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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 141 211
Rank change year-on-year +11 +70 +37
Contract jobs citing GDPR 877 516 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.05% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.87% 12.43% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 314 234
10th Percentile £369 £363 £304
25th Percentile £450 £432 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 48
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.15 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +15.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £54.75 £34.46 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.65 £71.56 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £18.22 £23.00
% change year-on-year +39.96% -20.78% +21.05%

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 7,389 4,151 5,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.02% 16.47% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,767 2,682 3,175
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 176 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £21.81 £13.14
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +34.91% -39.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -36.53%

GDPR
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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +19 421 £560 -2.61% 181
South East +15 163 £569 +10.98% 128
North of England -8 125 £550 +4.76% 93
Midlands -45 70 £492 +19.27% 63
North West -6 67 £528 -6.22% 61
South West -20 49 £500 +25.00% 39
Yorkshire -28 48 £558 +10.82% 24
West Midlands -46 42 £484 +1.79% 28
East of England -17 37 £600 +14.94% 37
East Midlands -3 28 £519 +28.02% 35
North East -24 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 50 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.08%) Confluence
4 24 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 18 (2.05%) Apache
6 14 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (1.25%) CMS
8 6 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.57%) IIS
10 4 (0.46%) SAS
10 4 (0.46%) TPMS
11 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Mendix
12 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 22 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.37%) NEC Housing
2 12 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.34%) iTrent
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 304 (34.66%) Azure
2 210 (23.95%) AWS
3 121 (13.80%) Power Platform
4 105 (11.97%) GCP
5 67 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (6.96%) Entra ID
7 52 (5.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (5.02%) SaaS
9 41 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (3.76%) GitHub
12 32 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.96%) Collibra
15 24 (2.74%) Serverless
16 23 (2.62%) OneDrive
17 20 (2.28%) dbt
18 18 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.13%) Firewall
2 34 (3.88%) Network Security
3 19 (2.17%) DNS
4 17 (1.94%) VPN
5 16 (1.82%) DHCP
6 14 (1.60%) Kerberos
7 12 (1.37%) SSL
8 11 (1.25%) SMS
9 8 (0.91%) Wireless
10 7 (0.80%) HTTP
11 5 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.57%) WAN
12 4 (0.46%) LAN
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
12 4 (0.46%) SNMP
12 4 (0.46%) SSH
13 3 (0.34%) FTP
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.43%) Power BI
2 53 (6.04%) Metadata
3 51 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.70%) Data Lake
5 27 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.17%) Tableau
8 17 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.14%) Big Data
12 10 (1.14%) Mixpanel
12 10 (1.14%) OLTP
13 9 (1.03%) OLAP
13 9 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.91%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.80%) Looker
Development Applications
1 41 (4.68%) JIRA
2 21 (2.39%) Git
3 10 (1.14%) Burp Suite
4 9 (1.03%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.68%) ERwin
5 6 (0.68%) GitLab
5 6 (0.68%) Postman
5 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
5 6 (0.68%) Selenium
6 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.46%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.23%) Protractor
7 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 302 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 287 (32.73%) Finance
3 151 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 103 (11.74%) Legal
6 58 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (5.25%) Banking
8 44 (5.02%) Marketing
9 36 (4.10%) Retail
10 26 (2.96%) Local Government
10 26 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.60%) Law
15 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.25%) Military
17 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 154 (17.56%) Architect
2 117 (13.34%) Lead
3 90 (10.26%) Analyst
4 68 (7.75%) Senior
5 57 (6.50%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 43 (4.90%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.88%) Consultant
10 33 (3.76%) Data Analyst
11 30 (3.42%) Security Manager
12 29 (3.31%) Security Engineer
13 27 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.62%) Administrator
14 23 (2.62%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 19 (2.17%) Developer
16 19 (2.17%) Technical Architect
17 18 (2.05%) Microsoft 365 Architect
18 16 (1.82%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.68%) LDAP
1 41 (4.68%) REST
2 39 (4.45%) OAuth
3 38 (4.33%) SAML
4 34 (3.88%) Kafka
5 29 (3.31%) Middleware
6 22 (2.51%) OpenID
7 20 (2.28%) JSON
8 18 (2.05%) .NET
8 18 (2.05%) SOAP
9 17 (1.94%) PySpark
10 14 (1.60%) OAuth2
11 12 (1.37%) CSS
11 12 (1.37%) Great Expectations
11 12 (1.37%) HTML
12 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.03%) J2EE
13 9 (1.03%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.03%) XML
14 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 48 (5.47%) Security Posture
4 44 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
5 33 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.17%) Replication
10 16 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
11 15 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.60%) NHS
13 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (1.14%) BYOD
15 10 (1.14%) Clustering
16 9 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.07%) Windows
2 22 (2.51%) Linux
3 21 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (25.09%) Data Protection
2 215 (24.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 199 (22.69%) Data Governance
4 197 (22.46%) Agile
5 176 (20.07%) Cybersecurity
6 175 (19.95%) Migration
7 159 (18.13%) Analytics
8 151 (17.22%) DevOps
9 145 (16.53%) CI/CD
10 141 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (15.17%) AI
12 132 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 130 (14.82%) Data Modelling
14 126 (14.37%) Roadmaps
15 124 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
16 120 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (12.20%) Validation
18 100 (11.40%) Information Security
19 96 (10.95%) ETL
20 95 (10.83%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 170 (19.38%) SQL
2 121 (13.80%) Python
3 72 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 43 (4.90%) Java
5 25 (2.85%) C#
6 20 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.60%) Bash
8 10 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.03%) Bicep
10 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.68%) Go
11 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.34%) R
13 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 170 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.81%) Degree
4 84 (9.58%) CISSP
5 66 (7.53%) CISM
6 35 (3.99%) PMI Certification
6 35 (3.99%) PMP
7 25 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.48%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.14%) IIBA
14 9 (1.03%) CISA
14 9 (1.03%) CRISC
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.91%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (22.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (16.31%) Data Quality
3 129 (14.71%) NIST
4 90 (10.26%) PCI DSS
5 70 (7.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (4.45%) GRC
6 39 (4.45%) NCSC
7 36 (4.10%) QA
8 33 (3.76%) SOC 2
9 31 (3.53%) HIPAA
10 25 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (2.62%) Accessibility
11 23 (2.62%) PMO
12 22 (2.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 15 (1.71%) Solvency II
14 13 (1.48%) MiFID
14 13 (1.48%) WCAG
15 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (1.14%) FINRA
System Software
1 76 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.31%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (6.04%) Terraform
2 51 (5.82%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.68%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.48%) Grafana
6 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.91%) Nmap
8 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.46%) Ansible
9 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.46%) Istio
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.23%) QRadar
10 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 218 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.41%) Databricks
3 53 (6.04%) Google
4 49 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 47 (5.36%) SAP
6 46 (5.25%) Oracle
7 40 (4.56%) ServiceNow
8 32 (3.65%) Workday
9 30 (3.42%) CyberArk
10 18 (2.05%) Okta
11 16 (1.82%) Adobe
12 14 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
12 14 (1.60%) Informatica
12 14 (1.60%) Splunk
13 13 (1.48%) IFS
14 12 (1.37%) NEC
15 11 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 7 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 6 (0.68%) Varonis
477 GDPR jobs in England