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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 81 106
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +41
Contract jobs citing GDPR 65 35 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.82% 2.00% 0.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.59% 11.74% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 13
10th Percentile £400 £421 £435
25th Percentile £463 £521 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £641 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +11.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £650
90th Percentile £768 £747 £795
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 417 298 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.11% 17.06% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 194 267
10th Percentile £350 £375 £367
25th Percentile £427 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +0.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £664 £713 £650
90th Percentile £763 £824 £750
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -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 18 May 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 (10.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) BambooHR
2 4 (6.15%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) AWS
3 9 (13.85%) dbt
3 9 (13.85%) Snowflake
4 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.69%) Dagster
5 5 (7.69%) Prefect
6 4 (6.15%) GCP
6 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.62%) SaaS
8 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub
9 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) Power BI
2 5 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.69%) Looker
2 5 (7.69%) Tableau
3 2 (3.08%) Metadata
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.08%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.54%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Postman
3 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.54%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 38 (58.46%) Finance
2 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Legal
4 10 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.77%) Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.08%) Automotive
7 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Architect
1 12 (18.46%) Project Manager
2 11 (16.92%) Migration Manager
2 11 (16.92%) Migration Project Manager
3 8 (12.31%) Lead
4 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 2 (3.08%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.54%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Middleware
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.62%) CSS
3 3 (4.62%) HTML
3 3 (4.62%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) JSON
4 2 (3.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.08%) PySpark
4 2 (3.08%) SOAP
4 2 (3.08%) Spring
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.54%) Jest
5 1 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.54%) Next.js
5 1 (1.54%) Node.js
5 1 (1.54%) OpenID
5 1 (1.54%) Playwright
5 1 (1.54%) pytest
5 1 (1.54%) React
5 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
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%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) CMDB
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (29.23%) Migration
3 19 (29.23%) Validation
4 17 (26.15%) Analytics
5 14 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.54%) Data Governance
6 13 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 13 (20.00%) Project Management
6 13 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
7 12 (18.46%) Data Engineering
7 12 (18.46%) Project Delivery
7 12 (18.46%) Project Governance
8 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.31%) DevOps
9 8 (12.31%) ETL
9 8 (12.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) SQL
2 12 (18.46%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) Java
3 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 13 (20.00%) PMP
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) CISSP
4 3 (4.62%) CISM
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (20.00%) NIST
3 11 (16.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.08%) EMIR
6 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
6 2 (3.08%) MiFID
6 2 (3.08%) PSD2
6 2 (3.08%) QA
6 2 (3.08%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Databricks
3 11 (16.92%) CyberArk
4 9 (13.85%) Workday
5 7 (10.77%) Salesforce
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle
6 6 (9.23%) SAP
7 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.62%) Informatica
9 2 (3.08%) Qualtrics
9 2 (3.08%) SimCorp
9 2 (3.08%) Vermilion
10 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.54%) Google
10 1 (1.54%) Hotjar
10 1 (1.54%) iManage
10 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.54%) OneTrust
10 1 (1.54%) Splunk