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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 102
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +42
Contract jobs citing GDPR 56 39 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.41% 2.13% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.87% 10.83% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 15
10th Percentile £448 £373 £360
25th Percentile £489 £517 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £673 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +34.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £750 £744 £594
90th Percentile £763 £918 £645
Central London median daily rate £625 £673 £540
% change year-on-year -7.06% +24.54% -11.84%

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 435 360 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.73% 19.62% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 255 215
10th Percentile £385 £338 £363
25th Percentile £465 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £702 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £23.83 £16.60
25th Percentile £72.25 £26.57 £17.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £34.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.12% +70.00% -
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - £75.95 £23.40
Central London median hourly rate £57.50 £34.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +69.12% +42.86% -

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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 24 August 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.79%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) BambooHR
2 4 (7.14%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.79%) Advent Moxy
3 1 (1.79%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.79%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) Snowflake
4 8 (14.29%) dbt
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
5 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.93%) Dagster
6 5 (8.93%) Prefect
7 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (7.14%) SaaS
8 3 (5.36%) OCI
9 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.79%) PaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (3.57%) X.509
2 1 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.93%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.93%) Looker
2 5 (8.93%) Tableau
3 2 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) GIS
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.79%) Git
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Legal
4 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Architect
2 10 (17.86%) Lead
3 6 (10.71%) Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Migration Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Migration Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Consultant
8 1 (1.79%) IT Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (7.14%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) OAuth
2 3 (5.36%) OpenID
2 3 (5.36%) SAML
3 2 (3.57%) JSON
3 2 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.57%) SOAP
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
3 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.79%) JDBC
4 1 (1.79%) LDAP
4 1 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.79%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) CMDB
3 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.79%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Analytics
2 15 (26.79%) Decision-Making
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (23.21%) Data Modelling
5 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (19.64%) AI
6 11 (19.64%) Data Governance
6 11 (19.64%) Validation
7 10 (17.86%) Data Engineering
8 9 (16.07%) Data Protection
8 9 (16.07%) Migration
8 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.29%) Use Case
10 7 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (12.50%) DevOps
10 7 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) SQL
2 10 (17.86%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.79%) BeanShell
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) DAML
5 1 (1.79%) Go
5 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.79%) Rust
5 1 (1.79%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) CISSP
1 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 4 (7.14%) PMP
3 3 (5.36%) CISM
4 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (19.64%) NIST
2 9 (16.07%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (5.36%) PERC
4 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.57%) EMIR
5 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (3.57%) MiFID
5 2 (3.57%) NCSC
5 2 (3.57%) QA
6 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Databricks
3 8 (14.29%) Workday
4 7 (12.50%) Oracle
5 6 (10.71%) SAP
6 4 (7.14%) CyberArk
6 4 (7.14%) Salesforce
6 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.79%) Charles River
7 1 (1.79%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.79%) Foundry
7 1 (1.79%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.79%) IFS
7 1 (1.79%) iManage
7 1 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.79%) Pardot
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud