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

 6 months to
3 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 156 226
Rank change year-on-year +16 +70 +25
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 325 314 390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.97% 2.18% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.25% 12.28% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 206 188 339
10th Percentile £38,640 £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,072 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £96,625 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,527 £68,901 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +37.80% -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 2,890 2,558 3,963
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.51% 17.73% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 1,490 3,084
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,934
25th Percentile £46,104 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
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 3 March 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 12 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.15%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.54%) CMS
4 3 (0.92%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.92%) WordPress
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 34 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (8.31%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.31%) InDesign
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.15%) Shopify
3 5 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.54%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.23%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.23%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.23%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.92%) Magento
5 3 (0.92%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.31%) iTrent
6 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (32.62%) Azure
2 62 (19.08%) AWS
3 32 (9.85%) GCP
4 30 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (8.31%) Power Platform
6 21 (6.46%) SaaS
7 20 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 19 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (5.85%) GitHub
9 18 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.23%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.31%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.69%) Boomi
14 11 (3.38%) Entra ID
15 9 (2.77%) Power Automate
16 7 (2.15%) iPaaS
16 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (2.15%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.38%) Firewall
2 21 (6.46%) CHAP
3 12 (3.69%) Network Security
4 7 (2.15%) DMZ
5 5 (1.54%) Internet
6 4 (1.23%) DNS
6 4 (1.23%) SSL
7 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.92%) SCCP
7 3 (0.92%) VLAN
7 3 (0.92%) VPN
8 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.00%) Power BI
2 11 (3.38%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.15%) Tableau
5 5 (1.54%) Metadata
6 4 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.23%) Power Query
7 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.92%) Redis
8 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.31%) DB2
9 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.31%) MySQL
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.77%) JIRA
2 3 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.31%) Vite
3 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 144 (44.31%) Social Skills
2 119 (36.62%) Finance
3 60 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (16.31%) Legal
5 34 (10.46%) Banking
5 34 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 31 (9.54%) Law
7 25 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 25 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (6.77%) Retail
9 20 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (5.23%) Marketing
11 11 (3.38%) Advertising
12 7 (2.15%) Aviation
12 7 (2.15%) Games
12 7 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.85%) French Language
14 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (16.00%) Senior
2 23 (7.08%) Security Manager
3 22 (6.77%) Analyst
4 21 (6.46%) Auditor
4 21 (6.46%) Integration Engineer
5 20 (6.15%) Internal Auditor
5 20 (6.15%) Security Auditor
6 19 (5.85%) Lead
7 18 (5.54%) Architect
8 17 (5.23%) Administrator
8 17 (5.23%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.31%) Consultant
10 12 (3.69%) Risk Manager
11 10 (3.08%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.08%) Information Manager
11 10 (3.08%) IT Manager
11 10 (3.08%) Security Analyst
12 8 (2.46%) Information Security Manager
12 8 (2.46%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.15%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.15%) JSON
1 20 (6.15%) RESTful
2 17 (5.23%) OAuth
2 17 (5.23%) OAuth2
3 13 (4.00%) REST
4 10 (3.08%) SOAP
4 10 (3.08%) Web Services
5 8 (2.46%) .NET
5 8 (2.46%) HTML
6 6 (1.85%) CSS
7 5 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.54%) SAML
7 5 (1.54%) XML
8 4 (1.23%) HTML5
8 4 (1.23%) jQuery
8 4 (1.23%) Kafka
8 4 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.92%) JWT
9 3 (0.92%) Middleware
9 3 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.54%) Management Information System
2 29 (8.92%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.85%) Security Posture
4 18 (5.54%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.23%) PKI
6 12 (3.69%) Blockchain
7 11 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.77%) Blog
9 9 (2.77%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (2.46%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.85%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.54%) Digital Media
13 5 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.54%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.54%) Social Media
13 5 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.31%) Windows
2 13 (4.00%) Linux
3 6 (1.85%) Unix
4 4 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.92%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 74 (22.77%) Analytics
4 72 (22.15%) Data Protection
5 70 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (19.69%) Information Security
8 55 (16.92%) Risk Management
9 53 (16.31%) Agile
9 53 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 49 (15.08%) CRM
10 49 (15.08%) Data Governance
11 47 (14.46%) Project Management
12 44 (13.54%) Coaching
12 44 (13.54%) Decision-Making
13 42 (12.92%) AI
13 42 (12.92%) CI/CD
14 40 (12.31%) DevOps
15 38 (11.69%) Vulnerability Management
16 37 (11.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.08%) SQL
2 22 (6.77%) Python
3 18 (5.54%) Bicep
4 16 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.38%) Java
7 10 (3.08%) C#
8 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.23%) ABAP
9 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.92%) Bash
10 3 (0.92%) Go
10 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.92%) VBA
11 2 (0.62%) Perl
11 2 (0.62%) R
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (20.31%) Degree
2 59 (18.15%) CISSP
3 52 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 47 (14.46%) CISM
5 40 (12.31%) SC Cleared
6 33 (10.15%) CISA
7 21 (6.46%) CGEIT
7 21 (6.46%) FFIEC
7 21 (6.46%) SANS
8 17 (5.23%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.62%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.31%) AWS Certification
11 11 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (3.08%) HNC
13 9 (2.77%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (2.46%) OSCP
15 7 (2.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (24.00%) NIST
3 35 (10.77%) Data Quality
4 33 (10.15%) PCI DSS
5 24 (7.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (7.08%) GRC
7 22 (6.77%) COBIT
8 20 (6.15%) NCSC
9 17 (5.23%) SOC 2
10 13 (4.00%) Accessibility
10 13 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (3.69%) QA
12 11 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (2.15%) HIPAA
14 7 (2.15%) JSP 440
15 6 (1.85%) SLA
16 5 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (1.23%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 11 (3.38%) Docker
2 7 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (8.00%) Terraform
2 13 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.15%) Ansible
4 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.23%) Grafana
5 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.92%) Nessus
6 3 (0.92%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.31%) Argo
8 1 (0.31%) CASB
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 70 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.15%) Salesforce
3 19 (5.85%) Google
3 19 (5.85%) Workday
4 18 (5.54%) Oracle
5 14 (4.31%) Ab Initio
6 13 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 13 (4.00%) SAP
7 12 (3.69%) ServiceNow
8 10 (3.08%) IBM
9 7 (2.15%) Dell
9 7 (2.15%) Epicor
9 7 (2.15%) IFS
9 7 (2.15%) Infor
9 7 (2.15%) Informatica
9 7 (2.15%) Jitterbit
9 7 (2.15%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.15%) Software AG
9 7 (2.15%) Talend
9 7 (2.15%) TIBCO
326 hybrid/remote GDPR jobs