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

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 112 231
Rank change year-on-year -56 +119 +33
Contract jobs citing GDPR 768 690 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.49% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.32% 14.39% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 433 205
10th Percentile £308 £359 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £734 £750 £683
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £524
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.29% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 36 13
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.13 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +36.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £77.00 £70.16 £33.93
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.19 £60.79
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -32.00% +35.14%

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 8,237 4,794 4,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.74% 17.27% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,195 3,128 2,545
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 230 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.20
Median hourly rate £33.36 £32.50 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +6.35% -18.51%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £63.99
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £27.09
% change year-on-year +9.17% +10.74% -23.97%

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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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -45 366 £566 -1.65% 967
South East -54 119 £591 +18.25% 234
North of England -61 98 £492 -2.96% 243
Midlands -47 74 £450 +0.67% 134
North West -16 58 £525 +17.38% 143
South West -31 54 £475 +18.75% 99
West Midlands -31 54 £430 -18.10% 76
East of England 0 50 £550 +4.76% 89
Yorkshire -63 29 £471 -13.27% 73
East Midlands -29 20 £537 +24.94% 58
North East -34 10 £463 -26.00% 28
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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 40 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.56%) CMS
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.17%) Apache
6 8 (1.04%) IIS
7 7 (0.91%) Confluence
8 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) Mendix
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 30 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.04%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.78%) iTrent
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.52%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.52%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.39%) Workfront
8 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 256 (33.33%) Azure
2 155 (20.18%) AWS
3 96 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.90%) GCP
5 59 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (6.77%) Entra ID
8 46 (5.99%) SaaS
9 44 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
10 43 (5.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 38 (4.95%) Serverless
12 30 (3.91%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.78%) Power Automate
14 28 (3.65%) GitHub
15 25 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.73%) Azure Functions
16 21 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (2.60%) OCI
18 18 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
18 18 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.91%) Firewall
2 26 (3.39%) Network Security
3 18 (2.34%) Cisco IPT
4 12 (1.56%) VPN
5 8 (1.04%) SSL
6 7 (0.91%) SMS
7 5 (0.65%) DNS
7 5 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.65%) X.509
8 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.39%) FTP
9 3 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.39%) IPsec
9 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) MPLS
10 2 (0.26%) OSPF
10 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.03%) Power BI
2 50 (6.51%) Metadata
3 36 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 15 (1.95%) Tableau
7 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (1.04%) Big Data
12 8 (1.04%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.04%) Looker
12 8 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.78%) GIS
13 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (2.99%) Git
2 22 (2.86%) JIRA
3 14 (1.82%) Postman
4 13 (1.69%) GitLab
5 10 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.30%) Selenium
5 10 (1.30%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) Protractor
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) ERwin
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.26%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 286 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 195 (25.39%) Finance
3 135 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (17.45%) Public Sector
5 86 (11.20%) Legal
6 39 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (5.08%) Local Government
7 37 (4.82%) Marketing
8 35 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (4.04%) Banking
10 31 (4.04%) Retail
11 22 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.47%) Military
13 16 (2.08%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.69%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.69%) Law
15 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.91%) Advertising
16 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (17.06%) Architect
2 122 (15.89%) Lead
3 85 (11.07%) Analyst
4 71 (9.24%) Senior
5 40 (5.21%) Project Manager
6 37 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (4.56%) Data Engineer
8 32 (4.17%) Administrator
8 32 (4.17%) Data Analyst
9 30 (3.91%) Consultant
10 29 (3.78%) Business Analyst
11 26 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 24 (3.13%) Security Architect
12 24 (3.13%) Security Manager
13 22 (2.86%) Developer
14 18 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 17 (2.21%) Security Engineer
16 16 (2.08%) Coordinator
16 16 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (1.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.73%) REST
2 43 (5.60%) Terraform
3 30 (3.91%) OAuth
4 28 (3.65%) JSON
4 28 (3.65%) SAML
5 27 (3.52%) LDAP
6 23 (2.99%) OpenID
7 18 (2.34%) SOAP
8 15 (1.95%) Kafka
8 15 (1.95%) OAuth2
8 15 (1.95%) PySpark
8 15 (1.95%) XML
9 13 (1.69%) XSLT
10 12 (1.56%) JDBC
11 11 (1.43%) .NET
11 11 (1.43%) HTML
11 11 (1.43%) SailPoint
12 10 (1.30%) Gherkin
12 10 (1.30%) Middleware
13 8 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.03%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.99%) Cloud Native
3 39 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 38 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 24 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (2.99%) Freedom of Information
9 20 (2.60%) NHS
9 20 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.34%) Taxonomies
11 15 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
12 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.73%) Windows
2 15 (1.95%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (28.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 203 (26.43%) Data Protection
3 198 (25.78%) Data Governance
4 159 (20.70%) Agile
5 153 (19.92%) Analytics
6 148 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 146 (19.01%) AI
7 146 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
8 133 (17.32%) Migration
9 120 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (15.23%) Data Modelling
11 116 (15.10%) DevOps
12 113 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 113 (14.71%) Information Security
13 109 (14.19%) Roadmaps
14 106 (13.80%) CI/CD
15 103 (13.41%) Decision-Making
16 96 (12.50%) Risk Management
17 85 (11.07%) Validation
18 81 (10.55%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 124 (16.15%) SQL
2 89 (11.59%) Python
3 40 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.69%) Java
5 35 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 28 (3.65%) C#
7 12 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.43%) Bash
9 10 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.17%) Bicep
11 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.78%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.39%) Go
13 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.39%) R
13 3 (0.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.51%) CISSP
4 66 (8.59%) Degree
5 56 (7.29%) CISM
6 30 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 26 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (2.60%) PMP
11 19 (2.47%) PMI Certification
12 16 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.43%) ISTQB
15 10 (1.30%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.30%) CISA
16 8 (1.04%) CCSP
17 7 (0.91%) CEH
17 7 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (20.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 123 (16.02%) Data Quality
3 92 (11.98%) NIST
4 58 (7.55%) PCI DSS
5 52 (6.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.82%) Accessibility
6 37 (4.82%) NCSC
7 36 (4.69%) GRC
8 35 (4.56%) QA
9 28 (3.65%) HIPAA
9 28 (3.65%) WCAG
10 26 (3.39%) SOC 2
11 22 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (2.08%) PERC
13 15 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (1.43%) PMO
16 9 (1.17%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (7.03%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.82%) Docker
3 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.30%) Grafana
4 9 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (1.17%) CASB
5 8 (1.04%) Ansible
6 7 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.39%) QRadar
10 2 (0.26%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.26%) systemd
11 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 217 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.90%) SAP
3 52 (6.77%) Oracle
4 44 (5.73%) Salesforce
5 43 (5.60%) Databricks
6 38 (4.95%) Google
7 30 (3.91%) Workday
8 29 (3.78%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.34%) Adobe
10 16 (2.08%) CyberArk
10 16 (2.08%) Splunk
11 12 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 10 (1.30%) IFS
12 10 (1.30%) Informatica
13 8 (1.04%) Cisco
13 8 (1.04%) NEC
14 7 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.91%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.78%) Civica
15 6 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
1,753 GDPR jobs in England