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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 168 247
Rank change year-on-year +35 +79 +4
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 305 331 265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.99% 2.02% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.24% 11.86% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 196 174 234
10th Percentile £39,280 £37,716 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,938 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £113,900 £88,750 £94,250
UK median annual salary £60,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.31% +18.18% -

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 2,714 2,792 3,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.74% 17.01% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 1,490 2,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +2.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £57,524
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.31% +0.04%

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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 16 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 20 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.30%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.98%) CMS
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.66%) WordPress
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.62%) Shopify
1 8 (2.62%) Workday HCM
2 6 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.31%) SAP HCM
4 4 (1.31%) SAP HR
4 4 (1.31%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.98%) Magento
5 3 (0.98%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.66%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.33%) iTrent
7 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 116 (38.03%) Azure
2 61 (20.00%) AWS
3 44 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (8.52%) GCP
5 24 (7.87%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 21 (6.89%) SaaS
8 20 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (6.23%) GitHub
10 18 (5.90%) Entra ID
10 18 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (4.92%) Boomi
13 14 (4.59%) Azure Event Grid
13 14 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (3.61%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (2.62%) iPaaS
17 7 (2.30%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.21%) Firewall
2 14 (4.59%) CHAP
3 11 (3.61%) DNS
3 11 (3.61%) Network Security
4 6 (1.97%) DMZ
5 5 (1.64%) VPN
6 4 (1.31%) SSL
7 3 (0.98%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.98%) HTTP
7 3 (0.98%) Internet
7 3 (0.98%) SCCP
7 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.98%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) Broadband
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Intranet
8 1 (0.33%) SMS
8 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.23%) Power BI
2 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.31%) Metadata
4 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.98%) Redis
5 3 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.98%) Tableau
6 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.66%) Power Query
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.33%) Looker
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (2.95%) JIRA
2 4 (1.31%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.31%) Git
3 3 (0.98%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.33%) Vite
4 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 128 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 111 (36.39%) Finance
3 52 (17.05%) Legal
4 48 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (10.49%) Law
6 30 (9.84%) Banking
7 26 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (7.21%) Public Sector
9 21 (6.89%) Retail
10 18 (5.90%) Financial Institution
10 18 (5.90%) Marketing
11 9 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.95%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.30%) Aviation
13 7 (2.30%) French Language
14 6 (1.97%) Advertising
14 6 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (18.03%) Senior
2 24 (7.87%) Analyst
3 21 (6.89%) Integration Engineer
4 19 (6.23%) Lead
5 15 (4.92%) Architect
6 14 (4.59%) Auditor
6 14 (4.59%) Internal Auditor
6 14 (4.59%) IT Manager
6 14 (4.59%) Security Auditor
6 14 (4.59%) Security Manager
6 14 (4.59%) Senior Manager
7 13 (4.26%) Administrator
8 11 (3.61%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.28%) Head of Cybersecurity
9 10 (3.28%) Security Analyst
10 9 (2.95%) Consultant
10 9 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.95%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.62%) Information Manager
11 8 (2.62%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.56%) JSON
1 20 (6.56%) RESTful
2 18 (5.90%) REST
3 17 (5.57%) OAuth
3 17 (5.57%) OAuth2
4 13 (4.26%) SOAP
4 13 (4.26%) Web Services
5 8 (2.62%) SAML
6 6 (1.97%) .NET
6 6 (1.97%) XML
7 5 (1.64%) HTML
7 5 (1.64%) Kafka
8 4 (1.31%) CSS
8 4 (1.31%) Middleware
8 4 (1.31%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.98%) JWT
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.98%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.10%) Management Information System
2 26 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 22 (7.21%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.89%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.59%) PKI
6 11 (3.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.62%) Blog
7 8 (2.62%) Cyber Security Posture
7 8 (2.62%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.30%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.64%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.64%) Social Media
10 5 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.31%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.54%) Linux
2 20 (6.56%) Windows
3 7 (2.30%) Unix
4 4 (1.31%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.57%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (23.28%) Incident Response
3 63 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 60 (19.67%) Analytics
6 59 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (18.03%) Information Security
8 50 (16.39%) Risk Management
9 48 (15.74%) Agile
9 48 (15.74%) CI/CD
10 46 (15.08%) DevOps
11 40 (13.11%) AI
12 39 (12.79%) Data Governance
13 38 (12.46%) Cloud Security
13 38 (12.46%) CRM
13 38 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (11.80%) Decision-Making
14 36 (11.80%) Roadmaps
15 35 (11.48%) Coaching
16 34 (11.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.80%) Python
2 24 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.54%) SQL
4 17 (5.57%) Bicep
4 17 (5.57%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.93%) C#
5 12 (3.93%) Java
6 11 (3.61%) Bash
7 8 (2.62%) Perl
8 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.31%) ABAP
9 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.98%) Go
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) R
12 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (20.98%) Degree
2 52 (17.05%) CISSP
3 45 (14.75%) CISM
4 39 (12.79%) Security Cleared
5 27 (8.85%) CISA
5 27 (8.85%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.25%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (4.59%) CGEIT
8 14 (4.59%) FFIEC
8 14 (4.59%) SANS
9 13 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (3.93%) DBS Check
11 11 (3.61%) DV Cleared
12 9 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.62%) OSCP
14 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (27.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (22.95%) NIST
3 25 (8.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (8.20%) PCI DSS
4 23 (7.54%) Data Quality
4 23 (7.54%) GRC
5 19 (6.23%) SOC 2
6 17 (5.57%) NCSC
7 15 (4.92%) COBIT
8 10 (3.28%) Accessibility
8 10 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (1.97%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.97%) JSP 440
10 6 (1.97%) QA
10 6 (1.97%) SLA
11 5 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (1.64%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 16 (5.25%) Docker
2 14 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (8.85%) Terraform
2 18 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.92%) Ansible
3 15 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.31%) Grafana
6 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.98%) Nessus
7 3 (0.98%) Nmap
7 3 (0.98%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.66%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Argo
9 1 (0.33%) Autotask
9 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 74 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.20%) Workday
3 21 (6.89%) Salesforce
4 18 (5.90%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.25%) MuleSoft
6 14 (4.59%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.59%) SAP
7 12 (3.93%) Google
7 12 (3.93%) Oracle
8 10 (3.28%) IBM
9 9 (2.95%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.30%) Dell
10 7 (2.30%) Epicor
10 7 (2.30%) Infor
10 7 (2.30%) Informatica
10 7 (2.30%) Jitterbit
10 7 (2.30%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.30%) Software AG
10 7 (2.30%) Talend
10 7 (2.30%) TIBCO