Data Protection Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 245 228
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 250 439 613
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.30% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.43% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 162 370 401
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,631 £41,063
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,825 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -0.32% +6.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,688 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,375 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Process and 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 16,979 30,765 39,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.19% 91.36% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,664 23,348 27,351
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,231 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Data Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Protection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Protection.

Data Protection salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Data Protection salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
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 23 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.20%) CMS
3 7 (2.80%) SAS
4 4 (1.60%) Drupal
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.20%) Apache
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
6 2 (0.80%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.00%) Photoshop
3 9 (3.60%) Acrobat
4 6 (2.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.40%) Trello
5 5 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.40%) InDesign
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.20%) Raiser’s Edge
3 2 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.40%) Endur
4 1 (0.40%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.60%) Azure
1 54 (21.60%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (16.00%) AWS
3 31 (12.40%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.20%) Serverless
5 15 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (5.20%) AWS KMS
6 13 (5.20%) GCP
6 13 (5.20%) SaaS
7 12 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.60%) Google Workspace
10 9 (3.60%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.80%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.00%) Google Analytics
13 5 (2.00%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) Network Security
2 14 (5.60%) Firewall
2 14 (5.60%) LAN
2 14 (5.60%) WAN
3 11 (4.40%) VPN
4 10 (4.00%) Intranet
5 9 (3.60%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.40%) DNS
7 3 (1.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.80%) Broadband
9 1 (0.40%) DHCP
9 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.40%) IPv4
9 1 (0.40%) IPv6
9 1 (0.40%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) SSH
9 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.00%) Power BI
2 10 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.40%) MySQL
5 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.20%) Big Data
7 3 (1.20%) Metadata
7 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.20%) Tableau
8 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.40%) DTS
9 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (6.00%) JIRA
2 6 (2.40%) Git
3 4 (1.60%) PHPUnit
4 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Gradle
5 1 (0.40%) JUnit
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.40%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 123 (49.20%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.00%) Finance
3 37 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.00%) Legal
5 25 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (9.60%) Marketing
7 23 (9.20%) Law
8 22 (8.80%) Retail
9 15 (6.00%) Banking
10 11 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.00%) German Language
12 5 (2.00%) Local Government
13 4 (1.60%) Advertising
14 3 (1.20%) Back Office
15 2 (0.80%) Front Office
15 2 (0.80%) Games
15 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (13.20%) Architect
2 25 (10.00%) Analyst
3 23 (9.20%) Lead
4 22 (8.80%) Senior
5 19 (7.60%) Developer
6 18 (7.20%) AWS Architect
7 14 (5.60%) Cloud Architect
8 13 (5.20%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.00%) IT Manager
11 10 (4.00%) IT Support
12 9 (3.60%) Compliance Advisor
12 9 (3.60%) Security Advisor
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (3.20%) Consultant
13 8 (3.20%) Information Manager
13 8 (3.20%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.80%) React
2 16 (6.40%) Kafka
3 13 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.40%) CSS
4 11 (4.40%) HTML
4 11 (4.40%) Node.js
5 9 (3.60%) REST
6 7 (2.80%) .NET
7 6 (2.40%) Web Services
8 5 (2.00%) Laravel
8 5 (2.00%) RESTful
9 4 (1.60%) Jest
9 4 (1.60%) jQuery
9 4 (1.60%) LAMP
9 4 (1.60%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.60%) Saxon XSLT
10 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.20%) LINQ
10 3 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.80%) Data Protection Act
2 36 (14.40%) Management Information System
3 21 (8.40%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.20%) e-Learning
5 12 (4.80%) Social Media
6 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.00%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.20%) Credit Risk
8 8 (3.20%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.80%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (2.40%) Blog
10 6 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (2.00%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.40%) Windows
2 6 (2.40%) Linux
2 6 (2.40%) Windows Vista
3 5 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (19.20%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (17.60%) DevOps
5 41 (16.40%) Information Security
6 40 (16.00%) Project Management
6 40 (16.00%) Risk Management
7 39 (15.60%) Analytics
8 33 (13.20%) Regulatory Compliance
9 32 (12.80%) CI/CD
10 31 (12.40%) Computer Science
11 29 (11.60%) Agile
11 29 (11.60%) Collaborative Working
12 28 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (10.80%) Containerisation
14 26 (10.40%) Data Management
14 26 (10.40%) Microservices
14 26 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (10.00%) Incident Response
15 25 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.40%) SQL
2 22 (8.80%) Python
3 21 (8.40%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.00%) Java
5 13 (5.20%) C#
6 9 (3.60%) PHP
7 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.80%) R
9 4 (1.60%) Ruby
10 3 (1.20%) Bash
11 2 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (22.00%) Degree
2 23 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 18 (7.20%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.60%) CISSP
8 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.00%) DBS Check
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.80%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.80%) PMP
12 5 (2.00%) CEH
12 5 (2.00%) CISM
12 5 (2.00%) SANS
13 4 (1.60%) ISEB
14 3 (1.20%) GIAC
14 3 (1.20%) ISSAP
14 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.80%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (31.20%) GDPR
2 28 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 19 (7.60%) PCI DSS
4 18 (7.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (6.40%) HIPAA
6 14 (5.60%) QA
7 10 (4.00%) NIST
8 9 (3.60%) PERC
9 8 (3.20%) Basel III
9 8 (3.20%) IFRS
9 8 (3.20%) IFRS 9
10 7 (2.80%) Basel II
10 7 (2.80%) COBIT
10 7 (2.80%) Dodd-Frank
11 5 (2.00%) Accessibility
11 5 (2.00%) SOC 2
12 4 (1.60%) ISO 9001
12 4 (1.60%) NCSC
12 4 (1.60%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.60%) Docker
2 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Squid
5 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) pfSense
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.00%) Grafana
2 15 (6.00%) Prometheus
2 15 (6.00%) Terraform
3 14 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.00%) SCCM
5 3 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.80%) Ansible
6 2 (0.80%) Avamar
6 2 (0.80%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 81 (32.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.00%) Google
3 14 (5.60%) Adobe
4 13 (5.20%) OneTrust
5 11 (4.40%) Citrix
6 7 (2.80%) VMware
7 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.60%) Veeam
8 3 (1.20%) Sage
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco
9 2 (0.80%) Databricks
9 2 (0.80%) Dell
9 2 (0.80%) HP
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle
9 2 (0.80%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Netskope
10 1 (0.40%) Okta
10 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.40%) Xero
10 1 (0.40%) Zscaler