GDPR Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 89 114
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 +36
Contract jobs citing GDPR 65 31 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.34% 1.70% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.85% 10.30% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 18
10th Percentile £413 £400 £510
25th Percentile £463 £455 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -13.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £765 £704 £763
90th Percentile £800 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £545 £650
% change year-on-year +10.09% -16.15% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 410 301 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.06% 16.48% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 171 283
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £19.08 - £25.05
25th Percentile £21.87 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £28.63 - £60.64
90th Percentile £29.15 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
% change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +111.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GDPR job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (47.69%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) AWS
3 9 (13.85%) GCP
4 6 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub
6 3 (4.62%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Run
7 2 (3.08%) Collibra
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.08%) Google Gemini
7 2 (3.08%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) DNS
2 4 (6.15%) Network Security
2 4 (6.15%) VPN
3 3 (4.62%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) 2G
4 1 (1.54%) 4G
4 1 (1.54%) 5G
4 1 (1.54%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Metadata
1 4 (6.15%) Power BI
2 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (3.08%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.54%) GIS
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) PowerCenter
3 1 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Snyk
3 1 (1.54%) Ant
3 1 (1.54%) Postman
3 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.54%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 33 (50.77%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Financial Institution
5 6 (9.23%) Legal
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.08%) Automotive
8 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Marketing
8 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Law
9 1 (1.54%) Publishing
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Architect
2 9 (13.85%) Lead
2 9 (13.85%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (12.31%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.77%) Migration Manager
4 7 (10.77%) Migration Project Manager
5 6 (9.23%) Senior
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (3.08%) Programme Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) CSS
1 5 (7.69%) HTML
1 5 (7.69%) Middleware
2 3 (4.62%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) CSS3
3 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.08%) HTML5
3 2 (3.08%) JWT
3 2 (3.08%) Next.js
3 2 (3.08%) OAuth
3 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.08%) PySpark
3 2 (3.08%) React
3 2 (3.08%) Redux
3 2 (3.08%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.08%) WebSockets
3 2 (3.08%) Zustand
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) Spring
4 1 (1.54%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.08%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Equities
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) FMCG
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (44.62%) Agile
2 24 (36.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (29.23%) Migration
4 15 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 14 (21.54%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (20.00%) Validation
7 12 (18.46%) Analytics
7 12 (18.46%) Security Architecture
8 11 (16.92%) TOGAF
9 10 (15.38%) Data Protection
9 10 (15.38%) Project Management
9 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 10 (15.38%) SDLC
10 9 (13.85%) AI
10 9 (13.85%) Change Management
10 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (13.85%) Data Engineering
10 9 (13.85%) PRINCE2
11 8 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) SQL
2 8 (12.31%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) Bash
5 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.54%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) PMI Certification
1 9 (13.85%) PMP
2 7 (10.77%) Degree
3 6 (9.23%) CISSP
4 5 (7.69%) CISM
5 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.54%) CCSP
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.54%) OCP
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.54%) OSCP
7 1 (1.54%) SANS
7 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (15.38%) NIST
3 8 (12.31%) PCI DSS
4 7 (10.77%) Data Quality
5 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (4.62%) HIPAA
6 3 (4.62%) QA
6 3 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (3.08%) NCSC
7 2 (3.08%) PSD2
8 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.54%) GRC
8 1 (1.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Terraform
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.54%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) CyberArk
3 7 (10.77%) Databricks
4 6 (9.23%) Google
4 6 (9.23%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.15%) Workday
6 3 (4.62%) Informatica
7 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) Qualtrics
7 2 (3.08%) SAP
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) SimCorp
7 2 (3.08%) Vermilion
8 1 (1.54%) Datto
8 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.54%) Tenable