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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 189 238
Rank change year-on-year +23 +49 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 262 254 438
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 1.79% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.88% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 178 168 369
10th Percentile £34,550 £41,250 £35,631
25th Percentile £48,531 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,041 £60,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year +10.07% +9.79% -0.64%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £101,741 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.74%

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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 8 May 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 10 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.91%) CMS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.15%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.15%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (1.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.57%) Azure
2 35 (13.36%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (9.54%) SaaS
4 19 (7.25%) AWS
5 18 (6.87%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.73%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (4.96%) GCP
8 8 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.67%) GitHub
9 7 (2.67%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.53%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.15%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.15%) Serverless
12 2 (0.76%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.76%) Sentry
12 2 (0.76%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.31%) CHAP
2 13 (4.96%) Firewall
3 10 (3.82%) DNS
3 10 (3.82%) Network Security
4 7 (2.67%) DHCP
5 6 (2.29%) VPN
6 5 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.53%) WAN
8 3 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.15%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.15%) LAN
8 3 (1.15%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.38%) Broadband
9 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.38%) SMS
9 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.87%) Power BI
2 7 (2.67%) Tableau
3 6 (2.29%) Metadata
4 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.15%) Power Query
6 2 (0.76%) Big Data
6 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.76%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.38%) DB2
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.38%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Git
2 5 (1.91%) JIRA
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.15%) Maven
3 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.76%) MLflow
4 2 (0.76%) Storybook
5 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 122 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (29.39%) Finance
3 60 (22.90%) Legal
4 33 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (12.21%) Banking
6 30 (11.45%) Law
7 28 (10.69%) Financial Institution
8 27 (10.31%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (8.78%) Retail
10 13 (4.96%) Marketing
11 10 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.91%) Local Government
14 4 (1.53%) Aviation
14 4 (1.53%) Games
14 4 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.15%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (10.31%) Auditor
2 26 (9.92%) Internal Auditor
2 26 (9.92%) Security Auditor
3 21 (8.02%) Lead
4 19 (7.25%) Security Manager
5 18 (6.87%) Analyst
6 17 (6.49%) IT Manager
7 16 (6.11%) Senior
8 14 (5.34%) Information Manager
9 13 (4.96%) Information Security Manager
10 12 (4.58%) Developer
11 11 (4.20%) Architect
12 10 (3.82%) Administrator
12 10 (3.82%) Governance Manager
12 10 (3.82%) Security Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Infrastructure Manager
14 8 (3.05%) Consultant
14 8 (3.05%) Data Protection Officer
14 8 (3.05%) Product Manager
15 7 (2.67%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.91%) CSS
1 5 (1.91%) HTML
2 4 (1.53%) .NET
2 4 (1.53%) REST
2 4 (1.53%) SOAP
3 3 (1.15%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.15%) JWT
3 3 (1.15%) Middleware
3 3 (1.15%) OAuth
3 3 (1.15%) RAML
3 3 (1.15%) RESTful
4 2 (0.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.76%) CSS3
4 2 (0.76%) Express.js
4 2 (0.76%) HTML5
4 2 (0.76%) Jest
4 2 (0.76%) Node.js
4 2 (0.76%) RxJS
4 2 (0.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 60 (22.90%) Management Information System
2 26 (9.92%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (7.63%) Onboarding
4 18 (6.87%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.11%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.73%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.96%) Blockchain
8 11 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.67%) Podcast
10 6 (2.29%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.53%) NHS
11 4 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.15%) Social Media
12 3 (1.15%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.63%) Windows
2 7 (2.67%) Linux
2 7 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.53%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.44%) Information Security
2 76 (29.01%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (22.90%) Incident Response
5 59 (22.52%) Risk Management
6 56 (21.37%) Agile
7 55 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (19.08%) Project Management
9 49 (18.70%) Decision-Making
10 48 (18.32%) Vulnerability Management
11 45 (17.18%) Analytics
12 43 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (12.98%) Validation
14 32 (12.21%) Data Analytics
14 32 (12.21%) Internal Audit
14 32 (12.21%) PRINCE2
15 30 (11.45%) Risk Assessment
16 29 (11.07%) AI
16 29 (11.07%) Test Strategy
17 28 (10.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.20%) Python
2 10 (3.82%) Bicep
2 10 (3.82%) SQL
3 9 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.29%) Java
6 5 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.53%) C#
8 3 (1.15%) VBA
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.56%) CISSP
2 37 (14.12%) CISM
3 36 (13.74%) Degree
4 34 (12.98%) CISA
5 27 (10.31%) CGEIT
5 27 (10.31%) FFIEC
5 27 (10.31%) SANS
6 15 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.82%) DBS Check
7 10 (3.82%) Security Cleared
8 9 (3.44%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.67%) CEH
9 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.53%) ACCA
11 4 (1.53%) CIMA
12 3 (1.15%) CIPD
12 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.15%) Dell Certification
12 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (38.17%) GDPR
2 45 (17.18%) NIST
3 32 (12.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (11.45%) COBIT
5 27 (10.31%) Data Quality
6 18 (6.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (6.11%) Accessibility
8 10 (3.82%) PCI DSS
8 10 (3.82%) QA
9 9 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (2.67%) GRC
10 7 (2.67%) SOC 2
11 6 (2.29%) TickIT
12 5 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.53%) HIPAA
13 4 (1.53%) PMO
14 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.76%) SOC 1
System Software
1 12 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.15%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.96%) Terraform
2 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.53%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Avamar
4 3 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (1.15%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (1.15%) VxRail
5 1 (0.38%) CASB
5 1 (0.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.44%) iManage
3 7 (2.67%) Google
3 7 (2.67%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.67%) VMware
4 5 (1.91%) Freshdesk
4 5 (1.91%) Oracle
4 5 (1.91%) Sage
4 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.53%) Databricks
5 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.53%) Xero
6 3 (1.15%) 3PAR
6 3 (1.15%) Dell
6 3 (1.15%) Isilon
6 3 (1.15%) NetApp
6 3 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (1.15%) SAP
6 3 (1.15%) Veeam
6 3 (1.15%) Workday