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

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 125 225
Rank change year-on-year -27 +100 +33
Contract jobs citing GDPR 830 631 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 2.28% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.45% 13.30% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 389 208
10th Percentile £351 £360 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £651 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £740 £679
UK median daily rate £558 £525 £503
% change year-on-year +6.29% +4.43% -6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 40 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.96 £19.15
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.16 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.26 £30.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +20.98% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.04 £28.75
90th Percentile - £88.84 £34.10
UK median hourly rate £28.26 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +66.21% -32.00% +31.58%

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 7,942 4,746 4,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.42% 17.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,100 2,765
10th Percentile £340 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 223 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.97
25th Percentile £19.11 £18.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% +15.05% -31.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.91 £26.56
% change year-on-year +43.32% +5.08% -31.39%

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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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -19 390 £573 -0.43% 467
South East -29 155 £575 +15.00% 144
North of England -44 113 £500 -1.38% 129
North West -2 70 £525 +3.14% 83
Midlands -53 63 £488 +13.37% 99
South West -27 49 £488 +21.88% 85
East of England +6 48 £625 +19.05% 53
West Midlands -42 44 £450 -10.00% 62
Yorkshire -57 29 £471 -7.20% 32
East Midlands -23 19 £537 +27.92% 37
North East -33 13 £463 -14.94% 14
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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 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.65%) Confluence
3 19 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.57%) Apache
6 12 (1.45%) CMS
7 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 28 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.08%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.72%) iTrent
6 5 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.60%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.36%) Workfront
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 287 (34.58%) Azure
2 192 (23.13%) AWS
3 108 (13.01%) Power Platform
4 90 (10.84%) GCP
5 53 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (6.39%) Entra ID
6 51 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (5.90%) SaaS
8 46 (5.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 36 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (4.34%) Snowflake
10 35 (4.22%) GitHub
11 31 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.73%) Serverless
12 23 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (2.53%) dbt
14 20 (2.41%) Collibra
14 20 (2.41%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.82%) Firewall
2 38 (4.58%) Network Security
3 16 (1.93%) VPN
4 13 (1.57%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.96%) SMS
5 8 (0.96%) SSL
6 7 (0.84%) DNS
6 7 (0.84%) HTTP
7 5 (0.60%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.60%) WAN
8 4 (0.48%) LAN
8 4 (0.48%) Wireless
8 4 (0.48%) X.509
9 3 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.36%) FTP
9 3 (0.36%) Intranet
9 3 (0.36%) IPv4
9 3 (0.36%) IPv6
9 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.93%) Power BI
2 52 (6.27%) Metadata
3 48 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.93%) Tableau
8 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.33%) Big Data
9 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.20%) Looker
11 7 (0.84%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.72%) MySQL
12 6 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.46%) JIRA
2 14 (1.69%) Git
3 11 (1.33%) GitLab
4 10 (1.20%) Postman
4 10 (1.20%) Selenium
5 9 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.08%) WebDriver
6 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.36%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.36%) Protractor
10 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 281 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 250 (30.12%) Finance
3 152 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (16.02%) Public Sector
5 94 (11.33%) Legal
6 41 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (4.94%) Marketing
7 38 (4.58%) Banking
7 38 (4.58%) Retail
8 33 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.73%) Local Government
10 29 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.81%) Military
13 14 (1.69%) Law
13 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 151 (18.19%) Architect
2 119 (14.34%) Lead
3 88 (10.60%) Analyst
4 75 (9.04%) Senior
5 49 (5.90%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 37 (4.46%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.22%) Consultant
10 33 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.98%) Data Architect
11 27 (3.25%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.13%) Administrator
13 25 (3.01%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.89%) Security Architect
15 20 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.17%) Senior Manager
17 17 (2.05%) Technical Architect
18 15 (1.81%) Developer
18 15 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.82%) REST
2 29 (3.49%) Kafka
2 29 (3.49%) OAuth
3 26 (3.13%) LDAP
3 26 (3.13%) SAML
4 25 (3.01%) Middleware
5 23 (2.77%) OpenID
6 19 (2.29%) JSON
7 17 (2.05%) .NET
8 16 (1.93%) PySpark
9 15 (1.81%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.81%) SOAP
10 12 (1.45%) HTML
11 9 (1.08%) Gherkin
12 8 (0.96%) CSS
12 8 (0.96%) JDBC
12 8 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.96%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.84%) AWS CDK
13 7 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.42%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.05%) NHS
11 16 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
11 16 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.57%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.20%) BYOD
15 10 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.37%) Windows
2 18 (2.17%) Linux
3 8 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.24%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (25.90%) Data Protection
1 215 (25.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 208 (25.06%) Data Governance
3 183 (22.05%) Agile
4 168 (20.24%) Analytics
4 168 (20.24%) Cybersecurity
5 162 (19.52%) Migration
6 159 (19.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 144 (17.35%) AI
8 135 (16.27%) DevOps
9 134 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (15.78%) CI/CD
10 131 (15.78%) Data Modelling
11 120 (14.46%) Roadmaps
12 113 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (13.49%) Business Intelligence
14 110 (13.25%) Information Security
15 101 (12.17%) Risk Management
16 100 (12.05%) Validation
17 92 (11.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 152 (18.31%) SQL
2 108 (13.01%) Python
3 50 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.98%) Java
5 24 (2.89%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.53%) C#
7 16 (1.93%) Bash
8 11 (1.33%) Bicep
9 9 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.84%) Go
11 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.36%) R
14 3 (0.36%) Ruby
14 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.24%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 155 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.24%) CISSP
4 69 (8.31%) Degree
5 65 (7.83%) CISM
6 27 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.89%) PMP
9 23 (2.77%) PMI Certification
10 22 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.33%) CISA
14 11 (1.33%) ISTQB
15 10 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 9 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.96%) CEH
18 7 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (22.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (16.75%) Data Quality
3 116 (13.98%) NIST
4 70 (8.43%) PCI DSS
5 58 (6.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 36 (4.34%) NCSC
6 36 (4.34%) QA
7 33 (3.98%) Accessibility
7 33 (3.98%) GRC
7 33 (3.98%) SOC 2
8 31 (3.73%) HIPAA
9 27 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (2.41%) WCAG
11 19 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (2.29%) PMO
12 17 (2.05%) PERC
13 14 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (1.45%) Solvency II
15 9 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.77%) Docker
3 3 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (6.14%) Terraform
2 44 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.69%) Grafana
5 10 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.84%) Ansible
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
8 5 (0.60%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Istio
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.48%) Rancher
10 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.24%) Nmap
10 2 (0.24%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 211 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.35%) Databricks
3 56 (6.75%) Oracle
4 54 (6.51%) SAP
5 47 (5.66%) Salesforce
6 42 (5.06%) Google
7 37 (4.46%) Workday
8 33 (3.98%) ServiceNow
9 20 (2.41%) CyberArk
10 17 (2.05%) Adobe
11 14 (1.69%) IFS
12 12 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (1.33%) Informatica
14 10 (1.20%) Splunk
15 9 (1.08%) NEC
16 8 (0.96%) BeyondTrust
17 7 (0.84%) MuleSoft
18 6 (0.72%) Ping Identity
18 6 (0.72%) Tealium
18 6 (0.72%) Varonis
944 GDPR jobs in England