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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 116 224
Rank change year-on-year -37 +108 +24
Contract jobs citing GDPR 814 659 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 2.39% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.20% 13.85% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 409 205
10th Percentile £345 £354 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.55% -7.82%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £563 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.75% -5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 38 22
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.64 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.47 £21.38
Median hourly rate £28.40 £30.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +20.98% +31.93%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.43 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.01 £33.93
UK median hourly rate £28.40 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +67.07% -32.00% +31.93%

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 7,978 4,758 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,097 3,106 2,717
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 229 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.77
% change year-on-year +28.00% +9.37% -26.39%

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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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -19 380 £575 - 206
South East -33 152 £575 +15.00% 144
North of England -34 107 £500 -1.38% 106
North West -7 65 £538 +6.65% 57
Midlands -59 63 £475 +10.59% 83
South West -26 51 £500 +25.00% 70
East of England +9 49 £613 +16.67% 44
West Midlands -43 43 £440 -12.00% 58
Yorkshire -53 28 £470 -7.25% 31
East Midlands -33 20 £538 +29.52% 25
North East -29 13 £463 -14.94% 18
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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 31 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.47%) Apache
4 12 (1.47%) CMS
4 12 (1.47%) Confluence
5 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.25%) Drupal
7 2 (0.25%) Mendix
7 2 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.12%) Luigi
8 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 28 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.98%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.74%) iTrent
5 5 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.49%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.37%) Workfront
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 277 (34.03%) Azure
2 191 (23.46%) AWS
3 105 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.93%) GCP
5 52 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (6.39%) Entra ID
6 50 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (6.02%) SaaS
8 39 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 36 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (4.30%) GitHub
10 35 (4.30%) Snowflake
11 31 (3.81%) Serverless
12 28 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.70%) Power Automate
16 21 (2.58%) dbt
17 19 (2.33%) Collibra
17 19 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.79%) Firewall
1 39 (4.79%) Network Security
2 17 (2.09%) Cisco IPT
3 16 (1.97%) VPN
4 8 (0.98%) SMS
4 8 (0.98%) SSL
5 7 (0.86%) HTTP
6 6 (0.74%) DNS
7 5 (0.61%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.61%) WAN
8 4 (0.49%) LAN
8 4 (0.49%) X.509
9 3 (0.37%) DHCP
9 3 (0.37%) FTP
9 3 (0.37%) Intranet
9 3 (0.37%) IPv4
9 3 (0.37%) IPv6
9 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (11.79%) Power BI
2 56 (6.88%) Metadata
3 48 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.04%) Data Lake
5 29 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.09%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.97%) Tableau
8 15 (1.84%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.35%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.23%) Big Data
11 10 (1.23%) Looker
12 8 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.86%) Data Vault
14 6 (0.74%) GIS
14 6 (0.74%) MySQL
14 6 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (3.44%) JIRA
2 13 (1.60%) Git
3 11 (1.35%) GitLab
4 9 (1.11%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.11%) Postman
4 9 (1.11%) Selenium
4 9 (1.11%) WebDriver
5 8 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.49%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.37%) Protractor
9 2 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
10 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 279 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 234 (28.75%) Finance
3 147 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 91 (11.18%) Legal
6 42 (5.16%) Marketing
7 39 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (4.55%) Retail
9 35 (4.30%) Banking
9 35 (4.30%) Local Government
10 33 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.97%) Law
13 16 (1.97%) Military
14 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.35%) Manufacturing
18 10 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 144 (17.69%) Architect
2 122 (14.99%) Lead
3 84 (10.32%) Analyst
4 74 (9.09%) Senior
5 52 (6.39%) Project Manager
6 43 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (5.16%) Data Engineer
8 34 (4.18%) Data Analyst
9 33 (4.05%) Business Analyst
9 33 (4.05%) Consultant
10 32 (3.93%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.44%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.19%) Security Architect
13 24 (2.95%) Administrator
14 21 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 20 (2.46%) Security Engineer
16 18 (2.21%) Senior Manager
17 15 (1.84%) Developer
18 14 (1.72%) Coordinator
18 14 (1.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.27%) Terraform
2 39 (4.79%) REST
3 29 (3.56%) OAuth
4 27 (3.32%) Kafka
4 27 (3.32%) LDAP
5 26 (3.19%) SAML
6 23 (2.83%) OpenID
7 20 (2.46%) JSON
8 17 (2.09%) Middleware
9 16 (1.97%) SOAP
10 15 (1.84%) OAuth2
10 15 (1.84%) PySpark
11 14 (1.72%) .NET
12 12 (1.47%) HTML
13 9 (1.11%) Gherkin
13 9 (1.11%) JDBC
13 9 (1.11%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (0.86%) CSS
15 7 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.16%) Security Posture
4 38 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 25 (3.07%) Data Structures
9 22 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (2.58%) Freedom of Information
10 21 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (2.33%) NHS
13 17 (2.09%) Marketing Technology
14 16 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.47%) AI Agents
15 12 (1.47%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.23%) CSOC
17 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.19%) Windows
2 17 (2.09%) Linux
3 8 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.25%) Unix
4 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (27.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (26.17%) Data Protection
3 209 (25.68%) Data Governance
4 173 (21.25%) Agile
5 167 (20.52%) Analytics
6 164 (20.15%) Cybersecurity
7 155 (19.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 151 (18.55%) Migration
9 138 (16.95%) AI
10 129 (15.85%) Data Modelling
11 128 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (15.60%) CI/CD
13 126 (15.48%) DevOps
14 115 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 109 (13.39%) Roadmaps
16 108 (13.27%) Information Security
17 105 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
18 98 (12.04%) Risk Management
19 97 (11.92%) Decision-Making
19 97 (11.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 149 (18.30%) SQL
2 103 (12.65%) Python
3 49 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 34 (4.18%) Java
5 22 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.58%) C#
7 16 (1.97%) Bash
8 11 (1.35%) Bicep
8 11 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.86%) Go
10 7 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.37%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.37%) R
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
13 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.32%) CISSP
4 64 (7.86%) CISM
4 64 (7.86%) Degree
5 28 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (3.07%) PMP
7 24 (2.95%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.35%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (1.11%) CISA
12 8 (0.98%) CEH
13 7 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (22.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (16.58%) Data Quality
3 111 (13.64%) NIST
4 65 (7.99%) PCI DSS
5 59 (7.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.67%) NCSC
7 36 (4.42%) QA
8 32 (3.93%) Accessibility
8 32 (3.93%) GRC
9 29 (3.56%) HIPAA
9 29 (3.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (2.46%) WCAG
12 18 (2.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 18 (2.21%) PERC
13 15 (1.84%) PMO
14 13 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (1.47%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.74%) HL7
System Software
1 62 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) Firmware
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (1.84%) Grafana
4 11 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.98%) Ansible
6 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.74%) CASB
8 5 (0.61%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.49%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.49%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Rancher
10 3 (0.37%) QRadar
11 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) Argo
12 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
12 1 (0.12%) Kibana
12 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 206 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.63%) Databricks
2 54 (6.63%) Oracle
2 54 (6.63%) SAP
3 42 (5.16%) Salesforce
4 41 (5.04%) Google
5 34 (4.18%) Workday
6 30 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.70%) CyberArk
8 19 (2.33%) Adobe
9 15 (1.84%) IFS
10 12 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 12 (1.47%) Splunk
11 11 (1.35%) Informatica
12 9 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (0.98%) NEC
14 6 (0.74%) Ping Identity
14 6 (0.74%) Tealium
15 5 (0.61%) Braze
15 5 (0.61%) Cribl.io
604 GDPR jobs in England