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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 110 228
Rank change year-on-year -60 +118 +37
Contract jobs citing GDPR 755 704 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.55% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.12% 14.75% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 447 210
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £416 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -11.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £511
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 36 14
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +47.83% +28.67%
75th Percentile £65.46 £70.16 £32.41
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.19 £57.43
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £17.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +44.12% -26.09% +28.67%

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 8,279 4,773 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.79% 17.29% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,199 3,116 2,498
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £724 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 224 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -2.99% -6.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.54 £64.93
90th Percentile £75.30 £82.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.54%

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

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

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 23 September 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

GDPR
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 23 September 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 23 September 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 -46 361 £575 - 832
South East -60 118 £581 +16.25% 234
North of England -70 89 £487 -4.55% 235
Midlands -48 75 £450 +0.33% 136
South West -27 55 £475 +18.75% 99
West Midlands -19 54 £430 -18.19% 78
East of England -2 50 £525 - 75
North West -32 49 £500 +9.29% 122
Yorkshire -63 30 £471 -13.27% 90
East Midlands -38 21 £538 +25.15% 58
North East -32 9 £463 -26.00% 24
GDPR
UK

GDPR
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 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.59%) CMS
3 11 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.32%) IIS
4 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.19%) Apache
6 6 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Drupal
8 2 (0.26%) Mendix
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 35 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.06%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.79%) iTrent
5 5 (0.66%) SAP HR
5 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.53%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.53%) Workfront
7 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
7 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 256 (33.91%) Azure
2 146 (19.34%) AWS
3 94 (12.45%) Power Platform
4 75 (9.93%) GCP
5 60 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (6.09%) Entra ID
8 45 (5.96%) Dynamics 365
8 45 (5.96%) SaaS
9 44 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 38 (5.03%) Serverless
11 31 (4.11%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.84%) Power Automate
13 28 (3.71%) GitHub
14 27 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (2.91%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.52%) OCI
17 17 (2.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.11%) Firewall
2 27 (3.58%) Network Security
3 18 (2.38%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.46%) VPN
5 8 (1.06%) SSL
6 7 (0.93%) SMS
7 5 (0.66%) DNS
7 5 (0.66%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.66%) X.509
8 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.40%) FTP
9 3 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.40%) IPsec
9 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
9 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) HTTP
10 2 (0.26%) SAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (9.93%) Power BI
2 53 (7.02%) Metadata
3 35 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 31 (4.11%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.85%) Tableau
6 13 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (1.72%) BigQuery
6 13 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.19%) Data Vault
9 9 (1.19%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.06%) Looker
11 7 (0.93%) Big Data
11 7 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.79%) GIS
12 6 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (3.05%) Git
2 18 (2.38%) JIRA
3 15 (1.99%) Postman
4 13 (1.72%) GitLab
5 11 (1.46%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.46%) Selenium
5 11 (1.46%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.19%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.40%) ERwin
9 3 (0.40%) Protractor
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.26%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.13%) Newman
General
1 283 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 190 (25.17%) Finance
3 136 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (18.01%) Public Sector
4 85 (11.26%) Legal
5 41 (5.43%) Local Government
6 40 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (4.50%) Marketing
9 31 (4.11%) Banking
10 30 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (3.97%) Retail
11 21 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.38%) Military
13 17 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.85%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.85%) Law
15 11 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 131 (17.35%) Architect
2 117 (15.50%) Lead
3 86 (11.39%) Analyst
4 74 (9.80%) Senior
5 37 (4.90%) Administrator
5 37 (4.90%) Project Manager
5 37 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (4.37%) Data Engineer
7 32 (4.24%) Consultant
7 32 (4.24%) Data Analyst
8 28 (3.71%) Data Architect
9 25 (3.31%) Business Analyst
10 24 (3.18%) Security Architect
11 22 (2.91%) Security Manager
12 21 (2.78%) Developer
13 18 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.25%) Security Engineer
15 16 (2.12%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 14 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.83%) Terraform
2 42 (5.56%) REST
3 28 (3.71%) OAuth
4 26 (3.44%) SAML
5 25 (3.31%) LDAP
6 24 (3.18%) JSON
7 21 (2.78%) OpenID
8 17 (2.25%) Kafka
9 15 (1.99%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.99%) SOAP
10 14 (1.85%) XML
11 13 (1.72%) PySpark
11 13 (1.72%) XSLT
12 12 (1.59%) SailPoint
13 11 (1.46%) .NET
13 11 (1.46%) Gherkin
14 10 (1.32%) HTML
14 10 (1.32%) Middleware
15 9 (1.19%) JDBC
16 7 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 42 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.24%) Security Posture
6 26 (3.44%) Freedom of Information
7 25 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 25 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (3.18%) Product Ownership
9 23 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (2.78%) NHS
11 20 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (2.52%) Taxonomies
13 14 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.72%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.59%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.46%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.78%) Windows
2 15 (1.99%) Linux
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (29.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 209 (27.68%) Data Protection
3 201 (26.62%) Data Governance
4 154 (20.40%) Analytics
5 152 (20.13%) Agile
6 145 (19.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 144 (19.07%) AI
8 140 (18.54%) Cybersecurity
9 129 (17.09%) Migration
10 118 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (15.50%) Data Modelling
12 115 (15.23%) DevOps
12 115 (15.23%) Information Security
13 110 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (14.30%) Roadmaps
15 103 (13.64%) Decision-Making
16 102 (13.51%) CI/CD
17 98 (12.98%) Risk Management
18 81 (10.73%) CRM
18 81 (10.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 118 (15.63%) SQL
2 84 (11.13%) Python
3 36 (4.77%) PowerShell
4 35 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 33 (4.37%) Java
6 28 (3.71%) C#
7 13 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.32%) Bash
8 10 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.19%) Bicep
10 7 (0.93%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.40%) R
12 3 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 146 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.40%) CISSP
3 71 (9.40%) Degree
4 55 (7.28%) CISM
5 30 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (2.52%) PMP
10 18 (2.38%) PMI Certification
11 16 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.72%) CISA
13 12 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.46%) ISTQB
15 10 (1.32%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.19%) CCSP
17 8 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (1.06%) CRISC
18 7 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (20.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 122 (16.16%) Data Quality
3 91 (12.05%) NIST
4 59 (7.81%) PCI DSS
5 44 (5.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (5.17%) Accessibility
7 38 (5.03%) NCSC
8 37 (4.90%) GRC
8 37 (4.90%) QA
9 29 (3.84%) WCAG
10 25 (3.31%) HIPAA
11 24 (3.18%) SOC 2
12 22 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (1.85%) PERC
15 12 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (1.19%) PMO
16 9 (1.19%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 55 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.46%) Docker
3 4 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.32%) CASB
4 9 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.06%) Ansible
5 8 (1.06%) Grafana
6 7 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.66%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.53%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.26%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.26%) QRadar
10 2 (0.26%) systemd
11 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.75%) Oracle
3 48 (6.36%) SAP
4 45 (5.96%) Databricks
5 41 (5.43%) Salesforce
6 38 (5.03%) Google
7 28 (3.71%) Workday
8 25 (3.31%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.52%) Adobe
10 16 (2.12%) Splunk
11 14 (1.85%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 10 (1.32%) Informatica
14 9 (1.19%) IFS
15 8 (1.06%) Cisco
15 8 (1.06%) NEC
16 7 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
16 7 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.93%) Ping Identity
17 6 (0.79%) Civica