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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 222 251
Rank change year-on-year +59 +29 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 344 222 415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 1.34% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.44% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 218 147 327
10th Percentile £36,775 £39,821 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £85,750 £81,250 £70,550
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +11.58% -13.04%

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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 July 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 24 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.45%) CMS
4 4 (1.16%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.87%) IIS
5 3 (0.87%) WordPress
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.45%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (1.16%) Shopify
4 3 (0.87%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.38%) Azure
2 53 (15.41%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (13.08%) Power Platform
4 35 (10.17%) SaaS
5 29 (8.43%) AWS
6 22 (6.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (4.36%) Power Automate
8 14 (4.07%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.78%) GCP
9 13 (3.78%) PowerApps
10 12 (3.49%) Entra ID
11 11 (3.20%) dbt
11 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.74%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (1.74%) GitHub
12 6 (1.74%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.16%) OCI
15 3 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.78%) CHAP
2 11 (3.20%) Network Security
3 8 (2.33%) DNS
3 8 (2.33%) Firewall
4 6 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (1.74%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.74%) VPN
5 5 (1.45%) DHCP
6 3 (0.87%) Internet
6 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.58%) SSL
7 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.29%) LAN
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.30%) Power BI
2 17 (4.94%) Tableau
3 10 (2.91%) Metadata
4 8 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.74%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.87%) Power Query
7 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.29%) Db2
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) MySQL
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.29%) Parquet
9 1 (0.29%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Git
2 3 (0.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.58%) MLflow
4 1 (0.29%) Ant
4 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.29%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 142 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.55%) Finance
3 71 (20.64%) Legal
4 58 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (15.41%) Retail
6 48 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (10.76%) Law
8 31 (9.01%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (8.72%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (6.10%) Banking
11 15 (4.36%) Public Sector
12 13 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (3.78%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.33%) Back Office
13 8 (2.33%) Marketing
14 7 (2.03%) Legal Technology
15 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.16%) Aviation
16 4 (1.16%) Games
16 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (9.30%) Architect
2 29 (8.43%) Senior
3 27 (7.85%) Lead
4 21 (6.10%) Technical Architect
5 20 (5.81%) Analyst
5 20 (5.81%) Service Manager
6 18 (5.23%) Developer
7 17 (4.94%) Data Manager
7 17 (4.94%) Security Manager
8 16 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
8 16 (4.65%) Service Delivery Manager
9 15 (4.36%) Data Governance Analyst
9 15 (4.36%) Data Governance Manager
9 15 (4.36%) Governance Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Information Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Information Security Manager
11 13 (3.78%) Auditor
12 12 (3.49%) Internal Auditor
12 12 (3.49%) Security Auditor
13 11 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.49%) HTML
2 7 (2.03%) CSS
3 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.74%) React
4 5 (1.45%) .NET
4 5 (1.45%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (1.45%) REST
4 5 (1.45%) SPFx
5 4 (1.16%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.16%) Kafka
6 3 (0.87%) JSON
6 3 (0.87%) Next.js
6 3 (0.87%) Spring
6 3 (0.87%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.58%) PySpark
8 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.29%) NgRx
8 1 (0.29%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.66%) Management Information System
2 44 (12.79%) Data Protection Act
3 32 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 25 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (5.81%) Virtual Team
6 19 (5.52%) Onboarding
6 19 (5.52%) Security Posture
7 17 (4.94%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.03%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (2.03%) Freedom of Information Act
9 7 (2.03%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.03%) Podcast
10 6 (1.74%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.74%) Social Media
10 6 (1.74%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.81%) Windows
2 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.16%) Linux
3 4 (1.16%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (29.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 87 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (24.71%) Cybersecurity
4 81 (23.55%) Information Security
5 80 (23.26%) Agile
6 73 (21.22%) Decision-Making
7 70 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (19.77%) AI
9 61 (17.73%) Incident Response
10 58 (16.86%) Risk Management
11 54 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 49 (14.24%) Project Management
13 42 (12.21%) Analytics
14 41 (11.92%) Service Delivery
15 39 (11.34%) Data Governance
16 35 (10.17%) Vulnerability Management
17 34 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
18 33 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
19 31 (9.01%) CI/CD
19 31 (9.01%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (4.94%) JavaScript
2 16 (4.65%) SQL
3 12 (3.49%) Python
4 8 (2.33%) Bicep
5 7 (2.03%) C#
6 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.16%) Java
8 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.87%) VBA
9 2 (0.58%) Bash
10 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.29%) Delphi
10 1 (0.29%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 45 (13.08%) CISSP
2 34 (9.88%) CISM
2 34 (9.88%) Degree
3 30 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 23 (6.69%) CISA
6 14 (4.07%) SANS
7 13 (3.78%) CGEIT
7 13 (3.78%) FFIEC
8 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.62%) CRISC
9 8 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (2.33%) CCSP
9 8 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (2.03%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.03%) ISACA
10 7 (2.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (1.74%) Dell Certification
12 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (37.79%) GDPR
2 48 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (13.66%) Data Quality
4 37 (10.76%) NIST
5 22 (6.40%) Accessibility
6 20 (5.81%) COBIT
7 19 (5.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (4.94%) PCI DSS
9 14 (4.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 14 (4.07%) GRC
10 13 (3.78%) SOC 2
11 10 (2.91%) QA
12 8 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (2.33%) ISO 22301
13 7 (2.03%) SOC 1
14 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (1.74%) PMO
14 6 (1.74%) TickIT
15 5 (1.45%) ISO 9001
16 4 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (2.62%) Active Directory
1 9 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.74%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.74%) vSphere
3 5 (1.45%) Docker
4 4 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.07%) Terraform
2 6 (1.74%) Avamar
2 6 (1.74%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (1.74%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (1.74%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (1.74%) VxRail
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.16%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) CASB
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.49%) OpenAI
2 12 (3.49%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.62%) VMware
4 6 (1.74%) 3PAR
4 6 (1.74%) Dell
4 6 (1.74%) iManage
4 6 (1.74%) Isilon
4 6 (1.74%) NetApp
4 6 (1.74%) Nimble Storage
4 6 (1.74%) Veeam
5 5 (1.45%) Google
5 5 (1.45%) Oracle
5 5 (1.45%) Sage
5 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.16%) Freshdesk
6 4 (1.16%) SAP
6 4 (1.16%) Xero
7 3 (0.87%) Databricks
7 3 (0.87%) Workday