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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 99 121
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing GDPR 57 25 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.18% 1.15% 0.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.45% 7.46% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 18
10th Percentile £413 £363 £504
25th Percentile £463 £419 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £791 £654 £723
90th Percentile £931 £769 £803
Central London median daily rate £613 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.23% +23.81%

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 369 335 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.60% 15.39% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 183 316
10th Percentile £325 £348 £388
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £568 £578
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £694
90th Percentile £825 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%

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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 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the City of London region over the 6 months to 28 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
GDPR
Central 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 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (5.26%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) AWS
3 12 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 12 (21.05%) GCP
4 10 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.53%) GitHub
6 6 (10.53%) PaaS
6 6 (10.53%) SaaS
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.26%) Cloud Run
9 3 (5.26%) IaaS
9 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 5 (8.77%) DNS
2 5 (8.77%) Network Security
3 4 (7.02%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 2 (3.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.75%) 2G
6 1 (1.75%) 4G
6 1 (1.75%) 5G
6 1 (1.75%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.51%) Metadata
2 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) GIS
3 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.75%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
1 2 (3.51%) Snyk
2 1 (1.75%) Ant
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (47.37%) Finance
2 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 7 (12.28%) Legal
5 5 (8.77%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Law
7 2 (3.51%) Marketing
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Publishing
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Architect
2 8 (14.04%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Security Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (3.51%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) .NET
1 4 (7.02%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.26%) JWT
2 3 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (5.26%) OAuth
2 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 3 (5.26%) RESTful
2 3 (5.26%) Web Services
3 2 (3.51%) CSS
3 2 (3.51%) CSS3
3 2 (3.51%) Flask
3 2 (3.51%) HTML
3 2 (3.51%) HTML5
3 2 (3.51%) Next.js
3 2 (3.51%) React
3 2 (3.51%) Redux
3 2 (3.51%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (3.51%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.02%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) FMCG
4 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.75%) IoT
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
1 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
2 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (26.32%) Agile
3 15 (26.32%) Data Protection
4 14 (24.56%) Data Governance
4 14 (24.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (19.30%) AI
6 11 (19.30%) Analytics
6 11 (19.30%) Migration
6 11 (19.30%) Roadmaps
6 11 (19.30%) TOGAF
7 10 (17.54%) Data Privacy
7 10 (17.54%) Security Architecture
8 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (15.79%) Cloud Security
9 8 (14.04%) DevOps
9 8 (14.04%) ITIL
10 7 (12.28%) Incident Response
10 7 (12.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) Bicep
5 2 (3.51%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.51%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) CISSP
3 5 (8.77%) CISM
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.75%) ISSMP
6 1 (1.75%) OCP
6 1 (1.75%) OSCP
6 1 (1.75%) SANS
6 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (40.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (14.04%) NIST
3 7 (12.28%) PCI DSS
4 5 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
5 4 (7.02%) SOC 2
6 3 (5.26%) COBIT
6 3 (5.26%) EU AI Act
6 3 (5.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (3.51%) NCSC
8 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.75%) GRC
8 1 (1.75%) QA
8 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) Docker
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Terraform
2 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.75%) Grafana
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.79%) Google
3 6 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.53%) Workday
4 5 (8.77%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.02%) Databricks
5 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.51%) Adobe
6 2 (3.51%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.51%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.75%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.75%) iManage
7 1 (1.75%) Informatica
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle
7 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.75%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Veeam