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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 91 106
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +47
Contract jobs citing GDPR 61 35 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.50% 1.87% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.35% 9.83% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 14
10th Percentile £445 £471 £420
25th Percentile £501 £555 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £673 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +14.47% -12.96%
75th Percentile £750 £726 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £738
Central London median daily rate £625 £673 £600
% change year-on-year -7.06% +12.08% -11.11%
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 425 356 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.45% 19.00% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 254 254
10th Percentile £371 £370 £363
25th Percentile £463 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.31% -6.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £807 £772
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £31.75 £28.05 £16.78
25th Percentile £38.50 £37.13 £17.96
Median hourly rate £51.00 £54.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +164.50% -
75th Percentile £64.50 £72.75 £22.65
90th Percentile £71.85 £82.35 £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.48 £23.40
% change year-on-year +23.26% +47.35% -6.40%

GDPR
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

GDPR
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

GDPR
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 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

GDPR
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 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) BambooHR
2 4 (6.56%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) AWS
3 10 (16.39%) Snowflake
4 9 (14.75%) dbt
5 6 (9.84%) GCP
5 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.20%) Dagster
6 5 (8.20%) Prefect
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.92%) OCI
7 3 (4.92%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.64%) Matillion
9 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) X.509
2 1 (1.64%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) FTP
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.20%) Looker
2 5 (8.20%) Tableau
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) Big Data
4 1 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) GIS
4 1 (1.64%) Metadata
4 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.64%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.64%) GitLab
2 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) Postman
2 1 (1.64%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 27 (44.26%) Finance
2 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Legal
4 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Law
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Architect
2 9 (14.75%) Lead
3 6 (9.84%) Migration Manager
3 6 (9.84%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (9.84%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Specialist
7 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Middleware
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.92%) REST
4 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 2 (3.28%) SOAP
4 2 (3.28%) Spring
4 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.64%) .NET
5 1 (1.64%) ADO
5 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.64%) HTML
5 1 (1.64%) J2EE
5 1 (1.64%) LDAP
5 1 (1.64%) Node.js
5 1 (1.64%) OAuth
5 1 (1.64%) OpenID
5 1 (1.64%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) SAML
5 1 (1.64%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) CMDB
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
1 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Agile
2 16 (26.23%) Analytics
2 16 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (26.23%) Validation
3 14 (22.95%) Data Modelling
3 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
4 13 (21.31%) Migration
5 12 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (18.03%) Data Governance
6 11 (18.03%) Roadmaps
7 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
8 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) ETL
8 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.11%) AI
9 8 (13.11%) Data Protection
9 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
9 8 (13.11%) Project Management
9 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
9 8 (13.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) SQL
2 9 (14.75%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) Java
4 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.64%) C#
5 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) PMI Certification
1 7 (11.48%) PMP
2 4 (6.56%) CISSP
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) CISM
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (19.67%) NIST
2 9 (14.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.28%) EMIR
5 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (3.28%) MiFID
5 2 (3.28%) NCSC
5 2 (3.28%) PERC
5 2 (3.28%) QA
5 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.28%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.31%) Databricks
3 8 (13.11%) Salesforce
3 8 (13.11%) Workday
4 7 (11.48%) Oracle
4 7 (11.48%) SAP
5 6 (9.84%) CyberArk
6 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.92%) Informatica
8 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.64%) Charles River
8 1 (1.64%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.64%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.64%) iManage
8 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.64%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.64%) Pardot
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud