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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 103 218
Rank change year-on-year -75 +115 +39
Contract jobs citing GDPR 739 738 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 2.64% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.91% 15.21% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 475 219
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
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 £725 £745 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £503
% change year-on-year +4.76% +4.43% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 38 15
10th Percentile £13.88 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.64 £34.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% +61.90% +21.74%
75th Percentile £55.50 £68.75 £30.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.63 £54.07
UK median hourly rate £22.42 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +31.88% -19.05% +21.74%

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 8,296 4,853 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.82% 17.34% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 3,159 2,493
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £759
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 235 205
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £16.23
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.74 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -3.52% -13.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £82.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £31.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.87% +14.51% -22.54%

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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

GDPR
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -56 355 £575 +0.22% 1,043
South East -71 108 £575 +15.00% 263
North of England -57 93 £483 -4.83% 261
Midlands -55 74 £450 +0.33% 175
South West -24 58 £475 +18.75% 104
West Midlands -21 52 £430 -18.19% 101
North West -28 52 £496 +8.42% 135
East of England -1 46 £525 - 100
Yorkshire -48 32 £471 -14.45% 102
East Midlands -34 22 £538 +25.15% 74
North East -38 8 £463 -15.22% 27
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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 40 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.62%) CMS
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.49%) IIS
4 9 (1.22%) Apache
5 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 39 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (5.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.08%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.95%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.81%) iTrent
5 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.54%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.54%) Workfront
7 2 (0.27%) BambooHR
7 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 247 (33.42%) Azure
2 136 (18.40%) AWS
3 86 (11.64%) Power Platform
4 67 (9.07%) GCP
5 60 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (6.09%) SaaS
8 44 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
9 43 (5.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 38 (5.14%) Entra ID
11 35 (4.74%) Serverless
12 31 (4.19%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.92%) Power Automate
14 27 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (3.65%) GitHub
15 22 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (2.84%) Azure Functions
17 19 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.57%) OCI
18 17 (2.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.92%) Network Security
2 27 (3.65%) Firewall
3 18 (2.44%) Cisco IPT
4 9 (1.22%) VPN
5 5 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.68%) SMS
5 5 (0.68%) X.509
6 4 (0.54%) SSL
6 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.41%) DNS
7 3 (0.41%) FTP
7 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.41%) IPsec
7 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.27%) BGP
8 2 (0.27%) LAN
8 2 (0.27%) MPLS
8 2 (0.27%) OSPF
8 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (9.07%) Power BI
2 48 (6.50%) Metadata
3 36 (4.87%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.06%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.76%) BigQuery
7 12 (1.62%) Delta Lake
8 11 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.49%) Tableau
9 10 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.08%) Looker
11 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.81%) Big Data
12 6 (0.81%) GIS
12 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (2.98%) Git
2 15 (2.03%) JIRA
2 15 (2.03%) Postman
3 13 (1.76%) GitLab
4 11 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 11 (1.49%) Selenium
4 11 (1.49%) WebDriver
5 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.41%) ERwin
7 3 (0.41%) Protractor
8 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.27%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.14%) Deequ
9 1 (0.14%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.14%) Newman
General
1 277 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 177 (23.95%) Finance
3 133 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 84 (11.37%) Legal
6 41 (5.55%) Local Government
7 39 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.60%) Marketing
10 29 (3.92%) Banking
11 27 (3.65%) Retail
12 26 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.44%) Military
15 17 (2.30%) Manufacturing
16 15 (2.03%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.62%) Law
18 10 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 6 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 129 (17.46%) Architect
2 106 (14.34%) Lead
3 85 (11.50%) Analyst
4 77 (10.42%) Senior
5 43 (5.82%) Administrator
6 36 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (4.47%) Project Manager
8 32 (4.33%) Data Analyst
9 30 (4.06%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.92%) Consultant
10 29 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 23 (3.11%) Business Analyst
11 23 (3.11%) Developer
11 23 (3.11%) Security Architect
12 22 (2.98%) Security Manager
13 19 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.44%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.17%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.03%) Information Officer
17 14 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.82%) Terraform
2 42 (5.68%) REST
3 23 (3.11%) OAuth
4 22 (2.98%) JSON
5 21 (2.84%) SAML
6 20 (2.71%) LDAP
7 16 (2.17%) Kafka
7 16 (2.17%) OpenID
8 15 (2.03%) SOAP
9 14 (1.89%) XML
10 13 (1.76%) .NET
10 13 (1.76%) XSLT
11 12 (1.62%) SailPoint
12 11 (1.49%) Gherkin
12 11 (1.49%) OAuth2
12 11 (1.49%) PySpark
13 9 (1.22%) JDBC
13 9 (1.22%) Middleware
14 8 (1.08%) HTML
15 7 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.45%) Management Information System
2 46 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 42 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
4 41 (5.55%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.06%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.79%) Data Structures
7 27 (3.65%) Freedom of Information
8 26 (3.52%) Product Ownership
9 25 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
10 24 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.71%) NHS
11 20 (2.71%) Taxonomies
12 19 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
13 14 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.62%) AI Agents
15 12 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.62%) Freedom of Information Act
15 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.57%) Windows
2 16 (2.17%) Linux
3 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (29.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 206 (27.88%) Data Protection
3 199 (26.93%) Data Governance
4 158 (21.38%) Analytics
5 148 (20.03%) Agile
6 139 (18.81%) AI
6 139 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 127 (17.19%) Cybersecurity
8 121 (16.37%) Migration
9 119 (16.10%) Information Security
9 119 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (15.83%) Data Modelling
11 110 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (14.61%) DevOps
12 108 (14.61%) Roadmaps
13 105 (14.21%) Decision-Making
14 97 (13.13%) CI/CD
15 87 (11.77%) Risk Management
16 84 (11.37%) Data Management
17 83 (11.23%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.43%) SQL
2 79 (10.69%) Python
3 33 (4.47%) JavaScript
4 32 (4.33%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.06%) C#
6 29 (3.92%) Java
7 13 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.22%) Bicep
10 8 (1.08%) Bash
10 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.81%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) VBA
14 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 147 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.55%) Degree
4 69 (9.34%) CISSP
5 55 (7.44%) CISM
6 30 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 29 (3.92%) Azure Certification
8 26 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.30%) PMP
11 16 (2.17%) PMI Certification
12 15 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.89%) CISA
14 11 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.49%) ISTQB
15 10 (1.35%) CCSP
15 10 (1.35%) CRISC
16 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
17 8 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (18.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 126 (17.05%) Data Quality
3 82 (11.10%) NIST
4 57 (7.71%) PCI DSS
5 44 (5.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (5.28%) GRC
7 37 (5.01%) Accessibility
8 36 (4.87%) NCSC
9 34 (4.60%) QA
10 28 (3.79%) WCAG
11 23 (3.11%) HIPAA
12 19 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (2.44%) SOC 2
14 16 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 14 (1.89%) PERC
16 10 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (1.22%) Solvency II
18 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 8 (1.08%) PMO
19 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.49%) Docker
3 5 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.49%) CASB
4 8 (1.08%) Ansible
4 8 (1.08%) Grafana
5 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.27%) Argo
7 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.27%) QRadar
7 2 (0.27%) systemd
8 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.14%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.14%) Rancher
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (29.50%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.04%) SAP
3 51 (6.90%) Oracle
4 49 (6.63%) Databricks
5 40 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 36 (4.87%) Google
7 28 (3.79%) Workday
8 24 (3.25%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.44%) Adobe
10 17 (2.30%) Splunk
11 13 (1.76%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (1.22%) Cisco
13 9 (1.22%) Informatica
14 8 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.08%) NEC
15 7 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
15 7 (0.95%) F5
15 7 (0.95%) IFS
16 6 (0.81%) Foundry