GDPR Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 274 281
Rank change year-on-year +72 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 354 372 396
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 1.14% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.61% 8.93% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 266 290 271
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,925 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -15.35% +0.42%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,862 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% -4.25%

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 3,337 4,165 4,992
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.83% 12.72% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,893 3,002 3,635
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,089 £37,336
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,738 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -3.39% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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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

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GDPR salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GDPR over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

GDPR salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 17 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.82%) CMS
4 9 (2.54%) Moodle
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.41%) WordPress
6 4 (1.13%) SAS
7 2 (0.56%) Confluence
7 2 (0.56%) Drupal
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (5.65%) SAP HCM
1 20 (5.65%) SAP HR
1 20 (5.65%) SAP Payroll
1 20 (5.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.28%) iTrent
5 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 109 (30.79%) Azure
2 60 (16.95%) AWS
3 41 (11.58%) Power Platform
4 36 (10.17%) GCP
5 32 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (7.34%) SuccessFactors
8 21 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 21 (5.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 21 (5.93%) SonarCloud
9 14 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.95%) Serverless
10 13 (3.67%) Google Analytics
11 12 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.11%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.82%) AWS KMS
13 10 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.82%) SaaS
14 9 (2.54%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.89%) Firewall
2 22 (6.21%) Network Security
3 10 (2.82%) VPN
4 6 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.69%) NAS
4 6 (1.69%) SAN
5 4 (1.13%) SSL
6 3 (0.85%) DNS
6 3 (0.85%) S/MIME
6 3 (0.85%) X.509
7 2 (0.56%) DHCP
7 2 (0.56%) LAN
7 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.56%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) Broadband
8 1 (0.28%) IPv4
8 1 (0.28%) IPv6
8 1 (0.28%) OSPF
8 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.45%) Power BI
2 22 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.82%) Tableau
6 8 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.98%) Metadata
8 6 (1.69%) MySQL
8 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.41%) Big Data
9 5 (1.41%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.85%) QlikView
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.56%) Looker
11 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (7.63%) Git
2 22 (6.21%) MSBuild
3 21 (5.93%) Octopus Deploy
3 21 (5.93%) Team Foundation Server
3 21 (5.93%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) Maven
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 120 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.34%) Finance
3 57 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.73%) Retail
5 35 (9.89%) Marketing
6 33 (9.32%) Legal
7 22 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.37%) Law
9 12 (3.39%) Banking
10 11 (3.11%) Games
10 11 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.98%) Advertising
13 6 (1.69%) Military
13 6 (1.69%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.13%) French Language
15 4 (1.13%) Hungarian Language
15 4 (1.13%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (21.75%) Architect
2 54 (15.25%) Analyst
3 44 (12.43%) Senior
4 33 (9.32%) Lead
5 29 (8.19%) Technical Architect
6 28 (7.91%) AWS Architect
7 25 (7.06%) SAP Analyst
8 20 (5.65%) SAP Support
8 20 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.65%) Support Analyst
9 19 (5.37%) SAP Support Analyst
10 16 (4.52%) Lead Architect
10 16 (4.52%) Senior Architect
11 15 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (3.95%) AWS Solution Architect
12 14 (3.95%) DevOps Architect
12 14 (3.95%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.95%) TOGAF Architect
13 13 (3.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.89%) HTML
2 33 (9.32%) CSS
3 27 (7.63%) REST
4 26 (7.34%) .NET
5 25 (7.06%) JSON
6 23 (6.50%) ASP.NET
6 23 (6.50%) XML
7 22 (6.21%) gRPC
8 21 (5.93%) Bootstrap
9 20 (5.65%) SAP Fiori
10 15 (4.24%) Kafka
11 13 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (2.26%) Node.js
13 5 (1.41%) RESTful
14 4 (1.13%) CodeIgniter
14 4 (1.13%) Laravel
15 3 (0.85%) EDI
15 3 (0.85%) HTML5
15 3 (0.85%) Pandas
15 3 (0.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 70 (19.77%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.67%) Learning Management System
5 12 (3.39%) Social Media
6 10 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.26%) Clustering
8 8 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (1.69%) NHS
10 5 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.13%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.13%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.13%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.13%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.76%) Windows
2 20 (5.65%) Linux
3 5 (1.41%) Android
3 5 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.13%) CentOS
4 4 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Solaris
5 2 (0.56%) VMS
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (27.68%) DevOps
2 79 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (17.51%) CI/CD
4 61 (17.23%) Data Protection
5 59 (16.67%) Data Security
6 58 (16.38%) CRM
7 57 (16.10%) Cybersecurity
8 55 (15.54%) Microservices
9 53 (14.97%) Decision-Making
9 53 (14.97%) Information Security
10 50 (14.12%) Agile
11 48 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (12.71%) Analytics
13 44 (12.43%) Risk Management
13 44 (12.43%) Roadmaps
14 42 (11.86%) Data Management
14 42 (11.86%) Incident Response
15 41 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (11.58%) Design Patterns
16 40 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.14%) SQL
2 65 (18.36%) Python
3 40 (11.30%) C#
4 34 (9.60%) JavaScript
5 31 (8.76%) Java
6 29 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.34%) Bash
8 20 (5.65%) ABAP
9 11 (3.11%) Perl
10 10 (2.82%) R
11 7 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.41%) PHP
14 3 (0.85%) Scala
15 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.56%) Go
15 2 (0.56%) Groovy
16 1 (0.28%) Bicep
16 1 (0.28%) Julia
16 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge ABL
Qualifications
1 72 (20.34%) Degree
2 35 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.32%) AWS Certification
4 29 (8.19%) CISSP
5 28 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (7.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.78%) Azure Certification
7 24 (6.78%) CISM
8 22 (6.21%) SC Cleared
9 14 (3.95%) CISA
10 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.41%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.13%) CRISC
13 4 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.13%) GISP
13 4 (1.13%) ISEB
13 4 (1.13%) Linux+ Certification
13 4 (1.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (20.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (16.67%) NIST
3 47 (13.28%) HIPAA
4 29 (8.19%) PCI DSS
5 23 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (6.21%) Data Quality
7 18 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (3.67%) SOC 2
9 12 (3.39%) Accessibility
10 8 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (1.98%) GRC
12 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.69%) NCSC
13 5 (1.41%) SLA
14 4 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (1.13%) Basel III
14 4 (1.13%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (1.13%) IFRS
14 4 (1.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 56 (15.82%) Docker
2 25 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.13%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.08%) Terraform
3 14 (3.95%) Ansible
3 14 (3.95%) Grafana
4 12 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.82%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) SCCM
8 2 (0.56%) SCOM
8 2 (0.56%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.28%) CASB
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 91 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.45%) Google
3 27 (7.63%) SAP
4 15 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.95%) VMware
6 13 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.39%) Workday
8 10 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.69%) Databricks
9 6 (1.69%) Informatica
10 5 (1.41%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.41%) Sage
10 5 (1.41%) Xero
11 4 (1.13%) Okta
11 4 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.13%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco
12 3 (0.85%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.85%) Thales
13 2 (0.56%) Rapid7