GDPR Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 110 148
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 -73
Contract jobs citing GDPR 32 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 0.94% 0.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.55% 5.45% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 9
10th Percentile £491 £435 £478
25th Percentile £563 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £755
90th Percentile £751 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £675 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +13.04%

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 335 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.44% 17.16% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 256 364
10th Percentile £366 £363 £400
25th Percentile £436 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -8.29% +4.35%
75th Percentile £702 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £770 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -39.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the City of London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (9.38%) Workday HCM
2 1 (3.13%) Magento
2 1 (3.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (18.75%) PaaS
3 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (9.38%) IaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 2 (6.25%) Big Data
4 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) Parquet
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) RStudio
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Legal
6 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.25%) Law
7 2 (6.25%) Police
7 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.13%) Back Office
8 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.13%) Front Office
8 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Private Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Security Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Business Information Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Business Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Information Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Contract Management Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (9.38%) PySpark
1 3 (9.38%) RESTful
1 3 (9.38%) Web Services
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) pydantic
2 2 (6.25%) YAML
3 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.13%) JPA
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.13%) CMDB
4 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (28.13%) Security Architecture
2 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 8 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 8 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (21.88%) Analytics
3 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Migration
4 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 6 (18.75%) TOGAF
5 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
5 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.50%) Data Security
6 4 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Bicep
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) R
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) CISM
2 4 (12.50%) CISSP
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CISA
4 1 (3.13%) CRISC
4 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (21.88%) NIST
3 4 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 4 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 3 (9.38%) COBIT
4 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Databricks
3 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.38%) Workday
5 2 (6.25%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Adobe
6 1 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) Progress
6 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.13%) SAP