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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 87 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing GDPR 67 30 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.26% 1.67% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.73% 10.34% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 17
10th Percentile £413 £413 £510
25th Percentile £463 £488 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +23.81%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £775
90th Percentile £790 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £570 £650
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +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 426 290 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.70% 16.17% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 179 285
10th Percentile £363 £350 £364
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £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 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £41.31 - £60.64
90th Percentile £62.58 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £20.35 £42.50
% change year-on-year +28.34% -52.13% +93.18%

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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 14 March 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 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 22 (32.84%) AWS
3 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.96%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.97%) dbt
7 3 (4.48%) Dagster
7 3 (4.48%) Prefect
7 3 (4.48%) SaaS
8 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.99%) Collibra
8 2 (2.99%) GitHub
8 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
2 5 (7.46%) Network Security
3 4 (5.97%) VPN
4 3 (4.48%) DHCP
4 3 (4.48%) DNS
5 1 (1.49%) 2G
5 1 (1.49%) 4G
5 1 (1.49%) 5G
5 1 (1.49%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.97%) Metadata
3 3 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) Looker
3 3 (4.48%) Tableau
4 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) Text Mining
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) GIS
5 1 (1.49%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
1 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Postman
3 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.49%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.49%) Selenium
General
1 36 (53.73%) Finance
2 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Banking
3 9 (13.43%) Legal
4 8 (11.94%) Financial Institution
5 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Automotive
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Marketing
9 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Architect
2 11 (16.42%) Lead
3 10 (14.93%) Project Manager
4 9 (13.43%) Migration Manager
4 9 (13.43%) Migration Project Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Leader
8 2 (2.99%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Lead Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Security Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) Middleware
2 3 (4.48%) CSS
2 3 (4.48%) HTML
3 2 (2.99%) .NET
3 2 (2.99%) PySpark
3 2 (2.99%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) ADO
4 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.49%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.49%) Jest
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.49%) Next.js
4 1 (1.49%) Node.js
4 1 (1.49%) Playwright
4 1 (1.49%) pytest
4 1 (1.49%) React
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.99%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Equities
3 2 (2.99%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.99%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.49%) FMCG
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Agile
2 26 (38.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (29.85%) Migration
4 15 (22.39%) Security Architecture
5 14 (20.90%) Validation
6 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
6 13 (19.40%) Data Governance
6 13 (19.40%) Project Management
7 12 (17.91%) Analytics
7 12 (17.91%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (17.91%) Data Protection
7 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
8 11 (16.42%) PRINCE2
8 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (16.42%) TOGAF
9 10 (14.93%) Data Modelling
9 10 (14.93%) Project Governance
10 9 (13.43%) Change Management
10 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) SQL
2 8 (11.94%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) C#
5 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) PMI Certification
1 11 (16.42%) PMP
2 7 (10.45%) CISSP
3 6 (8.96%) CISM
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.49%) CCSP
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) OSCP
6 1 (1.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (17.91%) NIST
3 10 (14.93%) Data Quality
4 8 (11.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (5.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (4.48%) QA
8 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.99%) PSD2
9 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.49%) GRC
9 1 (1.49%) NCSC
9 1 (1.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) Databricks
3 10 (14.93%) CyberArk
4 8 (11.94%) Salesforce
5 7 (10.45%) Workday
6 4 (5.97%) Google
7 3 (4.48%) Informatica
7 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.99%) Qualtrics
8 2 (2.99%) SAP
8 2 (2.99%) SimCorp
8 2 (2.99%) Vermilion
9 1 (1.49%) Datto
9 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.49%) Hotjar
9 1 (1.49%) iManage
9 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto