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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 90 109
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing GDPR 60 31 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.58% 1.82% 0.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.22% 10.13% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 11
10th Percentile £400 £428 £431
25th Percentile £460 £547 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £641 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £750 £725 £650
90th Percentile £754 £746 £775
Central London median daily rate £600 £641 £600
% change year-on-year -6.32% +6.75% +9.09%
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 422 306 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.12% 17.97% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 208 262
10th Percentile £328 £389 £364
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £750 £823 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -8.30% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%

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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 1 June 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 7 (11.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) BambooHR
2 4 (6.67%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) dbt
3 9 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.33%) Dagster
5 5 (8.33%) Prefect
6 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub
9 1 (1.67%) PaaS
9 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) FTP
1 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Power BI
2 5 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.33%) Looker
2 5 (8.33%) Tableau
3 2 (3.33%) Metadata
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.67%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Postman
2 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 34 (56.67%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Legal
4 8 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Architect
1 11 (18.33%) Project Manager
2 10 (16.67%) Migration Manager
2 10 (16.67%) Migration Project Manager
3 7 (11.67%) Lead
4 6 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Middleware
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.00%) CSS
3 3 (5.00%) HTML
3 3 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (3.33%) JSON
4 2 (3.33%) Kafka
4 2 (3.33%) PySpark
4 2 (3.33%) SOAP
4 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.67%) Jest
5 1 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.67%) Next.js
5 1 (1.67%) OpenID
5 1 (1.67%) Playwright
5 1 (1.67%) pytest
5 1 (1.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Equities
3 2 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 18 (30.00%) Validation
3 17 (28.33%) Migration
3 17 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (26.67%) Analytics
5 14 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (23.33%) Data Governance
6 13 (21.67%) Data Modelling
7 12 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 12 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 12 (20.00%) Project Management
8 11 (18.33%) Project Delivery
8 11 (18.33%) Project Governance
8 11 (18.33%) Security Architecture
9 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 9 (15.00%) Decision-Making
11 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
11 8 (13.33%) ETL
11 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) SQL
2 12 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 12 (20.00%) PMP
2 4 (6.67%) CISSP
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) CISM
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (20.00%) NIST
3 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.33%) EMIR
5 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.33%) MiFID
5 2 (3.33%) PSD2
5 2 (3.33%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.67%) NCSC
6 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.67%) Databricks
3 10 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 9 (15.00%) Workday
5 7 (11.67%) Salesforce
6 6 (10.00%) Oracle
6 6 (10.00%) SAP
7 3 (5.00%) Informatica
7 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.33%) Qualtrics
8 2 (3.33%) SimCorp
8 2 (3.33%) Vermilion
9 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.67%) Charles River
9 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.67%) iManage
9 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.67%) OneTrust