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

 6 months to
6 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 168 226
Rank change year-on-year +36 +58 +19
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 309 329 362
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.93% 2.06% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.06% 11.95% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 198 176 314
10th Percentile £39,280 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,306 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £89,375 £92,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +30.00% -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 2,794 2,753 3,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.49% 17.27% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,641 1,496 2,976
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,608 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,038 £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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £94,188
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 6 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 20 (6.47%) 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 23 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.32%) InDesign
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.59%) Shopify
1 8 (2.59%) Workday HCM
2 6 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.29%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.29%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.97%) Magento
5 3 (0.97%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.32%) iTrent
7 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.22%) Azure
2 62 (20.06%) AWS
3 38 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (8.74%) GCP
5 25 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (7.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (7.12%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.47%) GitHub
7 20 (6.47%) SaaS
8 19 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (5.50%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.85%) Boomi
12 14 (4.53%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.88%) Power Automate
14 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (2.59%) iPaaS
16 7 (2.27%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.80%) Firewall
2 18 (5.83%) CHAP
3 12 (3.88%) Network Security
4 9 (2.91%) DNS
5 7 (2.27%) DMZ
6 5 (1.62%) Internet
7 4 (1.29%) SSL
8 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.97%) SCCP
8 3 (0.97%) VLAN
8 3 (0.97%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) Broadband
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) Intranet
9 1 (0.32%) SMS
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.83%) Power BI
2 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.29%) Metadata
5 3 (0.97%) Redis
5 3 (0.97%) Tableau
6 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
6 2 (0.65%) Power Query
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.32%) Looker
7 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.91%) JIRA
2 4 (1.29%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.97%) Git
3 3 (0.97%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.32%) Vite
4 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 133 (43.04%) Social Skills
2 114 (36.89%) Finance
3 50 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (15.53%) Legal
5 33 (10.68%) Banking
6 29 (9.39%) Law
7 25 (8.09%) Public Sector
8 24 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (7.12%) Financial Institution
10 21 (6.80%) Retail
11 17 (5.50%) Marketing
12 11 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.59%) Advertising
13 8 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.27%) Aviation
14 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.94%) French Language
16 4 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (17.80%) Senior
2 21 (6.80%) Integration Engineer
3 20 (6.47%) Analyst
4 18 (5.83%) Auditor
4 18 (5.83%) Internal Auditor
4 18 (5.83%) Security Auditor
5 17 (5.50%) Lead
6 16 (5.18%) Architect
7 15 (4.85%) Security Manager
7 15 (4.85%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.53%) Administrator
9 13 (4.21%) IT Manager
10 12 (3.88%) Consultant
11 11 (3.56%) Risk Manager
11 11 (3.56%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.24%) Security Analyst
13 8 (2.59%) Head of Cybersecurity
13 8 (2.59%) Support Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.27%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.80%) JSON
1 21 (6.80%) RESTful
2 18 (5.83%) REST
3 17 (5.50%) OAuth
3 17 (5.50%) OAuth2
4 13 (4.21%) SOAP
4 13 (4.21%) Web Services
5 8 (2.59%) SAML
6 7 (2.27%) .NET
6 7 (2.27%) HTML
7 6 (1.94%) XML
8 5 (1.62%) CSS
8 5 (1.62%) Kafka
9 4 (1.29%) Middleware
9 4 (1.29%) Node.js
9 4 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.97%) JWT
10 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.89%) Management Information System
2 24 (7.77%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.44%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.80%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.50%) PKI
6 12 (3.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (3.24%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.91%) Blog
8 9 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.94%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.62%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.47%) Linux
2 18 (5.83%) Windows
3 6 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.16%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (22.65%) Incident Response
3 66 (21.36%) Analytics
3 66 (21.36%) Data Protection
4 64 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (17.48%) Information Security
7 52 (16.83%) Risk Management
8 49 (15.86%) Agile
9 45 (14.56%) CI/CD
10 44 (14.24%) DevOps
11 43 (13.92%) Data Governance
11 43 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (13.59%) AI
13 41 (13.27%) CRM
14 40 (12.94%) Coaching
14 40 (12.94%) Project Management
15 38 (12.30%) Decision-Making
16 37 (11.97%) Cloud Security
16 37 (11.97%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.36%) Python
2 23 (7.44%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.44%) SQL
3 18 (5.83%) Bicep
3 18 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 12 (3.88%) C#
5 11 (3.56%) Java
6 8 (2.59%) Bash
7 5 (1.62%) Perl
7 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.29%) ABAP
8 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.97%) Go
9 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.65%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) R
11 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (21.04%) Degree
2 54 (17.48%) CISSP
3 46 (14.89%) CISM
3 46 (14.89%) Security Cleared
4 34 (11.00%) SC Cleared
5 31 (10.03%) CISA
6 18 (5.83%) CGEIT
6 18 (5.83%) FFIEC
6 18 (5.83%) SANS
7 16 (5.18%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.85%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.85%) DV Cleared
9 14 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 12 (3.88%) DBS Check
10 12 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (2.59%) CREST Certified
13 8 (2.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (28.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (22.33%) NIST
3 26 (8.41%) PCI DSS
4 24 (7.77%) GRC
5 23 (7.44%) Data Quality
6 21 (6.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (6.47%) NCSC
8 19 (6.15%) COBIT
8 19 (6.15%) SOC 2
9 12 (3.88%) Accessibility
10 10 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (2.27%) JSP 440
13 7 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
14 6 (1.94%) QA
14 6 (1.94%) SLA
15 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (1.29%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 14 (4.53%) Docker
2 13 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.29%) 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 28 (9.06%) Terraform
2 17 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.88%) Ansible
4 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.29%) Grafana
7 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.97%) Nessus
8 3 (0.97%) Nmap
8 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.65%) Puppet
10 1 (0.32%) Argo
10 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 71 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.44%) Workday
3 22 (7.12%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.18%) MuleSoft
5 15 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.53%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.53%) SAP
7 13 (4.21%) Oracle
8 12 (3.88%) Google
9 10 (3.24%) IBM
10 7 (2.27%) Adobe
10 7 (2.27%) Dell
10 7 (2.27%) Epicor
10 7 (2.27%) Infor
10 7 (2.27%) Informatica
10 7 (2.27%) Jitterbit
10 7 (2.27%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.27%) Software AG
10 7 (2.27%) Talend
10 7 (2.27%) TIBCO
245 hybrid/remote GDPR jobs