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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 224 259
Rank change year-on-year +115 +35 +25
Contract jobs citing GDPR 696 355 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.50% 1.08% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.54% 8.24% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 210 277
10th Percentile £350 £312 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £700
90th Percentile £750 £676 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 17
10th Percentile £15.13 - £14.94
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +35.14% -23.71%
75th Percentile £70.16 £33.93 £21.50
90th Percentile £89.19 £60.79 £25.80
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -32.00% +35.14% -48.63%

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 4,786 4,309 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 13.08% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 2,575 4,009
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £657
90th Percentile £725 £762 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 215 227
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +102 325 £575 +9.52% 389
South East +52 119 £500 -2.44% 298
North of England +28 82 £507 +15.89% 134
Midlands +35 74 £447 -10.60% 87
Yorkshire +21 46 £543 +7.21% 52
South West +50 44 £400 +6.67% 66
East Midlands +33 41 £430 -28.42% 37
West Midlands +6 33 £525 +7.69% 49
North West -6 33 £447 +5.24% 68
East of England +16 21 £525 -4.55% 67
North East -4 3 £625 +51.52% 17
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.02%) Confluence
3 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.72%) Apache
5 11 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) TPMS
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Revit
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.01%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.72%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.29%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.29%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 246 (35.34%) Azure
2 165 (23.71%) AWS
3 104 (14.94%) GCP
4 58 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 57 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (7.33%) Entra ID
7 36 (5.17%) SaaS
8 35 (5.03%) GitHub
9 29 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
11 25 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (3.16%) Serverless
13 21 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (2.87%) Collibra
15 19 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (2.30%) PaaS
17 16 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.19%) Firewall
2 34 (4.89%) Network Security
3 20 (2.87%) DNS
4 18 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.16%) VPN
6 10 (1.44%) Wireless
7 7 (1.01%) SSL
8 5 (0.72%) DHCP
8 5 (0.72%) HTTP
8 5 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.72%) SSH
9 4 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.57%) NAS
9 4 (0.57%) SAN
10 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.29%) BGP
11 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.29%) OSPF
11 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 2 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.05%) Power BI
2 34 (4.89%) Metadata
3 27 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (2.73%) Delta Lake
6 17 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 14 (2.01%) Big Data
8 13 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.72%) Tableau
10 11 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.01%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.86%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 64 (9.20%) JIRA
2 18 (2.59%) Git
3 12 (1.72%) GitLab
4 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.15%) Postman
5 6 (0.86%) SoapUI
5 6 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.72%) ERwin
7 4 (0.57%) RStudio
7 4 (0.57%) Subversion
7 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.29%) JMeter
9 2 (0.29%) Locust
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) Snyk
10 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) TestRail
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 285 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 198 (28.45%) Finance
3 112 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.77%) Legal
5 53 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 52 (7.47%) Banking
7 44 (6.32%) Marketing
8 26 (3.74%) Law
9 24 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.87%) Retail
11 19 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.59%) Financial Institution
13 15 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.72%) Local Government
15 11 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.44%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (18.53%) Analyst
2 114 (16.38%) Architect
3 70 (10.06%) Lead
4 61 (8.76%) Senior
5 44 (6.32%) Business Analyst
6 42 (6.03%) Security Architect
7 35 (5.03%) Consultant
8 31 (4.45%) Data Analyst
9 28 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 25 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (3.30%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.16%) Administrator
13 20 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.30%) Azure Architect
14 16 (2.30%) Security Engineer
15 14 (2.01%) Data Architect
15 14 (2.01%) Senior Architect
16 13 (1.87%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (1.87%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (1.87%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.46%) OAuth
2 30 (4.31%) SAML
3 27 (3.88%) REST
4 26 (3.74%) LDAP
5 23 (3.30%) OpenID
6 20 (2.87%) Kafka
7 17 (2.44%) Middleware
7 17 (2.44%) SailPoint
8 13 (1.87%) PySpark
8 13 (1.87%) SOAP
8 13 (1.87%) Spring
9 11 (1.58%) Hibernate
9 11 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (1.58%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.44%) .NET
11 9 (1.29%) GraphQL
11 9 (1.29%) RESTful
11 9 (1.29%) Web Services
12 8 (1.15%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 49 (7.04%) Security Posture
3 33 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.45%) Data Structures
6 29 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (4.02%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.73%) Freedom of Information
10 17 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 14 (2.01%) Replication
13 12 (1.72%) NHS
14 11 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (1.58%) Reference Data
14 11 (1.58%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.44%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.61%) Windows
2 18 (2.59%) Linux
2 18 (2.59%) Windows 10
3 16 (2.30%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.57%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
2 150 (21.55%) Data Protection
3 142 (20.40%) Agile
4 136 (19.54%) Data Governance
5 117 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 115 (16.52%) DevOps
7 111 (15.95%) CI/CD
8 109 (15.66%) Cybersecurity
9 105 (15.09%) Data Privacy
10 95 (13.65%) Analytics
11 92 (13.22%) Data Modelling
11 92 (13.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 91 (13.07%) Information Security
13 88 (12.64%) Roadmaps
14 87 (12.50%) Risk Management
15 79 (11.35%) Cloud Security
16 78 (11.21%) Incident Response
17 77 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 75 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 74 (10.63%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (15.66%) SQL
2 105 (15.09%) Python
3 66 (9.48%) PowerShell
4 42 (6.03%) Bash
5 31 (4.45%) Java
6 19 (2.73%) Bicep
7 12 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.29%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.01%) R
12 6 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.86%) Scala
13 5 (0.72%) C#
13 5 (0.72%) Perl
13 5 (0.72%) PHP
14 4 (0.57%) C++
14 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.43%) C
15 3 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (12.64%) CISSP
2 82 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 75 (10.78%) Degree
4 64 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 58 (8.33%) CISM
6 28 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.59%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (2.73%) CISA
10 18 (2.59%) Master's Degree
11 14 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.87%) PMP
13 12 (1.72%) CRISC
14 11 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.58%) GSEC
14 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
15 10 (1.44%) GIAC
16 9 (1.29%) CEH
17 8 (1.15%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (26.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 128 (18.39%) NIST
3 88 (12.64%) HIPAA
4 70 (10.06%) Data Quality
5 62 (8.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 60 (8.62%) PCI DSS
7 46 (6.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 25 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (3.30%) SOC 2
10 18 (2.59%) GRC
11 17 (2.44%) Accessibility
12 15 (2.16%) EU AI Act
13 14 (2.01%) QA
14 11 (1.58%) PSD2
14 11 (1.58%) SLA
15 9 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (1.15%) COBIT
17 7 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (1.01%) NCSC
17 7 (1.01%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.75%) Docker
3 19 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.72%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.57%) NFS
6 4 (0.57%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.57%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.14%) NDS
8 1 (0.14%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.14%) RACF
8 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 51 (7.33%) Terraform
2 41 (5.89%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.01%) QRadar
5 13 (1.87%) SCCM
6 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.58%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 10 (1.44%) Ansible
9 9 (1.29%) Grafana
10 7 (1.01%) Nessus
11 6 (0.86%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.86%) SmoothWall
12 5 (0.72%) CASB
12 5 (0.72%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.57%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 192 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.75%) Salesforce
3 41 (5.89%) Google
4 40 (5.75%) Oracle
5 39 (5.60%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.60%) Databricks
7 31 (4.45%) SAP
8 28 (4.02%) Splunk
9 21 (3.02%) CyberArk
10 20 (2.87%) Informatica
10 20 (2.87%) VMware
11 16 (2.30%) Citrix
11 16 (2.30%) Ping Identity
12 14 (2.01%) IBM
13 13 (1.87%) Okta
13 13 (1.87%) Qualys
14 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
14 12 (1.72%) Workday
15 8 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
15 8 (1.15%) OneTrust
911 GDPR jobs in England