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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 94 109
Rank change year-on-year +30 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing GDPR 60 26 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.33% 1.36% 0.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.22% 8.78% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 15 17
10th Percentile £396 £375 £510
25th Percentile £463 £413 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £523 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -19.62% +23.81%
75th Percentile £769 £614 £725
90th Percentile £870 £739 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +23.81%

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 370 296 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.54% 15.48% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 157 287
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £825 £775 £769
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile £33.70 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.18% -60.34% +271.79%

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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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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 & 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 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.33%) Confluence
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) AWS
3 11 (18.33%) GCP
4 9 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (10.00%) GitHub
6 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.67%) SaaS
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) Cloud Run
9 3 (5.00%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) DNS
2 5 (8.33%) Network Security
3 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) DHCP
5 2 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.67%) 2G
6 1 (1.67%) 4G
6 1 (1.67%) 5G
6 1 (1.67%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Metadata
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (3.33%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.67%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
1 2 (3.33%) Snyk
2 1 (1.67%) Ant
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Legal
5 7 (11.67%) Financial Institution
6 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Law
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Publishing
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (11.67%) Lead
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
2 7 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Migration Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Security Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) CSS
1 4 (6.67%) HTML
1 4 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.00%) JWT
2 3 (5.00%) OAuth
2 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.33%) CSS3
3 2 (3.33%) Flask
3 2 (3.33%) HTML5
3 2 (3.33%) LangChain
3 2 (3.33%) Next.js
3 2 (3.33%) React
3 2 (3.33%) Redux
3 2 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
3 2 (3.33%) Zustand
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.67%) FMCG
5 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Agile
2 19 (31.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (28.33%) Data Governance
5 14 (23.33%) Analytics
5 14 (23.33%) Data Protection
6 13 (21.67%) Migration
6 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (18.33%) AI
9 9 (15.00%) DevOps
9 9 (15.00%) Security Architecture
9 9 (15.00%) Validation
10 8 (13.33%) Cloud Security
10 8 (13.33%) Data Privacy
10 8 (13.33%) User Experience
11 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (11.67%) Change Management
11 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) SQL
3 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) Bicep
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) CISSP
2 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 5 (8.33%) PMP
3 4 (6.67%) CISM
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.67%) ISSMP
6 1 (1.67%) OSCP
6 1 (1.67%) SANS
6 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (16.67%) NIST
3 8 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 7 (11.67%) Data Quality
5 5 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (5.00%) EU AI Act
6 3 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
7 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (3.33%) NCSC
7 2 (3.33%) PSD2
7 2 (3.33%) QA
7 2 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.67%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Terraform
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Ansible
5 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Google
3 5 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 5 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 4 (6.67%) Workday
5 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.33%) Databricks
5 2 (3.33%) Qualtrics
5 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.67%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.67%) iManage
6 1 (1.67%) Informatica
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) SimCorp