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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 101 216
Rank change year-on-year -78 +115 +32
Contract jobs citing GDPR 737 737 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 2.63% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.89% 15.01% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 476 218
10th Percentile £306 £350 £312
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +4.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £744 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 38 15
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £16.42 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.21 £34.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +61.90% +21.74%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.75 £30.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.63 £54.07
UK median hourly rate £21.51 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +26.50% -19.05% +21.74%

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 8,291 4,909 4,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.92% 17.54% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,166 3,190 2,458
10th Percentile £325 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.68% -4.86%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £753
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 241 201
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.13 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -9.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.90% +9.09% -22.68%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -64 357 £575 +1.32% 1,012
South East -71 107 £575 +15.00% 277
North of England -47 92 £477 -6.02% 234
Midlands -50 71 £450 +0.67% 163
South West -30 54 £475 +18.75% 94
North West -21 51 £496 +10.90% 118
West Midlands -25 51 £430 -18.10% 104
East of England -10 48 £525 -4.55% 85
Yorkshire -49 32 £471 -14.45% 95
East Midlands -35 20 £538 +25.29% 59
North East -36 7 £463 -15.22% 23
GDPR
UK

GDPR
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 39 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.49%) CMS
2 11 (1.49%) IIS
3 9 (1.22%) Apache
4 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.27%) Mendix
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) CICS
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 41 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (5.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.09%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.95%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.81%) iTrent
6 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.54%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.54%) Workfront
7 2 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 248 (33.65%) Azure
2 138 (18.72%) AWS
3 84 (11.40%) Power Platform
4 66 (8.96%) GCP
5 60 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (5.97%) SaaS
8 39 (5.29%) Entra ID
8 39 (5.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 33 (4.48%) Serverless
10 32 (4.34%) Snowflake
11 29 (3.93%) GitHub
11 29 (3.93%) Power Automate
12 25 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.85%) Azure Functions
14 21 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.31%) OCI
15 17 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.48%) Network Security
2 28 (3.80%) Firewall
3 19 (2.58%) Cisco IPT
4 9 (1.22%) VPN
5 5 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.68%) X.509
6 4 (0.54%) SMS
6 4 (0.54%) SSL
6 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.41%) DNS
7 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.41%) IPsec
7 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) BGP
8 2 (0.27%) MPLS
8 2 (0.27%) OSPF
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (8.82%) Power BI
2 48 (6.51%) Metadata
3 35 (4.75%) SQL Server
4 31 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.76%) Delta Lake
7 12 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.36%) Tableau
10 9 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.95%) Looker
13 6 (0.81%) Big Data
13 6 (0.81%) GIS
13 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (2.85%) Git
2 15 (2.04%) Postman
3 13 (1.76%) GitLab
3 13 (1.76%) JIRA
4 11 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 11 (1.49%) Selenium
4 11 (1.49%) WebDriver
5 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.41%) ERwin
7 3 (0.41%) Protractor
8 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.27%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) LSMW
9 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 283 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 177 (24.02%) Finance
3 134 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (17.23%) Public Sector
5 82 (11.13%) Legal
6 40 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (5.29%) Local Government
7 39 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (4.61%) Marketing
9 29 (3.93%) Banking
10 25 (3.39%) Retail
11 24 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.31%) Military
13 15 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.63%) Law
15 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.09%) Advertising
16 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (17.37%) Architect
2 103 (13.98%) Lead
3 84 (11.40%) Analyst
4 80 (10.85%) Senior
5 44 (5.97%) Administrator
6 34 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (4.34%) Consultant
7 32 (4.34%) Project Manager
8 31 (4.21%) Data Analyst
9 30 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.93%) Data Architect
11 24 (3.26%) Security Architect
12 23 (3.12%) Developer
13 22 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.71%) Security Manager
14 20 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.44%) Coordinator
16 16 (2.17%) Security Engineer
17 15 (2.04%) Information Officer
18 14 (1.90%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.24%) Terraform
2 40 (5.43%) REST
3 23 (3.12%) OAuth
4 22 (2.99%) JSON
5 21 (2.85%) SAML
6 20 (2.71%) LDAP
7 16 (2.17%) Kafka
7 16 (2.17%) OpenID
8 14 (1.90%) XML
9 13 (1.76%) .NET
9 13 (1.76%) SOAP
9 13 (1.76%) XSLT
10 12 (1.63%) SailPoint
11 11 (1.49%) Gherkin
11 11 (1.49%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.49%) PySpark
12 9 (1.22%) JDBC
12 9 (1.22%) Middleware
13 7 (0.95%) HTML
13 7 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.48%) Management Information System
2 46 (6.24%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.83%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.80%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.66%) Freedom of Information
8 26 (3.53%) Product Ownership
9 25 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
10 24 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.85%) Taxonomies
12 20 (2.71%) NHS
13 19 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
14 14 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
15 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.63%) Data Centre
16 12 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.58%) Windows
2 16 (2.17%) Linux
3 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (29.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 204 (27.68%) Data Protection
3 198 (26.87%) Data Governance
4 154 (20.90%) Analytics
5 142 (19.27%) AI
6 140 (19.00%) Agile
7 139 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 129 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
9 124 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (15.74%) Information Security
10 116 (15.74%) Migration
11 113 (15.33%) Data Modelling
12 110 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (14.65%) DevOps
13 108 (14.65%) Roadmaps
14 107 (14.52%) Decision-Making
15 94 (12.75%) CI/CD
16 87 (11.80%) Risk Management
17 84 (11.40%) CRM
18 83 (11.26%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (14.79%) SQL
2 76 (10.31%) Python
3 33 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 31 (4.21%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.07%) C#
6 29 (3.93%) Java
7 13 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.36%) Bicep
8 10 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.95%) Bash
11 6 (0.81%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) VBA
14 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 147 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 77 (10.45%) Degree
4 72 (9.77%) CISSP
5 58 (7.87%) CISM
6 30 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 29 (3.93%) Azure Certification
8 27 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.04%) PMP
11 14 (1.90%) CISA
11 14 (1.90%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.49%) ISTQB
13 10 (1.36%) CCSP
13 10 (1.36%) CRISC
14 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.95%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (18.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 123 (16.69%) Data Quality
3 81 (10.99%) NIST
4 60 (8.14%) PCI DSS
5 45 (6.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (5.16%) GRC
7 37 (5.02%) NCSC
8 36 (4.88%) Accessibility
9 34 (4.61%) QA
10 28 (3.80%) WCAG
11 23 (3.12%) HIPAA
12 20 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (2.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 17 (2.31%) SOC 2
14 13 (1.76%) PERC
15 11 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (1.22%) Solvency II
17 8 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.49%) Docker
3 5 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.49%) CASB
3 9 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.09%) Ansible
4 8 (1.09%) Grafana
5 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.27%) Argo
7 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.27%) QRadar
7 2 (0.27%) systemd
8 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.14%) Rancher
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 219 (29.72%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.46%) SAP
3 50 (6.78%) Databricks
4 47 (6.38%) Oracle
5 40 (5.43%) Salesforce
6 35 (4.75%) Google
7 27 (3.66%) Workday
8 23 (3.12%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.17%) Adobe
9 16 (2.17%) Splunk
10 13 (1.76%) CyberArk
11 10 (1.36%) Cisco
11 10 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (1.09%) Informatica
12 8 (1.09%) NEC
13 7 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.95%) F5
14 6 (0.81%) Civica
14 6 (0.81%) Foundry