GDPR Contract Job Trends in England

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 184 207
Rank change year-on-year +84 +23 +72
Contract jobs citing GDPR 845 401 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 1.38% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.49% 9.86% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 216 239
10th Percentile £338 £303 £328
25th Percentile £419 £398 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £675
90th Percentile £738 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 7
10th Percentile £16.36 - £15.12
25th Percentile £26.97 £15.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £39.23 £16.75 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +134.21% -2.90% -9.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £21.63 £18.68
90th Percentile £89.63 £25.00 £20.28
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £18.72 £17.25
% change year-on-year +81.62% +8.52% -60.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,454 4,066 5,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.41% 14.01% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,543 2,378 3,610
10th Percentile £313 £275 £325
25th Percentile £406 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 159 214
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.70 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.92 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.79
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -16.18% +57.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.99 £66.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -21.99% +54.32%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

GDPR job vacancy trend in England

GDPR
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GDPR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GDPR

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 +79 394 £550 +0.46% 181
South East +57 187 £500 -9.09% 150
North of England +2 95 £514 +14.22% 125
Midlands +14 76 £450 -10.00% 81
Yorkshire -4 53 £550 +4.76% 42
South West +24 50 £475 +111.11% 45
East Midlands +17 41 £425 -22.82% 35
West Midlands -11 35 £525 +16.67% 46
North West -24 35 £436 +2.59% 73
East of England -25 15 £553 +10.60% 43
North East -14 7 £466 +12.97% 10
GDPR
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.43%) Confluence
3 24 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.66%) Apache
7 7 (0.83%) Appian
7 7 (0.83%) CMS
8 6 (0.71%) Camunda
8 6 (0.71%) TPMS
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 51 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.71%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 333 (39.41%) Azure
2 244 (28.88%) AWS
3 142 (16.80%) GCP
4 81 (9.59%) Entra ID
4 81 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (8.52%) Power Platform
6 37 (4.38%) SaaS
7 33 (3.91%) Amazon S3
8 32 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 29 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.43%) Serverless
10 28 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 27 (3.20%) GitHub
12 25 (2.96%) Collibra
13 21 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.25%) OCI
15 18 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.69%) Firewall
2 44 (5.21%) Network Security
3 31 (3.67%) VPN
4 28 (3.31%) DNS
5 22 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.89%) Wireless
7 15 (1.78%) DHCP
8 13 (1.54%) SSL
9 12 (1.42%) Cisco IPT
10 8 (0.95%) LAN
10 8 (0.95%) PABX
10 8 (0.95%) WAN
10 8 (0.95%) WLAN
11 7 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.71%) BGP
12 6 (0.71%) HTTP
12 6 (0.71%) OSPF
12 6 (0.71%) SNMP
12 6 (0.71%) SSH
13 5 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.93%) Power BI
2 46 (5.44%) Data Lake
3 38 (4.50%) Metadata
4 36 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (2.01%) Big Data
5 17 (2.01%) Tableau
6 16 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.66%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.42%) SQL Server
11 11 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 8 (0.95%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.83%) Mixpanel
14 7 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 65 (7.69%) JIRA
2 20 (2.37%) Git
3 17 (2.01%) GitLab
4 10 (1.18%) Postman
5 9 (1.07%) Metasploit
6 8 (0.95%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.71%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.59%) Subversion
9 4 (0.47%) ERwin
9 4 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Locust
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 402 (47.57%) Social Skills
2 231 (27.34%) Finance
3 128 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.60%) Legal
5 89 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 70 (8.28%) Marketing
7 56 (6.63%) Banking
7 56 (6.63%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (3.31%) Law
9 20 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.89%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.78%) Electronics
12 15 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.66%) Retail
14 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.18%) Local Government
16 9 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 141 (16.69%) Architect
2 129 (15.27%) Analyst
3 93 (11.01%) Lead
4 58 (6.86%) Consultant
5 52 (6.15%) Senior
6 49 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 40 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
8 35 (4.14%) Security Architect
9 34 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 30 (3.55%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.55%) Security Engineer
11 26 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 25 (2.96%) Administrator
13 20 (2.37%) Security Analyst
14 19 (2.25%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.01%) Developer
16 16 (1.89%) Salesforce Architect
17 15 (1.78%) Azure Architect
17 15 (1.78%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (1.78%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.56%) LDAP
2 43 (5.09%) OAuth
3 41 (4.85%) REST
4 37 (4.38%) SAML
5 29 (3.43%) OpenID
6 23 (2.72%) Kafka
7 22 (2.60%) Middleware
7 22 (2.60%) SOAP
8 19 (2.25%) OAuth2
9 16 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.78%) RESTful
11 13 (1.54%) Visualforce
12 12 (1.42%) SailPoint
13 11 (1.30%) .NET
13 11 (1.30%) HTML
14 10 (1.18%) PyTorch
14 10 (1.18%) scikit-learn
15 9 (1.07%) PySpark
16 8 (0.95%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.39%) Onboarding
1 54 (6.39%) Security Posture
2 53 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 47 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 44 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
11 16 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.66%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.54%) Replication
15 12 (1.42%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.18%) NHS
16 10 (1.18%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.64%) Windows
2 34 (4.02%) Linux
3 21 (2.49%) Mac OS
4 18 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.71%) Solaris
8 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Unix
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 188 (22.25%) Agile
3 179 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (21.07%) Data Protection
5 171 (20.24%) Data Governance
6 156 (18.46%) Cybersecurity
7 143 (16.92%) CI/CD
8 142 (16.80%) Data Privacy
8 142 (16.80%) DevOps
9 138 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 131 (15.50%) Analytics
11 123 (14.56%) Data Modelling
12 120 (14.20%) Roadmaps
13 109 (12.90%) Migration
14 100 (11.83%) Information Security
14 100 (11.83%) Risk Management
15 98 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 98 (11.60%) Incident Response
15 98 (11.60%) Regulatory Compliance
16 92 (10.89%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.69%) Python
2 117 (13.85%) SQL
3 106 (12.54%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.91%) Bash
5 31 (3.67%) Java
6 16 (1.89%) Bicep
7 14 (1.66%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.54%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.42%) C#
9 12 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.07%) R
11 8 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.71%) Perl
13 4 (0.47%) C++
13 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.47%) PHP
13 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 136 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 127 (15.03%) CISSP
3 109 (12.90%) Degree
4 102 (12.07%) SC Cleared
5 81 (9.59%) CISM
6 45 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 43 (5.09%) AWS Certification
8 37 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.20%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (2.37%) CISA
13 17 (2.01%) CCSP
14 16 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (1.78%) DV Cleared
15 15 (1.78%) PMI Certification
16 12 (1.42%) PMP
17 11 (1.30%) CEH
18 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (30.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 180 (21.30%) NIST
3 94 (11.12%) PCI DSS
4 84 (9.94%) Data Quality
5 69 (8.17%) HIPAA
6 67 (7.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 50 (5.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 43 (5.09%) QA
9 40 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (2.72%) SOC 2
11 22 (2.60%) PERC
12 19 (2.25%) Accessibility
12 19 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (2.25%) GRC
13 17 (2.01%) NCSC
14 16 (1.89%) PSD2
15 13 (1.54%) SLA
16 12 (1.42%) EU AI Act
17 10 (1.18%) PMO
17 10 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 86 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.67%) Docker
3 30 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.59%) Terminal Services
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) NFS
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 70 (8.28%) Terraform
2 41 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 38 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (2.72%) SCCM
6 20 (2.37%) Ansible
7 16 (1.89%) QRadar
8 8 (0.95%) Nmap
9 6 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.71%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.59%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (0.47%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 226 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.93%) Salesforce
3 60 (7.10%) Google
4 48 (5.68%) CyberArk
4 48 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 45 (5.33%) Oracle
6 40 (4.73%) Databricks
7 36 (4.26%) SAP
8 34 (4.02%) Splunk
9 32 (3.79%) VMware
10 30 (3.55%) BeyondTrust
11 22 (2.60%) Workday
12 21 (2.49%) Citrix
13 18 (2.13%) Adobe
14 17 (2.01%) Informatica
14 17 (2.01%) OneTrust
14 17 (2.01%) Ping Identity
15 16 (1.89%) Cisco
15 16 (1.89%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.78%) Fortinet
570 GDPR jobs in England