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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 123 214
Rank change year-on-year -21 +91 +45
Contract jobs citing GDPR 847 626 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.29% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.90% 13.50% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 389 238
10th Percentile £363 £354 £304
25th Percentile £450 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 37 34
10th Percentile £16.13 £14.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.52 £15.13 £21.18
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +27.04% +31.58%
75th Percentile £79.00 £70.16 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.10 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £26.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.74% +6.00% +31.58%

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 7,769 4,637 4,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.28% 16.95% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,987 3,031 2,987
10th Percentile £345 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 212 318
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.03
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.16
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +20.94% -38.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.94% +12.72% -35.42%

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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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -11 398 £565 -1.74% 268
South East -21 155 £570 +14.00% 119
North of England -38 108 £500 -3.75% 85
Midlands -40 74 £450 +6.01% 49
North West -11 67 £500 -4.76% 55
South West -26 53 £500 +25.00% 51
East of England +5 47 £625 +19.05% 24
West Midlands -48 44 £450 -9.09% 26
East Midlands -12 30 £519 +24.19% 23
Yorkshire -56 30 £550 +8.48% 22
North East -27 12 £463 -14.94% 8
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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 37 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.60%) Confluence
4 19 (2.24%) Apache
5 17 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (1.42%) CMS
8 8 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.59%) IIS
10 2 (0.24%) Drupal
10 2 (0.24%) Mendix
10 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (1.42%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.71%) iTrent
6 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.47%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.35%) Workfront
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 291 (34.36%) Azure
2 201 (23.73%) AWS
3 115 (13.58%) Power Platform
4 102 (12.04%) GCP
5 55 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 44 (5.19%) SaaS
10 38 (4.49%) Snowflake
11 36 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
14 30 (3.54%) GitHub
15 28 (3.31%) Serverless
16 24 (2.83%) Collibra
16 24 (2.83%) dbt
17 20 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.13%) Amazon S3
19 17 (2.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.60%) Firewall
2 34 (4.01%) Network Security
3 17 (2.01%) VPN
4 11 (1.30%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.94%) SMS
5 8 (0.94%) SSL
6 7 (0.83%) HTTP
7 6 (0.71%) DNS
8 5 (0.59%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.59%) WAN
9 4 (0.47%) LAN
9 4 (0.47%) Wireless
9 4 (0.47%) X.509
10 3 (0.35%) BGP
10 3 (0.35%) DHCP
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (12.51%) Power BI
2 54 (6.38%) Metadata
3 52 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.79%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.13%) Tableau
9 16 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.42%) Big Data
11 12 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.18%) Looker
14 8 (0.94%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.94%) Mixpanel
14 8 (0.94%) OLTP
14 8 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (4.37%) JIRA
2 14 (1.65%) Git
3 8 (0.94%) Postman
3 8 (0.94%) Selenium
4 7 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.83%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.71%) ERwin
5 6 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.47%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.35%) Protractor
8 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 290 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 263 (31.05%) Finance
3 154 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (15.47%) Public Sector
5 98 (11.57%) Legal
6 45 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (5.19%) Marketing
8 43 (5.08%) Banking
9 37 (4.37%) Retail
10 30 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (3.31%) Local Government
12 26 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.77%) Law
15 14 (1.65%) Military
15 14 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
18 10 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 155 (18.30%) Architect
2 120 (14.17%) Lead
3 87 (10.27%) Analyst
4 73 (8.62%) Senior
5 51 (6.02%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.55%) Data Engineer
7 42 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.25%) Business Analyst
8 36 (4.25%) Consultant
9 34 (4.01%) Data Architect
10 33 (3.90%) Data Analyst
11 28 (3.31%) Security Manager
12 25 (2.95%) Security Engineer
13 24 (2.83%) Administrator
13 24 (2.83%) Security Architect
14 21 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.24%) Senior Manager
15 19 (2.24%) Technical Architect
16 15 (1.77%) Developer
17 14 (1.65%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.72%) REST
2 33 (3.90%) Kafka
3 29 (3.42%) Middleware
4 28 (3.31%) LDAP
5 27 (3.19%) OAuth
6 25 (2.95%) SAML
7 23 (2.72%) OpenID
8 19 (2.24%) JSON
9 17 (2.01%) .NET
10 16 (1.89%) PySpark
10 16 (1.89%) SOAP
11 14 (1.65%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.18%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.18%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (1.06%) HTML
13 9 (1.06%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.94%) CSS
14 8 (0.94%) RESTful
14 8 (0.94%) XML
15 7 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.61%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (5.08%) Security Posture
5 40 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
6 34 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.54%) Data Structures
8 28 (3.31%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
12 16 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.77%) NHS
14 14 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
15 12 (1.42%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.18%) BYOD
16 10 (1.18%) Clustering
16 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.66%) Windows
2 18 (2.13%) Linux
3 8 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 220 (25.97%) Data Protection
3 214 (25.27%) Data Governance
4 183 (21.61%) Agile
5 178 (21.02%) Cybersecurity
6 175 (20.66%) Analytics
6 175 (20.66%) Migration
7 154 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 147 (17.36%) DevOps
9 140 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (16.41%) AI
11 138 (16.29%) Data Modelling
12 134 (15.82%) CI/CD
13 130 (15.35%) Roadmaps
14 121 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
15 119 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (12.51%) Information Security
17 105 (12.40%) Validation
18 98 (11.57%) ETL
19 97 (11.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (19.48%) SQL
2 112 (13.22%) Python
3 50 (5.90%) PowerShell
4 37 (4.37%) Java
5 23 (2.72%) C#
6 20 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.65%) Bash
8 10 (1.18%) Bicep
9 9 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.47%) R
13 3 (0.35%) Ruby
13 3 (0.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 156 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.04%) CISSP
4 73 (8.62%) Degree
5 68 (8.03%) CISM
6 27 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 26 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 26 (3.07%) PMP
8 21 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 13 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.18%) CISA
12 10 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.06%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.83%) CEH
14 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (22.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (16.77%) Data Quality
3 118 (13.93%) NIST
4 72 (8.50%) PCI DSS
5 52 (6.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.37%) NCSC
7 36 (4.25%) GRC
8 34 (4.01%) QA
8 34 (4.01%) SOC 2
9 31 (3.66%) Accessibility
10 30 (3.54%) HIPAA
11 29 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (2.36%) PMO
14 18 (2.13%) WCAG
15 16 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (1.89%) PERC
16 14 (1.65%) Solvency II
17 11 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.72%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (5.79%) Terraform
2 43 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.53%) Grafana
5 10 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.59%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.47%) Ansible
8 4 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) Istio
8 4 (0.47%) Rancher
9 3 (0.35%) QRadar
10 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.24%) Nmap
10 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.12%) CASB
11 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 202 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.15%) Databricks
3 52 (6.14%) Salesforce
3 52 (6.14%) SAP
4 50 (5.90%) Oracle
5 47 (5.55%) Google
6 35 (4.13%) Workday
7 34 (4.01%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.95%) CyberArk
9 19 (2.24%) Adobe
10 14 (1.65%) IFS
10 14 (1.65%) Informatica
11 13 (1.53%) BeyondTrust
11 13 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 12 (1.42%) NEC
13 9 (1.06%) Splunk
14 7 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.71%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.71%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.71%) Varonis
564 GDPR jobs in England