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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 75 100
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +39
Contract jobs citing GDPR 52 44 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.33% 2.55% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.50% 12.98% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 18
10th Percentile £413 £383 £368
25th Percentile £457 £569 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £670 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +34.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £688 £794 £588
90th Percentile £754 £910 £657
Central London median daily rate £600 £670 £513
% change year-on-year -10.45% +30.73% -19.61%

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 452 339 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.29% 19.63% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 235 202
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £459 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £561
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -0.76% -5.67%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £751
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -0.63% +0.64% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
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 £30.41 £34.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -10.56% +35.03% -

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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 22 September 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 4 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.92%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) SAP HCM
2 2 (3.85%) BambooHR
3 1 (1.92%) Advent Moxy
3 1 (1.92%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.92%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) Snowflake
3 7 (13.46%) AWS
4 5 (9.62%) dbt
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.62%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.69%) SaaS
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.77%) OCI
7 2 (3.85%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.85%) Dagster
7 2 (3.85%) Harvey AI
7 2 (3.85%) Prefect
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.92%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (3.85%) X.509
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
2 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.85%) Looker
3 2 (3.85%) Metadata
3 2 (3.85%) Tableau
4 1 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.92%) GIS
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.92%) Power Query
4 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.92%) ER Studio
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Legal
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Military
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Senior
5 3 (5.77%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (9.62%) REST
2 3 (5.77%) OAuth
2 3 (5.77%) OpenID
2 3 (5.77%) SAML
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) JSON
3 2 (3.85%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.85%) SOAP
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.92%) JDBC
4 1 (1.92%) LDAP
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.92%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.92%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
1 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Decision-Making
2 16 (30.77%) Analytics
3 15 (28.85%) AI
4 12 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 11 (21.15%) Agile
6 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (17.31%) Data Modelling
7 9 (17.31%) Data Protection
7 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.38%) Validation
9 7 (13.46%) Data Engineering
9 7 (13.46%) DevOps
10 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Risk Assessment
11 5 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (9.62%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) SQL
2 8 (15.38%) Python
3 7 (13.46%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) C#
5 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.92%) DAML
6 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.92%) Rust
6 1 (1.92%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) CISSP
3 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.85%) CISM
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
4 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (15.38%) NIST
2 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.77%) PERC
3 3 (5.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (3.85%) EMIR
4 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (3.85%) MiFID
4 2 (3.85%) NCSC
4 2 (3.85%) QA
5 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle
3 7 (13.46%) SAP
4 5 (9.62%) Databricks
5 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.69%) Workday
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.85%) Foundry
8 1 (1.92%) Advent
8 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.92%) Charles River
8 1 (1.92%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.92%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.92%) IFS
8 1 (1.92%) iManage
8 1 (1.92%) Informatica
8 1 (1.92%) Pardot
8 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud