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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 104 144
Rank change year-on-year +27 +40 -47
Contract jobs citing GDPR 44 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.50% 1.20% 0.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.68% 7.37% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile £373 £365 £439
25th Percentile £566 £415 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +34.50% -18.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile £816 £588 £697
90th Percentile £918 £664 £793
Central London median daily rate £673 £525 £638
% change year-on-year +28.10% -17.65% +21.43%

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 347 339 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.69% 16.31% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 197 349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £756 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £595
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.88% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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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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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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the City of London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
GDPR
Central 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 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Apache
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 2 (4.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (6.82%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.82%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 12 (27.27%) AWS
4 10 (22.73%) GCP
5 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
6 5 (11.36%) GitHub
6 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (11.36%) PaaS
6 5 (11.36%) SaaS
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (9.09%) Serverless
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (6.82%) Cloud Run
8 3 (6.82%) Google Gemini
8 3 (6.82%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.82%) PowerApps
8 3 (6.82%) Vertex AI
9 2 (4.55%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) SSH
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.27%) Parquet
4 1 (2.27%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) RStudio
2 2 (4.55%) Snyk
3 1 (2.27%) Ant
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Maven
3 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Legal
5 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Law
7 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Police
7 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.27%) Back Office
8 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Business Information Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (4.55%) Information Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Security Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Developer
7 1 (2.27%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) GraphQL
1 3 (6.82%) JWT
1 3 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (6.82%) OAuth
1 3 (6.82%) OAuth2
1 3 (6.82%) PySpark
1 3 (6.82%) REST
1 3 (6.82%) RESTful
1 3 (6.82%) Web Services
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) Flask
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (4.55%) LangChain
2 2 (4.55%) Next.js
2 2 (4.55%) pydantic
2 2 (4.55%) Redux
2 2 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (4.55%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.82%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Data Governance
2 12 (27.27%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Analytics
2 12 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (27.27%) Data Privacy
2 12 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (20.45%) TOGAF
5 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (15.91%) DevOps
6 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.91%) Security Architecture
7 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 6 (13.64%) DevSecOps
7 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Python
1 11 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Bash
2 3 (6.82%) Bicep
3 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.55%) Scala
3 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) CISSP
4 3 (6.82%) CISM
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CISA
6 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.27%) ISSMP
6 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) MCP
6 1 (2.27%) OCP
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (15.91%) NIST
3 6 (13.64%) Data Quality
4 4 (9.09%) SOC 2
5 3 (6.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (6.82%) COBIT
5 3 (6.82%) EU AI Act
5 3 (6.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.27%) NCSC
7 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Google
3 5 (11.36%) Databricks
3 5 (11.36%) OpenAI
3 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
4 4 (9.09%) Workday
5 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Adobe
7 1 (2.27%) Marketo
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) Progress
7 1 (2.27%) SAP