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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 148 192
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 +52
Contract jobs citing GDPR 880 479 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 1.98% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.86% 12.34% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 288 267
10th Percentile £364 £356 £312
25th Percentile £450 £440 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £537 £500
% change year-on-year +0.09% +7.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 46
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.85 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +15.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £54.63 £31.76 £28.52
90th Percentile £65.20 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £27.35 £23.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% +18.91% +21.05%

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 6,841 3,881 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.89% 16.02% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 2,490 3,347
10th Percentile £340 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 156 349
10th Percentile £14.11 £17.95 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.44 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.86 £35.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +56.67% -40.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £78.55 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £20.80
% change year-on-year +1.45% +65.85% -40.56%

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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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +20 423 £550 -4.35% 180
South East +16 173 £560 +6.67% 128
North of England +6 129 £550 +4.76% 96
Midlands -31 74 £479 +7.95% 80
North West -9 63 £528 +0.48% 51
Yorkshire -8 56 £554 +4.53% 31
West Midlands -41 41 £492 +3.58% 44
South West -27 40 £500 +25.00% 43
East Midlands -4 33 £450 +8.37% 36
East of England -24 29 £625 +18.48% 43
North East -7 11 £588 +27.03% 14
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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 45 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.98%) Confluence
3 34 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (3.30%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.61%) Apache
6 15 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.91%) TPMS
8 7 (0.80%) SAS
9 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Moodle
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
Applications
1 32 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.91%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.68%) SAP HCM
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Actimize
7 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 326 (37.05%) Azure
2 245 (27.84%) AWS
3 139 (15.80%) GCP
4 126 (14.32%) Power Platform
5 80 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (7.73%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (3.98%) Collibra
12 34 (3.86%) SaaS
13 28 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (3.18%) OneDrive
14 24 (2.73%) Amazon S3
14 24 (2.73%) GitHub
15 23 (2.61%) Snowflake
16 19 (2.16%) dbt
16 19 (2.16%) Serverless
17 18 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.25%) Firewall
2 36 (4.09%) Network Security
3 23 (2.61%) DNS
4 20 (2.27%) VPN
5 19 (2.16%) DHCP
6 15 (1.70%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.70%) SSL
7 14 (1.59%) Wireless
8 10 (1.14%) SMS
9 8 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
9 8 (0.91%) SNMP
9 8 (0.91%) SSH
10 6 (0.68%) HTTP
10 6 (0.68%) WAN
11 5 (0.57%) LAN
11 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.45%) NGFW
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 3 (0.34%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.07%) Power BI
2 56 (6.36%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.57%) Metadata
4 48 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.84%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.27%) Tableau
8 18 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.82%) Mixpanel
10 16 (1.82%) OLAP
10 16 (1.82%) OLTP
11 13 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.36%) Big Data
13 10 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.91%) Looker
14 8 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (5.68%) JIRA
2 29 (3.30%) Git
3 18 (2.05%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.93%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.82%) GitLab
6 10 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.68%) ERwin
7 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.45%) Postman
8 4 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.11%) Ant
11 1 (0.11%) AppScan
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 328 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 280 (31.82%) Finance
3 147 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.89%) Legal
5 99 (11.25%) Public Sector
6 76 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (6.48%) Marketing
8 53 (6.02%) Banking
9 35 (3.98%) Retail
10 21 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.05%) Local Government
11 18 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.93%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.93%) Law
12 17 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.91%) Military
15 7 (0.80%) Electronics
15 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 152 (17.27%) Architect
2 103 (11.70%) Lead
3 97 (11.02%) Analyst
4 60 (6.82%) Project Manager
5 54 (6.14%) Senior
6 51 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.45%) Consultant
7 48 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 38 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.98%) Security Engineer
10 30 (3.41%) Data Analyst
11 25 (2.84%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 23 (2.61%) Security Architect
12 23 (2.61%) Security Manager
13 22 (2.50%) Data Architect
13 22 (2.50%) Developer
14 21 (2.39%) Administrator
15 19 (2.16%) Principal Engineer
16 18 (2.05%) Migration Manager
17 17 (1.93%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.68%) LDAP
2 45 (5.11%) REST
3 41 (4.66%) Kafka
4 37 (4.20%) OAuth
5 33 (3.75%) Middleware
5 33 (3.75%) SAML
6 20 (2.27%) PySpark
7 18 (2.05%) Great Expectations
8 17 (1.93%) .NET
8 17 (1.93%) JSON
8 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.93%) OpenID
8 17 (1.93%) SOAP
9 16 (1.82%) HTML
10 15 (1.70%) CSS
11 13 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (1.36%) OAuth2
13 9 (1.02%) J2EE
13 9 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.23%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 34 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.27%) Replication
10 18 (2.05%) Marketing Technology
11 17 (1.93%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.93%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (1.48%) NHS
14 12 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.14%) BYOD
16 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.20%) Windows
2 28 (3.18%) Linux
3 25 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (24.89%) Data Protection
1 219 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 209 (23.75%) Agile
3 192 (21.82%) Data Governance
4 169 (19.20%) Migration
5 168 (19.09%) DevOps
6 166 (18.86%) Cybersecurity
7 165 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 159 (18.07%) Analytics
9 147 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (15.11%) Business Intelligence
11 131 (14.89%) Data Modelling
12 121 (13.75%) Roadmaps
13 118 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 117 (13.30%) AI
15 107 (12.16%) Validation
16 101 (11.48%) Risk Management
17 100 (11.36%) ETL
18 99 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 99 (11.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 177 (20.11%) SQL
2 154 (17.50%) Python
3 102 (11.59%) PowerShell
4 45 (5.11%) Java
5 33 (3.75%) C#
6 24 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.39%) Bash
8 11 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.02%) Bicep
9 9 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.68%) Go
12 6 (0.68%) R
12 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 2 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 150 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 124 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 97 (11.02%) Degree
4 95 (10.80%) CISSP
5 77 (8.75%) CISM
6 44 (5.00%) PMI Certification
7 41 (4.66%) PMP
8 24 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.82%) CHECK Team Member
12 16 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.59%) CREST Certified
13 14 (1.59%) Cyber Scheme
14 13 (1.48%) IIBA
15 12 (1.36%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.36%) Postgraduate
16 11 (1.25%) CRISC
17 10 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (25.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (17.61%) NIST
3 118 (13.41%) Data Quality
4 108 (12.27%) PCI DSS
5 80 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 43 (4.89%) QA
7 39 (4.43%) GRC
8 34 (3.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (3.64%) SOC 2
10 30 (3.41%) HIPAA
11 25 (2.84%) PMO
12 23 (2.61%) NCSC
13 22 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (2.16%) MiFID
14 19 (2.16%) PERC
15 17 (1.93%) Accessibility
16 13 (1.48%) FINRA
17 11 (1.25%) Solvency II
18 9 (1.02%) COBIT
18 9 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.09%) Docker
3 7 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (7.05%) Kubernetes
1 62 (7.05%) Terraform
2 41 (4.66%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (1.82%) Nmap
5 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.36%) Grafana
7 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.91%) Ansible
9 6 (0.68%) SCCM
10 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.45%) QRadar
11 4 (0.45%) Rancher
12 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 208 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.84%) Google
3 59 (6.70%) Databricks
4 48 (5.45%) CyberArk
5 46 (5.23%) SAP
6 45 (5.11%) Salesforce
7 43 (4.89%) Oracle
8 42 (4.77%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.41%) Workday
10 27 (3.07%) BeyondTrust
11 21 (2.39%) Adobe
12 20 (2.27%) Okta
13 19 (2.16%) Informatica
14 18 (2.05%) Splunk
15 13 (1.48%) IFS
15 13 (1.48%) Tealium
16 11 (1.25%) OneTrust
17 8 (0.91%) mParticle
17 8 (0.91%) Thales
17 8 (0.91%) Varonis
528 GDPR jobs in England