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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 127 211
Rank change year-on-year -9 +84 +48
Contract jobs citing GDPR 861 591 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.17% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.19% 13.03% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 362 234
10th Percentile £363 £351 £304
25th Percentile £450 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £744 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 35 46
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.15 £11.77
25th Percentile £19.46 £15.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +27.04% +31.58%
75th Percentile £64.00 £70.08 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.28 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £28.03 £27.44 £25.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% +9.76% +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 7,694 4,535 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.68% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,939 2,937 3,094
10th Percentile £349 £271 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 212 367
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.51
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £53.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%

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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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +3 409 £570 -0.87% 181
South East -13 155 £570 +14.00% 116
North of England -50 114 £513 -1.35% 79
Midlands -43 74 £450 +8.43% 56
North West -14 69 £513 -2.38% 53
South West -13 52 £500 +25.00% 41
East of England +2 45 £625 +19.05% 23
West Midlands -43 42 £450 +12.50% 32
Yorkshire -59 35 £550 +8.48% 19
East Midlands -8 32 £500 +20.48% 24
North East -31 11 £463 -14.94% 7
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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 37 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.56%) Confluence
4 18 (2.09%) Apache
5 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (1.39%) CMS
8 8 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.58%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.12%) TPMS
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.51%) NEC Housing
2 13 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.70%) iTrent
5 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 292 (33.91%) Azure
2 196 (22.76%) AWS
3 119 (13.82%) Power Platform
4 100 (11.61%) GCP
5 58 (6.74%) Entra ID
6 55 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (5.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (5.11%) SaaS
9 37 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (4.07%) Snowflake
11 30 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (3.48%) GitHub
12 26 (3.02%) Collibra
13 25 (2.90%) Serverless
14 21 (2.44%) dbt
15 19 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.53%) Firewall
2 33 (3.83%) Network Security
3 17 (1.97%) VPN
4 15 (1.74%) DNS
5 12 (1.39%) DHCP
6 10 (1.16%) Cisco IPT
6 10 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 9 (1.05%) SMS
7 9 (1.05%) SSL
8 7 (0.81%) HTTP
9 5 (0.58%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.58%) WAN
10 4 (0.46%) LAN
10 4 (0.46%) Wireless
11 3 (0.35%) BGP
11 3 (0.35%) MPLS
11 3 (0.35%) OSPF
11 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.66%) Power BI
2 54 (6.27%) Metadata
3 50 (5.81%) Data Lake
4 49 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.21%) Tableau
8 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
9 16 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.39%) Big Data
12 11 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.28%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (1.05%) Looker
14 9 (1.05%) Mixpanel
14 9 (1.05%) OLTP
15 8 (0.93%) Data Vault
15 8 (0.93%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (4.41%) JIRA
2 15 (1.74%) Git
3 7 (0.81%) Postman
3 7 (0.81%) Selenium
4 6 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 6 (0.70%) ERwin
4 6 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.46%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.35%) Protractor
7 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 290 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 268 (31.13%) Finance
3 156 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (14.75%) Public Sector
5 100 (11.61%) Legal
6 46 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (5.11%) Marketing
8 42 (4.88%) Banking
9 39 (4.53%) Retail
10 31 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (3.14%) Local Government
12 23 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.63%) Military
15 13 (1.51%) Law
15 13 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.51%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.28%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 151 (17.54%) Architect
2 121 (14.05%) Lead
3 89 (10.34%) Analyst
4 66 (7.67%) Senior
5 55 (6.39%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.46%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (4.53%) Business Analyst
9 34 (3.95%) Consultant
9 34 (3.95%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.83%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.37%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.02%) Security Engineer
13 24 (2.79%) Administrator
14 23 (2.67%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.09%) Technical Architect
17 16 (1.86%) Developer
18 15 (1.74%) Principal Engineer
18 15 (1.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.30%) REST
2 35 (4.07%) Kafka
2 35 (4.07%) LDAP
3 34 (3.95%) OAuth
3 34 (3.95%) SAML
4 29 (3.37%) Middleware
5 22 (2.56%) OpenID
6 20 (2.32%) JSON
7 16 (1.86%) SOAP
8 15 (1.74%) .NET
8 15 (1.74%) PySpark
9 13 (1.51%) OAuth2
10 11 (1.28%) Great Expectations
11 9 (1.05%) CSS
11 9 (1.05%) HTML
11 9 (1.05%) J2EE
11 9 (1.05%) SailPoint
11 9 (1.05%) XML
12 7 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 7 (0.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 47 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (5.23%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 26 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 21 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
13 15 (1.74%) Replication
14 13 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.51%) NHS
15 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.16%) BYOD
16 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.99%) Windows
2 18 (2.09%) Linux
3 17 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (25.90%) Data Protection
2 222 (25.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 211 (24.51%) Data Governance
4 184 (21.37%) Agile
5 177 (20.56%) Cybersecurity
6 173 (20.09%) Migration
7 170 (19.74%) Analytics
8 148 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 144 (16.72%) DevOps
9 144 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
10 138 (16.03%) AI
10 138 (16.03%) Data Modelling
11 131 (15.21%) CI/CD
12 128 (14.87%) Roadmaps
13 124 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
14 120 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (12.54%) Validation
16 106 (12.31%) Information Security
17 104 (12.08%) Risk Management
18 98 (11.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 168 (19.51%) SQL
2 114 (13.24%) Python
3 61 (7.08%) PowerShell
4 41 (4.76%) Java
5 23 (2.67%) C#
6 18 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.63%) Bash
8 11 (1.28%) Bicep
9 8 (0.93%) Go
9 8 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 161 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 127 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 84 (9.76%) CISSP
4 78 (9.06%) Degree
5 68 (7.90%) CISM
6 30 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 30 (3.48%) PMP
7 26 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.90%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.93%) CISA
15 8 (0.93%) CRISC
15 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (21.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 146 (16.96%) Data Quality
3 119 (13.82%) NIST
4 74 (8.59%) PCI DSS
5 60 (6.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.30%) GRC
6 37 (4.30%) NCSC
7 33 (3.83%) HIPAA
7 33 (3.83%) QA
7 33 (3.83%) SOC 2
8 27 (3.14%) Accessibility
9 25 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (2.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (2.32%) PMO
12 16 (1.86%) PERC
12 16 (1.86%) WCAG
13 15 (1.74%) Solvency II
14 13 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.79%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (5.81%) Terraform
2 45 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 36 (4.18%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.51%) Grafana
6 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.46%) Ansible
8 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.46%) Istio
8 4 (0.46%) Rancher
9 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.23%) Nmap
9 2 (0.23%) QRadar
9 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.12%) Nessus
10 1 (0.12%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 206 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.55%) Databricks
3 52 (6.04%) SAP
4 51 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 50 (5.81%) Google
6 49 (5.69%) Oracle
7 36 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.83%) Workday
9 27 (3.14%) CyberArk
10 20 (2.32%) Adobe
11 15 (1.74%) Informatica
12 14 (1.63%) IFS
12 14 (1.63%) Okta
13 13 (1.51%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (1.51%) NEC
14 12 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 10 (1.16%) Splunk
16 7 (0.81%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 6 (0.70%) Varonis
459 GDPR jobs in England