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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 141 200
Rank change year-on-year +18 +59 +51
Contract jobs citing GDPR 865 483 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.02% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.36% 12.48% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 301 249
10th Percentile £364 £360 £304
25th Percentile £450 £440 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £626
90th Percentile £738 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 48
10th Percentile £14.16 £14.48 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £27.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +10.56% +31.58%
75th Percentile £54.88 £33.47 £28.75
90th Percentile £76.78 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +11.92% -5.06% +26.32%

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 7,001 3,869 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.74% 16.17% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 2,504 3,284
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.72% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 151 361
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.35 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.92%
75th Percentile £67.38 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £80.00 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £21.38
% change year-on-year +10.24% +52.75% -38.92%

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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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +9 413 £550 -4.35% 124
South East +21 163 £563 +7.14% 121
North of England +6 129 £550 +4.76% 82
Midlands -32 71 £492 +11.95% 69
North West +2 63 £525 - 51
Yorkshire -15 56 £550 +7.32% 25
South West -16 44 £500 +25.00% 34
West Midlands -50 39 £492 +3.58% 42
East of England -16 33 £588 +12.55% 30
East Midlands -10 32 £484 +12.62% 28
North East -18 11 £400 -13.51% 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 50 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.70%) Confluence
4 30 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.77%) Apache
6 15 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.04%) CMS
8 7 (0.81%) SAS
9 5 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.58%) TPMS
10 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.35%) IIS
11 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 32 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.39%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 310 (35.84%) Azure
2 225 (26.01%) AWS
3 124 (14.34%) Power Platform
4 117 (13.53%) GCP
5 80 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (7.63%) Entra ID
7 56 (6.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 37 (4.28%) SaaS
9 35 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (3.70%) Collibra
13 31 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (3.47%) GitHub
15 27 (3.12%) OneDrive
15 27 (3.12%) Snowflake
16 26 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (2.77%) Serverless
18 22 (2.54%) Amazon S3
19 18 (2.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.43%) Firewall
2 31 (3.58%) Network Security
3 21 (2.43%) DNS
4 19 (2.20%) VPN
5 17 (1.97%) DHCP
6 15 (1.73%) Kerberos
7 13 (1.50%) SMS
8 12 (1.39%) SSL
9 11 (1.27%) Wireless
10 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.69%) HTTP
10 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.58%) SNMP
11 5 (0.58%) SSH
11 5 (0.58%) WAN
12 4 (0.46%) LAN
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
12 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.35%) FTP
13 3 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.60%) Power BI
2 54 (6.24%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.66%) Metadata
4 47 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.54%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.08%) Tableau
8 16 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (1.73%) Mixpanel
9 15 (1.73%) OLTP
9 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.62%) OLAP
11 12 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.27%) Big Data
13 8 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (5.32%) JIRA
2 26 (3.01%) Git
3 14 (1.62%) Burp Suite
4 13 (1.50%) Metasploit
5 12 (1.39%) GitLab
6 6 (0.69%) ERwin
6 6 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
8 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.12%) Deequ
10 1 (0.12%) TestRail
10 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 299 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 270 (31.21%) Finance
3 147 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.06%) Legal
5 106 (12.25%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (6.01%) Marketing
8 49 (5.66%) Banking
9 34 (3.93%) Retail
10 25 (2.89%) Local Government
11 21 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.85%) Law
15 14 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.16%) Military
18 7 (0.81%) Billing
18 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 148 (17.11%) Architect
2 101 (11.68%) Lead
3 90 (10.40%) Analyst
4 60 (6.94%) Senior
5 57 (6.59%) Project Manager
6 48 (5.55%) Data Engineer
7 47 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 42 (4.86%) Consultant
9 40 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.82%) Data Analyst
11 32 (3.70%) Security Engineer
12 26 (3.01%) Security Manager
13 25 (2.89%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 24 (2.77%) Administrator
14 24 (2.77%) Security Architect
15 23 (2.66%) Developer
16 19 (2.20%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 19 (2.20%) Data Architect
16 19 (2.20%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (1.85%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.09%) REST
2 42 (4.86%) LDAP
3 39 (4.51%) OAuth
4 38 (4.39%) Kafka
5 37 (4.28%) SAML
6 30 (3.47%) Middleware
7 20 (2.31%) OpenID
7 20 (2.31%) PySpark
8 18 (2.08%) JSON
9 17 (1.97%) .NET
9 17 (1.97%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.85%) CSS
10 16 (1.85%) HTML
11 15 (1.73%) SOAP
12 14 (1.62%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.04%) J2EE
15 7 (0.81%) Node.js
15 7 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.71%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (4.74%) Security Posture
5 34 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (3.01%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.08%) Replication
11 16 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.73%) Freedom of Information
12 15 (1.73%) NHS
13 12 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
14 11 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.16%) BYOD
15 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.55%) Windows
2 26 (3.01%) Linux
3 24 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (25.43%) Data Protection
2 203 (23.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (22.43%) Agile
4 183 (21.16%) Data Governance
5 167 (19.31%) Migration
6 166 (19.19%) Cybersecurity
7 162 (18.73%) DevOps
8 157 (18.15%) CI/CD
9 156 (18.03%) Analytics
10 137 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (14.68%) Business Intelligence
12 123 (14.22%) Data Modelling
13 118 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 116 (13.41%) AI
15 115 (13.29%) Roadmaps
16 104 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (12.02%) Validation
17 100 (11.56%) Risk Management
18 95 (10.98%) Information Security
19 93 (10.75%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 178 (20.58%) SQL
2 138 (15.95%) Python
3 87 (10.06%) PowerShell
4 47 (5.43%) Java
5 33 (3.82%) C#
6 23 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.20%) Bash
8 13 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.04%) Bicep
9 9 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.69%) Go
10 6 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 155 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 131 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.75%) Degree
4 86 (9.94%) CISSP
5 69 (7.98%) CISM
6 38 (4.39%) PMI Certification
7 36 (4.16%) PMP
8 25 (2.89%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (1.85%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.62%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.50%) IIBA
14 12 (1.39%) CHECK Team Member
15 11 (1.27%) CREST Certified
15 11 (1.27%) CRISC
15 11 (1.27%) Cyber Scheme
16 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (1.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (22.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (15.26%) NIST
3 126 (14.57%) Data Quality
4 96 (11.10%) PCI DSS
5 71 (8.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.28%) GRC
7 35 (4.05%) QA
8 31 (3.58%) NCSC
8 31 (3.58%) SOC 2
9 28 (3.24%) HIPAA
10 25 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 24 (2.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 24 (2.77%) PMO
12 18 (2.08%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.97%) MiFID
14 13 (1.50%) FINRA
14 13 (1.50%) PERC
15 12 (1.39%) Solvency II
16 10 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.93%) Docker
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.71%) Terraform
3 41 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.50%) Grafana
5 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.39%) Nmap
7 9 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.58%) Ansible
8 5 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.58%) SCCM
9 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.46%) Istio
9 4 (0.46%) QRadar
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 219 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.82%) Databricks
2 59 (6.82%) Google
3 45 (5.20%) Salesforce
4 44 (5.09%) Oracle
5 42 (4.86%) SAP
6 40 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 33 (3.82%) CyberArk
8 30 (3.47%) Workday
9 19 (2.20%) Okta
10 15 (1.73%) Adobe
10 15 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
10 15 (1.73%) Splunk
11 14 (1.62%) Informatica
12 13 (1.50%) IFS
13 12 (1.39%) NEC
14 9 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.92%) Qualys
15 8 (0.92%) Varonis
16 7 (0.81%) VMware
397 GDPR jobs in England