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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 143 180
Rank change year-on-year +30 +37 +70
Contract jobs citing GDPR 898 473 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 1.94% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.13% 12.22% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 289 264
10th Percentile £368 £350 £306
25th Percentile £450 £447 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £537 £537 £500
% change year-on-year - +7.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 46
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.19 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +15.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £31.76 £28.52
90th Percentile £62.70 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -12.02% +19.54% -6.12%

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 6,841 3,871 5,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 15.90% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,462 2,485 3,383
10th Percentile £337 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 160 349
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +54.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.17 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year -1.51% +63.84% -44.22%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +25 432 £550 -4.35% 209
South East +31 175 £550 +4.76% 158
North of England +4 131 £550 +4.76% 77
Midlands -28 78 £475 +3.04% 72
North West -11 62 £528 +0.48% 45
Yorkshire -9 58 £550 +4.76% 22
West Midlands -41 43 £492 +3.58% 40
South West -20 40 £500 +25.00% 34
East Midlands -2 35 £450 +30.25% 32
East of England -20 29 £625 +19.05% 53
North East -9 12 £466 +0.76% 10
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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 45 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (4.01%) Confluence
4 33 (3.67%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.56%) Apache
6 18 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.89%) TPMS
8 7 (0.78%) SAS
9 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.33%) Appian
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Moodle
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.89%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.56%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Actimize
6 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 335 (37.31%) Azure
2 255 (28.40%) AWS
3 140 (15.59%) GCP
4 126 (14.03%) Power Platform
5 86 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (8.13%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (4.12%) SaaS
11 36 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (3.90%) Collibra
13 29 (3.23%) OneDrive
14 27 (3.01%) Amazon S3
14 27 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (2.90%) Snowflake
16 24 (2.67%) GitHub
17 23 (2.56%) Serverless
18 19 (2.12%) dbt
19 18 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.46%) Firewall
2 36 (4.01%) Network Security
3 24 (2.67%) DNS
4 22 (2.45%) VPN
5 20 (2.23%) DHCP
6 15 (1.67%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.67%) SSL
7 14 (1.56%) Cisco IPT
7 14 (1.56%) Wireless
8 10 (1.11%) SMS
9 8 (0.89%) SNMP
9 8 (0.89%) SSH
10 6 (0.67%) HTTP
10 6 (0.67%) WAN
11 5 (0.56%) LAN
11 5 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.45%) NGFW
13 3 (0.33%) IPv4
13 3 (0.33%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (12.92%) Power BI
2 60 (6.68%) Data Lake
3 52 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.46%) Metadata
5 25 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.56%) Tableau
7 20 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.78%) Mixpanel
10 16 (1.78%) OLAP
10 16 (1.78%) OLTP
11 13 (1.45%) Big Data
12 12 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (5.57%) JIRA
2 29 (3.23%) Git
3 18 (2.00%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.89%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.78%) GitLab
6 10 (1.11%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) ERwin
7 6 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.45%) Postman
8 4 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 343 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 293 (32.63%) Finance
3 152 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (15.59%) Legal
5 100 (11.14%) Public Sector
6 73 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (6.24%) Banking
7 56 (6.24%) Marketing
8 35 (3.90%) Retail
9 21 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.89%) Law
11 17 (1.89%) Local Government
11 17 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.22%) Electronics
15 8 (0.89%) Billing
15 8 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (17.37%) Architect
2 104 (11.58%) Lead
3 101 (11.25%) Analyst
4 59 (6.57%) Project Manager
5 55 (6.12%) Senior
6 54 (6.01%) Consultant
7 52 (5.79%) Business Analyst
8 51 (5.68%) Data Engineer
9 42 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.01%) Security Engineer
11 30 (3.34%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.78%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.67%) Security Architect
14 23 (2.56%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.56%) Security Manager
15 22 (2.45%) Administrator
15 22 (2.45%) Developer
16 19 (2.12%) Principal Engineer
17 18 (2.00%) Migration Manager
18 17 (1.89%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.35%) LDAP
2 44 (4.90%) Kafka
2 44 (4.90%) REST
3 37 (4.12%) OAuth
4 34 (3.79%) Middleware
5 33 (3.67%) SAML
6 20 (2.23%) PySpark
7 18 (2.00%) Great Expectations
8 17 (1.89%) HTML
8 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.89%) OpenID
9 16 (1.78%) .NET
9 16 (1.78%) JSON
9 16 (1.78%) SOAP
10 15 (1.67%) CSS
11 13 (1.45%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (1.00%) J2EE
13 9 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.90%) Management Information System
3 48 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 44 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.23%) Marketing Technology
10 20 (2.23%) Replication
11 18 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.45%) NHS
15 12 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.22%) BYOD
17 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.35%) Windows
2 31 (3.45%) Linux
3 27 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) Android
7 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (25.17%) Data Protection
2 221 (24.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 209 (23.27%) Agile
4 198 (22.05%) Data Governance
5 169 (18.82%) Migration
6 168 (18.71%) CI/CD
7 167 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
8 165 (18.37%) DevOps
9 161 (17.93%) Analytics
10 150 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
11 136 (15.14%) Data Modelling
12 135 (15.03%) Business Intelligence
13 123 (13.70%) Roadmaps
14 121 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 119 (13.25%) AI
16 109 (12.14%) Risk Management
17 107 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (11.92%) Validation
18 103 (11.47%) ETL
19 102 (11.36%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 180 (20.04%) SQL
2 157 (17.48%) Python
3 107 (11.92%) PowerShell
4 44 (4.90%) Java
5 33 (3.67%) C#
6 26 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.45%) Bash
8 13 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.00%) Bicep
9 9 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.78%) R
12 6 (0.67%) Go
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
15 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 148 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 100 (11.14%) Degree
4 96 (10.69%) CISSP
5 76 (8.46%) CISM
6 44 (4.90%) PMI Certification
7 41 (4.57%) PMP
8 26 (2.90%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.78%) CHECK Team Member
12 16 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.56%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.56%) Cyber Scheme
15 13 (1.45%) IIBA
15 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.34%) Postgraduate
17 11 (1.22%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (25.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (17.59%) NIST
3 122 (13.59%) Data Quality
4 109 (12.14%) PCI DSS
5 81 (9.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 42 (4.68%) QA
7 40 (4.45%) GRC
8 37 (4.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 33 (3.67%) SOC 2
10 32 (3.56%) HIPAA
11 24 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 24 (2.67%) PERC
12 23 (2.56%) PMO
13 22 (2.45%) NCSC
14 19 (2.12%) MiFID
15 17 (1.89%) Accessibility
16 13 (1.45%) FINRA
17 11 (1.22%) Solvency II
18 9 (1.00%) COBIT
18 9 (1.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 84 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.01%) Docker
3 7 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (7.46%) Terraform
2 61 (6.79%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.78%) Nmap
6 12 (1.34%) Grafana
7 9 (1.00%) Ansible
7 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.89%) SCCM
9 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.45%) Istio
9 4 (0.45%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.45%) QRadar
9 4 (0.45%) Rancher
10 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 219 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.24%) Google
3 62 (6.90%) Databricks
4 48 (5.35%) CyberArk
4 48 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 45 (5.01%) SAP
6 44 (4.90%) Salesforce
7 41 (4.57%) Oracle
8 31 (3.45%) Workday
9 27 (3.01%) BeyondTrust
10 23 (2.56%) Adobe
11 20 (2.23%) Okta
12 19 (2.12%) Informatica
12 19 (2.12%) Splunk
13 15 (1.67%) Tealium
14 13 (1.45%) OneTrust
15 12 (1.34%) IFS
16 9 (1.00%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.89%) NEC
17 8 (0.89%) Varonis
537 GDPR jobs in England