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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 278 241
Rank change year-on-year +110 -37 -14
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,759 1,293 2,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 1.30% 1.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.94% 6.90% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,095 749 1,314
10th Percentile £25,850 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,238 £52,613
% change year-on-year -15.40% -4.51% +10.76%

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 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

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 18 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 18 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 +112 1,617 £46,500 -15.45% 688
UK excluding London +111 1,337 £42,500 -15.40% 536
North of England +196 396 £42,000 -11.81% 114
South East +54 383 £47,500 -13.64% 162
Work from Home -33 366 £50,000 -9.09% 228
London +45 364 £55,000 -12.00% 221
Midlands +74 230 £37,500 -31.82% 113
North West +100 178 £40,000 -20.38% 61
Yorkshire +168 159 £43,742 -7.91% 44
West Midlands +69 153 £43,806 -18.88% 54
South West -1 135 £37,500 -6.25% 53
East of England +36 91 £42,250 -32.40% 50
East Midlands +31 75 £32,500 -43.97% 58
Scotland -23 69 £55,000 - 35
North East +45 59 £40,250 +0.00% 12
Wales +16 29 £32,500 +18.18% 23
Northern Ireland +19 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 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.31%) Confluence
4 22 (1.25%) WordPress
5 21 (1.19%) Captiva
5 21 (1.19%) FileNet
5 21 (1.19%) WebSphere
6 18 (1.02%) SAS
7 17 (0.97%) CMS
8 8 (0.45%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.34%) Apache
10 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.23%) Site Server
11 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 163 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
4 30 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.31%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.63%) 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 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.057%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.057%) FastStats
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) Primavera
7 1 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.057%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.057%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.057%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 438 (24.90%) Azure
2 324 (18.42%) GCP
3 281 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (13.93%) AWS
5 191 (10.86%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.07%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.27%) SaaS
8 36 (2.05%) GitHub
9 33 (1.88%) Serverless
10 31 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
11 29 (1.65%) IaaS
12 25 (1.42%) PaaS
13 23 (1.31%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (1.08%) Matillion
15 19 (1.08%) OneDrive
16 18 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
19 14 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.02%) Firewall
2 47 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (2.16%) Wireless
4 36 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 35 (1.99%) VPN
6 33 (1.88%) DNS
7 30 (1.71%) WAN
8 24 (1.36%) Intranet
9 22 (1.25%) Network Security
10 21 (1.19%) 4G
10 21 (1.19%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.08%) LAN
12 18 (1.02%) DHCP
12 18 (1.02%) VLAN
13 17 (0.97%) Internet
14 16 (0.91%) SAN
14 16 (0.91%) VoIP
15 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.80%) MPLS
17 12 (0.68%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (15.69%) Looker
2 273 (15.52%) BigQuery
3 166 (9.44%) Power BI
4 154 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 47 (2.67%) Metadata
8 31 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.53%) Tableau
10 26 (1.48%) Big Data
10 26 (1.48%) MySQL
11 23 (1.31%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.57%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.51%) QlikView
16 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
17 6 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 123 (6.99%) JIRA
2 37 (2.10%) Git
3 22 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.63%) GitLab
5 11 (0.63%) 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
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.057%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.057%) Subversion
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.057%) Vagrant
General
1 557 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 518 (29.45%) Finance
3 466 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
4 309 (17.57%) Legal
5 188 (10.69%) Banking
6 91 (5.17%) Retail
7 89 (5.06%) Law
7 89 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 77 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (4.38%) Marketing
9 69 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
10 49 (2.79%) Games
11 44 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.31%) Mandarin Language
16 17 (0.97%) Digital Economy
17 16 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (12.73%) Analyst
2 208 (11.82%) Senior
3 177 (10.06%) Data Engineer
4 176 (10.01%) Architect
5 161 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
5 161 (9.15%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (9.15%) Principal Engineer
6 145 (8.24%) Data Architect
7 123 (6.99%) Lead
8 103 (5.86%) Senior Analyst
9 83 (4.72%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.87%) Developer
11 58 (3.30%) Support Engineer
12 57 (3.24%) Security Manager
13 52 (2.96%) Data Manager
14 51 (2.90%) Security Analyst
15 50 (2.84%) IT Support
16 47 (2.67%) Consultant
17 45 (2.56%) Project Manager
18 38 (2.16%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.05%) HTML
2 29 (1.65%) RESTful
3 28 (1.59%) .NET
4 26 (1.48%) CSS
5 16 (0.91%) REST
5 16 (0.91%) Web Services
6 15 (0.85%) React
6 15 (0.85%) XML
7 14 (0.80%) EDI
7 14 (0.80%) Node.js
8 13 (0.74%) jQuery
9 11 (0.63%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (0.57%) Spring
11 9 (0.51%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.51%) HTML5
11 9 (0.51%) Unreal Engine
11 9 (0.51%) V-Ray
12 8 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.40%) Ajax
13 7 (0.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 357 (20.30%) Self-Motivation
2 194 (11.03%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 80 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 64 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 52 (2.96%) NHS
6 45 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
8 28 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.31%) e-Learning
11 21 (1.19%) DataPower
11 21 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 20 (1.14%) IoT
13 19 (1.08%) CCTV
13 19 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
13 19 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
14 18 (1.02%) Cloud Native
15 17 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 206 (11.71%) Windows
2 80 (4.55%) Linux
3 79 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.07%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.65%) Android
6 26 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Unix
8 22 (1.25%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.57%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.51%) 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
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.057%) AIX
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
2 429 (24.39%) Data Protection
3 361 (20.52%) Mentoring
4 360 (20.47%) Data Governance
5 338 (19.22%) Cybersecurity
6 319 (18.14%) Agile
7 298 (16.94%) Data Engineering
8 287 (16.32%) Information Security
9 276 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
10 272 (15.46%) Data Management
11 271 (15.41%) DevOps
12 221 (12.56%) Data Privacy
13 220 (12.51%) Change Management
14 212 (12.05%) Data Science
15 190 (10.80%) Risk Management
16 188 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
17 184 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
18 181 (10.29%) Data Modelling
19 177 (10.06%) Data Security
20 175 (9.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 148 (8.41%) SQL
2 47 (2.67%) JavaScript
2 47 (2.67%) Python
3 44 (2.50%) Java
4 37 (2.10%) C#
5 30 (1.71%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.71%) T-SQL
6 19 (1.08%) PHP
7 18 (1.02%) C
7 18 (1.02%) C++
8 11 (0.63%) Go
8 11 (0.63%) Ruby
9 6 (0.34%) R
10 5 (0.28%) Bash
10 5 (0.28%) COBOL
10 5 (0.28%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 5 (0.28%) Swift
10 5 (0.28%) VB
11 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 256 (14.55%) Degree
2 130 (7.39%) CISSP
3 123 (6.99%) DBS Check
4 82 (4.66%) CISM
5 58 (3.30%) Security Cleared
6 50 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.73%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.22%) CISA
8 39 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (2.16%) SC Cleared
10 37 (2.10%) CRISC
11 32 (1.82%) GIAC
12 26 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.85%) CEH
17 14 (0.80%) GSEC
17 14 (0.80%) ISEB
17 14 (0.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (15.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 224 (12.73%) Data Quality
3 155 (8.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 128 (7.28%) NIST
5 88 (5.00%) PCI DSS
6 58 (3.30%) GRC
7 48 (2.73%) SLA
8 38 (2.16%) HIPAA
9 35 (1.99%) QA
10 34 (1.93%) NCSC
11 30 (1.71%) Accessibility
12 29 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 26 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 25 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (1.08%) COBIT
16 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.63%) COSHH
17 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
17 11 (0.63%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.59%) 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
7 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 1 (0.057%) LXC
Systems Management
1 39 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.48%) Terraform
3 21 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.91%) FortiGate
5 15 (0.85%) SCCM
6 13 (0.74%) CASB
7 12 (0.68%) Ansible
8 10 (0.57%) Nessus
9 8 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.34%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.34%) SCDPM
11 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.23%) Autotask
12 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.17%) SELinux
14 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 477 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 305 (17.34%) Google
3 51 (2.90%) SAP
4 43 (2.44%) Cisco
5 39 (2.22%) VMware
6 38 (2.16%) Databricks
7 35 (1.99%) Oracle
8 30 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.42%) Apple
10 23 (1.31%) Adobe
10 23 (1.31%) Citrix
10 23 (1.31%) Dell
10 23 (1.31%) IBM
10 23 (1.31%) Sophos
11 21 (1.19%) Kofax
11 21 (1.19%) Pega
12 19 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.91%) Qualys
14 15 (0.85%) HP
14 15 (0.85%) Sage