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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 100 143
Rank change year-on-year +16 +43 -57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GDPR 40 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.21% 1.06% 0.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.43% 6.53% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 10
10th Percentile £363 £360 £471
25th Percentile £531 £408 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -18.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £594 £748
90th Percentile £925 £645 £781
Central London median daily rate £673 £540 £613
% change year-on-year +24.54% -11.84% +16.67%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 350 337 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.37% 16.27% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 214 362
10th Percentile £328 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +3.45%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £825 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -8.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £23.40 -
% change year-on-year +45.30% - -

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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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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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the City of London

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DemandTrendContract 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 August 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
DemandTrendContract
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 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (7.50%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Power Platform
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (17.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (12.50%) PaaS
5 5 (12.50%) SaaS
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
7 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
7 3 (7.50%) Serverless
8 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Run
8 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.00%) Fastly
8 2 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) SSH
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (5.00%) Big Data
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Parquet
5 1 (2.50%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) RStudio
3 1 (2.50%) Ant
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Maven
3 1 (2.50%) Snyk
3 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
5 5 (12.50%) Legal
6 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.50%) Law
8 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (5.00%) Marketing
8 2 (5.00%) Police
8 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Front Office
9 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Business Information Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Business Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Information Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Security Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Business Engagement Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Engagement Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (7.50%) PySpark
1 3 (7.50%) RESTful
1 3 (7.50%) Web Services
2 2 (5.00%) Flask
2 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) JWT
2 2 (5.00%) LangChain
2 2 (5.00%) OAuth
2 2 (5.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (5.00%) pydantic
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (5.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.50%) CSS3
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (7.50%) AI Agents
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) CMDB
4 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 14 (35.00%) Data Privacy
3 12 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Analytics
4 11 (27.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
8 7 (17.50%) Security Architecture
8 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Bicep
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.00%) R
4 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) CISSP
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) CISM
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CISA
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) CRISC
5 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (2.50%) ISSMP
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (20.00%) NIST
3 5 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (10.00%) SOC 2
5 3 (7.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (7.50%) COBIT
5 3 (7.50%) EU AI Act
6 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Databricks
2 5 (12.50%) Google
2 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.50%) Workday
5 2 (5.00%) Adobe
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Marketo
6 1 (2.50%) Progress
6 1 (2.50%) SAP