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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 233 236
Rank change year-on-year +95 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 487 203 286
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.95% 1.21% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.29% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 299 137 150
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,269 £94,650 £100,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.55%

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 20,204 15,782 19,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.97% 93.81% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,422 8,452 11,768
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,243
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 October 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 47 (9.65%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.82%) Apache
3 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.82%) WordPress
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.62%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.21%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.23%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.62%) Shopify
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 93 (19.10%) Azure
2 79 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (14.99%) Power Platform
4 57 (11.70%) SaaS
5 39 (8.01%) Microsoft Copilot
6 32 (6.57%) AWS
6 32 (6.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (6.37%) OneDrive
7 31 (6.37%) PowerApps
8 27 (5.54%) Power Automate
9 20 (4.11%) Entra ID
10 19 (3.90%) Copilot Studio
11 17 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.08%) GCP
13 13 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.67%) dbt
14 12 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.05%) OCI
16 9 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.08%) Network Security
2 7 (1.44%) VPN
3 6 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (1.23%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.03%) DHCP
4 5 (1.03%) DNS
4 5 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.82%) Internet
6 3 (0.62%) CHAP
6 3 (0.62%) Firewall
6 3 (0.62%) LAN
6 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.62%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) 5G
8 1 (0.21%) 2G
8 1 (0.21%) 4G
8 1 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.03%) Power BI
2 31 (6.37%) Metadata
3 18 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.87%) Tableau
5 13 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 10 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.05%) Star Schema
7 9 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.23%) Power Query
11 5 (1.03%) Big Data
12 3 (0.62%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (2.67%) Git
2 6 (1.23%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.82%) JIRA
4 2 (0.41%) MLflow
5 1 (0.21%) Ant
5 1 (0.21%) Flyway
General
1 183 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 133 (27.31%) Legal
3 114 (23.41%) Finance
4 89 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (14.58%) Retail
6 64 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (13.14%) Law
7 61 (12.53%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (10.06%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (7.80%) Public Sector
10 24 (4.93%) Marketing
11 20 (4.11%) Banking
12 16 (3.29%) Back Office
13 14 (2.87%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.87%) Local Government
14 9 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.64%) Police
16 4 (0.82%) Aviation
17 3 (0.62%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (11.29%) Architect
1 55 (11.29%) Senior
2 36 (7.39%) Lead
3 32 (6.57%) Analyst
4 28 (5.75%) Service Manager
5 27 (5.54%) Technical Architect
6 24 (4.93%) Delivery Manager
6 24 (4.93%) Service Delivery Manager
7 23 (4.72%) Developer
8 22 (4.52%) Data Manager
9 20 (4.11%) Business Manager
9 20 (4.11%) Procurement Officer
10 19 (3.90%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 18 (3.70%) Security Manager
12 15 (3.08%) Governance Manager
12 15 (3.08%) Information Manager
12 15 (3.08%) Information Security Manager
13 14 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 14 (2.87%) Data Governance Analyst
13 14 (2.87%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.90%) HTML
2 16 (3.29%) REST
3 13 (2.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.46%) SPFx
4 12 (2.46%) Terraform
5 9 (1.85%) CSS
5 9 (1.85%) HTML5 Canvas
6 7 (1.44%) Middleware
7 6 (1.23%) Langfuse
7 6 (1.23%) Model Context Protocol
7 6 (1.23%) React
8 5 (1.03%) .NET
8 5 (1.03%) Kafka
8 5 (1.03%) SOAP
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
10 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.62%) Next.js
10 3 (0.62%) Spring
10 3 (0.62%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.94%) Management Information System
2 47 (9.65%) Data Protection Act
3 39 (8.01%) Product Ownership
4 36 (7.39%) Onboarding
5 29 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (5.75%) Virtual Team
7 27 (5.54%) Security Posture
8 23 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (3.49%) Freedom of Information
10 14 (2.87%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.67%) AI Agents
12 12 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (2.26%) Social Media
14 9 (1.85%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.64%) Freedom of Information Act
16 7 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
17 6 (1.23%) Data Centre
17 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
17 6 (1.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.93%) Windows
2 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Android
3 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (29.98%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (26.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 114 (23.41%) Cybersecurity
4 111 (22.79%) Information Security
5 110 (22.59%) Agile
5 110 (22.59%) AI
6 107 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 82 (16.84%) Decision-Making
9 72 (14.78%) Risk Management
10 71 (14.58%) Service Delivery
11 60 (12.32%) Analytics
12 54 (11.09%) Collaborative Working
13 50 (10.27%) Strategic Thinking
14 47 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (9.65%) Data Governance
14 47 (9.65%) Incident Response
15 46 (9.45%) DevOps
15 46 (9.45%) Roadmaps
16 45 (9.24%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.37%) SQL
2 22 (4.52%) JavaScript
3 19 (3.90%) C#
4 18 (3.70%) Python
5 10 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.44%) Bicep
7 3 (0.62%) Java
8 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) Delphi
9 1 (0.21%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 51 (10.47%) Degree
2 46 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.21%) CISSP
4 38 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.78%) CISM
6 17 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.29%) DBS Check
8 15 (3.08%) CISA
9 10 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.85%) CCSP
10 9 (1.85%) CRISC
11 7 (1.44%) ACCA
11 7 (1.44%) CIMA
11 7 (1.44%) ISACA
11 7 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.23%) Dell Certification
12 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (29.57%) GDPR
2 59 (12.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (11.91%) Data Quality
4 38 (7.80%) NIST
5 35 (7.19%) Accessibility
6 24 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (4.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 23 (4.72%) GRC
8 16 (3.29%) PCI DSS
9 15 (3.08%) ISO 22301
10 13 (2.67%) SOC 2
11 11 (2.26%) COBIT
12 10 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.64%) QA
14 7 (1.44%) PMO
14 7 (1.44%) SOC 1
15 6 (1.23%) ISO 9001
15 6 (1.23%) TickIT
16 4 (0.82%) NCSC
16 4 (0.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.23%) vSphere
4 4 (0.82%) Docker
5 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.23%) Avamar
1 6 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
1 6 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (1.23%) EMC VPLEX
1 6 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.23%) VxRail
2 4 (0.82%) Grafana
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (29.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.08%) YouTube
3 12 (2.46%) OpenAI
3 12 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.26%) Oracle
5 10 (2.05%) Informatica
6 9 (1.85%) Talend
7 7 (1.44%) Adobe
8 6 (1.23%) 3PAR
8 6 (1.23%) Dell
8 6 (1.23%) Isilon
8 6 (1.23%) NetApp
8 6 (1.23%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (1.23%) Veeam
8 6 (1.23%) VMware
8 6 (1.23%) Xero
9 5 (1.03%) Databricks
9 5 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.82%) Google
10 4 (0.82%) OneTrust