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

 6 months to
20 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 167 181
Rank change year-on-year +63 +14 +75
Contract jobs citing GDPR 880 410 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 1.58% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.55% 10.65% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 229 258
10th Percentile £333 £309 £316
25th Percentile £425 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.19% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 35
10th Percentile £13.13 - £11.06
25th Percentile £24.19 £15.50 £11.86
Median hourly rate £28.55 £17.74 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.98% +7.48% -58.51%
75th Percentile £44.81 £31.76 £25.00
90th Percentile £64.50 £32.96 £32.53
UK median hourly rate £28.03 £20.19 £16.50
% change year-on-year +38.81% +22.36% -52.86%

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 6,048 3,848 5,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.36% 14.83% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,912 2,281 3,560
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 150 309
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.99 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +16.22% -23.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.34 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £28.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year -6.75% +11.49% -22.72%

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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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +56 435 £548 -0.45% 150
South East +31 148 £500 -4.76% 130
North of England -6 115 £550 +15.79% 87
Midlands +7 88 £475 - 82
Yorkshire -9 71 £558 +6.29% 20
South West +25 58 £475 +88.12% 29
West Midlands -16 47 £500 +5.26% 49
East Midlands +6 41 £447 -10.60% 33
North West -19 37 £475 +0.74% 56
East of England -28 19 £544 +8.80% 36
North East -17 7 £466 +9.65% 11
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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 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (4.20%) Confluence
4 25 (2.84%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.73%) Apache
6 13 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (1.25%) TPMS
8 7 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.80%) SAS
9 6 (0.68%) Appian
9 6 (0.68%) Camunda
10 3 (0.34%) 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
Applications
1 48 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 353 (40.11%) Azure
2 247 (28.07%) AWS
3 141 (16.02%) GCP
4 101 (11.48%) Power Platform
5 96 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (10.11%) Entra ID
7 58 (6.59%) Microsoft Purview
8 46 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 40 (4.55%) SaaS
10 36 (4.09%) Amazon S3
11 33 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (3.52%) OneDrive
13 30 (3.41%) Collibra
14 26 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (2.95%) Serverless
15 22 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (2.39%) GitHub
17 17 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 16 (1.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.93%) Firewall
2 38 (4.32%) Network Security
3 31 (3.52%) DNS
4 25 (2.84%) VPN
5 24 (2.73%) DHCP
6 18 (2.05%) Kerberos
6 18 (2.05%) SSL
7 17 (1.93%) Wireless
8 13 (1.48%) Cisco IPT
9 11 (1.25%) SNMP
9 11 (1.25%) SSH
9 11 (1.25%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.14%) SMS
11 9 (1.02%) LAN
11 9 (1.02%) WAN
12 8 (0.91%) PABX
12 8 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.91%) WLAN
13 7 (0.80%) BGP
13 7 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.23%) Power BI
2 61 (6.93%) Data Lake
3 43 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (4.32%) Metadata
5 21 (2.39%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (2.16%) Tableau
7 18 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.82%) Mixpanel
8 16 (1.82%) SQL Server
9 15 (1.70%) OLAP
9 15 (1.70%) OLTP
10 13 (1.48%) Big Data
11 11 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (5.23%) JIRA
2 26 (2.95%) Git
3 18 (2.05%) GitLab
4 17 (1.93%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.82%) Burp Suite
6 9 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.68%) Postman
7 6 (0.68%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.34%) Subversion
9 2 (0.23%) Ant
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
9 2 (0.23%) Locust
9 2 (0.23%) Snyk
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 404 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 248 (28.18%) Finance
3 137 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (13.18%) Legal
5 102 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 83 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (6.93%) Marketing
8 48 (5.45%) Banking
9 21 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.93%) Law
12 15 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Electronics
13 14 (1.59%) Retail
14 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.25%) Military
16 8 (0.91%) Local Government
17 7 (0.80%) Billing
17 7 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 162 (18.41%) Architect
2 109 (12.39%) Analyst
3 85 (9.66%) Lead
4 63 (7.16%) Consultant
5 54 (6.14%) Senior
6 50 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 46 (5.23%) Data Engineer
9 41 (4.66%) Security Engineer
10 33 (3.75%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.18%) Developer
11 28 (3.18%) Security Architect
12 25 (2.84%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.84%) Data Architect
12 25 (2.84%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.73%) Administrator
14 17 (1.93%) Security Analyst
15 15 (1.70%) Penetration Tester
16 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Architect
16 14 (1.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.14%) LDAP
2 52 (5.91%) OAuth
3 49 (5.57%) REST
4 45 (5.11%) SAML
5 33 (3.75%) Kafka
6 28 (3.18%) Middleware
7 27 (3.07%) OpenID
8 23 (2.61%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (2.05%) SOAP
11 17 (1.93%) Great Expectations
12 16 (1.82%) HTML
12 16 (1.82%) PySpark
13 15 (1.70%) .NET
14 14 (1.59%) CSS
15 13 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
15 13 (1.48%) RESTful
16 10 (1.14%) GraphQL
16 10 (1.14%) Spark Streaming
17 8 (0.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 50 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 45 (5.11%) Security Posture
5 39 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 28 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.84%) Replication
10 17 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
11 15 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.70%) NHS
12 14 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
16 9 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 92 (10.45%) Windows
2 38 (4.32%) Linux
3 20 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.45%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Unix
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 192 (21.82%) Data Governance
3 191 (21.70%) Data Protection
4 190 (21.59%) Agile
5 161 (18.30%) Cybersecurity
5 161 (18.30%) DevOps
6 155 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 149 (16.93%) Migration
9 148 (16.82%) Analytics
10 134 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 123 (13.98%) Data Modelling
12 115 (13.07%) Roadmaps
13 114 (12.95%) Data Privacy
14 111 (12.61%) AI
14 111 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
15 108 (12.27%) Risk Management
16 102 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (11.48%) Regulatory Compliance
18 99 (11.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.61%) Python
2 146 (16.59%) SQL
3 122 (13.86%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.98%) Java
5 30 (3.41%) C#
6 26 (2.95%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.50%) Bash
8 14 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.14%) Bicep
9 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.80%) R
11 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.45%) Perl
11 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.23%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) Rust
12 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 112 (12.73%) Degree
4 103 (11.70%) CISSP
5 72 (8.18%) CISM
6 37 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.98%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.41%) PMI Certification
10 26 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.95%) PMP
11 22 (2.50%) Master's Degree
12 21 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.70%) CCSP
14 15 (1.70%) CHECK Team Member
15 14 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (1.48%) CREST Certified
16 13 (1.48%) Cyber Scheme
17 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (27.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 173 (19.66%) NIST
3 106 (12.05%) PCI DSS
4 101 (11.48%) Data Quality
5 73 (8.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 49 (5.57%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.45%) QA
8 44 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (3.52%) GRC
11 27 (3.07%) SOC 2
12 23 (2.61%) NCSC
13 18 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (2.05%) MiFID
13 18 (2.05%) PERC
13 18 (2.05%) PMO
13 18 (2.05%) SLA
14 13 (1.48%) FINRA
14 13 (1.48%) PSD2
15 12 (1.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (10.80%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.64%) Docker
3 18 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) NFS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.23%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) NDS
7 1 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 74 (8.41%) Terraform
2 50 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
3 44 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 24 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.27%) Ansible
6 19 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (1.93%) SCCM
8 15 (1.70%) Nmap
9 7 (0.80%) QRadar
10 6 (0.68%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.57%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 2 (0.23%) Grafana
13 2 (0.23%) systemd
13 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 227 (25.80%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.93%) Google
3 54 (6.14%) Databricks
3 54 (6.14%) Salesforce
4 50 (5.68%) CyberArk
5 43 (4.89%) ServiceNow
6 40 (4.55%) Oracle
7 35 (3.98%) SAP
8 30 (3.41%) BeyondTrust
9 29 (3.30%) Splunk
10 23 (2.61%) Workday
11 21 (2.39%) Adobe
12 20 (2.27%) Informatica
12 20 (2.27%) VMware
13 19 (2.16%) Okta
14 15 (1.70%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.70%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.48%) Cisco
15 13 (1.48%) OneTrust
15 13 (1.48%) Tealium
445 GDPR jobs in England