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

 6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 160 231
Rank change year-on-year +22 +71 +13
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 308 327 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.92% 2.08% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.01% 11.94% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 196 176 317
10th Percentile £39,280 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,038 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £67,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +23.57% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £89,375 £93,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.59% +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 2,798 2,739 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.41% 17.41% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 1,490 3,012
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,475 £43,750
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 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £94,963
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 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 18 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.27%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.62%) CMS
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.97%) WordPress
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.32%) InDesign
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Workday HCM
2 7 (2.27%) Shopify
3 5 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.30%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.30%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.30%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.97%) Magento
5 3 (0.97%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.32%) iTrent
7 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 111 (36.04%) Azure
2 62 (20.13%) AWS
3 34 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (8.77%) GCP
5 24 (7.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.14%) SaaS
7 21 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (6.49%) GitHub
9 19 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (4.87%) Boomi
11 15 (4.87%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.57%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.60%) iPaaS
15 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (2.27%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.49%) Firewall
2 18 (5.84%) CHAP
3 12 (3.90%) Network Security
4 7 (2.27%) DMZ
4 7 (2.27%) DNS
5 5 (1.62%) Internet
6 4 (1.30%) SSL
7 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.97%) SCCP
7 3 (0.97%) VLAN
7 3 (0.97%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) Broadband
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) Intranet
8 1 (0.32%) SMS
8 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.17%) Power BI
2 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.30%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) Tableau
6 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.97%) Redis
7 2 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 2 (0.65%) Power Query
8 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.32%) Looker
8 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.92%) JIRA
2 3 (0.97%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.97%) Git
3 2 (0.65%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.32%) Vite
4 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 130 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 113 (36.69%) Finance
3 50 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.26%) Legal
5 31 (10.06%) Banking
6 28 (9.09%) Law
7 26 (8.44%) Public Sector
8 24 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (7.14%) Financial Institution
10 21 (6.82%) Retail
11 17 (5.52%) Marketing
12 13 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.27%) Advertising
14 7 (2.27%) Aviation
14 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.95%) French Language
16 4 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (17.53%) Senior
2 21 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
3 20 (6.49%) Analyst
4 19 (6.17%) Lead
5 18 (5.84%) Auditor
5 18 (5.84%) Internal Auditor
5 18 (5.84%) Security Auditor
6 16 (5.19%) Security Manager
7 15 (4.87%) Architect
7 15 (4.87%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.55%) Administrator
9 13 (4.22%) IT Manager
10 12 (3.90%) Consultant
11 11 (3.57%) Risk Manager
12 10 (3.25%) Security Analyst
13 9 (2.92%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Support Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Head of IT
14 7 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.82%) JSON
1 21 (6.82%) 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 9 (2.92%) .NET
5 9 (2.92%) HTML
6 8 (2.60%) SAML
7 7 (2.27%) CSS
8 6 (1.95%) XML
9 5 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.62%) Kafka
10 4 (1.30%) jQuery
10 4 (1.30%) Node.js
10 4 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (0.97%) JWT
11 3 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.58%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.12%) Onboarding
3 22 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.52%) PKI
6 11 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (3.25%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.92%) Blog
8 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.95%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.62%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.62%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.17%) Linux
2 16 (5.19%) Windows
3 6 (1.95%) Unix
4 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.92%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (22.08%) Data Protection
2 68 (22.08%) Incident Response
3 67 (21.75%) Analytics
4 66 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (17.86%) Information Security
7 51 (16.56%) Risk Management
8 49 (15.91%) Agile
9 44 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 44 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 43 (13.96%) CRM
10 43 (13.96%) Data Governance
11 42 (13.64%) AI
11 42 (13.64%) DevOps
12 41 (13.31%) Project Management
13 40 (12.99%) Coaching
14 39 (12.66%) Decision-Making
15 35 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
16 34 (11.04%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.74%) Python
2 22 (7.14%) SQL
3 20 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 20 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 18 (5.84%) Bicep
5 12 (3.90%) C#
6 11 (3.57%) Java
7 7 (2.27%) Bash
8 5 (1.62%) Perl
8 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.30%) ABAP
9 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.97%) Go
10 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.65%) PHP
11 2 (0.65%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (20.78%) Degree
2 51 (16.56%) CISSP
3 46 (14.94%) Security Cleared
4 44 (14.29%) CISM
5 34 (11.04%) SC Cleared
6 31 (10.06%) CISA
7 18 (5.84%) CGEIT
7 18 (5.84%) FFIEC
7 18 (5.84%) SANS
8 16 (5.19%) AWS Certification
9 15 (4.87%) Azure Certification
9 15 (4.87%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (3.57%) DBS Check
12 10 (3.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.92%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (28.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (22.08%) NIST
3 28 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 26 (8.44%) Data Quality
5 24 (7.79%) GRC
6 21 (6.82%) NCSC
7 20 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (6.17%) COBIT
9 18 (5.84%) SOC 2
10 13 (4.22%) Accessibility
11 10 (3.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (2.27%) JSP 440
13 7 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (1.95%) HIPAA
14 6 (1.95%) QA
14 6 (1.95%) SLA
15 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (1.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 13 (4.22%) Docker
2 11 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (8.77%) Terraform
2 16 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.90%) Ansible
4 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.30%) Grafana
6 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.97%) Nessus
7 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.65%) Nmap
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 67 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.47%) Workday
3 22 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.19%) MuleSoft
5 15 (4.87%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.55%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.55%) SAP
7 13 (4.22%) Google
7 13 (4.22%) Oracle
8 10 (3.25%) IBM
9 7 (2.27%) Adobe
9 7 (2.27%) Dell
9 7 (2.27%) Epicor
9 7 (2.27%) Infor
9 7 (2.27%) Informatica
9 7 (2.27%) Jitterbit
9 7 (2.27%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.27%) Software AG
9 7 (2.27%) Talend
9 7 (2.27%) TIBCO
203 hybrid/remote GDPR jobs