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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 181 187
Rank change year-on-year +82 +6 +78
Contract jobs citing GDPR 839 372 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.60% 1.41% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.16% 9.77% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 192 252
10th Percentile £325 £303 £328
25th Percentile £425 £382 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -0.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £704 £745
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 25
10th Percentile £16.50 - £11.02
25th Percentile £24.19 £15.50 £11.77
Median hourly rate £34.00 £16.19 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.04% +29.50% -53.70%
75th Percentile £57.00 £21.17 £18.50
90th Percentile £76.20 £28.83 £26.66
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £16.75 £12.23
% change year-on-year +102.99% +37.01% -46.11%

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 5,534 3,809 5,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 14.40% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 2,206 3,560
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% +1.43%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 151 279
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £12.49
25th Percentile £18.22 £20.75 £14.95
Median hourly rate £25.46 £30.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +0.70% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.43 £65.00 £54.16
90th Percentile £69.39 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £28.30
% change year-on-year -9.97% +2.47% +9.25%

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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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +91 421 £548 +3.06% 146
South East +44 159 £500 -5.21% 208
North of England +1 105 £550 +15.79% 113
Midlands -2 71 £475 - 118
Yorkshire +4 64 £558 +6.29% 48
South West +12 47 £475 +111.11% 69
West Midlands -17 39 £500 +5.26% 61
North West -12 34 £457 +1.50% 53
East Midlands -3 32 £442 -11.55% 57
East of England -16 16 £533 +6.55% 88
North East -18 7 £466 +9.65% 12
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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 41 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.81%) Confluence
4 19 (2.26%) Apache
4 19 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.31%) TPMS
7 7 (0.83%) SAS
8 6 (0.72%) Appian
8 6 (0.72%) Camunda
9 5 (0.60%) CMS
10 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 327 (38.97%) Azure
2 236 (28.13%) AWS
3 132 (15.73%) GCP
4 90 (10.73%) Power Platform
5 87 (10.37%) Entra ID
6 86 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (5.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 40 (4.77%) SaaS
9 39 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.69%) Amazon S3
12 28 (3.34%) Serverless
13 27 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (3.22%) OneDrive
14 26 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.10%) Collibra
15 24 (2.86%) OCI
16 23 (2.74%) GitHub
17 22 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
18 17 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.91%) Firewall
2 38 (4.53%) Network Security
3 33 (3.93%) DNS
4 24 (2.86%) DHCP
4 24 (2.86%) VPN
5 18 (2.15%) Kerberos
5 18 (2.15%) SSL
6 16 (1.91%) Wireless
7 13 (1.55%) Cisco IPT
7 13 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.31%) SNMP
8 11 (1.31%) SSH
9 10 (1.19%) SMS
10 9 (1.07%) LAN
10 9 (1.07%) WAN
11 8 (0.95%) PABX
11 8 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.95%) WLAN
12 6 (0.72%) BGP
12 6 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.30%) Power BI
2 52 (6.20%) Data Lake
3 38 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (4.17%) Metadata
5 19 (2.26%) Tableau
6 18 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.03%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.43%) Big Data
10 11 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.31%) Mixpanel
10 11 (1.31%) OLAP
10 11 (1.31%) OLTP
10 11 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 9 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (5.48%) JIRA
2 25 (2.98%) Git
3 21 (2.50%) GitLab
4 15 (1.79%) Metasploit
5 14 (1.67%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.60%) Postman
7 5 (0.60%) Selenium
7 5 (0.60%) Subversion
8 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) ERwin
9 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) Locust
9 2 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.24%) Snyk
General
1 391 (46.60%) Social Skills
2 229 (27.29%) Finance
3 127 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.51%) Legal
5 93 (11.08%) Public Sector
6 75 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (7.99%) Marketing
8 54 (6.44%) Banking
9 23 (2.74%) Law
10 20 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.79%) Electronics
13 14 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.55%) Retail
15 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.19%) Military
17 9 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.95%) Local Government
18 8 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 139 (16.57%) Architect
2 107 (12.75%) Analyst
3 100 (11.92%) Lead
4 62 (7.39%) Consultant
5 49 (5.84%) Business Analyst
5 49 (5.84%) Senior
6 42 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (4.77%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.17%) Project Manager
9 34 (4.05%) Security Engineer
10 28 (3.34%) Developer
10 28 (3.34%) Security Architect
11 25 (2.98%) Data Analyst
12 23 (2.74%) Administrator
13 21 (2.50%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
15 18 (2.15%) Security Analyst
16 15 (1.79%) QA Engineer
17 14 (1.67%) Penetration Tester
18 13 (1.55%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.44%) OAuth
2 53 (6.32%) LDAP
3 50 (5.96%) REST
4 46 (5.48%) SAML
5 28 (3.34%) Kafka
6 26 (3.10%) OpenID
7 23 (2.74%) OAuth2
8 19 (2.26%) HTML
8 19 (2.26%) SOAP
9 18 (2.15%) Middleware
10 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
10 17 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.91%) PySpark
12 13 (1.55%) CSS
13 12 (1.43%) Great Expectations
14 11 (1.31%) .NET
14 11 (1.31%) RESTful
15 10 (1.19%) Spark Streaming
16 8 (0.95%) SailPoint
16 8 (0.95%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.03%) Onboarding
2 50 (5.96%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 47 (5.60%) Security Posture
4 37 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (3.10%) Replication
8 23 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
11 14 (1.67%) NHS
12 13 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.55%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
14 11 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.61%) Windows
2 37 (4.41%) Linux
3 20 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.72%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (26.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 192 (22.88%) Agile
3 179 (21.33%) Data Protection
4 176 (20.98%) Data Governance
5 158 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (18.12%) Cybersecurity
7 148 (17.64%) DevOps
8 143 (17.04%) CI/CD
9 137 (16.33%) Analytics
10 131 (15.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 125 (14.90%) Migration
12 122 (14.54%) Data Modelling
13 121 (14.42%) Data Privacy
14 106 (12.63%) Risk Management
15 101 (12.04%) Roadmaps
16 97 (11.56%) AI
16 97 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
17 93 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (11.08%) Information Security
17 93 (11.08%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 142 (16.92%) Python
2 124 (14.78%) SQL
3 117 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 31 (3.69%) Java
5 27 (3.22%) Bash
6 24 (2.86%) C#
7 22 (2.62%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.19%) Bicep
10 9 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.95%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.83%) R
13 6 (0.72%) Perl
14 4 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.36%) BeanShell
16 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 2 (0.24%) Rust
16 2 (0.24%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 154 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 127 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 114 (13.59%) CISSP
3 114 (13.59%) Degree
4 77 (9.18%) CISM
5 36 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 33 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (3.34%) PMI Certification
8 25 (2.98%) PMP
9 24 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 20 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (2.15%) DV Cleared
12 17 (2.03%) CISA
12 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (1.91%) Oracle Certification
14 14 (1.67%) CCSP
14 14 (1.67%) CHECK Team Member
15 12 (1.43%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (28.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (20.74%) NIST
3 101 (12.04%) PCI DSS
4 88 (10.49%) Data Quality
5 78 (9.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 53 (6.32%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.72%) QA
8 44 (5.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (2.98%) GRC
11 22 (2.62%) SOC 2
12 20 (2.38%) NCSC
13 19 (2.26%) PERC
14 16 (1.91%) MiFID
14 16 (1.91%) SLA
15 15 (1.79%) Accessibility
15 15 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (1.79%) PSD2
16 13 (1.55%) PMO
17 11 (1.31%) GLBA
System Software
1 95 (11.32%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.22%) Docker
3 21 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.48%) NFS
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 70 (8.34%) Terraform
2 50 (5.96%) Single Sign-On
3 37 (4.41%) Kubernetes
4 25 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.50%) Ansible
6 19 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (2.26%) SCCM
7 15 (1.79%) QRadar
8 14 (1.67%) Nmap
9 6 (0.72%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.36%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.24%) Grafana
12 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 208 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.03%) Google
3 54 (6.44%) Salesforce
4 48 (5.72%) CyberArk
4 48 (5.72%) Oracle
5 38 (4.53%) SAP
5 38 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 36 (4.29%) Databricks
6 36 (4.29%) Splunk
7 26 (3.10%) BeyondTrust
8 24 (2.86%) VMware
9 20 (2.38%) Informatica
10 19 (2.26%) Okta
10 19 (2.26%) Workday
11 18 (2.15%) Adobe
12 16 (1.91%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.79%) OneTrust
14 13 (1.55%) Cisco
14 13 (1.55%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.55%) Tealium
674 GDPR jobs in England