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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 169 229
Rank change year-on-year +33 +60 +18
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 309 335 344
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 2.06% 1.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.04% 12.00% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 200 177 300
10th Percentile £39,152 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £45,000 £42,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,625 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £89,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £50,652
% change year-on-year -11.54% +28.33% -7.91%

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 2,791 3,669
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.72% 17.19% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,509 2,875
10th Percentile £34,460 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,514 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.81% +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

GDPR
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GDPR over the 6 months to 30 January 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 21 (6.80%) 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
2 22 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) 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
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
1 119 (38.51%) Azure
2 63 (20.39%) AWS
3 42 (13.59%) 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
9 18 (5.83%) Entra ID
10 17 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
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 22 (7.12%) Firewall
2 17 (5.50%) CHAP
3 12 (3.88%) Network Security
4 10 (3.24%) DNS
5 7 (2.27%) DMZ
6 5 (1.62%) Internet
7 4 (1.29%) SSL
7 4 (1.29%) VPN
8 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.97%) SCCP
8 3 (0.97%) VLAN
9 2 (0.65%) HTTP
9 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.32%) Broadband
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) Intranet
10 1 (0.32%) SMS
10 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 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
1 132 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 112 (36.25%) Finance
3 50 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (15.86%) Legal
5 32 (10.36%) Banking
6 30 (9.71%) Law
7 25 (8.09%) Public Sector
8 24 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (6.80%) Financial Institution
9 21 (6.80%) Retail
10 16 (5.18%) Marketing
11 10 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.59%) Advertising
12 8 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.27%) Aviation
13 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.94%) French Language
15 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (17.48%) Senior
2 21 (6.80%) Integration Engineer
3 20 (6.47%) Analyst
4 17 (5.50%) Architect
4 17 (5.50%) Auditor
4 17 (5.50%) Internal Auditor
4 17 (5.50%) Lead
4 17 (5.50%) Security Auditor
5 15 (4.85%) Senior Manager
6 14 (4.53%) Security Manager
7 13 (4.21%) Administrator
7 13 (4.21%) IT Manager
8 11 (3.56%) Consultant
8 11 (3.56%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.24%) Risk Manager
9 10 (3.24%) Security Analyst
10 9 (2.91%) Head of Cybersecurity
10 9 (2.91%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.27%) Security Architect
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 45 (14.56%) 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 9 (2.91%) Blockchain
7 9 (2.91%) Blog
7 9 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.59%) Cyber Security Posture
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.27%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.62%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.80%) Linux
2 19 (6.15%) Windows
3 6 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.83%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (22.98%) Incident Response
3 66 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (20.71%) Analytics
4 64 (20.71%) Data Protection
5 56 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (17.15%) Information Security
7 50 (16.18%) Risk Management
8 49 (15.86%) Agile
9 47 (15.21%) CI/CD
10 46 (14.89%) DevOps
11 42 (13.59%) Data Governance
12 41 (13.27%) AI
13 40 (12.94%) CRM
13 40 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (12.62%) Coaching
15 38 (12.30%) Cloud Security
15 38 (12.30%) Project Management
16 37 (11.97%) Decision-Making
17 36 (11.65%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.68%) Python
2 25 (8.09%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.44%) SQL
4 18 (5.83%) Bicep
4 18 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.88%) C#
6 11 (3.56%) Java
7 9 (2.91%) Bash
8 6 (1.94%) Perl
9 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.29%) ABAP
10 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.97%) Go
11 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (21.68%) Degree
2 54 (17.48%) CISSP
3 46 (14.89%) CISM
3 46 (14.89%) Security Cleared
4 34 (11.00%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.71%) CISA
6 17 (5.50%) CGEIT
6 17 (5.50%) FFIEC
6 17 (5.50%) SANS
7 16 (5.18%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.85%) DV Cleared
9 14 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (4.21%) DBS Check
10 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.59%) OSCP
15 7 (2.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (28.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (22.01%) NIST
3 26 (8.41%) PCI DSS
4 24 (7.77%) Data Quality
4 24 (7.77%) GRC
5 23 (7.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (6.15%) NCSC
6 19 (6.15%) SOC 2
7 18 (5.83%) COBIT
8 11 (3.56%) Accessibility
9 10 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 8 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (2.27%) JSP 440
11 7 (2.27%) QA
12 6 (1.94%) SLA
13 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.62%) HIPAA
14 4 (1.29%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 15 (4.85%) Docker
2 14 (4.53%) 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 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.21%) Ansible
5 9 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.94%) 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%) Autotask
10 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (23.62%) 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%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.27%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.27%) Software AG
10 7 (2.27%) Talend
10 7 (2.27%) TIBCO