GDPR Contracts in Central London

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 101 151
Rank change year-on-year +15 +50 -77
Contract jobs citing GDPR 41 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.05% 1.15% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.85% 6.71% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 14
10th Percentile £386 £500 £423
25th Percentile £506 £518 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £784 £675
90th Percentile £745 £800 £755
London median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

GDPR falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 319 417 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.94% 17.11% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 296 353
10th Percentile £361 £363 £367
25th Percentile £459 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £695 £653 £725
90th Percentile £800 £769 £835
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.96 £21.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 £24.50
90th Percentile - £35.16 £24.80
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +41.84% -20.33% -30.90%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +18 36 £641 +2.48% 22
Camden - 2 - -
City of Westminster +1 1 - -
GDPR
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.76%) Apache
2 4 (9.76%) Jupyter
3 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.88%) Confluence
5 1 (2.44%) Drupal
5 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (2.44%) CiviCRM
2 1 (2.44%) Magento
2 1 (2.44%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 9 (21.95%) Power Platform
4 7 (17.07%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
6 3 (7.32%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) SSH
2 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Power BI
2 7 (17.07%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.76%) Apache Hive
3 4 (9.76%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.88%) Big Data
4 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.44%) Parquet
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) JIRA
2 6 (14.63%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) RStudio
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Serena SBM
4 1 (2.44%) Subversion
4 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.76%) Legal
6 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.32%) Law
7 2 (4.88%) Marketing
7 2 (4.88%) Police
7 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.44%) Back Office
8 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Front Office
8 1 (2.44%) Local Government
8 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Risk Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Security Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Information Manager
5 3 (7.32%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.32%) IT Risk Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Business Information Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Risk Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) PySpark
2 4 (9.76%) JSON
2 4 (9.76%) pydantic
2 4 (9.76%) YAML
3 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.44%) FHIR
4 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.44%) JPA
4 1 (2.44%) LDAP
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.44%) Spring
4 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.76%) Reference Data
4 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.88%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) Multi-touch
5 2 (4.88%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.44%) Clustering
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.83%) Data Protection
3 10 (24.39%) Analytics
4 9 (21.95%) Risk Management
5 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (19.51%) Data Analysis
5 8 (19.51%) Data Governance
6 7 (17.07%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) Data Security
6 7 (17.07%) DevOps
7 6 (14.63%) Cloud Security
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Data Privacy
8 5 (12.20%) Data Management
8 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (12.20%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) Security Architecture
9 4 (9.76%) Scrum
9 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 11 (26.83%) Python
3 5 (12.20%) Bash
3 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.76%) Scala
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.88%) R
5 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) Perl
6 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) CISA
3 3 (7.32%) CISM
3 3 (7.32%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.44%) CRISC
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) NIST
2 8 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (14.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (9.76%) HIPAA
5 3 (7.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (7.32%) COBIT
5 3 (7.32%) COSO
5 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (7.32%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Control-M
2 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.44%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) QRadar
2 1 (2.44%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Databricks
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Progress
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Adobe
5 1 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) EMC
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Qualys
5 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase
5 1 (2.44%) VMware