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

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 179 188
Rank change year-on-year +80 +9 +78
Contract jobs citing GDPR 853 380 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.58% 1.43% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.04% 9.89% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 199 264
10th Percentile £325 £303 £328
25th Percentile £425 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £627 £675
90th Percentile £718 £740 £743
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.71% - -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 29
10th Percentile £16.50 - £11.05
25th Percentile £23.14 £15.50 £11.77
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.75 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.96% +34.00% -53.70%
75th Percentile £57.75 £24.44 £19.47
90th Percentile £79.13 £31.76 £28.17
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £18.72 £12.50
% change year-on-year +81.62% +49.76% -44.90%

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 5,673 3,844 5,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.16% 14.49% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,678 2,233 3,581
10th Percentile £322 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 152 291
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.73 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £20.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.92 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +8.70% -0.56%
75th Percentile £63.45 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £69.48 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £27.17
% change year-on-year -9.17% +6.76% +4.48%

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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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +71 419 £548 -0.45% 153
South East +49 162 £500 -5.66% 151
North of England +1 107 £550 +15.79% 80
Midlands +4 79 £475 - 82
Yorkshire +2 66 £558 +6.29% 26
South West +14 51 £475 +111.11% 31
West Midlands -21 40 £500 +5.26% 45
East Midlands +8 39 £438 -12.50% 37
North West -20 34 £457 +1.50% 48
East of England -18 17 £533 +6.55% 38
North East -20 7 £466 +9.65% 6
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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 42 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.75%) Confluence
4 22 (2.58%) Apache
4 22 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.29%) TPMS
7 7 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.82%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) Appian
8 6 (0.70%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 48 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 338 (39.62%) Azure
2 245 (28.72%) AWS
3 140 (16.41%) GCP
4 95 (11.14%) Power Platform
5 89 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (10.20%) Entra ID
7 49 (5.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.69%) SaaS
10 36 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (3.87%) Amazon S3
12 30 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (3.28%) Collibra
13 28 (3.28%) OneDrive
13 28 (3.28%) Serverless
14 27 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (2.81%) OCI
16 22 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (2.58%) GitHub
17 17 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (7.03%) Firewall
2 41 (4.81%) Network Security
3 32 (3.75%) DNS
4 25 (2.93%) VPN
5 24 (2.81%) DHCP
6 18 (2.11%) Kerberos
6 18 (2.11%) SSL
7 16 (1.88%) Wireless
8 13 (1.52%) Cisco IPT
9 12 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.29%) SNMP
10 11 (1.29%) SSH
11 10 (1.17%) SMS
12 9 (1.06%) LAN
12 9 (1.06%) WAN
13 8 (0.94%) PABX
13 8 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.94%) WLAN
14 7 (0.82%) BGP
14 7 (0.82%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.73%) Power BI
2 57 (6.68%) Data Lake
3 42 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.34%) Metadata
5 19 (2.23%) BigQuery
5 19 (2.23%) Tableau
6 18 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.88%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.52%) Mixpanel
10 12 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.41%) Big Data
10 12 (1.41%) OLAP
10 12 (1.41%) OLTP
11 11 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 9 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (5.28%) JIRA
2 25 (2.93%) Git
3 20 (2.34%) GitLab
4 16 (1.88%) Metasploit
5 15 (1.76%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Postman
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Subversion
9 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) Locust
10 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 402 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 230 (26.96%) Finance
3 132 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.54%) Legal
5 94 (11.02%) Public Sector
6 79 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (7.97%) Marketing
8 52 (6.10%) Banking
9 24 (2.81%) Law
10 21 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.76%) Electronics
13 14 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.41%) Retail
15 10 (1.17%) Military
16 9 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.94%) Local Government
17 8 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 148 (17.35%) Architect
2 108 (12.66%) Analyst
3 102 (11.96%) Lead
4 62 (7.27%) Consultant
5 54 (6.33%) Senior
6 50 (5.86%) Business Analyst
7 43 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.10%) Security Engineer
10 33 (3.87%) Project Manager
11 29 (3.40%) Security Architect
12 28 (3.28%) Developer
13 25 (2.93%) Data Analyst
14 23 (2.70%) Administrator
14 23 (2.70%) Data Architect
15 21 (2.46%) Microsoft 365 Architect
16 18 (2.11%) Security Analyst
17 15 (1.76%) Enterprise Architect
18 14 (1.64%) Penetration Tester
18 14 (1.64%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.57%) LDAP
2 55 (6.45%) OAuth
3 51 (5.98%) REST
4 47 (5.51%) SAML
5 31 (3.63%) Kafka
6 27 (3.17%) OpenID
7 24 (2.81%) OAuth2
8 20 (2.34%) SOAP
9 18 (2.11%) HTML
9 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (2.11%) Middleware
10 16 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.88%) PySpark
11 14 (1.64%) Great Expectations
12 13 (1.52%) CSS
12 13 (1.52%) RESTful
13 12 (1.41%) .NET
14 10 (1.17%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (1.06%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.92%) Onboarding
2 52 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 49 (5.74%) Management Information System
4 45 (5.28%) Security Posture
5 43 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 27 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (2.93%) Replication
9 21 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
11 14 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.64%) NHS
12 13 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
15 9 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.43%) Windows
2 37 (4.34%) Linux
3 20 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Solaris
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (26.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 193 (22.63%) Agile
3 184 (21.57%) Data Protection
4 183 (21.45%) Data Governance
5 160 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (18.41%) DevOps
7 154 (18.05%) Cybersecurity
8 150 (17.58%) CI/CD
9 146 (17.12%) Analytics
10 135 (15.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 131 (15.36%) Migration
12 127 (14.89%) Data Modelling
13 122 (14.30%) Data Privacy
14 107 (12.54%) Roadmaps
15 104 (12.19%) Risk Management
16 101 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
17 100 (11.72%) AI
18 98 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 93 (10.90%) Regulatory Compliance
20 90 (10.55%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 147 (17.23%) Python
2 133 (15.59%) SQL
3 120 (14.07%) PowerShell
4 34 (3.99%) Java
5 26 (3.05%) Bash
5 26 (3.05%) C#
6 22 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.29%) Bicep
9 9 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 9 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.82%) R
11 5 (0.59%) Perl
12 4 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.23%) PHP
14 2 (0.23%) Rust
14 2 (0.23%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 158 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 129 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 116 (13.60%) Degree
4 108 (12.66%) CISSP
5 73 (8.56%) CISM
6 37 (4.34%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.22%) AWS Certification
8 35 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (3.28%) PMI Certification
10 25 (2.93%) PMP
11 24 (2.81%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (2.11%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (1.64%) CCSP
15 14 (1.64%) CHECK Team Member
15 14 (1.64%) CISA
16 12 (1.41%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (27.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (20.40%) NIST
3 102 (11.96%) PCI DSS
4 94 (11.02%) Data Quality
5 75 (8.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 53 (6.21%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.63%) QA
8 46 (5.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (3.28%) GRC
11 23 (2.70%) SOC 2
12 20 (2.34%) NCSC
13 19 (2.23%) PERC
14 16 (1.88%) MiFID
14 16 (1.88%) SLA
15 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
15 15 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (1.64%) PSD2
17 13 (1.52%) PMO
18 11 (1.29%) FINRA
System Software
1 99 (11.61%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.52%) Docker
3 20 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) NFS
6 3 (0.35%) Veritas File System
6 3 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 73 (8.56%) Terraform
2 51 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
3 40 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 26 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.46%) Ansible
6 19 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (2.23%) SCCM
7 14 (1.64%) Nmap
8 12 (1.41%) QRadar
9 6 (0.70%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.23%) Grafana
12 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 214 (25.09%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.03%) Google
3 54 (6.33%) Salesforce
4 50 (5.86%) CyberArk
5 47 (5.51%) Oracle
6 41 (4.81%) Databricks
7 38 (4.45%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.34%) SAP
9 34 (3.99%) Splunk
10 30 (3.52%) BeyondTrust
11 23 (2.70%) VMware
12 22 (2.58%) Informatica
13 21 (2.46%) Adobe
14 19 (2.23%) Workday
15 18 (2.11%) Okta
16 17 (1.99%) Fortinet
17 15 (1.76%) OneTrust
17 15 (1.76%) Palo Alto
18 13 (1.52%) Cisco
18 13 (1.52%) Tealium
452 GDPR jobs in England