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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 171 252
Rank change year-on-year +38 +81 -2
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 308 328 262
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.05% 1.99% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.59% 11.72% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 200 172 232
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,716 £37,563
25th Percentile £49,800 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% +4.82%
75th Percentile £87,529 £82,813 £75,144
90th Percentile £117,800 £88,750 £93,625
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -

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 2,658 2,799 3,162
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.65% 16.99% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 1,504 2,488
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.56% +1.74%

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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 10 January 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 20 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.27%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.65%) WordPress
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Shopify
1 8 (2.60%) Workday HCM
2 7 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.95%) SAP HCM
3 6 (1.95%) SAP HR
3 6 (1.95%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.97%) Magento
4 3 (0.97%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) iTrent
6 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 116 (37.66%) Azure
2 61 (19.81%) AWS
3 44 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (8.44%) GCP
5 24 (7.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.14%) SaaS
7 20 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (6.17%) GitHub
9 18 (5.84%) Entra ID
9 18 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (4.87%) Boomi
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.57%) Power Automate
14 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (2.60%) iPaaS
15 8 (2.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.82%) Firewall
2 14 (4.55%) CHAP
3 11 (3.57%) DNS
4 10 (3.25%) Network Security
5 6 (1.95%) DMZ
6 5 (1.62%) VPN
7 4 (1.30%) SSL
8 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.97%) HTTP
8 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.97%) VLAN
9 2 (0.65%) Internet
9 2 (0.65%) SCCP
10 1 (0.32%) Broadband
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) Intranet
10 1 (0.32%) SMS
10 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.17%) Power BI
2 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.62%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.30%) Metadata
4 4 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.97%) Redis
5 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.97%) Tableau
6 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Power Query
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.32%) Looker
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (2.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.30%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.30%) Git
3 3 (0.97%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.32%) Vite
4 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 129 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 108 (35.06%) Finance
3 55 (17.86%) Legal
4 48 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (10.71%) Law
6 28 (9.09%) Banking
7 26 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.82%) Public Sector
9 20 (6.49%) Retail
10 18 (5.84%) Financial Institution
10 18 (5.84%) Marketing
11 10 (3.25%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.60%) French Language
13 8 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.95%) Advertising
14 6 (1.95%) Aviation
15 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (17.86%) Senior
2 26 (8.44%) Analyst
3 21 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
4 18 (5.84%) Lead
5 16 (5.19%) Architect
6 14 (4.55%) Auditor
6 14 (4.55%) Internal Auditor
6 14 (4.55%) Security Auditor
6 14 (4.55%) Security Manager
6 14 (4.55%) Senior Manager
7 13 (4.22%) IT Manager
8 12 (3.90%) Administrator
9 11 (3.57%) HR Advisor
9 11 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.25%) Head of Cybersecurity
10 10 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) Consultant
11 9 (2.92%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) Security Analyst
11 9 (2.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) JSON
1 20 (6.49%) RESTful
2 18 (5.84%) REST
3 17 (5.52%) OAuth
3 17 (5.52%) OAuth2
4 13 (4.22%) SOAP
4 13 (4.22%) Web Services
5 8 (2.60%) SAML
6 6 (1.95%) .NET
6 6 (1.95%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (1.95%) XML
7 5 (1.62%) HTML
7 5 (1.62%) Kafka
8 4 (1.30%) CSS
8 4 (1.30%) Middleware
9 3 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.97%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.97%) EDI
9 3 (0.97%) Node.js
9 3 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 29 (9.42%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 20 (6.49%) Security Posture
5 14 (4.55%) PKI
6 11 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.60%) Blog
7 8 (2.60%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.27%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.62%) Social Media
10 5 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.30%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.79%) Linux
2 20 (6.49%) Windows
3 7 (2.27%) Unix
4 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (24.68%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (22.73%) Incident Response
3 65 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (19.81%) Data Protection
5 60 (19.48%) Analytics
5 60 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (17.86%) Information Security
7 51 (16.56%) Risk Management
8 50 (16.23%) CI/CD
9 49 (15.91%) Agile
10 47 (15.26%) DevOps
11 40 (12.99%) AI
11 40 (12.99%) CRM
12 39 (12.66%) Data Governance
12 39 (12.66%) Decision-Making
13 38 (12.34%) Roadmaps
13 38 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (12.01%) Cloud Security
15 35 (11.36%) Coaching
16 32 (10.39%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.34%) Python
2 24 (7.79%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.79%) SQL
3 17 (5.52%) Bicep
3 17 (5.52%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.22%) C#
4 13 (4.22%) Java
5 12 (3.90%) Bash
6 9 (2.92%) Perl
7 6 (1.95%) ABAP
8 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.97%) Go
11 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (20.13%) Degree
2 53 (17.21%) CISSP
3 46 (14.94%) CISM
4 35 (11.36%) Security Cleared
5 28 (9.09%) CISA
6 25 (8.12%) SC Cleared
7 17 (5.52%) Azure Certification
8 16 (5.19%) AWS Certification
9 15 (4.87%) CGEIT
9 15 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (4.55%) FFIEC
10 14 (4.55%) SANS
11 13 (4.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (3.90%) DBS Check
13 9 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.92%) DV Cleared
14 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (26.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (23.05%) NIST
3 26 (8.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (7.47%) Data Quality
4 23 (7.47%) PCI DSS
5 21 (6.82%) GRC
6 19 (6.17%) SOC 2
7 18 (5.84%) NCSC
8 14 (4.55%) COBIT
9 11 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (2.92%) Accessibility
11 7 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (1.95%) EU AI Act
12 6 (1.95%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.95%) JSP 440
12 6 (1.95%) QA
12 6 (1.95%) SLA
13 5 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 16 (5.19%) Docker
2 14 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (8.44%) Terraform
2 18 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.87%) Ansible
3 15 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.60%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.30%) Grafana
6 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.97%) Nessus
7 3 (0.97%) Nmap
7 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) Autotask
9 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.09%) Workday
3 21 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.19%) MuleSoft
5 16 (5.19%) SAP
6 14 (4.55%) Ab Initio
7 12 (3.90%) Google
7 12 (3.90%) Oracle
8 10 (3.25%) IBM
8 10 (3.25%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.27%) Dell
9 7 (2.27%) Epicor
9 7 (2.27%) IFS
9 7 (2.27%) Infor
9 7 (2.27%) Informatica
9 7 (2.27%) Jitterbit
9 7 (2.27%) Software AG
9 7 (2.27%) Talend
9 7 (2.27%) TIBCO