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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 125 210
Rank change year-on-year -17 +85 +44
Contract jobs citing GDPR 846 621 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.27% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.95% 13.44% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 383 239
10th Percentile £363 £355 £303
25th Percentile £450 £425 £406
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 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 36 37
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.31 £11.95
25th Percentile £19.46 £15.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.63 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +26.50% +31.58%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.04 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.19 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £22.36 £25.00
% change year-on-year +27.68% -10.56% +31.58%

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 7,725 4,620 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 16.92% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,958 3,013 3,026
10th Percentile £344 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.47% -1.25%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 210 326
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.59 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +22.80% -39.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.90% +12.72% -36.58%

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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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -9 396 £563 -2.17% 306
South East -20 155 £570 +14.00% 127
North of England -47 108 £500 -3.75% 85
Midlands -44 75 £450 +7.14% 52
North West -14 67 £500 -4.76% 57
South West -21 54 £500 +25.00% 47
East of England +4 46 £625 +19.05% 24
West Midlands -42 45 £450 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire -59 31 £550 +8.48% 20
East Midlands -14 30 £519 +24.94% 26
North East -29 11 £463 -14.94% 8
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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 37 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.60%) Confluence
4 17 (2.01%) Apache
4 17 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.42%) CMS
7 8 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.59%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
10 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.54%) NEC Housing
2 13 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.71%) iTrent
5 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.47%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 288 (34.04%) Azure
2 197 (23.29%) AWS
3 114 (13.48%) Power Platform
4 102 (12.06%) GCP
5 55 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 48 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 45 (5.32%) SaaS
10 38 (4.49%) Snowflake
11 35 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
14 30 (3.55%) GitHub
15 27 (3.19%) Serverless
16 25 (2.96%) Collibra
17 21 (2.48%) dbt
18 19 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (2.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.61%) Firewall
2 33 (3.90%) Network Security
3 17 (2.01%) VPN
4 11 (1.30%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.95%) SMS
5 8 (0.95%) SSL
6 7 (0.83%) HTTP
7 6 (0.71%) DNS
8 5 (0.59%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.59%) WAN
9 4 (0.47%) LAN
9 4 (0.47%) Wireless
9 4 (0.47%) X.509
10 3 (0.35%) BGP
10 3 (0.35%) DHCP
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.41%) Power BI
2 53 (6.26%) Metadata
3 51 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.79%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.13%) Tableau
8 15 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.42%) Big Data
9 12 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.06%) Looker
13 8 (0.95%) Data Vault
13 8 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 8 (0.95%) Mixpanel
13 8 (0.95%) OLTP
13 8 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (4.37%) JIRA
2 15 (1.77%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) Postman
3 8 (0.95%) Selenium
4 7 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.83%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.71%) ERwin
5 6 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.47%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.35%) Protractor
8 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 288 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 265 (31.32%) Finance
3 155 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (15.13%) Public Sector
5 101 (11.94%) Legal
6 45 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (5.20%) Marketing
8 43 (5.08%) Banking
9 37 (4.37%) Retail
10 30 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (3.43%) Local Government
12 25 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.77%) Military
14 15 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.54%) Law
15 13 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (18.09%) Architect
2 120 (14.18%) Lead
3 88 (10.40%) Analyst
4 74 (8.75%) Senior
5 51 (6.03%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.44%) Data Engineer
7 42 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.37%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.26%) Consultant
10 33 (3.90%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.90%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.31%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.07%) Security Engineer
13 24 (2.84%) Administrator
13 24 (2.84%) Security Architect
14 21 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 18 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 18 (2.13%) Technical Architect
16 16 (1.89%) Developer
17 14 (1.65%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.61%) REST
2 33 (3.90%) Kafka
3 28 (3.31%) LDAP
3 28 (3.31%) Middleware
4 27 (3.19%) OAuth
5 25 (2.96%) SAML
6 23 (2.72%) OpenID
7 19 (2.25%) JSON
8 17 (2.01%) .NET
9 16 (1.89%) SOAP
10 15 (1.77%) PySpark
11 14 (1.65%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.18%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.18%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (1.06%) HTML
13 9 (1.06%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.95%) CSS
14 8 (0.95%) RESTful
14 8 (0.95%) XML
15 7 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.68%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (5.08%) Security Posture
5 40 (4.73%) Data Protection Act
6 34 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.55%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.19%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
13 16 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
14 15 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.77%) NHS
15 14 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
16 12 (1.42%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.18%) BYOD
17 10 (1.18%) Clustering
17 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.66%) Windows
2 17 (2.01%) Linux
3 8 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (26.36%) Data Protection
2 219 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 211 (24.94%) Data Governance
4 182 (21.51%) Agile
5 176 (20.80%) Cybersecurity
6 173 (20.45%) Analytics
6 173 (20.45%) Migration
7 153 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 144 (17.02%) DevOps
9 143 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (16.43%) AI
11 134 (15.84%) Data Modelling
12 133 (15.72%) CI/CD
13 129 (15.25%) Roadmaps
14 120 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
15 118 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (12.53%) Information Security
16 106 (12.53%) Validation
17 97 (11.47%) ETL
18 96 (11.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (19.27%) SQL
2 110 (13.00%) Python
3 50 (5.91%) PowerShell
4 38 (4.49%) Java
5 22 (2.60%) C#
6 19 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.65%) Bash
8 10 (1.18%) Bicep
9 8 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.47%) R
13 3 (0.35%) Ruby
13 3 (0.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 152 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 119 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 84 (9.93%) CISSP
4 74 (8.75%) Degree
5 67 (7.92%) CISM
6 26 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.07%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.07%) PMP
7 25 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 13 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.42%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 9 (1.06%) CISA
14 9 (1.06%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.83%) CEH
15 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 144 (17.02%) Data Quality
3 118 (13.95%) NIST
4 73 (8.63%) PCI DSS
5 52 (6.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.37%) NCSC
7 35 (4.14%) GRC
8 34 (4.02%) QA
8 34 (4.02%) SOC 2
9 31 (3.66%) Accessibility
10 30 (3.55%) HIPAA
11 28 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (2.36%) PMO
14 18 (2.13%) WCAG
15 16 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (1.89%) PERC
16 15 (1.77%) Solvency II
17 11 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.84%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (5.67%) Terraform
2 44 (5.20%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.54%) Grafana
5 10 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.59%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.47%) Ansible
8 4 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) Istio
8 4 (0.47%) Rancher
9 3 (0.35%) QRadar
10 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.24%) Nmap
10 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.12%) CASB
11 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 202 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.92%) Databricks
3 52 (6.15%) SAP
4 51 (6.03%) Salesforce
5 50 (5.91%) Oracle
6 47 (5.56%) Google
7 35 (4.14%) Workday
8 34 (4.02%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.96%) CyberArk
10 19 (2.25%) Adobe
11 15 (1.77%) Informatica
12 14 (1.65%) IFS
13 13 (1.54%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (1.54%) NEC
13 13 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 9 (1.06%) Splunk
15 7 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.71%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.71%) Ping Identity
16 6 (0.71%) Varonis