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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 158 232
Rank change year-on-year +22 +74 +10
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 312 329 364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.92% 2.09% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.02% 12.00% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 201 180 316
10th Percentile £39,280 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,038 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,527 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.81% +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 2,830 2,741 3,822
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.38% 17.42% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 1,513 2,983
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,375
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,343 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.10% +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 12 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 17 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.24%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.60%) CMS
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (8.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.96%) 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
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Workday HCM
2 7 (2.24%) Shopify
3 5 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.28%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.28%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.28%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.96%) Magento
5 3 (0.96%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.32%) iTrent
6 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (35.58%) Azure
2 64 (20.51%) AWS
3 33 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (8.65%) GCP
5 24 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 24 (7.69%) SaaS
6 21 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (6.73%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.41%) GitHub
8 19 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (4.81%) Boomi
10 15 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.49%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (3.53%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.24%) iPaaS
13 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.24%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.05%) Firewall
2 18 (5.77%) CHAP
3 12 (3.85%) Network Security
4 7 (2.24%) DMZ
4 7 (2.24%) DNS
5 5 (1.60%) Internet
6 4 (1.28%) SSL
7 3 (0.96%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.96%) SCCP
7 3 (0.96%) VLAN
7 3 (0.96%) 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 (6.09%) Power BI
2 7 (2.24%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.28%) Metadata
5 4 (1.28%) Tableau
6 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.96%) Redis
7 2 (0.64%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.64%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.64%) MySQL
7 2 (0.64%) Power Query
8 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.88%) JIRA
2 3 (0.96%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.96%) Git
3 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.32%) Vite
4 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 132 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 113 (36.22%) Finance
3 51 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (15.71%) Legal
5 31 (9.94%) Banking
6 28 (8.97%) Law
6 28 (8.97%) Public Sector
7 22 (7.05%) Financial Institution
7 22 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (6.73%) Retail
9 16 (5.13%) Marketing
10 14 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.24%) Advertising
12 7 (2.24%) Aviation
12 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.92%) French Language
14 4 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (17.63%) Senior
2 21 (6.73%) Integration Engineer
3 20 (6.41%) Analyst
4 19 (6.09%) Lead
5 18 (5.77%) Auditor
5 18 (5.77%) Internal Auditor
5 18 (5.77%) Security Auditor
5 18 (5.77%) Security Manager
6 16 (5.13%) Architect
7 15 (4.81%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.49%) Administrator
9 13 (4.17%) IT Manager
10 12 (3.85%) Consultant
11 11 (3.53%) Risk Manager
12 10 (3.21%) Security Analyst
12 10 (3.21%) Support Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.56%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.24%) Head of IT
15 7 (2.24%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.73%) JSON
1 21 (6.73%) RESTful
2 18 (5.77%) REST
3 17 (5.45%) OAuth
3 17 (5.45%) OAuth2
4 13 (4.17%) SOAP
4 13 (4.17%) Web Services
5 10 (3.21%) .NET
5 10 (3.21%) HTML
6 8 (2.56%) CSS
6 8 (2.56%) SAML
7 6 (1.92%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.92%) XML
8 5 (1.60%) jQuery
8 5 (1.60%) Kafka
9 4 (1.28%) HTML5
9 4 (1.28%) Node.js
9 4 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (0.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.71%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.01%) Onboarding
3 22 (7.05%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.41%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.77%) PKI
6 11 (3.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (3.21%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.88%) Blog
8 9 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.60%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.09%) Linux
2 16 (5.13%) Windows
3 6 (1.92%) Unix
4 4 (1.28%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (27.88%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (22.44%) Incident Response
3 68 (21.79%) Data Protection
4 67 (21.47%) Analytics
4 67 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (18.27%) Information Security
7 52 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 49 (15.71%) Agile
9 46 (14.74%) CI/CD
10 43 (13.78%) CRM
10 43 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 42 (13.46%) AI
11 42 (13.46%) Data Governance
11 42 (13.46%) DevOps
12 41 (13.14%) Coaching
12 41 (13.14%) Project Management
13 40 (12.82%) Decision-Making
14 36 (11.54%) Cloud Security
14 36 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.62%) Python
2 22 (7.05%) SQL
3 21 (6.73%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.41%) PowerShell
5 18 (5.77%) Bicep
6 12 (3.85%) C#
7 11 (3.53%) Java
8 7 (2.24%) Bash
9 5 (1.60%) Perl
9 5 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.28%) ABAP
10 4 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.96%) Go
11 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.64%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (20.83%) Degree
2 54 (17.31%) CISSP
3 48 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 45 (14.42%) CISM
5 36 (11.54%) SC Cleared
6 31 (9.94%) CISA
7 18 (5.77%) CGEIT
7 18 (5.77%) FFIEC
7 18 (5.77%) SANS
8 17 (5.45%) AWS Certification
9 16 (5.13%) Azure Certification
9 16 (5.13%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (3.53%) DBS Check
12 10 (3.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.88%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (28.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (22.76%) NIST
3 31 (9.94%) PCI DSS
4 26 (8.33%) Data Quality
5 24 (7.69%) GRC
6 22 (7.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (7.05%) NCSC
7 19 (6.09%) COBIT
8 18 (5.77%) SOC 2
9 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
10 10 (3.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (2.24%) JSP 440
12 7 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (1.92%) HIPAA
13 6 (1.92%) QA
13 6 (1.92%) SLA
14 5 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (1.28%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 13 (4.17%) Docker
2 11 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.96%) 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 (8.65%) Terraform
2 16 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.85%) Ansible
4 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.28%) Grafana
6 4 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.96%) Nessus
7 3 (0.96%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.64%) Nmap
8 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.32%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 66 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.37%) Workday
3 21 (6.73%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.13%) MuleSoft
5 15 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.49%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.49%) SAP
7 13 (4.17%) Google
7 13 (4.17%) Oracle
8 10 (3.21%) IBM
9 7 (2.24%) Adobe
9 7 (2.24%) Dell
9 7 (2.24%) Epicor
9 7 (2.24%) IFS
9 7 (2.24%) Infor
9 7 (2.24%) Informatica
9 7 (2.24%) Jitterbit
9 7 (2.24%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.24%) Software AG
9 7 (2.24%) Talend
209 hybrid/remote GDPR jobs