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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 76 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +49
Contract jobs citing GDPR 53 43 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.32% 2.40% 1.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.99% 12.39% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 18
10th Percentile £444 £383 £368
25th Percentile £482 £569 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +31.71% -18.00%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £597
90th Percentile £751 £910 £666
Central London median daily rate £625 £673 £533
% change year-on-year -7.06% +26.29% -14.80%

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 442 347 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.39% 19.39% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 242 209
10th Percentile £390 £332 £363
25th Percentile £463 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £568
% change year-on-year - -3.08% -5.42%
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 £46.66 £34.00 £23.40
% change year-on-year +37.24% +45.30% -

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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 7 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 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.89%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) SAP HCM
2 2 (3.77%) BambooHR
3 1 (1.89%) Advent Moxy
3 1 (1.89%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.89%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
4 6 (11.32%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) dbt
5 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
5 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (7.55%) SaaS
7 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.66%) OCI
7 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.77%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.77%) Dagster
8 2 (3.77%) Harvey AI
8 2 (3.77%) Prefect
9 1 (1.89%) Collibra
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (3.77%) X.509
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) FTP
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.77%) Looker
2 2 (3.77%) Metadata
2 2 (3.77%) Tableau
3 1 (1.89%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.89%) GIS
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.89%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 16 (30.19%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Legal
4 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Military
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Architect
2 8 (15.09%) Lead
3 7 (13.21%) Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Migration Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Migration Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Specialist
6 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (7.55%) REST
3 3 (5.66%) OAuth
3 3 (5.66%) OpenID
3 3 (5.66%) SAML
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 2 (3.77%) JSON
4 2 (3.77%) Kafka
4 2 (3.77%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.77%) SOAP
4 2 (3.77%) Spring
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.89%) JDBC
5 1 (1.89%) LDAP
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.89%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.89%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
1 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Decision-Making
2 15 (28.30%) Analytics
3 14 (26.42%) AI
4 13 (24.53%) Agile
5 11 (20.75%) Data Governance
6 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (18.87%) Validation
7 9 (16.98%) Data Protection
7 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.09%) Project Delivery
8 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
9 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
9 7 (13.21%) DevOps
9 7 (13.21%) Migration
9 7 (13.21%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
10 6 (11.32%) Project Management
10 6 (11.32%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (11.32%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) SQL
2 7 (13.21%) Java
2 7 (13.21%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bicep
4 2 (3.77%) C#
4 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.89%) BeanShell
5 1 (1.89%) DAML
5 1 (1.89%) Go
5 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.89%) Rust
5 1 (1.89%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) CISSP
1 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) CISM
2 3 (5.66%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.66%) PMP
3 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (18.87%) NIST
2 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.66%) PERC
3 3 (5.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.66%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (3.77%) EMIR
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (3.77%) MiFID
4 2 (3.77%) NCSC
4 2 (3.77%) QA
5 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) SAP
4 5 (9.43%) Databricks
5 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.55%) Workday
6 3 (5.66%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.77%) Foundry
8 1 (1.89%) Advent
8 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.89%) Charles River
8 1 (1.89%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.89%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.89%) IFS
8 1 (1.89%) iManage
8 1 (1.89%) Informatica
8 1 (1.89%) Pardot
8 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud