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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 522 426
Rank change year-on-year +92 -96 +107
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection Act 39 66 197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.19% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.55% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 52 105
10th Percentile £55,675 £37,306 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,938 £43,449 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,134 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -1.79% +3.99%
75th Percentile £99,688 £71,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £120,625 £87,500 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -20.00% +4.55%

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 8,123 11,962 13,964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.45% 34.68% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,733 8,974 10,561
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £64,326
% change year-on-year +7.27% -14.50% +2.92%

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 30 June 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 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Acrobat
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Azure AI
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) WhatsApp
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.56%) OCI
6 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) Intranet
3 1 (2.56%) IPv4
3 1 (2.56%) IPv6
3 1 (2.56%) OpenVPN
3 1 (2.56%) SSH
3 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) DTS
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Back Office
4 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Front Office
5 2 (5.13%) Games
5 2 (5.13%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) CRM Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Data Governance Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Governance Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Governance Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Presales Solution Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Information Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) Handlebars
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) JSON
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) React
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.56%) TAPI
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (10.26%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Derivative
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.13%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.56%) Tandem
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (23.08%) Information Security
4 8 (20.51%) Analytics
4 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (17.95%) Agile
5 7 (17.95%) DevOps
5 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.38%) Project Management
7 5 (12.82%) Microservices
7 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
7 5 (12.82%) Scrum
7 5 (12.82%) SIEM
8 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.26%) Data Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
8 4 (10.26%) SDLC
8 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) SQL
2 8 (20.51%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) Go
4 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.13%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) CISM
2 3 (7.69%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CEH
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) GIAC
3 2 (5.13%) ISEB
3 2 (5.13%) ISSAP
3 2 (5.13%) SANS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CISA
4 1 (2.56%) CISMP
4 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) GDPR
2 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (12.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (7.69%) QA
5 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (5.13%) COBIT
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (5.13%) NIST
5 2 (5.13%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.56%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Ansible
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.13%) Puppet
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.56%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.56%) Reuters
4 1 (2.56%) SaltStack