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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 278 232
Rank change year-on-year +111 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,768 1,317 2,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.27% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.07% 6.69% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 748 1,329
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £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 £92,150 £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 13,528 19,692 26,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.97% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,247 9,122 13,236
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 £76,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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 3 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 3 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 +120 1,629 £46,500 -15.45% 589
UK excluding London +131 1,332 £42,500 -15.40% 468
North of England +199 391 £42,000 -11.81% 106
South East +47 388 £47,500 -9.52% 131
London +51 379 £52,000 -13.33% 164
Work from Home -33 359 £50,000 -9.82% 205
Midlands +93 224 £37,500 -33.04% 92
North West +101 176 £40,000 -20.38% 57
Yorkshire +162 157 £48,250 +4.89% 40
West Midlands +77 149 £43,653 -19.16% 48
South West +12 134 £37,500 -19.79% 49
East of England +49 95 £42,250 -40.70% 54
East Midlands +31 73 £32,500 -44.44% 43
Scotland -27 67 £55,000 -7.60% 37
North East +46 58 £40,500 -15.18% 11
Wales +21 29 £32,500 -16.67% 20
Northern Ireland +28 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
1 131 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (1.58%) Captiva
3 28 (1.58%) FileNet
3 28 (1.58%) WebSphere
4 23 (1.30%) WordPress
5 21 (1.19%) Confluence
6 18 (1.02%) CMS
6 18 (1.02%) SAS
7 8 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.40%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.23%) Site Server
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 162 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (5.49%) Spreadsheet
4 30 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.36%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.68%) Revit
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.057%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.057%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.057%) InDesign
11 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.057%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.057%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.057%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.057%) FastStats
6 1 (0.057%) iTrent
6 1 (0.057%) Primavera
6 1 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.057%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.057%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.057%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 456 (25.79%) Azure
2 331 (18.72%) GCP
3 283 (16.01%) Microsoft 365
4 244 (13.80%) AWS
5 188 (10.63%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.00%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.43%) GitHub
8 40 (2.26%) SaaS
9 35 (1.98%) Serverless
10 31 (1.75%) IaaS
11 30 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 28 (1.58%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.53%) PaaS
14 22 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (1.19%) Matillion
16 18 (1.02%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 14 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 138 (7.81%) Firewall
2 46 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (2.09%) Wireless
4 36 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 35 (1.98%) VPN
6 32 (1.81%) DNS
7 30 (1.70%) WAN
8 24 (1.36%) Intranet
9 22 (1.24%) Network Security
10 21 (1.19%) 4G
11 20 (1.13%) TCP/IP
12 19 (1.07%) LAN
13 18 (1.02%) VLAN
14 17 (0.96%) DHCP
14 17 (0.96%) Internet
15 16 (0.90%) SAN
15 16 (0.90%) VoIP
16 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.79%) MPLS
18 12 (0.68%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (15.61%) Looker
2 273 (15.44%) BigQuery
3 164 (9.28%) Power BI
4 153 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 52 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 50 (2.83%) Metadata
8 28 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.58%) Tableau
9 26 (1.47%) MySQL
10 25 (1.41%) Big Data
11 21 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.57%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.51%) QlikView
15 8 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
17 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 6 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 130 (7.35%) JIRA
2 37 (2.09%) Git
3 28 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (0.68%) GitLab
4 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.62%) Selenium
6 8 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.45%) JUnit
7 5 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.28%) Xcode
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.11%) MLflow
10 1 (0.057%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.057%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.057%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.057%) Subversion
10 1 (0.057%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.057%) Vite
General
1 555 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 508 (28.73%) Finance
3 460 (26.02%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (16.23%) Legal
5 173 (9.79%) Banking
6 112 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 90 (5.09%) Law
7 90 (5.09%) Retail
8 76 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (4.13%) Marketing
10 66 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.77%) Games
12 46 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.30%) Mandarin Language
17 22 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.96%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 204 (11.54%) Analyst
2 190 (10.75%) Senior
3 180 (10.18%) Architect
4 176 (9.95%) Data Engineer
5 161 (9.11%) Platform Engineer
5 161 (9.11%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (9.11%) Principal Engineer
6 150 (8.48%) Data Architect
7 122 (6.90%) Lead
8 84 (4.75%) IT Manager
8 84 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
9 68 (3.85%) Developer
10 58 (3.28%) Support Engineer
11 55 (3.11%) Security Manager
12 53 (3.00%) Security Analyst
13 51 (2.88%) Data Manager
14 50 (2.83%) IT Support
15 48 (2.71%) Consultant
16 45 (2.55%) Project Manager
17 44 (2.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.04%) HTML
2 29 (1.64%) RESTful
3 28 (1.58%) .NET
4 26 (1.47%) CSS
5 16 (0.90%) REST
5 16 (0.90%) Web Services
6 15 (0.85%) React
6 15 (0.85%) XML
7 14 (0.79%) EDI
7 14 (0.79%) Node.js
8 13 (0.74%) jQuery
9 11 (0.62%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (0.57%) Spring
10 10 (0.57%) Unreal Engine
10 10 (0.57%) V-Ray
11 9 (0.51%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.51%) HTML5
12 8 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.40%) Ajax
13 7 (0.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 357 (20.19%) Self-Motivation
2 195 (11.03%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.47%) Driving Licence
4 77 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
5 66 (3.73%) Security Posture
6 49 (2.77%) NHS
7 44 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.58%) DataPower
9 28 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 24 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.24%) IoT
13 21 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
14 20 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
15 19 (1.07%) Cloud Native
16 18 (1.02%) CCTV
17 16 (0.90%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.60%) Windows
2 86 (4.86%) Linux
3 78 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.70%) Unix
6 27 (1.53%) Android
7 24 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 22 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.57%) 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 (0.057%) AIX
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (33.31%) Problem-Solving
2 399 (22.57%) Data Protection
3 364 (20.59%) Mentoring
4 347 (19.63%) Cybersecurity
5 339 (19.17%) Data Governance
6 331 (18.72%) Agile
7 297 (16.80%) Data Engineering
8 292 (16.52%) Information Security
9 281 (15.89%) DevOps
10 276 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
11 252 (14.25%) Data Management
12 229 (12.95%) Change Management
13 215 (12.16%) Data Science
14 198 (11.20%) Data Privacy
15 190 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
16 188 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
17 186 (10.52%) Risk Management
18 183 (10.35%) Data Modelling
19 178 (10.07%) Data Security
20 176 (9.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 153 (8.65%) SQL
2 51 (2.88%) Java
2 51 (2.88%) Python
3 47 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 37 (2.09%) C#
5 30 (1.70%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.70%) T-SQL
6 20 (1.13%) PHP
7 18 (1.02%) C
7 18 (1.02%) C++
8 11 (0.62%) Go
8 11 (0.62%) Ruby
9 7 (0.40%) Bash
10 6 (0.34%) R
11 5 (0.28%) COBOL
11 5 (0.28%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 5 (0.28%) Swift
12 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 254 (14.37%) Degree
2 142 (8.03%) DBS Check
3 127 (7.18%) CISSP
4 80 (4.52%) CISM
5 59 (3.34%) Security Cleared
6 51 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.21%) SC Cleared
9 37 (2.09%) CISA
9 37 (2.09%) CRISC
9 37 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.75%) GIAC
11 26 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.90%) CCSP
16 14 (0.79%) GSEC
16 14 (0.79%) ISEB
16 14 (0.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (14.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 224 (12.67%) Data Quality
3 152 (8.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 136 (7.69%) NIST
5 90 (5.09%) PCI DSS
6 57 (3.22%) GRC
7 47 (2.66%) SLA
8 39 (2.21%) HIPAA
9 35 (1.98%) QA
10 34 (1.92%) NCSC
11 31 (1.75%) Accessibility
12 27 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 25 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 23 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 20 (1.13%) COBIT
16 16 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.74%) SOC 2
18 12 (0.68%) PSD2
19 11 (0.62%) COSHH
19 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 108 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 26 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.57%) Docker
4 10 (0.57%) Firmware
4 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.28%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 1 (0.057%) LXC
Systems Management
1 38 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (1.36%) Terraform
3 21 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.90%) FortiGate
5 14 (0.79%) SCCM
6 13 (0.74%) CASB
7 12 (0.68%) Ansible
8 11 (0.62%) Nessus
9 8 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.34%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.34%) SCDPM
12 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.23%) Autotask
12 4 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.17%) SELinux
14 2 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 477 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 306 (17.31%) Google
3 57 (3.22%) SAP
4 43 (2.43%) Cisco
5 42 (2.38%) Databricks
6 40 (2.26%) Oracle
7 38 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.09%) VMware
9 30 (1.70%) IBM
10 28 (1.58%) Kofax
10 28 (1.58%) Pega
11 25 (1.41%) Apple
12 24 (1.36%) Adobe
13 23 (1.30%) Citrix
13 23 (1.30%) Dell
13 23 (1.30%) Sophos
14 17 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.90%) Qualys
16 15 (0.85%) HP
16 15 (0.85%) Sage