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

 6 months to
24 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 157 172
Rank change year-on-year +54 +15 +81
Contract jobs citing GDPR 925 408 505
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 1.68% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.20% 10.88% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 243 247
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £450 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 45
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.56 £11.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% +3.54% -27.78%
75th Percentile £59.25 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £84.13 £34.27 £29.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £24.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year +5.15% +24.36% -14.04%

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 6,513 3,750 5,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.42% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,220 2,419 3,426
10th Percentile £341 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 162 335
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.41
Median hourly rate £27.25 £32.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +37.23% -44.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £28.80 £31.76 £22.01
% change year-on-year -9.34% +44.30% -44.98%

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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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +53 445 £550 -2.65% 163
South East +34 179 £515 +3.00% 110
North of England 0 131 £550 +9.67% 96
Midlands -14 81 £475 +6.26% 59
Yorkshire -14 66 £550 +4.76% 27
North West -11 56 £525 +4.84% 59
South West +7 51 £494 +23.44% 33
West Midlands -31 47 £500 +5.26% 38
East Midlands -7 34 £442 +13.11% 21
East of England -29 22 £553 +10.60% 38
North East -15 9 £508 +9.84% 12
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UK

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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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.89%) Confluence
4 34 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.81%) Apache
6 14 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.08%) TPMS
8 7 (0.76%) SAS
9 6 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.65%) Appian
9 6 (0.65%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 42 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 361 (39.03%) Azure
2 281 (30.38%) AWS
3 148 (16.00%) GCP
4 117 (12.65%) Power Platform
5 87 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (8.86%) Entra ID
7 58 (6.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 49 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 37 (4.00%) Collibra
12 36 (3.89%) SaaS
13 35 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (3.24%) OneDrive
15 25 (2.70%) GitHub
15 25 (2.70%) Serverless
16 22 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (2.27%) Snowflake
18 19 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.14%) Firewall
2 48 (5.19%) Network Security
3 28 (3.03%) DNS
4 25 (2.70%) DHCP
5 24 (2.59%) VPN
6 18 (1.95%) Wireless
7 15 (1.62%) Cisco IPT
7 15 (1.62%) SSL
8 14 (1.51%) Kerberos
9 11 (1.19%) LAN
9 11 (1.19%) WAN
10 10 (1.08%) SMS
10 10 (1.08%) SNMP
10 10 (1.08%) SSH
11 9 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.86%) HTTP
12 8 (0.86%) IPv4
12 8 (0.86%) IPv6
12 8 (0.86%) WLAN
13 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (11.68%) Power BI
2 69 (7.46%) Data Lake
3 50 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (4.65%) Metadata
5 25 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (2.49%) Tableau
7 20 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.05%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.95%) Mixpanel
9 18 (1.95%) OLAP
9 18 (1.95%) OLTP
10 16 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.73%) Big Data
11 12 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.97%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (4.97%) JIRA
2 26 (2.81%) Git
3 18 (1.95%) Burp Suite
3 18 (1.95%) GitLab
3 18 (1.95%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) ERwin
5 5 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.43%) Postman
6 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 394 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 274 (29.62%) Finance
3 152 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.41%) Legal
5 112 (12.11%) Public Sector
6 81 (8.76%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (6.59%) Marketing
8 49 (5.30%) Banking
9 27 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 22 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.27%) Law
13 17 (1.84%) Retail
14 15 (1.62%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.51%) Electronics
15 14 (1.51%) Local Government
16 11 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.19%) Military
17 8 (0.86%) Billing
17 8 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 177 (19.14%) Architect
2 103 (11.14%) Analyst
3 98 (10.59%) Lead
4 57 (6.16%) Consultant
5 55 (5.95%) Senior
6 53 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
7 50 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 49 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 49 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 43 (4.65%) Security Engineer
10 33 (3.57%) Security Architect
11 31 (3.35%) Data Architect
12 27 (2.92%) Developer
13 26 (2.81%) Administrator
14 25 (2.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
15 23 (2.49%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.49%) Security Manager
16 19 (2.05%) Principal Engineer
17 17 (1.84%) Security Analyst
18 16 (1.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.41%) LDAP
2 44 (4.76%) Kafka
3 39 (4.22%) OAuth
3 39 (4.22%) REST
4 38 (4.11%) SAML
5 33 (3.57%) Middleware
6 24 (2.59%) OpenID
7 19 (2.05%) Great Expectations
8 18 (1.95%) .NET
8 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (1.95%) OAuth2
8 18 (1.95%) PySpark
9 15 (1.62%) SOAP
10 14 (1.51%) HTML
10 14 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (1.41%) CSS
11 13 (1.41%) RESTful
12 10 (1.08%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
13 9 (0.97%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 57 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.73%) Security Posture
5 37 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (2.81%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.27%) Data Centre
12 19 (2.05%) Marketing Technology
13 17 (1.84%) Replication
14 14 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.41%) BYOD
15 13 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
15 13 (1.41%) NHS
16 12 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.41%) Windows
2 39 (4.22%) Linux
3 24 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.32%) Android
6 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 215 (23.24%) Data Protection
3 195 (21.08%) Cybersecurity
4 194 (20.97%) Data Governance
5 193 (20.86%) Agile
6 168 (18.16%) CI/CD
7 167 (18.05%) DevOps
8 166 (17.95%) Analytics
9 162 (17.51%) Migration
10 156 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 134 (14.49%) Data Modelling
13 133 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
14 123 (13.30%) AI
15 122 (13.19%) Roadmaps
16 111 (12.00%) Data Privacy
17 107 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (11.57%) Risk Management
18 106 (11.46%) Information Security
18 106 (11.46%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 170 (18.38%) SQL
2 163 (17.62%) Python
3 116 (12.54%) PowerShell
4 37 (4.00%) Java
5 34 (3.68%) C#
6 22 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.84%) Bash
8 14 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.08%) Bicep
10 8 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.65%) R
11 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.54%) Go
13 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.22%) Perl
14 2 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 171 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 143 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 118 (12.76%) Degree
4 116 (12.54%) CISSP
5 83 (8.97%) CISM
6 39 (4.22%) PMI Certification
7 36 (3.89%) PMP
8 34 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (3.24%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (2.38%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.73%) CHECK Team Member
13 15 (1.62%) CCSP
13 15 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.51%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.51%) Cyber Scheme
14 14 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 11 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (27.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 190 (20.54%) NIST
3 120 (12.97%) Data Quality
4 119 (12.86%) PCI DSS
5 79 (8.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 46 (4.97%) QA
7 45 (4.86%) HIPAA
8 43 (4.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 37 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (3.68%) GRC
11 32 (3.46%) SOC 2
12 26 (2.81%) NCSC
13 24 (2.59%) PERC
14 23 (2.49%) PMO
15 20 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 18 (1.95%) MiFID
17 15 (1.62%) SLA
18 14 (1.51%) Accessibility
19 13 (1.41%) FINRA
19 13 (1.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 89 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.11%) Docker
3 12 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 78 (8.43%) Terraform
2 57 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 44 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (1.84%) Ansible
7 16 (1.73%) Nmap
8 11 (1.19%) Grafana
8 11 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.97%) SCCM
10 5 (0.54%) QRadar
11 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.32%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.32%) Istio
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.32%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 224 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.00%) Google
3 64 (6.92%) Databricks
4 53 (5.73%) CyberArk
5 48 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 43 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.43%) Oracle
8 38 (4.11%) SAP
9 32 (3.46%) BeyondTrust
10 26 (2.81%) Workday
11 25 (2.70%) Splunk
12 22 (2.38%) Informatica
13 21 (2.27%) Adobe
13 21 (2.27%) Okta
14 15 (1.62%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.51%) Cisco
15 14 (1.51%) OneTrust
15 14 (1.51%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.51%) Tealium
15 14 (1.51%) VMware
447 GDPR jobs in England