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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 90 105
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing GDPR 57 37 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.41% 1.98% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.13% 10.42% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 14
10th Percentile £450 £383 £358
25th Percentile £507 £522 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £670 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +28.85% -16.80%
75th Percentile £750 £728 £597
90th Percentile £764 £848 £646
Central London median daily rate £625 £670 £545
% change year-on-year -6.72% +22.94% -12.80%

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 434 355 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.33% 19.00% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 257 227
10th Percentile £383 £345 £363
25th Percentile £465 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -8.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £690 £675
90th Percentile £775 £817 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £551
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.41% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.05 £16.60
25th Percentile £72.25 £37.13 £17.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +172.50% -
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - £82.35 £23.40
Central London median hourly rate £57.50 £34.48 £23.80
% change year-on-year +66.76% +44.87% -

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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 12 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 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.75%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) BambooHR
2 4 (7.02%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.75%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Snowflake
4 8 (14.04%) dbt
5 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.77%) Dagster
6 5 (8.77%) Prefect
7 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (5.26%) OCI
8 3 (5.26%) SaaS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) Matillion
10 1 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (3.51%) X.509
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) FTP
2 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.77%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.77%) Looker
2 5 (8.77%) Tableau
3 2 (3.51%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Big Data
4 1 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) GIS
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.75%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Postman
2 1 (1.75%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.30%) Legal
4 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.26%) Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Architect
2 9 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (8.77%) Analyst
3 5 (8.77%) Data Architect
3 5 (8.77%) Migration Manager
3 5 (8.77%) Migration Project Manager
3 5 (8.77%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Specialist
6 2 (3.51%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Leader
7 1 (1.75%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (5.26%) Middleware
2 3 (5.26%) REST
3 2 (3.51%) JSON
3 2 (3.51%) Kafka
3 2 (3.51%) OAuth
3 2 (3.51%) OpenID
3 2 (3.51%) SAML
3 2 (3.51%) SOAP
3 2 (3.51%) Spring
3 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) ADO
4 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.75%) pytest
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) CMDB
3 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.75%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
1 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Analytics
2 16 (28.07%) Agile
3 14 (24.56%) Decision-Making
4 13 (22.81%) Data Modelling
4 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (22.81%) Validation
5 11 (19.30%) AI
5 11 (19.30%) Data Engineering
6 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (17.54%) Data Governance
6 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 9 (15.79%) Migration
7 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.04%) ETL
8 8 (14.04%) Use Case
9 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.28%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (12.28%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) Java
4 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.75%) Bicep
5 1 (1.75%) C#
5 1 (1.75%) DAML
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.75%) Rust
5 1 (1.75%) Solidity
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) PMI Certification
1 5 (8.77%) PMP
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) CISSP
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) CISM
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (21.05%) NIST
2 8 (14.04%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (5.26%) PERC
5 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.51%) EMIR
5 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (3.51%) MiFID
5 2 (3.51%) NCSC
5 2 (3.51%) QA
5 2 (3.51%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Databricks
3 8 (14.04%) Workday
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle
4 6 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 6 (10.53%) SAP
5 5 (8.77%) CyberArk
6 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.75%) Charles River
7 1 (1.75%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.75%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.75%) iManage
7 1 (1.75%) Informatica
7 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.75%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.75%) Pardot
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud