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

 6 months to
9 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 129 213
Rank change year-on-year -9 +84 +37
Contract jobs citing GDPR 884 581 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.98% 2.15% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.52% 12.99% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 358 236
10th Percentile £363 £354 £304
25th Percentile £450 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 30 49
10th Percentile £16.10 £13.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £19.46 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +13.28% +31.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.06 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.39 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £26.93 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.58% +17.07% +21.05%

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 7,673 4,472 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.16% 16.57% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,935 2,899 3,156
10th Percentile £348 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 198 378
10th Percentile £14.18 £15.13 £11.04
25th Percentile £19.33 £19.66 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.54 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.01 £83.96 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.09
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.53% -38.89%

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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

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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 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 2026. 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 +3 422 £563 -2.17% 227
South East -7 159 £569 +13.75% 127
North of England -40 122 £534 +1.71% 97
Midlands -42 73 £463 +12.80% 56
North West -5 69 £525 - 62
South West -22 51 £500 +25.00% 46
East of England -3 46 £613 +17.34% 26
Yorkshire -48 43 £550 +6.59% 29
West Midlands -53 41 £463 +5.71% 27
East Midlands -6 32 £475 +15.85% 29
North East -25 11 £463 -14.94% 6
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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 47 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.60%) Confluence
5 19 (2.15%) Apache
6 16 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (1.36%) CMS
8 8 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.57%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.23%) TPMS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (1.36%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) iTrent
5 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 303 (34.28%) Azure
2 204 (23.08%) AWS
3 121 (13.69%) Power Platform
4 106 (11.99%) GCP
5 65 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 53 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 46 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (5.09%) SaaS
10 38 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (4.07%) Snowflake
13 33 (3.73%) GitHub
14 30 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (3.05%) Collibra
16 25 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.83%) Serverless
17 21 (2.38%) dbt
18 20 (2.26%) OneDrive
19 19 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.41%) Firewall
2 35 (3.96%) Network Security
3 18 (2.04%) DNS
4 17 (1.92%) VPN
5 15 (1.70%) DHCP
6 13 (1.47%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.13%) SMS
7 10 (1.13%) SSL
8 7 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
8 7 (0.79%) HTTP
9 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.57%) WAN
10 4 (0.45%) LAN
10 4 (0.45%) NGFW
10 4 (0.45%) Wireless
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.34%) VLAN
11 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.44%) Power BI
2 54 (6.11%) Metadata
3 50 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.54%) Data Lake
5 27 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.04%) Tableau
8 16 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.47%) Big Data
11 12 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.13%) Mixpanel
13 10 (1.13%) OLTP
13 10 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (1.02%) OLAP
15 8 (0.90%) Data Vault
15 8 (0.90%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (4.30%) JIRA
2 19 (2.15%) Git
3 7 (0.79%) Postman
3 7 (0.79%) Selenium
4 6 (0.68%) ERwin
4 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.57%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.45%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.45%) GitLab
6 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.34%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.23%) Protractor
8 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 299 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 282 (31.90%) Finance
3 154 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (14.03%) Public Sector
5 100 (11.31%) Legal
6 52 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (5.32%) Banking
8 46 (5.20%) Marketing
9 38 (4.30%) Retail
10 29 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (3.05%) Local Government
12 21 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.70%) Law
15 14 (1.58%) Military
16 13 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.24%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (17.65%) Architect
2 119 (13.46%) Lead
3 91 (10.29%) Analyst
4 69 (7.81%) Senior
5 56 (6.33%) Project Manager
6 49 (5.54%) Data Engineer
7 40 (4.52%) Business Analyst
7 40 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (3.85%) Consultant
9 33 (3.73%) Data Architect
10 32 (3.62%) Data Analyst
11 29 (3.28%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.28%) Security Manager
12 24 (2.71%) Administrator
13 23 (2.60%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 18 (2.04%) Technical Architect
16 17 (1.92%) Developer
17 16 (1.81%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (1.81%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.52%) LDAP
2 39 (4.41%) REST
3 37 (4.19%) Kafka
3 37 (4.19%) OAuth
3 37 (4.19%) SAML
4 29 (3.28%) Middleware
5 22 (2.49%) OpenID
6 19 (2.15%) JSON
7 18 (2.04%) .NET
8 17 (1.92%) SOAP
9 16 (1.81%) PySpark
10 13 (1.47%) OAuth2
11 12 (1.36%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.13%) CSS
12 10 (1.13%) HTML
13 9 (1.02%) J2EE
13 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.02%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.90%) XML
15 7 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.20%) Security Posture
4 45 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 21 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.04%) Replication
11 17 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
14 14 (1.58%) NHS
15 12 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (1.24%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.13%) BYOD
17 10 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.54%) Windows
2 20 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 19 (2.15%) Linux
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (25.11%) Data Protection
2 221 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 207 (23.42%) Data Governance
4 186 (21.04%) Agile
5 181 (20.48%) Cybersecurity
6 174 (19.68%) Migration
7 170 (19.23%) Analytics
8 149 (16.86%) DevOps
9 142 (16.06%) AI
10 141 (15.95%) CI/CD
10 141 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (15.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (15.61%) Data Modelling
12 126 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
13 125 (14.14%) Roadmaps
14 123 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (12.44%) Validation
16 108 (12.22%) Information Security
17 103 (11.65%) Risk Management
18 99 (11.20%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.46%) SQL
2 122 (13.80%) Python
3 69 (7.81%) PowerShell
4 43 (4.86%) Java
5 25 (2.83%) C#
6 19 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.58%) Bash
8 11 (1.24%) Bicep
9 8 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.79%) Go
11 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.45%) R
14 3 (0.34%) Scala
14 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
16 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 168 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.73%) CISSP
4 82 (9.28%) Degree
5 68 (7.69%) CISM
6 32 (3.62%) PMI Certification
6 32 (3.62%) PMP
7 25 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 21 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.36%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.02%) CISA
16 8 (0.90%) CRISC
16 8 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 8 (0.90%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (21.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 148 (16.74%) Data Quality
3 126 (14.25%) NIST
4 83 (9.39%) PCI DSS
5 66 (7.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 40 (4.52%) GRC
7 36 (4.07%) NCSC
8 34 (3.85%) QA
8 34 (3.85%) SOC 2
9 32 (3.62%) HIPAA
10 27 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (2.83%) Accessibility
12 23 (2.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (2.26%) PMO
14 15 (1.70%) Solvency II
15 14 (1.58%) WCAG
16 13 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 13 (1.47%) PERC
17 11 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 11 (1.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 75 (8.48%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.05%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (6.22%) Terraform
2 49 (5.54%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.47%) Grafana
6 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.45%) Ansible
8 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.45%) Istio
8 4 (0.45%) Rancher
9 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.23%) Nmap
9 2 (0.23%) QRadar
9 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.11%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 220 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.58%) Databricks
3 54 (6.11%) Google
4 52 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 51 (5.77%) SAP
6 48 (5.43%) Oracle
7 38 (4.30%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.73%) Workday
9 28 (3.17%) CyberArk
10 19 (2.15%) Adobe
11 17 (1.92%) Okta
12 15 (1.70%) Informatica
13 14 (1.58%) BeyondTrust
13 14 (1.58%) IFS
14 12 (1.36%) NEC
14 12 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (1.36%) Splunk
15 7 (0.79%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.68%) Varonis
529 GDPR jobs in England