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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 118 238
Rank change year-on-year -39 +120 +33
Contract jobs citing GDPR 800 664 340
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.41% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.98% 14.01% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 413 196
10th Percentile £336 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.25% -5.73%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £750 £681
UK median daily rate £560 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 20
10th Percentile £14.52 £14.64 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.47 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +20.98% +33.69%
75th Percentile £72.91 £65.43 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.01 £37.29
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -32.00% +33.69%

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 8,020 4,741 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.54% 17.18% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,083 3,103 2,683
10th Percentile £331 £285 £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 £611 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.07% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 227 253
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -27.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% +24.07% -30.91%

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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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -19 379 £575 - 764
South East -38 141 £591 +18.25% 194
North of England -51 103 £494 -2.66% 215
Midlands -51 67 £450 +2.39% 108
North West -21 62 £528 +15.30% 129
East of England +6 50 £613 +16.67% 78
South West -31 49 £488 +21.88% 119
West Midlands -33 47 £450 -10.00% 67
Yorkshire -65 27 £470 -8.91% 55
East Midlands -29 20 £537 +28.68% 42
North East -31 13 £463 -26.00% 31
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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 33 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.50%) Apache
4 12 (1.50%) CMS
5 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.00%) Confluence
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.63%) IIS
8 2 (0.25%) Drupal
8 2 (0.25%) Mendix
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 29 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.00%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.75%) iTrent
6 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.38%) Workfront
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 272 (34.00%) Azure
2 181 (22.63%) AWS
3 105 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 90 (11.25%) GCP
5 53 (6.63%) Entra ID
5 53 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (6.13%) SaaS
8 42 (5.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 37 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (4.25%) Snowflake
11 33 (4.13%) Serverless
12 31 (3.88%) GitHub
13 29 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 23 (2.88%) Power Automate
16 21 (2.63%) dbt
17 20 (2.50%) OCI
18 19 (2.38%) Collibra
18 19 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.88%) Firewall
2 37 (4.63%) Network Security
3 17 (2.13%) Cisco IPT
4 16 (2.00%) VPN
5 8 (1.00%) SSL
6 7 (0.88%) SMS
7 6 (0.75%) DNS
8 5 (0.63%) HTTP
8 5 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.63%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) X.509
9 4 (0.50%) LAN
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) FTP
10 3 (0.38%) Intranet
10 3 (0.38%) IPv4
10 3 (0.38%) IPv6
10 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (11.63%) Power BI
2 58 (7.25%) Metadata
3 47 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.00%) Tableau
7 15 (1.88%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.38%) Delta Lake
9 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.25%) Big Data
10 10 (1.25%) Looker
10 10 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.88%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.75%) GIS
13 6 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.88%) JIRA
2 15 (1.88%) Git
3 11 (1.38%) GitLab
4 9 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.13%) Postman
4 9 (1.13%) Selenium
4 9 (1.13%) WebDriver
5 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.50%) ERwin
7 4 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
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%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 280 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 224 (28.00%) Finance
3 144 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (16.38%) Public Sector
5 91 (11.38%) Legal
6 38 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
6 38 (4.75%) Marketing
7 36 (4.50%) Local Government
8 34 (4.25%) Retail
9 33 (4.13%) Banking
9 33 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.25%) Military
13 15 (1.88%) Law
14 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.38%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (17.88%) Architect
2 123 (15.38%) Lead
3 83 (10.38%) Analyst
4 72 (9.00%) Senior
5 47 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 41 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.38%) Consultant
9 33 (4.13%) Data Analyst
9 33 (4.13%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.00%) Business Analyst
11 26 (3.25%) Security Architect
12 25 (3.13%) Administrator
12 25 (3.13%) Security Manager
13 19 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 17 (2.13%) Developer
14 17 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 16 (2.00%) Security Engineer
16 15 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (1.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.13%) Terraform
2 40 (5.00%) REST
3 31 (3.88%) OAuth
4 28 (3.50%) LDAP
4 28 (3.50%) SAML
5 26 (3.25%) Kafka
6 24 (3.00%) OpenID
7 22 (2.75%) JSON
8 17 (2.13%) SOAP
9 16 (2.00%) Middleware
9 16 (2.00%) OAuth2
10 14 (1.75%) PySpark
11 12 (1.50%) .NET
12 11 (1.38%) HTML
13 10 (1.25%) JDBC
13 10 (1.25%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.13%) Gherkin
14 9 (1.13%) XML
15 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
16 7 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.25%) Management Information System
2 57 (7.13%) Cloud Native
3 38 (4.75%) Data Protection Act
3 38 (4.75%) Security Posture
4 36 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 24 (3.00%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
9 21 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
10 20 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 19 (2.38%) NHS
12 17 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.50%) Taxonomies
15 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.88%) Windows
2 12 (1.50%) Linux
3 8 (1.00%) 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
1 217 (27.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (26.63%) Data Protection
3 210 (26.25%) Data Governance
4 166 (20.75%) Analytics
5 164 (20.50%) Agile
6 159 (19.88%) Cybersecurity
7 151 (18.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 144 (18.00%) Migration
9 142 (17.75%) AI
10 128 (16.00%) Data Modelling
11 125 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (15.13%) CI/CD
13 118 (14.75%) DevOps
14 116 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (13.38%) Information Security
15 107 (13.38%) Roadmaps
16 102 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
17 100 (12.50%) Decision-Making
18 95 (11.88%) Risk Management
19 90 (11.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 143 (17.88%) SQL
2 96 (12.00%) Python
3 45 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 37 (4.63%) Java
5 24 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.88%) C#
7 12 (1.50%) Bicep
8 11 (1.38%) Bash
8 11 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.63%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.50%) Go
14 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.38%) R
14 3 (0.38%) Ruby
15 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 116 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.63%) CISSP
4 62 (7.75%) Degree
5 59 (7.38%) CISM
6 29 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 25 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (2.63%) PMI Certification
9 21 (2.63%) PMP
10 17 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
14 8 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.88%) CEH
15 7 (0.88%) CISA
15 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 6 (0.75%) GCIH
16 6 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (21.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (16.63%) Data Quality
3 103 (12.88%) NIST
4 61 (7.63%) PCI DSS
5 56 (7.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 36 (4.50%) NCSC
7 34 (4.25%) QA
8 33 (4.13%) Accessibility
9 31 (3.88%) GRC
10 27 (3.38%) SOC 2
11 26 (3.25%) HIPAA
12 23 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (2.63%) WCAG
14 18 (2.25%) PERC
15 15 (1.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 13 (1.63%) PMO
17 12 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (1.50%) Solvency II
18 8 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 62 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.25%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) Firmware
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.38%) Grafana
4 10 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.00%) Ansible
5 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.75%) CASB
7 5 (0.63%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.50%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.38%) QRadar
10 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.25%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 210 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.75%) Databricks
3 53 (6.63%) Oracle
3 53 (6.63%) SAP
4 43 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 41 (5.13%) Google
6 33 (4.13%) Workday
7 29 (3.63%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.50%) CyberArk
9 18 (2.25%) Adobe
10 13 (1.63%) IFS
10 13 (1.63%) Splunk
11 12 (1.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (1.38%) Informatica
13 9 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (1.00%) NEC
15 6 (0.75%) Civica
15 6 (0.75%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.75%) Tealium
16 5 (0.63%) Cribl.io
1,411 GDPR jobs in England