Data Protection Act Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 528 429
Rank change year-on-year +171 -99 +83
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 63 57 248
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.17% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 0.47% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 30 43 128
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,939 £41,145
25th Percentile £55,875 £42,807 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £94,688 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £114,825 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -11.36% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,992 12,005 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.86% 35.53% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 9,227 11,835
10th Percentile £34,975 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Protection Act
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Protection Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection Act trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Protection Act
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Protection Act.

Data Protection Act salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Protection Act over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Data Protection Act salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (14.29%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Endur
2 1 (1.59%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.59%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Azure
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (14.29%) AWS
2 9 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) Azure AI
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.59%) OCI
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) Intranet
2 4 (6.35%) Firewall
3 3 (4.76%) Network Security
4 2 (3.17%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) DNS
5 1 (1.59%) IPv4
5 1 (1.59%) IPv6
5 1 (1.59%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.59%) SSH
5 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) DTS
3 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.98%) Legal
3 16 (25.40%) Retail
4 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (19.05%) Law
6 11 (17.46%) Finance
7 4 (6.35%) Banking
7 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.76%) Back Office
8 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Marketing
9 2 (3.17%) Front Office
10 1 (1.59%) Games
10 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Local Government
10 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Senior
2 9 (14.29%) Compliance Advisor
2 9 (14.29%) Lead
2 9 (14.29%) Security Advisor
3 8 (12.70%) Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Architect
5 6 (9.52%) Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Data Governance Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Data Governance Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Data Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Data Protection Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Governance Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Information Governance Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Information Manager
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) Node.js
1 11 (17.46%) React
2 4 (6.35%) .NET
2 4 (6.35%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.59%) Spring
4 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.59%) TAPI
4 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Product Ownership
2 9 (14.29%) e-Learning
3 6 (9.52%) Freedom of Information
4 5 (7.94%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (6.35%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.17%) Derivative
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
6 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.59%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.59%) Tandem
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 22 (34.92%) Information Security
3 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (26.98%) Impact Assessments
5 14 (22.22%) Scrum
5 14 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (14.29%) Data Security
7 9 (14.29%) DevOps
8 8 (12.70%) Agile
8 8 (12.70%) Analytics
8 8 (12.70%) Data Privacy
8 8 (12.70%) Risk Management
9 7 (11.11%) Project Management
9 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.52%) Information Governance
11 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (7.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.94%) Python
4 4 (6.35%) C#
4 4 (6.35%) Ruby
5 2 (3.17%) C++
5 2 (3.17%) Java
5 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) Bash
6 1 (1.59%) Go
6 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) CISM
2 4 (6.35%) CISSP
2 4 (6.35%) ISEB
3 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.17%) CEH
3 2 (3.17%) CISA
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) GIAC
3 2 (3.17%) ISSAP
3 2 (3.17%) SANS
4 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CISMP
4 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.59%) CRISC
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (38.10%) GDPR
2 18 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (26.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (17.46%) PCI DSS
5 9 (14.29%) PERC
6 2 (3.17%) COBIT
6 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 2 (3.17%) NIST
6 2 (3.17%) QA
6 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Ansible
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.59%) Control-M
3 1 (1.59%) Grafana
3 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.59%) Puppet
3 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Adobe
2 9 (14.29%) Google
2 9 (14.29%) OneTrust
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco
4 2 (3.17%) Citrix
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.59%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.59%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.59%) Reuters
5 1 (1.59%) SaltStack