Hybrid/Remote GDPR Job Trends

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GDPR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 160 233
Rank change year-on-year +27 +73 +15
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 320 332 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 2.14% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.19% 12.19% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 206 180 322
10th Percentile £38,640 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,186 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,215 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +25.84% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £95,125 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,055 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.51% +35.00% -9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

GDPR falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,860 2,724 3,866
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.56% 17.53% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,660 1,509 3,031
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £43,336
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +9.09% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

GDPR job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GDPR over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

GDPR salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 16 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.19%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.94%) WordPress
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.31%) InDesign
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.19%) Shopify
1 7 (2.19%) Workday HCM
2 6 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.25%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.25%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.25%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.94%) Magento
5 3 (0.94%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.31%) iTrent
6 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (34.38%) Azure
2 65 (20.31%) AWS
3 32 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (9.06%) GCP
5 24 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 23 (7.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 23 (7.19%) SaaS
7 21 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (6.25%) GitHub
9 19 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (4.38%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.38%) Boomi
11 14 (4.38%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.44%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.19%) iPaaS
13 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.19%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.19%) Firewall
2 19 (5.94%) CHAP
3 12 (3.75%) Network Security
4 7 (2.19%) DMZ
5 6 (1.88%) DNS
6 5 (1.56%) Internet
7 4 (1.25%) SSL
8 3 (0.94%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.94%) SCCP
8 3 (0.94%) VLAN
8 3 (0.94%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) Broadband
9 1 (0.31%) DHCP
9 1 (0.31%) Intranet
9 1 (0.31%) SMS
9 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.88%) Power BI
2 7 (2.19%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.56%) Tableau
5 4 (1.25%) Metadata
6 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.94%) Power Query
6 3 (0.94%) Redis
7 2 (0.63%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.63%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.31%) DB2
8 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.81%) JIRA
2 3 (0.94%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.31%) Vite
4 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 140 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 115 (35.94%) Finance
3 54 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (16.56%) Legal
5 32 (10.00%) Banking
6 31 (9.69%) Law
6 31 (9.69%) Public Sector
7 23 (7.19%) Financial Institution
7 23 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.56%) Retail
9 17 (5.31%) Marketing
10 16 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.50%) Advertising
11 8 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.19%) Aviation
12 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.88%) French Language
13 6 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (17.81%) Senior
2 22 (6.88%) Analyst
3 21 (6.56%) Integration Engineer
4 20 (6.25%) Security Manager
5 19 (5.94%) Auditor
5 19 (5.94%) Lead
6 18 (5.63%) Internal Auditor
6 18 (5.63%) Security Auditor
7 17 (5.31%) Architect
8 16 (5.00%) Administrator
8 16 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 13 (4.06%) Consultant
9 13 (4.06%) IT Manager
10 11 (3.44%) Risk Manager
11 10 (3.13%) Security Analyst
12 9 (2.81%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.50%) Information Manager
13 8 (2.50%) Security Architect
13 8 (2.50%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.19%) Head of Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.56%) JSON
1 21 (6.56%) RESTful
2 17 (5.31%) OAuth
2 17 (5.31%) OAuth2
2 17 (5.31%) REST
3 12 (3.75%) SOAP
3 12 (3.75%) Web Services
4 10 (3.13%) .NET
4 10 (3.13%) HTML
5 8 (2.50%) CSS
6 7 (2.19%) SAML
7 6 (1.88%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.88%) XML
8 5 (1.56%) jQuery
8 5 (1.56%) Kafka
9 4 (1.25%) HTML5
9 4 (1.25%) Middleware
9 4 (1.25%) Node.js
9 4 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.56%) Management Information System
2 27 (8.44%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.56%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.63%) PKI
6 11 (3.44%) Blockchain
7 10 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (2.81%) Blog
8 9 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 7 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.19%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.56%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.56%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.31%) Linux
2 16 (5.00%) Windows
3 7 (2.19%) Unix
4 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.44%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (22.19%) Data Protection
2 71 (22.19%) Incident Response
2 71 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (21.25%) Analytics
4 64 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (18.44%) Information Security
6 53 (16.56%) Agile
6 53 (16.56%) Risk Management
7 46 (14.38%) CI/CD
7 46 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 45 (14.06%) CRM
9 43 (13.44%) AI
9 43 (13.44%) Coaching
9 43 (13.44%) Data Governance
9 43 (13.44%) DevOps
9 43 (13.44%) Project Management
10 42 (13.13%) Decision-Making
11 35 (10.94%) Cloud Security
11 35 (10.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.44%) Python
2 22 (6.88%) SQL
3 20 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 18 (5.63%) Bicep
4 18 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.75%) C#
6 11 (3.44%) Java
7 5 (1.56%) Bash
7 5 (1.56%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.25%) ABAP
8 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.25%) Perl
9 3 (0.94%) Go
9 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.63%) PHP
10 2 (0.63%) R
10 2 (0.63%) VBA
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (20.94%) Degree
2 55 (17.19%) CISSP
3 51 (15.94%) Security Cleared
4 45 (14.06%) CISM
5 39 (12.19%) SC Cleared
6 32 (10.00%) CISA
7 19 (5.94%) CGEIT
7 19 (5.94%) FFIEC
7 19 (5.94%) SANS
8 17 (5.31%) AWS Certification
8 17 (5.31%) DV Cleared
9 16 (5.00%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (3.13%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (2.81%) CREST Certified
12 9 (2.81%) HNC
12 9 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (28.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (23.13%) NIST
3 32 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 28 (8.75%) Data Quality
5 24 (7.50%) GRC
6 23 (7.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (6.88%) NCSC
8 20 (6.25%) COBIT
9 18 (5.63%) SOC 2
10 13 (4.06%) Accessibility
11 12 (3.75%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (2.19%) JSP 440
14 7 (2.19%) QA
15 6 (1.88%) HIPAA
15 6 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (1.88%) SLA
16 5 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (1.25%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 13 (4.06%) Docker
2 10 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (8.44%) Terraform
2 16 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.44%) Ansible
4 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.25%) Grafana
5 4 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (0.94%) Nessus
6 3 (0.94%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) Argo
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.31%) Nmap
Vendors
1 67 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.88%) Workday
3 21 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 15 (4.69%) Google
4 15 (4.69%) MuleSoft
5 14 (4.38%) Ab Initio
5 14 (4.38%) Oracle
5 14 (4.38%) SAP
5 14 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.13%) IBM
7 7 (2.19%) Adobe
7 7 (2.19%) Dell
7 7 (2.19%) Epicor
7 7 (2.19%) Infor
7 7 (2.19%) Informatica
7 7 (2.19%) Jitterbit
7 7 (2.19%) SnapLogic
7 7 (2.19%) Software AG
7 7 (2.19%) Talend
7 7 (2.19%) TIBCO
228 hybrid/remote GDPR jobs