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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 167 174
Rank change year-on-year +67 +7 +79
Contract jobs citing GDPR 920 404 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.48% 1.65% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.20% 10.75% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 237 249
10th Percentile £363 £313 £325
25th Percentile £449 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 46
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% +3.62% -27.83%
75th Percentile £59.25 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £66.43 £34.27 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £24.25 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.15% +24.45% -14.11%

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 6,477 3,757 5,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.37% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,195 2,402 3,455
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 162 337
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.14 £13.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +34.38% -42.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +38.09% -39.47%

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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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +54 440 £550 -2.65% 171
South East +35 175 £515 +3.00% 117
North of England -1 133 £550 +9.40% 97
Midlands -10 81 £475 +10.85% 55
Yorkshire -12 68 £550 +4.76% 29
North West -12 54 £531 +5.93% 60
South West +13 53 £494 -10.23% 34
West Midlands -35 47 £500 +5.26% 34
East Midlands -10 34 £442 +13.11% 21
East of England -21 23 £553 +10.60% 40
North East -10 11 £466 +0.76% 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 47 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.91%) Confluence
4 34 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.83%) Apache
6 15 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.09%) TPMS
8 7 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.76%) SAS
9 6 (0.65%) Appian
9 6 (0.65%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 44 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
1 11 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 357 (38.80%) Azure
2 278 (30.22%) AWS
3 146 (15.87%) GCP
4 119 (12.93%) Power Platform
5 85 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (8.70%) Entra ID
7 59 (6.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 50 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 37 (4.02%) Collibra
12 36 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 35 (3.80%) SaaS
14 30 (3.26%) OneDrive
15 29 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (2.72%) GitHub
16 25 (2.72%) Serverless
17 21 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (2.28%) Snowflake
18 19 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.74%) Firewall
2 48 (5.22%) Network Security
3 28 (3.04%) DNS
4 25 (2.72%) DHCP
5 23 (2.50%) VPN
6 18 (1.96%) Wireless
7 15 (1.63%) Cisco IPT
7 15 (1.63%) Kerberos
7 15 (1.63%) SSL
8 11 (1.20%) LAN
8 11 (1.20%) SMS
8 11 (1.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.09%) SNMP
9 10 (1.09%) SSH
10 9 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.87%) HTTP
11 8 (0.87%) IPv4
11 8 (0.87%) IPv6
11 8 (0.87%) WLAN
12 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.85%) Power BI
2 69 (7.50%) Data Lake
3 50 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (4.78%) Metadata
5 25 (2.72%) BigQuery
6 24 (2.61%) Tableau
7 23 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (2.28%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.96%) Mixpanel
11 18 (1.96%) OLAP
11 18 (1.96%) OLTP
12 17 (1.85%) Big Data
13 16 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (4.89%) JIRA
2 26 (2.83%) Git
3 18 (1.96%) Burp Suite
3 18 (1.96%) GitLab
3 18 (1.96%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) ERwin
5 5 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.43%) Postman
6 4 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 395 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 270 (29.35%) Finance
3 147 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.48%) Legal
5 110 (11.96%) Public Sector
6 81 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (6.63%) Marketing
8 49 (5.33%) Banking
9 28 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.28%) Law
11 21 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.74%) Retail
13 15 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.52%) Electronics
15 12 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.20%) Local Government
17 10 (1.09%) Military
18 8 (0.87%) Billing
18 8 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 174 (18.91%) Architect
2 105 (11.41%) Analyst
3 99 (10.76%) Lead
4 58 (6.30%) Consultant
5 57 (6.20%) Senior
6 53 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (5.54%) Data Engineer
8 50 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.11%) Project Manager
10 44 (4.78%) Security Engineer
11 33 (3.59%) Security Architect
12 31 (3.37%) Data Architect
13 27 (2.93%) Developer
14 26 (2.83%) Administrator
15 25 (2.72%) Microsoft 365 Architect
16 24 (2.61%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.07%) Principal Engineer
18 18 (1.96%) Security Manager
19 17 (1.85%) Security Analyst
20 16 (1.74%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.43%) LDAP
2 44 (4.78%) Kafka
3 39 (4.24%) OAuth
4 38 (4.13%) SAML
5 36 (3.91%) REST
6 33 (3.59%) Middleware
7 23 (2.50%) OpenID
8 19 (2.07%) Great Expectations
8 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (1.96%) .NET
9 18 (1.96%) OAuth2
9 18 (1.96%) PySpark
10 14 (1.52%) HTML
11 13 (1.41%) CSS
11 13 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (1.41%) RESTful
12 12 (1.30%) SOAP
13 10 (1.09%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
14 9 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.41%) Management Information System
3 53 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.76%) Security Posture
4 37 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 26 (2.83%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.28%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
12 17 (1.85%) Replication
13 13 (1.41%) BYOD
13 13 (1.41%) NHS
13 13 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (1.20%) IoT
16 10 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (9.35%) Windows
2 40 (4.35%) Linux
3 23 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.33%) Android
6 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (25.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (23.15%) Data Protection
3 195 (21.20%) Data Governance
4 193 (20.98%) Agile
5 190 (20.65%) Cybersecurity
6 167 (18.15%) Analytics
6 167 (18.15%) CI/CD
7 166 (18.04%) DevOps
8 159 (17.28%) Migration
9 152 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (14.67%) Data Modelling
10 135 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 134 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
12 122 (13.26%) Roadmaps
13 119 (12.93%) AI
14 112 (12.17%) Data Privacy
15 106 (11.52%) Information Security
16 105 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 105 (11.41%) ETL
16 105 (11.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (18.37%) SQL
2 161 (17.50%) Python
3 115 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.80%) Java
5 34 (3.70%) C#
6 24 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.74%) Bash
8 14 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.09%) Bicep
10 8 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.65%) R
11 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.54%) Go
13 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.22%) Perl
14 2 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 143 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 119 (12.93%) Degree
4 113 (12.28%) CISSP
5 81 (8.80%) CISM
6 38 (4.13%) PMI Certification
7 35 (3.80%) PMP
8 34 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (3.59%) Azure Certification
10 32 (3.48%) AWS Certification
11 30 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (2.39%) Master's Degree
14 16 (1.74%) CHECK Team Member
15 15 (1.63%) CCSP
15 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (1.52%) CREST Certified
16 14 (1.52%) Cyber Scheme
16 14 (1.52%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (27.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 189 (20.54%) NIST
3 120 (13.04%) Data Quality
4 116 (12.61%) PCI DSS
5 74 (8.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 46 (5.00%) QA
7 43 (4.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 43 (4.67%) HIPAA
8 35 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (3.70%) GRC
10 32 (3.48%) SOC 2
11 24 (2.61%) NCSC
12 23 (2.50%) PERC
13 22 (2.39%) PMO
14 18 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (1.96%) MiFID
15 14 (1.52%) Accessibility
15 14 (1.52%) SLA
16 13 (1.41%) FINRA
16 13 (1.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 90 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.02%) Docker
3 12 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 79 (8.59%) Terraform
2 56 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 43 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (1.85%) Ansible
7 16 (1.74%) Nmap
8 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.09%) Grafana
9 10 (1.09%) SCCM
10 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.43%) QRadar
11 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.33%) Istio
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.33%) Rancher
11 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 222 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.72%) Google
3 64 (6.96%) Databricks
4 52 (5.65%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 40 (4.35%) Oracle
7 39 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 35 (3.80%) SAP
9 32 (3.48%) BeyondTrust
10 25 (2.72%) Workday
11 24 (2.61%) Splunk
12 22 (2.39%) Adobe
12 22 (2.39%) Informatica
13 21 (2.28%) Okta
14 15 (1.63%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.52%) OneTrust
15 14 (1.52%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.52%) VMware
16 13 (1.41%) Cisco
16 13 (1.41%) Tealium
457 GDPR jobs in England