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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 251 261
Rank change year-on-year +103 +10 +48
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 362 294 281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.23% 1.26% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.07% 9.29% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 262 165 248
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%

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 2,998 3,166 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.46% 13.57% 14.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 1,909 2,910
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £94,663
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +9.09%

GDPR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GDPR trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GDPR
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GDPR

GDPR
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GDPR over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

GDPR salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GDPR
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 24 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.49%) CMS
2 9 (2.49%) Moodle
3 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.10%) WordPress
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (4.14%) SAP HCM
2 15 (4.14%) SAP HR
2 15 (4.14%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.38%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.55%) Shopify
7 1 (0.28%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 116 (32.04%) Azure
2 53 (14.64%) AWS
3 46 (12.71%) Power Platform
4 44 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (8.01%) GCP
6 24 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (6.08%) SuccessFactors
8 18 (4.97%) SaaS
9 16 (4.42%) Entra ID
10 15 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (3.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (3.87%) SonarCloud
12 13 (3.59%) Google Analytics
13 12 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (3.31%) Power Automate
14 11 (3.04%) Serverless
15 9 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.22%) Firewall
2 14 (3.87%) Network Security
3 11 (3.04%) VPN
4 9 (2.49%) DNS
5 5 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.10%) SSL
6 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.83%) HTTP
7 3 (0.83%) S/MIME
7 3 (0.83%) X.509
8 2 (0.55%) DHCP
8 2 (0.55%) LAN
8 2 (0.55%) VLAN
8 2 (0.55%) WAN
8 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.55%) Wireless
9 1 (0.28%) Broadband
9 1 (0.28%) IPv4
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.05%) Power BI
2 21 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (3.87%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.49%) Tableau
6 8 (2.21%) Metadata
6 8 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.66%) MySQL
7 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.83%) Big Data
10 3 (0.83%) QlikView
11 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.55%) Looker
11 2 (0.55%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 21 (5.80%) Git
2 15 (4.14%) MSBuild
3 14 (3.87%) Octopus Deploy
3 14 (3.87%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (3.87%) Visual Studio
4 8 (2.21%) JIRA
5 3 (0.83%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.83%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
6 1 (0.28%) Vite
6 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 124 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 92 (25.41%) Finance
3 58 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.98%) Legal
5 36 (9.94%) Marketing
6 29 (8.01%) Retail
7 24 (6.63%) Law
8 20 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.87%) Banking
10 9 (2.49%) Military
11 8 (2.21%) Advertising
11 8 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.93%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.38%) French Language
13 5 (1.38%) Hungarian Language
13 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (15.75%) Analyst
2 55 (15.19%) Senior
3 54 (14.92%) Architect
4 26 (7.18%) Lead
5 22 (6.08%) Technical Architect
6 20 (5.52%) SAP Analyst
7 18 (4.97%) AWS Architect
8 16 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
9 15 (4.14%) SAP Support
9 15 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.14%) Support Analyst
10 14 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (3.87%) HR Advisor
10 14 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.87%) SAP Support Analyst
10 14 (3.87%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.59%) Security Manager
11 13 (3.59%) Senior Architect
11 13 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (3.31%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.18%) REST
2 25 (6.91%) HTML
3 23 (6.35%) CSS
4 20 (5.52%) .NET
5 19 (5.25%) JSON
6 16 (4.42%) XML
7 15 (4.14%) ASP.NET
7 15 (4.14%) SAP Fiori
8 14 (3.87%) Bootstrap
8 14 (3.87%) gRPC
9 10 (2.76%) Kafka
10 6 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.66%) Node.js
10 6 (1.66%) SOAP
10 6 (1.66%) Web Services
11 5 (1.38%) React
11 5 (1.38%) RESTful
11 5 (1.38%) SAML
12 4 (1.10%) Middleware
13 3 (0.83%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.47%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.59%) Learning Management System
5 12 (3.31%) Social Media
6 10 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.93%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.66%) NHS
10 6 (1.66%) PKI
10 6 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.38%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.10%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.56%) Windows
2 24 (6.63%) Linux
3 3 (0.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) Solaris
4 2 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (21.82%) DevOps
2 74 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (16.57%) CRM
5 59 (16.30%) Data Protection
5 59 (16.30%) Data Security
6 55 (15.19%) CI/CD
6 55 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
7 53 (14.64%) Decision-Making
7 53 (14.64%) Information Security
7 53 (14.64%) Roadmaps
8 49 (13.54%) Incident Response
9 48 (13.26%) Agile
10 45 (12.43%) Analytics
11 43 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (11.88%) Risk Management
12 41 (11.33%) Microservices
13 35 (9.67%) Data Management
13 35 (9.67%) Project Management
14 34 (9.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.99%) SQL
2 68 (18.78%) Python
3 33 (9.12%) PowerShell
4 32 (8.84%) C#
5 31 (8.56%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.73%) Bash
7 20 (5.52%) Java
8 16 (4.42%) Perl
9 15 (4.14%) ABAP
10 6 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.66%) R
10 6 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.55%) Bicep
11 2 (0.55%) Go
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
11 2 (0.55%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 62 (17.13%) Degree
2 37 (10.22%) CISSP
3 30 (8.29%) CISM
3 30 (8.29%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 23 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.08%) Azure Certification
7 20 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (5.52%) SC Cleared
8 13 (3.59%) CISA
9 12 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (2.76%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.66%) CBAP
14 5 (1.38%) CRISC
14 5 (1.38%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (19.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (18.23%) NIST
3 32 (8.84%) HIPAA
4 31 (8.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (6.63%) PCI DSS
6 23 (6.35%) Data Quality
7 22 (6.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (4.70%) SOC 2
9 16 (4.42%) Accessibility
10 9 (2.49%) NCSC
11 8 (2.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (2.21%) GRC
12 7 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.93%) SLA
13 5 (1.38%) QA
13 5 (1.38%) WCAG
14 3 (0.83%) PERC
15 2 (0.55%) COBIT
15 2 (0.55%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (11.05%) Docker
2 23 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.28%) Postfix
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.52%) Ansible
3 14 (3.87%) Red Hat Satellite
4 13 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (3.59%) Terraform
5 8 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.93%) Grafana
7 5 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.10%) Puppet
9 3 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.83%) Nmap
10 1 (0.28%) Autotask
10 1 (0.28%) CASB
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 95 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.39%) Google
3 25 (6.91%) SAP
4 21 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.80%) Workday
5 18 (4.97%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.21%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.93%) Sage
9 6 (1.66%) Databricks
9 6 (1.66%) Informatica
9 6 (1.66%) Progress
9 6 (1.66%) VMware
9 6 (1.66%) Xero
10 5 (1.38%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.38%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.10%) Adobe
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco
12 3 (0.83%) Oracle
12 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud