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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 88 107
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing GDPR 63 25 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.38% 1.35% 0.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.91% 8.47% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 18
10th Percentile £401 £405 £510
25th Percentile £463 £440 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £767 £672 £763
90th Percentile £845 £758 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £524 £650
% change year-on-year +14.56% -19.42% +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 396 295 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.22% 15.98% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 161 292
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £420 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £60.64
90th Percentile £33.70 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
% change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +138.73%

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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 3 February 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 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) Azure
2 22 (34.92%) AWS
3 10 (15.87%) GCP
4 9 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.52%) GitHub
7 5 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.76%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Run
9 3 (4.76%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.76%) SaaS
9 3 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) Network Security
3 4 (6.35%) DNS
3 4 (6.35%) VPN
4 3 (4.76%) DHCP
5 2 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.59%) 2G
6 1 (1.59%) 4G
6 1 (1.59%) 5G
6 1 (1.59%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Metadata
3 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (3.17%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.59%) GIS
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.59%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
1 2 (3.17%) Snyk
2 1 (1.59%) Ant
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (52.38%) Finance
2 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Legal
5 6 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.76%) Marketing
8 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.17%) Automotive
9 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Law
10 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Publishing
10 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Architect
2 9 (14.29%) Lead
3 7 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 7 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Migration Manager
4 6 (9.52%) Migration Project Manager
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
5 5 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Security Manager
8 2 (3.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) CSS
1 4 (6.35%) HTML
1 4 (6.35%) REST
2 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
2 3 (4.76%) JWT
2 3 (4.76%) OAuth
2 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.17%) CSS3
3 2 (3.17%) HTML5
3 2 (3.17%) LangChain
3 2 (3.17%) Next.js
3 2 (3.17%) PySpark
3 2 (3.17%) React
3 2 (3.17%) Redux
3 2 (3.17%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.17%) WebSockets
3 2 (3.17%) Zustand
4 1 (1.59%) Highcharts JS
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Equities
4 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.59%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (30.16%) Data Governance
4 18 (28.57%) Migration
5 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.63%) Analytics
6 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (20.63%) Validation
7 11 (17.46%) AI
7 11 (17.46%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (17.46%) Data Protection
7 11 (17.46%) Security Architecture
8 9 (14.29%) Change Management
8 9 (14.29%) Data Privacy
8 9 (14.29%) Project Management
9 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
9 8 (12.70%) DevOps
10 7 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) Python
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) Bash
3 2 (3.17%) Java
3 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) Bicep
4 1 (1.59%) C#
4 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) PMI Certification
1 8 (12.70%) PMP
2 7 (11.11%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) CISSP
4 4 (6.35%) CISM
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.59%) ISSMP
7 1 (1.59%) OSCP
7 1 (1.59%) SANS
7 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (39.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (19.05%) NIST
3 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
3 8 (12.70%) PCI DSS
4 5 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.76%) EU AI Act
5 3 (4.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (3.17%) NCSC
6 2 (3.17%) PSD2
6 2 (3.17%) QA
6 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.59%) GRC
7 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.76%) Ansible
5 1 (1.59%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.59%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (6.35%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.35%) Workday
4 3 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Qualtrics
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) SimCorp
5 2 (3.17%) Vermilion
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.59%) Marketo
6 1 (1.59%) Rapid7
42 GDPR jobs in the City of London