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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 192 237
Rank change year-on-year +80 +45 +66
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 356 338 291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.34% 1.70% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.43% 11.00% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 234 173 261
10th Percentile £40,375 £36,468 £40,125
25th Percentile £49,400 £43,750 £51,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.04% +6.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% +5.45%

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 2,651 3,073 3,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.45% 15.45% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 1,680 2,560
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - +3.74% +4.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,813
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 25 November 2025.

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 23 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.97%) Anypoint
2 7 (1.97%) CMS
3 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.12%) Moodle
4 4 (1.12%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.53%) SAP HCM
2 9 (2.53%) SAP HR
2 9 (2.53%) SAP Payroll
3 8 (2.25%) Shopify
3 8 (2.25%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.56%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) iTrent
6 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 123 (34.55%) Azure
2 61 (17.13%) AWS
3 43 (12.08%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.43%) GCP
6 22 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (6.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (6.18%) SaaS
7 19 (5.34%) Entra ID
8 18 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (4.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (4.49%) GitHub
11 15 (4.21%) Boomi
12 13 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.65%) Power Automate
12 13 (3.65%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (3.09%) Google Analytics
14 10 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.53%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.87%) Firewall
2 11 (3.09%) Network Security
3 7 (1.97%) DNS
3 7 (1.97%) VPN
4 6 (1.69%) CHAP
5 4 (1.12%) DMZ
6 3 (0.84%) HTTP
6 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.84%) VLAN
7 2 (0.56%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) Intranet
8 1 (0.28%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) Wireless
8 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.30%) Power BI
2 10 (2.81%) Relational Database
2 10 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.69%) Tableau
6 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.84%) Redis
8 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.56%) Metadata
9 2 (0.56%) MySQL
9 2 (0.56%) Power Query
9 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.28%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 11 (3.09%) Git
2 10 (2.81%) JIRA
3 6 (1.69%) MSBuild
4 5 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.12%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.84%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.28%) Maven
7 1 (0.28%) Vite
7 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 143 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 106 (29.78%) Finance
3 64 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (17.42%) Legal
5 38 (10.67%) Law
6 32 (8.99%) Marketing
7 29 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (6.46%) Retail
9 22 (6.18%) Banking
10 15 (4.21%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.97%) Advertising
13 7 (1.97%) French Language
13 7 (1.97%) Military
13 7 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 66 (18.54%) Senior
2 45 (12.64%) Analyst
3 28 (7.87%) Architect
4 24 (6.74%) Lead
5 17 (4.78%) Security Manager
6 16 (4.49%) HR Advisor
6 16 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (4.49%) Security Engineer
7 13 (3.65%) Administrator
7 13 (3.65%) IT Manager
7 13 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (3.37%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (3.09%) Senior Manager
10 9 (2.53%) Digital Analyst
10 9 (2.53%) Head of Security
10 9 (2.53%) SAP Support
10 9 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.02%) REST
2 22 (6.18%) JSON
3 18 (5.06%) RESTful
4 14 (3.93%) HTML
4 14 (3.93%) SOAP
5 13 (3.65%) CSS
5 13 (3.65%) Web Services
6 12 (3.37%) .NET
6 12 (3.37%) OAuth
6 12 (3.37%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.37%) XML
7 9 (2.53%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (2.25%) SAML
9 6 (1.69%) Node.js
10 5 (1.40%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.40%) Bootstrap
10 5 (1.40%) gRPC
10 5 (1.40%) Kafka
10 5 (1.40%) Middleware
11 4 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.36%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.21%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.81%) PKI
6 10 (2.81%) Social Media
7 9 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.25%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.97%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.97%) Learning Management System
10 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.69%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (1.12%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.87%) Linux
1 28 (7.87%) Windows
2 7 (1.97%) Unix
3 4 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (17.70%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (17.70%) Data Protection
3 63 (17.70%) Incident Response
4 60 (16.85%) DevOps
4 60 (16.85%) Information Security
5 56 (15.73%) Agile
5 56 (15.73%) CRM
6 54 (15.17%) Analytics
7 53 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 53 (14.89%) Decision-Making
8 51 (14.33%) Risk Management
9 48 (13.48%) Roadmaps
10 40 (11.24%) Data Security
11 38 (10.67%) AI
12 34 (9.55%) Coaching
13 33 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (8.99%) Cloud Security
15 31 (8.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.45%) Python
2 47 (13.20%) SQL
3 29 (8.15%) JavaScript
3 29 (8.15%) PowerShell
4 24 (6.74%) C#
5 19 (5.34%) Bash
6 18 (5.06%) Java
7 12 (3.37%) Bicep
7 12 (3.37%) Perl
8 9 (2.53%) ABAP
9 6 (1.69%) R
10 5 (1.40%) Go
10 5 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.56%) Groovy
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (17.98%) Degree
2 47 (13.20%) CISSP
3 40 (11.24%) CISM
4 36 (10.11%) Security Cleared
5 25 (7.02%) SC Cleared
6 22 (6.18%) CISA
7 21 (5.90%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.90%) Azure Certification
8 17 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (3.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.09%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.97%) CGEIT
14 6 (1.69%) CBAP
14 6 (1.69%) CRISC
14 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (21.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (19.38%) NIST
3 30 (8.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (6.18%) PCI DSS
5 18 (5.06%) Data Quality
5 18 (5.06%) GRC
5 18 (5.06%) SOC 2
6 16 (4.49%) HIPAA
6 16 (4.49%) NCSC
6 16 (4.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (3.37%) Accessibility
8 10 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (2.25%) COBIT
10 7 (1.97%) PERC
10 7 (1.97%) QA
10 7 (1.97%) SLA
11 6 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.69%) EU AI Act
12 5 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (7.87%) Docker
2 21 (5.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Postfix
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.62%) Terraform
3 15 (4.21%) Ansible
4 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.12%) Grafana
6 4 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.84%) Nessus
7 3 (0.84%) Nmap
7 3 (0.84%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) Argo
9 1 (0.28%) Autotask
9 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 90 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.27%) Workday
3 27 (7.58%) ServiceNow
4 26 (7.30%) Google
5 22 (6.18%) SAP
6 19 (5.34%) Salesforce
7 17 (4.78%) MuleSoft
8 14 (3.93%) Red Hat
9 13 (3.65%) Oracle
10 10 (2.81%) IBM
11 9 (2.53%) Ab Initio
12 8 (2.25%) Informatica
13 7 (1.97%) Dell
13 7 (1.97%) Epicor
13 7 (1.97%) Infor
13 7 (1.97%) Jitterbit
13 7 (1.97%) SnapLogic
13 7 (1.97%) Software AG
13 7 (1.97%) Talend
13 7 (1.97%) TIBCO