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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 89 108
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing GDPR 65 30 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.67% 1.71% 0.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.29% 9.23% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 12
10th Percentile £410 £491 £433
25th Percentile £472 £563 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £650
90th Percentile £765 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

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 425 325 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.44% 18.50% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 228 259
10th Percentile £363 £373 £363
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £706 £650
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £19.23 £28.05 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 £37.13 £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £54.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -49.54% +164.50% -
75th Percentile £52.25 £72.75 £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 £82.35 £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £34.48 £23.40
% change year-on-year -20.24% +47.35% -6.40%

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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 29 June 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 (10.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) BambooHR
2 4 (6.15%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 10 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 9 (13.85%) dbt
5 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.23%) GCP
7 5 (7.69%) Dagster
7 5 (7.69%) Prefect
8 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.62%) OCI
9 3 (4.62%) SaaS
10 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.54%) Matillion
11 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) X.509
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) FTP
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Power BI
2 5 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.69%) Looker
2 5 (7.69%) Tableau
3 3 (4.62%) Metadata
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.54%) GIS
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.54%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.54%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.54%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) Postman
2 1 (1.54%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 34 (52.31%) Finance
2 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Legal
4 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.77%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.69%) Banking
7 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.62%) Marketing
8 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.54%) Automotive
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.54%) Law
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Architect
2 10 (15.38%) Lead
3 9 (13.85%) Migration Manager
3 9 (13.85%) Migration Project Manager
3 9 (13.85%) Project Manager
4 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.08%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Specialist
7 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Middleware
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.62%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) CSS
4 2 (3.08%) HTML
4 2 (3.08%) JSON
4 2 (3.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.08%) PySpark
4 2 (3.08%) SOAP
4 2 (3.08%) Spring
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.54%) .NET
5 1 (1.54%) ADO
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.54%) J2EE
5 1 (1.54%) JDBC
5 1 (1.54%) LDAP
5 1 (1.54%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Equities
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.54%) CMDB
4 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.54%) Replication
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
1 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Agile
2 18 (27.69%) Validation
3 17 (26.15%) Analytics
3 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (24.62%) Migration
5 15 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 14 (21.54%) Data Modelling
7 13 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
8 11 (16.92%) Project Management
9 10 (15.38%) PRINCE2
9 10 (15.38%) Project Delivery
9 10 (15.38%) Project Governance
9 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 10 (15.38%) Security Architecture
9 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.85%) AI
10 9 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) SQL
2 11 (16.92%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) PMI Certification
1 10 (15.38%) PMP
2 4 (6.15%) CISSP
2 4 (6.15%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) CISM
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (20.00%) NIST
3 10 (15.38%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.08%) EMIR
5 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.08%) MiFID
5 2 (3.08%) QA
5 2 (3.08%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.08%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.54%) NCSC
6 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.54%) PERC
6 1 (1.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.08%) Databricks
3 9 (13.85%) CyberArk
3 9 (13.85%) Salesforce
4 8 (12.31%) Workday
5 7 (10.77%) Oracle
5 7 (10.77%) SAP
6 3 (4.62%) Informatica
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) SimCorp
7 2 (3.08%) Vermilion
8 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.54%) Charles River
8 1 (1.54%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.54%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.54%) iManage
8 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.54%) Pardot
8 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud