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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 183 188
Rank change year-on-year +81 +5 +82
Contract jobs citing GDPR 867 386 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.60% 1.47% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.09% 10.03% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 208 260
10th Percentile £325 £303 £324
25th Percentile £425 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £634 £675
90th Percentile £704 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.57% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 30
10th Percentile £15.83 - £11.05
25th Percentile £24.19 £15.50 £11.77
Median hourly rate £34.00 £16.75 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.99% +34.00% -53.70%
75th Percentile £54.13 £24.44 £23.62
90th Percentile £70.35 £31.76 £27.42
UK median hourly rate £31.28 £18.72 £12.50
% change year-on-year +67.07% +49.76% -44.90%

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 5,744 3,849 5,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 14.65% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,716 2,242 3,555
10th Percentile £322 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £642
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 152 301
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.73 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £31.76 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +21.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £50.75
90th Percentile £69.52 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £27.04 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.88% +20.00% -5.89%

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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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +70 425 £550 - 179
South East +44 163 £500 -5.21% 161
North of England -1 110 £550 +15.79% 88
Midlands -4 81 £475 - 99
Yorkshire -4 69 £558 +6.29% 24
South West +19 52 £475 +111.11% 44
East Midlands +8 41 £438 -12.50% 40
West Midlands -19 40 £500 +5.26% 59
North West -18 34 £457 +1.50% 59
East of England -23 18 £535 +7.00% 37
North East -16 7 £466 +9.65% 5
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UK

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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 44 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.69%) Confluence
4 23 (2.65%) Apache
4 23 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.27%) TPMS
7 7 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.81%) SAS
8 6 (0.69%) Appian
8 6 (0.69%) Camunda
9 3 (0.35%) CMS
9 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 342 (39.45%) Azure
2 247 (28.49%) AWS
3 143 (16.49%) GCP
4 96 (11.07%) Power Platform
5 92 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (10.15%) Entra ID
7 52 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.61%) SaaS
10 37 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (4.04%) Amazon S3
12 30 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 30 (3.46%) OneDrive
13 29 (3.34%) Collibra
14 28 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (3.23%) Serverless
15 24 (2.77%) OCI
16 23 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (2.54%) GitHub
18 17 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.81%) Firewall
2 41 (4.73%) Network Security
3 31 (3.58%) DNS
4 25 (2.88%) VPN
5 24 (2.77%) DHCP
6 18 (2.08%) Kerberos
6 18 (2.08%) SSL
7 16 (1.85%) Wireless
8 13 (1.50%) Cisco IPT
9 12 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.27%) SNMP
10 11 (1.27%) SSH
11 10 (1.15%) SMS
12 9 (1.04%) LAN
12 9 (1.04%) WAN
13 8 (0.92%) PABX
13 8 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.92%) WLAN
14 7 (0.81%) BGP
14 7 (0.81%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.69%) Power BI
2 58 (6.69%) Data Lake
3 42 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.27%) Metadata
5 20 (2.31%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.19%) Tableau
7 18 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.61%) Mixpanel
10 13 (1.50%) OLAP
10 13 (1.50%) OLTP
11 12 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.38%) Big Data
12 11 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 9 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (5.19%) JIRA
2 25 (2.88%) Git
3 20 (2.31%) GitLab
4 16 (1.85%) Metasploit
5 15 (1.73%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.92%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.58%) Postman
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) Subversion
9 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.23%) Ant
10 2 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) Locust
10 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
General
1 409 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 235 (27.10%) Finance
3 133 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.03%) Legal
5 97 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 80 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (7.73%) Marketing
8 52 (6.00%) Banking
9 24 (2.77%) Law
10 21 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.73%) Electronics
13 14 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.38%) Retail
15 10 (1.15%) Military
16 9 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.92%) Local Government
17 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 151 (17.42%) Architect
2 110 (12.69%) Analyst
3 102 (11.76%) Lead
4 62 (7.15%) Consultant
5 53 (6.11%) Senior
6 50 (5.77%) Business Analyst
7 44 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 35 (4.04%) Security Engineer
10 28 (3.23%) Developer
10 28 (3.23%) Security Architect
11 26 (3.00%) Data Analyst
12 23 (2.65%) Administrator
12 23 (2.65%) Data Architect
12 23 (2.65%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 18 (2.08%) Security Analyst
14 15 (1.73%) Enterprise Architect
15 14 (1.61%) Data Manager
15 14 (1.61%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.46%) LDAP
2 55 (6.34%) OAuth
3 51 (5.88%) REST
4 47 (5.42%) SAML
5 32 (3.69%) Kafka
6 27 (3.11%) OpenID
7 24 (2.77%) OAuth2
8 20 (2.31%) Middleware
8 20 (2.31%) SOAP
9 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
10 17 (1.96%) HTML
11 16 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.85%) PySpark
12 15 (1.73%) Great Expectations
13 13 (1.50%) CSS
13 13 (1.50%) RESTful
14 12 (1.38%) .NET
15 10 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
16 9 (1.04%) GraphQL
17 8 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.81%) Onboarding
2 53 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 45 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 41 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.92%) Data Structures
7 30 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.88%) Replication
10 23 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
12 15 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.73%) NHS
13 14 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (1.15%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 90 (10.38%) Windows
2 37 (4.27%) Linux
3 20 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.58%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 196 (22.61%) Agile
3 190 (21.91%) Data Protection
4 185 (21.34%) Data Governance
5 161 (18.57%) DevOps
6 159 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (17.76%) Cybersecurity
8 153 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 148 (17.07%) Analytics
10 136 (15.69%) Migration
11 135 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 126 (14.53%) Data Modelling
13 123 (14.19%) Data Privacy
14 109 (12.57%) Roadmaps
15 105 (12.11%) Risk Management
16 104 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
17 103 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (11.76%) AI
19 94 (10.84%) Regulatory Compliance
20 91 (10.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 150 (17.30%) Python
2 137 (15.80%) SQL
3 123 (14.19%) PowerShell
4 35 (4.04%) Java
5 27 (3.11%) C#
6 26 (3.00%) Bash
7 23 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.27%) Bicep
11 9 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.81%) R
14 5 (0.58%) Perl
15 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.23%) PHP
17 2 (0.23%) Rust
17 2 (0.23%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 159 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 130 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 117 (13.49%) Degree
4 107 (12.34%) CISSP
5 72 (8.30%) CISM
6 37 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.04%) AWS Certification
7 35 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (3.46%) PMI Certification
9 27 (3.11%) PMP
10 24 (2.77%) Master's Degree
11 20 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (2.08%) DV Cleared
13 16 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
14 14 (1.61%) CCSP
14 14 (1.61%) CHECK Team Member
14 14 (1.61%) CISA
15 12 (1.38%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (27.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 173 (19.95%) NIST
3 103 (11.88%) PCI DSS
4 95 (10.96%) Data Quality
5 76 (8.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 53 (6.11%) HIPAA
7 49 (5.65%) QA
8 45 (5.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (3.34%) GRC
11 23 (2.65%) SOC 2
12 20 (2.31%) NCSC
13 19 (2.19%) PERC
14 17 (1.96%) MiFID
15 16 (1.85%) SLA
16 15 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (1.61%) Accessibility
17 14 (1.61%) PMO
17 14 (1.61%) PSD2
18 12 (1.38%) FINRA
System Software
1 99 (11.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.46%) Docker
3 20 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) NFS
6 3 (0.35%) Veritas File System
6 3 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 74 (8.54%) Terraform
2 50 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
3 41 (4.73%) Kubernetes
4 26 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.42%) Ansible
6 19 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (2.19%) SCCM
7 14 (1.61%) Nmap
8 13 (1.50%) QRadar
9 6 (0.69%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.58%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.23%) Grafana
12 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 221 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.27%) Google
3 57 (6.57%) Salesforce
4 51 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 47 (5.42%) Oracle
6 45 (5.19%) Databricks
7 39 (4.50%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.27%) SAP
9 35 (4.04%) Splunk
10 30 (3.46%) BeyondTrust
11 23 (2.65%) Informatica
11 23 (2.65%) VMware
12 21 (2.42%) Adobe
13 19 (2.19%) Okta
13 19 (2.19%) Workday
14 17 (1.96%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.73%) OneTrust
15 15 (1.73%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.50%) Cisco
16 13 (1.50%) Tealium
557 GDPR jobs in England