Hybrid/Remote Data Protection Job Trends

Data Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 175 222
Rank change year-on-year -4 +47 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 239 297 409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.01% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.11% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 169 187 344
10th Percentile £29,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £40,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -0.91%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £99,084 £89,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,323 14,051 27,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.46% 95.24% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,353 8,959 22,405
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,103
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Protection and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Protection
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Data Protection salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.67%) CMS
4 2 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (10.04%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.93%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.42%) Endur
3 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.03%) Azure
2 41 (17.15%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (8.79%) AWS
3 21 (8.79%) SaaS
4 19 (7.95%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.28%) GCP
6 14 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.86%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.35%) GitHub
8 7 (2.93%) Figma
8 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.93%) Miro
9 6 (2.51%) IaaS
10 5 (2.09%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.26%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.26%) Stripe
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.84%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (0.84%) OCI
12 2 (0.84%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.72%) Firewall
2 21 (8.79%) CHAP
2 21 (8.79%) VPN
3 15 (6.28%) Network Security
4 12 (5.02%) DNS
5 10 (4.18%) DHCP
5 10 (4.18%) WAN
6 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.93%) LAN
7 7 (2.93%) VLAN
8 5 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.09%) SSL
9 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.26%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.84%) IPsec
11 2 (0.84%) OSPF
11 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.84%) VoIP
11 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.86%) Power BI
2 8 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.09%) Tableau
4 4 (1.67%) Metadata
4 4 (1.67%) Power Query
5 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.42%) DB2
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Git
2 6 (2.51%) JIRA
3 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.26%) Maven
3 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.84%) ERwin
4 2 (0.84%) Storybook
5 1 (0.42%) GCC
5 1 (0.42%) GDB
5 1 (0.42%) git-flow
5 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 121 (50.63%) Social Skills
2 67 (28.03%) Finance
3 45 (18.83%) Legal
4 40 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.04%) Banking
5 24 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (9.62%) Financial Institution
7 21 (8.79%) Law
8 15 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (4.60%) Marketing
10 10 (4.18%) Retail
11 9 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (3.35%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.93%) Digital Health
13 7 (2.93%) Local Government
14 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.51%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.26%) Games
16 3 (1.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (11.30%) Lead
2 22 (9.21%) Developer
3 21 (8.79%) Auditor
4 20 (8.37%) Internal Auditor
4 20 (8.37%) Security Auditor
5 17 (7.11%) Analyst
6 16 (6.69%) IT Manager
7 15 (6.28%) IT Support
8 14 (5.86%) Security Engineer
9 12 (5.02%) Senior
10 10 (4.18%) Administrator
10 10 (4.18%) Security Manager
11 9 (3.77%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.35%) Architect
12 8 (3.35%) IT Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) Data Administrator
13 7 (2.93%) Head of IT
13 7 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) IT Analyst
13 7 (2.93%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.02%) .NET
2 9 (3.77%) REST
3 6 (2.51%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.51%) Middleware
4 5 (2.09%) CSS
4 5 (2.09%) SOAP
4 5 (2.09%) Universal Windows Platform
4 5 (2.09%) WinUI
4 5 (2.09%) WPF
5 4 (1.67%) HTML
5 4 (1.67%) JSON
5 4 (1.67%) XML
6 3 (1.26%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.26%) EDI
6 3 (1.26%) JWT
6 3 (1.26%) OAuth
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.26%) RESTful
6 3 (1.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.27%) Management Information System
2 25 (10.46%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.02%) Blockchain
5 11 (4.60%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.93%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.09%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.67%) NHS
10 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.26%) CMDB
10 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.26%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.81%) Windows
2 14 (5.86%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.18%) Linux
4 4 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.26%) Android
5 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.36%) Information Security
2 60 (25.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (23.01%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (22.18%) Agile
5 52 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (20.92%) Project Management
7 46 (19.25%) Incident Response
8 43 (17.99%) Analytics
9 41 (17.15%) Risk Management
10 40 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (13.39%) Service Delivery
12 29 (12.13%) DevOps
13 28 (11.72%) Coaching
13 28 (11.72%) Data Analytics
13 28 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (11.72%) Validation
14 26 (10.88%) Computer Science
14 26 (10.88%) Decision-Making
15 25 (10.46%) Data Governance
15 25 (10.46%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.62%) SQL
2 9 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.35%) Python
4 7 (2.93%) Java
4 7 (2.93%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.51%) C#
5 6 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.09%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.67%) Bicep
8 3 (1.26%) VBA
9 2 (0.84%) Bash
9 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) C++
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Ruby
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Degree
2 31 (12.97%) CISSP
3 25 (10.46%) CISM
4 23 (9.62%) CISA
5 21 (8.79%) CGEIT
5 21 (8.79%) FFIEC
5 21 (8.79%) SANS
6 17 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (6.69%) DBS Check
8 11 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (4.18%) Security Cleared
10 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
12 7 (2.93%) CCNA
13 5 (2.09%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.09%) CEH
13 5 (2.09%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (30.13%) GDPR
2 31 (12.97%) NIST
3 23 (9.62%) Accessibility
4 22 (9.21%) COBIT
4 22 (9.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (7.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (7.53%) Data Quality
6 11 (4.60%) QA
7 8 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (2.93%) SLA
9 6 (2.51%) PCI DSS
9 6 (2.51%) SOC 2
10 5 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (2.09%) GRC
11 4 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (1.67%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.84%) NCSC
12 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.84%) PERC
12 2 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.84%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.60%) Terraform
3 7 (2.93%) Ansible
4 5 (2.09%) Autotask
5 2 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.84%) Grafana
5 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.42%) Argo
6 1 (0.42%) CASB
6 1 (0.42%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (35.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.18%) Adobe
3 9 (3.77%) Google
4 7 (2.93%) iManage
4 7 (2.93%) Oracle
5 6 (2.51%) Cisco
5 6 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.51%) VMware
6 5 (2.09%) SAP
6 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.09%) Syncfusion
6 5 (2.09%) Telerik
7 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.26%) Databricks
8 3 (1.26%) Freshdesk
8 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.84%) Meraki
9 2 (0.84%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.84%) Zscaler