.33%) Analyst
3 23 (12.78%) Senior
4 19 (10.56%) Architect
4 19 (10.56%) Lead
5 16 (8.89%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.11%) Developer
8 8 (4.44%) Head of IT
9 7 (3.89%) Systems Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Development Manager
11 5 (2.78%) Security Analyst
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Support Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Technical Support
11 5 (2.78%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.11%) HTML
2 7 (3.89%) .NET
3 5 (2.78%) XML
4 3 (1.67%) CSS
4 3 (1.67%) HTML5
4 3 (1.67%) jQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (10.56%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.33%) Blog
4 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.78%) Fat Client
5 5 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.78%) Thin Client
6 4 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.67%) Animation
7 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.67%) NHS
7 3 (1.67%) Smart Energy
8 2 (1.11%) IoT
8 2 (1.11%) Life Science
8 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.78%) Windows
2 8 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.78%) Linux
4 4 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.67%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.22%) Data Protection
2 66 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 44 (24.44%) DevOps
5 42 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 41 (22.78%) Agile
6 41 (22.78%) Data Management
7 38 (21.11%) Data Engineering
7 38 (21.11%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (18.89%) Data Science
9 33 (18.33%) Risk Management
10 32 (17.78%) Change Management
11 31 (17.22%) Data Privacy
12 30 (16.67%) Process Improvement
13 29 (16.11%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (16.11%) DataOps
14 28 (15.56%) Matrix Management
14 28 (15.56%) Matrix Organization
15 25 (13.89%) Information Security
16 23 (12.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.56%) C#
2 7 (3.89%) Python
3 5 (2.78%) Java
4 4 (2.22%) SQL
5 3 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (13.33%) CISM
2 23 (12.78%) Degree
3 19 (10.56%) CRISC
4 16 (8.89%) CISA
4 16 (8.89%) CISSP
5 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.78%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.33%) PMP
7 5 (2.78%) CEH
7 5 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.22%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (2.22%) ISSMP
8 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.11%) SAS Certification
10 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 19 (10.56%) GRC
4 15 (8.33%) NIST
5 11 (6.11%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (4.44%) QA
8 7 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.67%) NCSC
10 3 (1.67%) SLA
10 3 (1.67%) WCAG
11 2 (1.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.56%) P3O
12 1 (0.56%) PSD2
12 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
1 3 (1.67%) Terminal Services
1 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.22%) Autotask
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.67%) SELinux
3 1 (0.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (20.56%) Google
2 27 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle
4 7 (3.89%) Cisco
5 5 (2.78%) Citrix
6 4 (2.22%) Datto
6 4 (2.22%) Dell
6 4 (2.22%) SAP
7 3 (1.67%) Adobe
7 3 (1.67%) HP
7 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.67%) VMware
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) Atmel
8 1 (0.56%) Avaya
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) Planview
8 1 (0.56%) Qualys
8 1 (0.56%) Sage
8 1 (0.56%) Workday