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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 112 228
Rank change year-on-year -50 +116 +33
Contract jobs citing GDPR 789 678 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 2.44% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.59% 14.20% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 417 203
10th Percentile £320 £357 £353
25th Percentile £450 £416 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £743 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £524
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.19% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 38 14
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £25.50 £33.56 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% +45.89% +24.32%
75th Percentile £69.82 £65.43 £32.41
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.01 £57.43
UK median hourly rate £24.75 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -5.43% +24.32%

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 8,227 4,776 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.18% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,184 3,116 2,589
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £608 £621 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 224 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.07
Median hourly rate £33.79 £31.64 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +9.10% -17.14%
75th Percentile £68.17 £63.49 £63.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.99 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%

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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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -39 373 £563 -2.17% 430
South East -47 129 £588 +17.50% 153
North of England -50 103 £495 -2.37% 121
Midlands -55 69 £450 +2.39% 81
North West -24 63 £525 +17.38% 70
South West -30 56 £475 +18.75% 78
East of England +3 52 £575 +9.52% 38
West Midlands -28 49 £430 -16.20% 48
Yorkshire -64 27 £471 -13.27% 34
East Midlands -33 20 £537 +29.46% 34
North East -37 12 £463 -26.00% 17
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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 39 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.52%) CMS
4 10 (1.27%) Apache
4 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.01%) Confluence
6 7 (0.89%) IIS
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Drupal
9 2 (0.25%) Mendix
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 34 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 31 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.01%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.76%) iTrent
6 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.38%) Workfront
8 2 (0.25%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.13%) Actimize
9 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 268 (33.97%) Azure
2 168 (21.29%) AWS
3 100 (12.67%) Power Platform
4 87 (11.03%) GCP
5 57 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (6.72%) Entra ID
7 48 (6.08%) SaaS
8 45 (5.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 39 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (4.31%) Serverless
11 32 (4.06%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.68%) GitHub
13 28 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (3.04%) Power Automate
15 23 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (2.53%) OCI
17 18 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 18 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.31%) Firewall
2 33 (4.18%) Network Security
3 17 (2.15%) Cisco IPT
4 13 (1.65%) VPN
5 8 (1.01%) SSL
6 7 (0.89%) DNS
6 7 (0.89%) SMS
7 5 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) WAN
7 5 (0.63%) X.509
8 4 (0.51%) LAN
8 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.38%) DHCP
9 3 (0.38%) FTP
9 3 (0.38%) HTTP
9 3 (0.38%) Intranet
9 3 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (10.77%) Power BI
2 55 (6.97%) Metadata
3 43 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.06%) Data Lake
5 31 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.03%) Tableau
7 15 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.14%) Big Data
12 9 (1.14%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.01%) Looker
13 8 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
14 7 (0.89%) Data Vault
15 6 (0.76%) GIS
15 6 (0.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (2.92%) JIRA
2 19 (2.41%) Git
3 12 (1.52%) GitLab
3 12 (1.52%) Postman
4 9 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.14%) Selenium
4 9 (1.14%) WebDriver
5 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 4 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.38%) Protractor
9 2 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.25%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 291 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 209 (26.49%) Finance
3 143 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 84 (10.65%) Legal
6 39 (4.94%) Local Government
7 38 (4.82%) Marketing
8 37 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (4.06%) Banking
10 32 (4.06%) Retail
11 21 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.41%) Military
13 14 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.65%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.65%) Law
15 11 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (17.36%) Architect
2 120 (15.21%) Lead
3 85 (10.77%) Analyst
4 71 (9.00%) Senior
5 41 (5.20%) Project Manager
6 38 (4.82%) Data Engineer
7 36 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (4.31%) Administrator
9 33 (4.18%) Data Analyst
10 32 (4.06%) Consultant
11 31 (3.93%) Business Analyst
12 30 (3.80%) Data Architect
13 28 (3.55%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.79%) Security Manager
15 18 (2.28%) Developer
16 17 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 17 (2.15%) Security Engineer
17 16 (2.03%) Coordinator
18 15 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 15 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.58%) REST
1 44 (5.58%) Terraform
2 31 (3.93%) OAuth
3 28 (3.55%) LDAP
3 28 (3.55%) SAML
4 24 (3.04%) JSON
4 24 (3.04%) OpenID
5 19 (2.41%) Kafka
6 18 (2.28%) SOAP
7 16 (2.03%) OAuth2
8 14 (1.77%) PySpark
9 12 (1.52%) JDBC
10 11 (1.39%) .NET
10 11 (1.39%) HTML
10 11 (1.39%) Middleware
10 11 (1.39%) SailPoint
10 11 (1.39%) XML
11 9 (1.14%) Gherkin
11 9 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (1.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.84%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 37 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (4.69%) Security Posture
5 31 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 24 (3.04%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.92%) Freedom of Information
8 23 (2.92%) NHS
9 22 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
10 20 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
11 16 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
12 14 (1.77%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.77%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.79%) Windows
2 14 (1.77%) Linux
3 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (27.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 211 (26.74%) Data Protection
3 203 (25.73%) Data Governance
4 162 (20.53%) Analytics
5 159 (20.15%) Agile
6 151 (19.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 150 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
8 144 (18.25%) AI
9 139 (17.62%) Migration
10 124 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (15.34%) Data Modelling
12 117 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (14.58%) DevOps
14 110 (13.94%) CI/CD
15 107 (13.56%) Roadmaps
16 106 (13.43%) Information Security
17 103 (13.05%) Decision-Making
18 97 (12.29%) Risk Management
19 90 (11.41%) Business Intelligence
20 89 (11.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 134 (16.98%) SQL
2 92 (11.66%) Python
3 42 (5.32%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.56%) Java
5 30 (3.80%) JavaScript
6 24 (3.04%) C#
7 12 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.39%) Bash
9 10 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.14%) Bicep
11 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.76%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.38%) Go
13 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.38%) R
13 3 (0.38%) Ruby
14 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.63%) CISSP
4 65 (8.24%) Degree
5 59 (7.48%) CISM
6 28 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 25 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (2.41%) PMI Certification
9 19 (2.41%) PMP
10 18 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.27%) ISTQB
14 9 (1.14%) CISA
15 7 (0.89%) CCSP
15 7 (0.89%) CEH
16 6 (0.76%) GCIH
16 6 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (19.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (16.48%) Data Quality
3 92 (11.66%) NIST
4 59 (7.48%) PCI DSS
5 54 (6.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 35 (4.44%) NCSC
6 35 (4.44%) QA
7 34 (4.31%) Accessibility
7 34 (4.31%) GRC
8 28 (3.55%) HIPAA
9 26 (3.30%) SOC 2
10 23 (2.92%) WCAG
11 22 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (2.15%) PERC
13 15 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.65%) Solvency II
15 12 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (1.52%) PMO
16 8 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.76%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.25%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (1.01%) Ansible
4 8 (1.01%) CASB
4 8 (1.01%) Grafana
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.63%) PingFederate
5 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.38%) QRadar
8 2 (0.25%) Argo
8 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.25%) systemd
9 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Kibana
9 1 (0.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 214 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.97%) Oracle
2 55 (6.97%) SAP
3 46 (5.83%) Databricks
4 44 (5.58%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.94%) Google
6 31 (3.93%) Workday
7 29 (3.68%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.28%) Adobe
8 18 (2.28%) CyberArk
9 15 (1.90%) Splunk
10 12 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 11 (1.39%) IFS
12 10 (1.27%) Informatica
13 8 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (1.01%) NEC
14 7 (0.89%) Cisco
15 6 (0.76%) Civica
15 6 (0.76%) Foundry
15 6 (0.76%) Ping Identity
839 GDPR jobs in England