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

 6 months to
18 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 126 219
Rank change year-on-year -10 +93 +42
Contract jobs citing GDPR 863 604 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.22% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.17% 13.20% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 375 240
10th Percentile £363 £355 £302
25th Percentile £450 £419 £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 £741 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 35 41
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.15 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.13 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.03 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +27.04% +31.58%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.08 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.28 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £26.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.74% +6.00% +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 7,727 4,576 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 16.81% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,952 2,981 3,076
10th Percentile £348 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £611 £623 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 208 344
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.06
25th Percentile £19.30 £18.78 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.92 £65.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £86.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -38.94%

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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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +3 408 £570 -0.87% 180
South East -13 155 £570 +14.00% 110
North of England -46 113 £513 -1.35% 80
Midlands -41 78 £450 +7.78% 50
North West -17 69 £513 -2.38% 51
South West -22 53 £500 +25.00% 35
West Midlands -45 46 £450 -8.16% 28
East of England +4 44 £625 +19.05% 23
Yorkshire -50 34 £550 +8.48% 21
East Midlands -12 32 £500 +20.48% 22
North East -26 11 £463 -14.94% 9
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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 38 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.55%) Confluence
4 18 (2.09%) Apache
5 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.85%) 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 (3.13%) 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 27 (3.13%) 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%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
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 Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.12%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 293 (33.95%) Azure
2 199 (23.06%) AWS
3 118 (13.67%) Power Platform
4 103 (11.94%) GCP
5 57 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (6.49%) Entra ID
7 48 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 45 (5.21%) SaaS
9 37 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (4.06%) Snowflake
11 34 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
13 30 (3.48%) GitHub
14 26 (3.01%) Collibra
14 26 (3.01%) Serverless
15 21 (2.43%) dbt
16 19 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.52%) Firewall
2 33 (3.82%) Network Security
3 17 (1.97%) VPN
4 12 (1.39%) DNS
5 10 (1.16%) Cisco IPT
6 9 (1.04%) DHCP
6 9 (1.04%) SSL
7 8 (0.93%) SMS
8 7 (0.81%) HTTP
8 7 (0.81%) Kerberos
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%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) MPLS
11 3 (0.35%) OSPF
11 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (12.51%) Power BI
2 55 (6.37%) Metadata
3 51 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.43%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.20%) Tableau
8 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
9 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.39%) Big Data
11 12 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.04%) Looker
13 9 (1.04%) Mixpanel
13 9 (1.04%) OLTP
14 8 (0.93%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.93%) OLAP
14 8 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (4.40%) JIRA
2 15 (1.74%) Git
3 8 (0.93%) Postman
3 8 (0.93%) Selenium
4 7 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.81%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.70%) ERwin
5 6 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.46%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.35%) Protractor
8 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 292 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 270 (31.29%) Finance
3 157 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (15.06%) Public Sector
5 100 (11.59%) Legal
6 46 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (4.98%) Marketing
8 42 (4.87%) Banking
9 38 (4.40%) Retail
10 31 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (3.36%) Local Government
12 24 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.62%) Military
15 13 (1.51%) Law
15 13 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.51%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (17.73%) Architect
2 123 (14.25%) Lead
3 89 (10.31%) Analyst
4 71 (8.23%) Senior
5 55 (6.37%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.45%) Data Engineer
7 42 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.06%) Consultant
10 33 (3.82%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.82%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.36%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.01%) Security Engineer
13 24 (2.78%) Administrator
14 23 (2.67%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.09%) Developer
16 18 (2.09%) Technical Architect
17 16 (1.85%) Senior Manager
18 15 (1.74%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.52%) REST
2 34 (3.94%) Kafka
3 33 (3.82%) OAuth
4 32 (3.71%) LDAP
5 31 (3.59%) SAML
6 29 (3.36%) Middleware
7 24 (2.78%) OpenID
8 19 (2.20%) JSON
9 17 (1.97%) .NET
10 16 (1.85%) SOAP
11 15 (1.74%) OAuth2
11 15 (1.74%) PySpark
12 11 (1.27%) Great Expectations
13 9 (1.04%) CSS
13 9 (1.04%) HTML
13 9 (1.04%) J2EE
13 9 (1.04%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.93%) RESTful
14 8 (0.93%) XML
15 7 (0.81%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 48 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 40 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (4.06%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 28 (3.24%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (1.97%) Freedom of Information
13 16 (1.85%) NHS
13 16 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
14 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
16 12 (1.39%) AI Agents
16 12 (1.39%) Replication
17 10 (1.16%) Clustering
17 10 (1.16%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.63%) Windows
2 18 (2.09%) Linux
3 14 (1.62%) 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
1 224 (25.96%) Data Protection
2 223 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 214 (24.80%) Data Governance
4 185 (21.44%) Agile
5 176 (20.39%) Cybersecurity
6 175 (20.28%) Migration
7 172 (19.93%) Analytics
8 152 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 146 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (16.80%) DevOps
11 142 (16.45%) AI
12 138 (15.99%) Data Modelling
13 133 (15.41%) CI/CD
14 130 (15.06%) Roadmaps
15 124 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 110 (12.75%) Validation
18 108 (12.51%) Information Security
19 105 (12.17%) Risk Management
20 98 (11.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 167 (19.35%) SQL
2 114 (13.21%) Python
3 58 (6.72%) PowerShell
4 40 (4.63%) Java
5 25 (2.90%) C#
6 21 (2.43%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.62%) Bash
8 11 (1.27%) Bicep
9 10 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.93%) Go
11 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.46%) R
14 3 (0.35%) Ruby
14 3 (0.35%) Scala
14 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 157 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 124 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 84 (9.73%) CISSP
4 77 (8.92%) Degree
5 68 (7.88%) CISM
6 30 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 30 (3.48%) PMP
7 26 (3.01%) 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 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.93%) CISA
14 8 (0.93%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (21.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (17.27%) Data Quality
3 120 (13.90%) NIST
4 75 (8.69%) PCI DSS
5 57 (6.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.29%) GRC
6 37 (4.29%) NCSC
7 34 (3.94%) HIPAA
7 34 (3.94%) QA
7 34 (3.94%) SOC 2
8 31 (3.59%) Accessibility
9 26 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (2.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (2.32%) PMO
12 18 (2.09%) WCAG
13 16 (1.85%) PERC
14 15 (1.74%) Solvency II
15 14 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.78%) 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 (5.79%) Terraform
2 45 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.51%) Grafana
6 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.04%) 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%) CASB
10 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 208 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.53%) Databricks
3 53 (6.14%) SAP
4 52 (6.03%) Salesforce
5 50 (5.79%) Google
5 50 (5.79%) Oracle
6 37 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.94%) Workday
8 27 (3.13%) CyberArk
9 19 (2.20%) Adobe
10 15 (1.74%) Informatica
11 14 (1.62%) IFS
12 13 (1.51%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (1.51%) NEC
13 12 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (1.27%) Okta
15 10 (1.16%) Splunk
16 7 (0.81%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 6 (0.70%) Varonis
436 GDPR jobs in England