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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 149 176
Rank change year-on-year +47 +27 +78
Contract jobs citing GDPR 918 412 505
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.45% 1.70% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.06% 10.97% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 245 247
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £450 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +7.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 45
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.56 £11.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% +3.54% -27.78%
75th Percentile £59.25 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £84.13 £34.27 £29.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £24.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year +5.15% +24.36% -14.04%

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 6,528 3,756 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.47% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,234 2,426 3,426
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 161 335
10th Percentile £15.40 £17.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.41
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +36.17% -44.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £29.77 £31.76 £22.01
% change year-on-year -6.28% +44.30% -44.98%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +46 442 £550 -3.51% 175
South East +37 176 £515 +3.00% 119
North of England -1 131 £550 +9.40% 99
Midlands -14 80 £475 +13.37% 58
Yorkshire -13 66 £550 +4.76% 29
North West -12 56 £525 +4.84% 60
South West +14 51 £494 +23.44% 29
West Midlands -24 47 £500 +5.26% 35
East Midlands -8 33 £438 +26.63% 23
East of England -36 22 £553 +10.60% 41
North East -9 9 £508 +9.84% 13
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 47 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.92%) Confluence
4 34 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.83%) Apache
6 14 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.09%) TPMS
8 7 (0.76%) SAS
9 6 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.65%) Appian
9 6 (0.65%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 41 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 359 (39.11%) Azure
2 283 (30.83%) AWS
3 151 (16.45%) GCP
4 119 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 85 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (8.71%) Entra ID
7 56 (6.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 49 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.36%) Amazon S3
11 37 (4.03%) Collibra
12 36 (3.92%) SaaS
13 34 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (3.27%) OneDrive
15 29 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (2.72%) GitHub
16 25 (2.72%) Serverless
17 20 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (2.18%) Snowflake
18 19 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.08%) Firewall
2 46 (5.01%) Network Security
3 27 (2.94%) DNS
4 24 (2.61%) DHCP
4 24 (2.61%) VPN
5 18 (1.96%) Wireless
6 15 (1.63%) Cisco IPT
6 15 (1.63%) SSL
7 14 (1.53%) Kerberos
8 11 (1.20%) LAN
8 11 (1.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.09%) SMS
9 10 (1.09%) SNMP
9 10 (1.09%) SSH
10 9 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.87%) IPv4
11 8 (0.87%) IPv6
11 8 (0.87%) WLAN
12 6 (0.65%) HTTP
12 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.98%) Power BI
2 69 (7.52%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (4.47%) Metadata
5 25 (2.72%) BigQuery
5 25 (2.72%) Tableau
6 23 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (2.18%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.96%) Mixpanel
9 18 (1.96%) OLAP
9 18 (1.96%) OLTP
10 17 (1.85%) Big Data
11 15 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (5.12%) JIRA
2 26 (2.83%) Git
3 18 (1.96%) Burp Suite
3 18 (1.96%) GitLab
3 18 (1.96%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) ERwin
5 5 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (0.44%) Postman
6 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.44%) Selenium
7 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 392 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 271 (29.52%) Finance
3 154 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (13.40%) Legal
5 112 (12.20%) Public Sector
6 81 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
7 62 (6.75%) Marketing
8 49 (5.34%) Banking
9 27 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.51%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.18%) Law
13 16 (1.74%) Retail
14 15 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.53%) Electronics
15 14 (1.53%) Local Government
16 12 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.20%) Military
18 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 8 (0.87%) Billing
Job Titles
1 176 (19.17%) Architect
2 102 (11.11%) Analyst
3 97 (10.57%) Lead
4 58 (6.32%) Consultant
5 55 (5.99%) Senior
6 52 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 50 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 49 (5.34%) Project Manager
9 48 (5.23%) Data Engineer
10 43 (4.68%) Security Engineer
11 34 (3.70%) Security Architect
12 31 (3.38%) Data Architect
13 27 (2.94%) Developer
14 26 (2.83%) Administrator
15 25 (2.72%) Microsoft 365 Architect
16 24 (2.61%) Data Analyst
17 20 (2.18%) Security Manager
18 19 (2.07%) Principal Engineer
19 16 (1.74%) Migration Manager
19 16 (1.74%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.45%) LDAP
2 44 (4.79%) Kafka
3 39 (4.25%) OAuth
4 38 (4.14%) REST
4 38 (4.14%) SAML
5 32 (3.49%) Middleware
6 24 (2.61%) OpenID
7 19 (2.07%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.96%) .NET
8 18 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (1.96%) OAuth2
9 17 (1.85%) PySpark
10 16 (1.74%) HTML
11 15 (1.63%) CSS
12 14 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (1.53%) SOAP
13 13 (1.42%) RESTful
14 10 (1.09%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (0.98%) JSON
15 9 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 56 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 52 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 36 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.29%) Data Centre
12 19 (2.07%) Marketing Technology
13 17 (1.85%) Replication
14 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.42%) Freedom of Information
15 13 (1.42%) NHS
16 12 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (1.20%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.20%) BYOD
17 11 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.48%) Windows
2 39 (4.25%) Linux
3 24 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.33%) Android
6 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (25.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (23.31%) Data Protection
3 192 (20.92%) Cybersecurity
4 190 (20.70%) Agile
5 189 (20.59%) Data Governance
6 168 (18.30%) CI/CD
7 167 (18.19%) Analytics
8 166 (18.08%) DevOps
9 160 (17.43%) Migration
10 154 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
11 136 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 135 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
13 131 (14.27%) Data Modelling
14 123 (13.40%) AI
15 121 (13.18%) Roadmaps
16 111 (12.09%) Data Privacy
17 105 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 105 (11.44%) Risk Management
18 103 (11.22%) ETL
18 103 (11.22%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 172 (18.74%) SQL
2 164 (17.86%) Python
3 115 (12.53%) PowerShell
4 37 (4.03%) Java
5 34 (3.70%) C#
6 24 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.85%) Bash
8 14 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.09%) Bicep
10 8 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.65%) R
12 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.54%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.22%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) Rust
15 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 171 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 142 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 115 (12.53%) Degree
4 113 (12.31%) CISSP
5 79 (8.61%) CISM
6 39 (4.25%) PMI Certification
7 36 (3.92%) PMP
8 33 (3.59%) Azure Certification
8 33 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (3.27%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 21 (2.29%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.74%) CHECK Team Member
14 15 (1.63%) CCSP
14 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (1.53%) CREST Certified
15 14 (1.53%) Cyber Scheme
15 14 (1.53%) DV Cleared
16 11 (1.20%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (27.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (20.48%) NIST
3 118 (12.85%) Data Quality
4 117 (12.75%) PCI DSS
5 76 (8.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 48 (5.23%) QA
7 45 (4.90%) HIPAA
8 44 (4.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 37 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (3.59%) GRC
11 32 (3.49%) SOC 2
12 26 (2.83%) NCSC
13 24 (2.61%) PERC
14 23 (2.51%) PMO
15 20 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 17 (1.85%) MiFID
17 15 (1.63%) SLA
18 14 (1.53%) Accessibility
19 13 (1.42%) FINRA
19 13 (1.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 86 (9.37%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.14%) Docker
3 12 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (8.28%) Terraform
2 57 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 44 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (1.74%) Ansible
6 16 (1.74%) Nmap
7 11 (1.20%) Grafana
7 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.98%) SCCM
9 5 (0.54%) QRadar
10 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.33%) Istio
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.33%) Rancher
11 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 219 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.17%) Google
3 64 (6.97%) Databricks
4 53 (5.77%) CyberArk
5 47 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 43 (4.68%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.47%) Oracle
8 39 (4.25%) SAP
9 32 (3.49%) BeyondTrust
10 25 (2.72%) Splunk
10 25 (2.72%) Workday
11 23 (2.51%) Adobe
12 22 (2.40%) Informatica
13 21 (2.29%) Okta
14 14 (1.53%) Cisco
14 14 (1.53%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.53%) OneTrust
14 14 (1.53%) Tealium
15 13 (1.42%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.42%) VMware
461 GDPR jobs in England