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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 165 237
Rank change year-on-year +34 +72 +16
Permanent jobs citing GDPR 308 332 313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.98% 2.03% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.14% 11.81% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 199 176 272
10th Percentile £39,024 £37,716 £31,958
25th Percentile £48,165 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -1.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,750 £94,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +21.50% -2.73%

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 2,764 2,812 3,470
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.78% 17.15% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,653 1,509 2,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +7.14% -2.61%

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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 23 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 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.27%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.30%) 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 21 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.49%) 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 (2.60%) Shopify
1 8 (2.60%) Workday HCM
2 5 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.30%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.30%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.30%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.97%) Magento
4 3 (0.97%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.32%) iTrent
6 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 119 (38.64%) Azure
2 63 (20.45%) AWS
3 44 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (8.77%) GCP
5 24 (7.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 21 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.17%) GitHub
8 19 (6.17%) SaaS
9 18 (5.84%) Entra ID
9 18 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (4.87%) Boomi
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.57%) Power Automate
14 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (2.60%) iPaaS
16 7 (2.27%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.47%) Firewall
2 16 (5.19%) CHAP
3 12 (3.90%) Network Security
4 11 (3.57%) DNS
5 7 (2.27%) DMZ
6 4 (1.30%) Internet
6 4 (1.30%) SSL
6 4 (1.30%) VPN
7 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.97%) HTTP
7 3 (0.97%) SCCP
7 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.97%) VLAN
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 17 (5.52%) Power BI
2 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.30%) Metadata
4 4 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.97%) Redis
5 3 (0.97%) Tableau
6 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.65%) Power Query
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.32%) Looker
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.30%) 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 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 113 (36.69%) Finance
3 51 (16.56%) Legal
4 49 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.06%) Banking
5 31 (10.06%) Law
6 24 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.82%) Retail
8 20 (6.49%) Financial Institution
9 16 (5.19%) Marketing
10 10 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.27%) Advertising
12 7 (2.27%) Aviation
12 7 (2.27%) French Language
12 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (17.53%) Senior
2 22 (7.14%) Analyst
3 21 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
4 17 (5.52%) Architect
4 17 (5.52%) Lead
5 16 (5.19%) Auditor
5 16 (5.19%) Internal Auditor
5 16 (5.19%) Security Auditor
6 15 (4.87%) Senior Manager
7 13 (4.22%) Administrator
7 13 (4.22%) IT Manager
7 13 (4.22%) Security Manager
8 11 (3.57%) Consultant
8 11 (3.57%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.25%) Security Analyst
10 9 (2.92%) Head of Cybersecurity
10 9 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (2.92%) Risk Manager
10 9 (2.92%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.60%) HR Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) JSON
1 20 (6.49%) RESTful
2 17 (5.52%) OAuth
2 17 (5.52%) OAuth2
2 17 (5.52%) REST
3 13 (4.22%) SOAP
3 13 (4.22%) Web Services
4 8 (2.60%) SAML
5 6 (1.95%) .NET
5 6 (1.95%) HTML
5 6 (1.95%) XML
6 5 (1.62%) Kafka
7 4 (1.30%) CSS
7 4 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.97%) EDI
8 3 (0.97%) JWT
8 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.97%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.61%) Management Information System
2 26 (8.44%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.47%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.52%) PKI
6 12 (3.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.92%) Blog
8 8 (2.60%) Blockchain
8 8 (2.60%) Cyber Security Posture
8 8 (2.60%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
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 (1.30%) Linked Data
12 4 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.14%) Linux
2 20 (6.49%) Windows
3 6 (1.95%) Unix
4 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (22.40%) Incident Response
3 65 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (20.13%) Analytics
4 62 (20.13%) Data Protection
5 56 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (16.88%) Information Security
7 50 (16.23%) Risk Management
8 49 (15.91%) Agile
9 46 (14.94%) CI/CD
9 46 (14.94%) DevOps
10 41 (13.31%) AI
11 40 (12.99%) Data Governance
12 39 (12.66%) CRM
12 39 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (12.34%) Cloud Security
13 38 (12.34%) Coaching
14 37 (12.01%) Decision-Making
15 36 (11.69%) Project Management
16 35 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.04%) Python
2 25 (8.12%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.47%) SQL
4 18 (5.84%) Bicep
5 17 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.57%) C#
6 11 (3.57%) Java
7 10 (3.25%) Bash
8 7 (2.27%) Perl
9 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.30%) ABAP
10 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.97%) Go
11 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (21.10%) Degree
2 55 (17.86%) CISSP
3 47 (15.26%) CISM
4 45 (14.61%) Security Cleared
5 33 (10.71%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.42%) CISA
7 17 (5.52%) Azure Certification
8 16 (5.19%) AWS Certification
8 16 (5.19%) CGEIT
8 16 (5.19%) FFIEC
8 16 (5.19%) SANS
9 14 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (4.55%) DV Cleared
10 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (3.90%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (2.60%) OSCP
14 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (27.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (22.73%) NIST
3 26 (8.44%) PCI DSS
4 24 (7.79%) GRC
5 23 (7.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (7.47%) Data Quality
6 19 (6.17%) NCSC
6 19 (6.17%) SOC 2
7 17 (5.52%) COBIT
8 11 (3.57%) Accessibility
9 9 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 7 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (2.27%) JSP 440
11 7 (2.27%) QA
12 6 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.95%) SLA
13 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.62%) HIPAA
14 4 (1.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 15 (4.87%) Docker
2 14 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.30%) 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 (9.09%) Terraform
2 17 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.55%) Ansible
5 9 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.30%) Grafana
7 4 (1.30%) 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 72 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.12%) Workday
3 21 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 18 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.19%) MuleSoft
6 14 (4.55%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.55%) SAP
7 13 (4.22%) Oracle
8 12 (3.90%) Google
9 10 (3.25%) IBM
10 8 (2.60%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.27%) Adobe
11 7 (2.27%) Dell
11 7 (2.27%) Epicor
11 7 (2.27%) Infor
11 7 (2.27%) Informatica
11 7 (2.27%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.27%) Software AG
11 7 (2.27%) Talend
11 7 (2.27%) TIBCO