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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 279 249
Rank change year-on-year +101 -30 -18
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 1,708 1,214 2,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.30% 1.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.28% 7.20% 9.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 726 1,315
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,680 £32,600
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,750 £43,630
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,250 £50,238 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.91% -8.66% +15.79%

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 13,908 16,850 29,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 18.10% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 8,352 13,447
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

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 June 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 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
England +101 1,569 £47,500 -13.64% 647
UK excluding London +100 1,334 £43,250 -13.91% 509
North of England +170 395 £40,125 -20.13% 110
Work from Home -25 392 £50,000 -11.55% 252
South East +69 374 £48,500 -11.82% 155
London -7 318 £61,150 -2.16% 171
Midlands +59 243 £37,500 -31.82% 105
North West +82 180 £40,000 -20.38% 55
West Midlands +53 162 £51,250 -3.30% 55
Yorkshire +147 156 £43,121 -13.96% 45
South West +3 133 £37,500 +36.36% 56
East of England +17 90 £43,000 -31.20% 52
East Midlands +10 79 £32,500 -43.97% 49
Scotland -30 65 £41,500 -27.53% 27
North East +36 59 £40,250 -15.71% 12
Wales +19 30 £32,500 +18.18% 21
Northern Ireland +15 4 - - 5

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
1 141 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.46%) Confluence
4 21 (1.23%) WordPress
5 18 (1.05%) SAS
6 16 (0.94%) CMS
7 8 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.35%) Apache
9 5 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.23%) Captiva
10 4 (0.23%) FileNet
10 4 (0.23%) Site Server
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 165 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.17%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.47%) Revit
7 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.059%) InDesign
11 1 (0.059%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.059%) Sketch
11 1 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.18%) iTrent
5 3 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.12%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.059%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.059%) FastStats
7 1 (0.059%) Primavera
7 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.059%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.059%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.059%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 421 (24.65%) Azure
2 308 (18.03%) GCP
3 289 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (14.34%) AWS
5 197 (11.53%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.10%) Entra ID
7 41 (2.40%) SaaS
8 33 (1.93%) Serverless
9 29 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
10 27 (1.58%) IaaS
11 23 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (1.35%) OneDrive
11 23 (1.35%) PaaS
12 22 (1.29%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.11%) GitHub
14 18 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (1.05%) Matillion
15 17 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 140 (8.20%) Firewall
2 50 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (2.17%) VPN
3 37 (2.17%) Wireless
4 34 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
5 33 (1.93%) DNS
5 33 (1.93%) WAN
6 25 (1.46%) Network Security
7 24 (1.41%) Intranet
8 22 (1.29%) 4G
9 20 (1.17%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.11%) LAN
11 18 (1.05%) Internet
11 18 (1.05%) VLAN
12 16 (0.94%) VoIP
13 15 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.82%) DHCP
14 14 (0.82%) MPLS
14 14 (0.82%) SAN
15 13 (0.76%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (16.16%) Looker
2 273 (15.98%) BigQuery
3 167 (9.78%) Power BI
4 155 (9.07%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.16%) Data Lake
7 46 (2.69%) Metadata
8 33 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.58%) Big Data
9 27 (1.58%) MySQL
9 27 (1.58%) Tableau
10 22 (1.29%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (0.59%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.53%) QlikView
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (0.47%) SAP HANA
16 7 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (6.32%) JIRA
2 38 (2.22%) Git
3 12 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) Selenium
5 9 (0.53%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) CircleCI
6 7 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.29%) Xcode
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.12%) MLflow
11 1 (0.059%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.059%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.059%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.059%) Vite
General
1 567 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 472 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 456 (26.70%) Finance
4 309 (18.09%) Legal
5 170 (9.95%) Banking
6 91 (5.33%) Retail
7 90 (5.27%) Law
8 80 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 78 (4.57%) Marketing
10 71 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (2.93%) Games
12 46 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
17 23 (1.35%) Public Sector
18 19 (1.11%) Digital Economy
19 18 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 225 (13.17%) Analyst
2 208 (12.18%) Senior
3 178 (10.42%) Architect
3 178 (10.42%) Data Engineer
4 161 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
4 161 (9.43%) Principal Data Engineer
4 161 (9.43%) Principal Engineer
5 145 (8.49%) Data Architect
6 118 (6.91%) Lead
7 101 (5.91%) Senior Analyst
8 84 (4.92%) IT Manager
9 71 (4.16%) Developer
10 62 (3.63%) Security Manager
11 60 (3.51%) Support Engineer
12 53 (3.10%) Data Manager
13 52 (3.04%) IT Support
13 52 (3.04%) Security Analyst
14 50 (2.93%) Consultant
15 45 (2.63%) Project Manager
16 41 (2.40%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.22%) HTML
2 30 (1.76%) RESTful
3 28 (1.64%) .NET
3 28 (1.64%) CSS
4 17 (1.00%) React
4 17 (1.00%) REST
5 16 (0.94%) Web Services
6 15 (0.88%) Node.js
6 15 (0.88%) XML
7 14 (0.82%) EDI
7 14 (0.82%) jQuery
8 11 (0.64%) Ruby on Rails
9 10 (0.59%) Spring
10 9 (0.53%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.53%) HTML5
11 8 (0.47%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.41%) Ajax
12 7 (0.41%) gRPC
13 6 (0.35%) ASP.NET
13 6 (0.35%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 361 (21.14%) Self-Motivation
2 193 (11.30%) Management Information System
3 87 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
4 80 (4.68%) Driving Licence
5 65 (3.81%) Security Posture
6 54 (3.16%) NHS
7 46 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.17%) e-Learning
11 20 (1.17%) IoT
12 19 (1.11%) CCTV
12 19 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.05%) Cloud Native
14 16 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
15 14 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
16 12 (0.70%) EPoS
16 12 (0.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 202 (11.83%) Windows
2 77 (4.51%) Windows Server
3 63 (3.69%) Linux
4 56 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.93%) Android
6 29 (1.70%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.59%) Mac OS X
10 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.35%) Unix
12 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.12%) VMS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (35.60%) Problem-Solving
2 436 (25.53%) Data Protection
3 360 (21.08%) Data Governance
4 358 (20.96%) Mentoring
5 334 (19.56%) Cybersecurity
6 308 (18.03%) Agile
7 300 (17.56%) Information Security
8 299 (17.51%) Data Engineering
9 276 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
10 272 (15.93%) Data Management
11 256 (14.99%) DevOps
12 220 (12.88%) Data Privacy
13 211 (12.35%) Data Science
14 203 (11.89%) Change Management
15 191 (11.18%) Risk Management
16 190 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
17 183 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
18 182 (10.66%) Data Modelling
19 179 (10.48%) Data Security
20 176 (10.30%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (7.96%) SQL
2 52 (3.04%) JavaScript
3 49 (2.87%) Python
4 38 (2.22%) C#
5 31 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 30 (1.76%) T-SQL
7 27 (1.58%) Java
8 20 (1.17%) PHP
9 19 (1.11%) C
9 19 (1.11%) C++
10 11 (0.64%) Go
10 11 (0.64%) Ruby
11 6 (0.35%) R
12 5 (0.29%) COBOL
12 5 (0.29%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 5 (0.29%) Swift
12 5 (0.29%) VB
13 4 (0.23%) Bash
13 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 260 (15.22%) Degree
2 138 (8.08%) CISSP
3 92 (5.39%) CISM
4 63 (3.69%) Security Cleared
5 58 (3.40%) DBS Check
6 54 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.87%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.75%) CISA
9 41 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (2.22%) SC Cleared
11 35 (2.05%) CRISC
12 32 (1.87%) GIAC
13 25 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (1.41%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (1.05%) CEH
17 15 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 14 (0.82%) GSEC
18 14 (0.82%) ISEB
19 13 (0.76%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 225 (13.17%) Data Quality
3 167 (9.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 127 (7.44%) NIST
5 89 (5.21%) PCI DSS
6 58 (3.40%) GRC
7 50 (2.93%) SLA
8 42 (2.46%) HIPAA
9 36 (2.11%) QA
10 35 (2.05%) NCSC
11 32 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 27 (1.58%) Accessibility
12 27 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 26 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (1.11%) COBIT
14 19 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.88%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.64%) COSHH
16 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 107 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.52%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.64%) Docker
6 10 (0.59%) Firmware
7 6 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.29%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.18%) vSphere
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.059%) LXC
Systems Management
1 43 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.64%) Terraform
3 22 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.94%) FortiGate
4 16 (0.94%) SCCM
5 13 (0.76%) CASB
6 12 (0.70%) Ansible
7 10 (0.59%) Nessus
8 8 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (0.35%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.29%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.23%) Autotask
11 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.18%) SELinux
13 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 498 (29.16%) Microsoft
2 304 (17.80%) Google
3 44 (2.58%) Cisco
4 39 (2.28%) Databricks
4 39 (2.28%) VMware
5 38 (2.22%) SAP
6 26 (1.52%) Apple
7 23 (1.35%) Dell
7 23 (1.35%) Sophos
8 21 (1.23%) Oracle
9 20 (1.17%) Adobe
10 19 (1.11%) Citrix
10 19 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.00%) Sage
12 15 (0.88%) HP
12 15 (0.88%) Qualys
13 14 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.70%) Meraki
15 11 (0.64%) Darktrace
15 11 (0.64%) Facebook