GDPR Contracts in the City of London

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 102 152
Rank change year-on-year +17 +50 -79
Contract jobs citing GDPR 35 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.01% 1.01% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.11% 5.88% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 13
10th Percentile £421 £502 £420
25th Percentile £521 £518 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £760 £675
90th Percentile £747 £796 £755
Central London median daily rate £640 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% +18.18% -4.35%

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 289 374 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.56% 17.11% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 268 333
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £462 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £703 £650 £725
90th Percentile £800 £758 £838
Central London median daily rate £557 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.27% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -39.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the City of London

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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 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Jupyter
3 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.71%) Confluence
5 1 (2.86%) Drupal
5 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) CiviCRM
1 1 (2.86%) Magento
1 1 (2.86%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 6 (17.14%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.57%) IaaS
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.57%) PaaS
6 3 (8.57%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.86%) Google Sheets
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) SSH
2 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Power BI
2 7 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
3 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.86%) Parquet
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (2.86%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) RStudio
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Serena SBM
4 1 (2.86%) Subversion
4 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (34.29%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Police
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
7 1 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Front Office
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Risk Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) IT Manager
5 3 (8.57%) IT Risk Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Business Information Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Information Manager
6 2 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Risk Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) PySpark
2 4 (11.43%) JSON
2 4 (11.43%) pydantic
2 4 (11.43%) YAML
3 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.86%) FHIR
4 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.86%) JPA
4 1 (2.86%) LDAP
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
4 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.71%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.71%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.86%) Clustering
6 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Multi-touch
6 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Replication
6 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.71%) Risk Management
3 8 (22.86%) Analytics
3 8 (22.86%) Data Governance
3 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
4 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (20.00%) Data Security
5 6 (17.14%) Agile
5 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
5 6 (17.14%) Data Privacy
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Security Architecture
7 4 (11.43%) Data Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
7 4 (11.43%) Project Management
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.43%) Scala
5 2 (5.71%) Bicep
5 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.71%) R
5 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) Perl
6 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) CISA
3 3 (8.57%) CISM
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.86%) CRISC
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) NIST
2 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (11.43%) HIPAA
5 3 (8.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (8.57%) COBIT
5 3 (8.57%) COSO
5 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
5 3 (8.57%) SOC 2
6 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Control-M
2 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) QRadar
2 1 (2.86%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Progress
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe
5 1 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.86%) BMC
5 1 (2.86%) EMC
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Qualys
5 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Serena
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Sybase
5 1 (2.86%) VMware