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

 6 months to
19 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 108 227
Rank change year-on-year -60 +119 +32
Contract jobs citing GDPR 767 703 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.53% 1.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.26% 14.66% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 447 209
10th Percentile £306 £350 £312
25th Percentile £450 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.10% -6.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £678
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 36 14
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.17 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +47.83% +24.32%
75th Percentile £77.00 £70.16 £32.41
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.19 £57.43
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £17.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +48.53% -26.09% +24.32%

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 8,280 4,794 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.79% 17.24% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,205 3,132 2,570
10th Percentile £329 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 226 213
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +2.78% -15.68%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.69 £64.73
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.82%

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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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -41 364 £570 -0.87% 896
South East -55 117 £591 +18.25% 223
North of England -57 98 £487 -3.90% 233
Midlands -46 75 £450 +0.67% 116
North West -29 59 £513 +14.59% 136
South West -25 55 £475 +18.75% 90
West Midlands -27 55 £430 -18.19% 65
East of England +5 51 £538 +2.38% 80
Yorkshire -53 29 £471 -13.27% 71
East Midlands -35 20 £537 +25.09% 51
North East -44 9 £463 -26.00% 27
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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 (5.22%) 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
5 9 (1.17%) IIS
6 6 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.78%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Drupal
8 2 (0.26%) Mendix
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 33 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.78%) 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 37 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.04%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.78%) iTrent
6 5 (0.65%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.52%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.52%) Workfront
8 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.13%) Actimize
9 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 258 (33.64%) Azure
2 153 (19.95%) AWS
3 97 (12.65%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.91%) GCP
5 60 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (6.65%) Entra ID
8 46 (6.00%) SaaS
9 45 (5.87%) Dynamics 365
10 44 (5.74%) Microsoft Purview
11 39 (5.08%) Serverless
12 31 (4.04%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.78%) Power Automate
14 28 (3.65%) GitHub
15 26 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 22 (2.87%) Azure Functions
16 22 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (2.61%) OCI
18 18 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
18 18 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.04%) Firewall
2 27 (3.52%) Network Security
3 18 (2.35%) 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%) HTTP
10 2 (0.26%) LAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.17%) Power BI
2 53 (6.91%) Metadata
3 36 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.04%) Data Lake
6 15 (1.96%) Tableau
7 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.04%) Data Vault
11 8 (1.04%) Looker
11 8 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.91%) Big Data
13 6 (0.78%) GIS
13 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (3.00%) Git
2 20 (2.61%) JIRA
3 15 (1.96%) Postman
4 13 (1.69%) GitLab
5 11 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.43%) Selenium
5 11 (1.43%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Protractor
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
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%) Newman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 287 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 194 (25.29%) Finance
3 138 (17.99%) Public Sector
4 137 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (11.21%) Legal
6 41 (5.35%) Local Government
7 40 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.56%) Marketing
9 34 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (4.04%) Retail
12 30 (3.91%) Banking
13 21 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.48%) Military
15 17 (2.22%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.83%) Law
17 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.91%) Advertising
18 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (17.34%) Architect
2 122 (15.91%) Lead
3 85 (11.08%) Analyst
4 73 (9.52%) Senior
5 37 (4.82%) Project Manager
5 37 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (4.56%) Data Engineer
7 34 (4.43%) Administrator
8 32 (4.17%) Data Analyst
9 30 (3.91%) Consultant
10 27 (3.52%) Data Architect
11 26 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.13%) Security Architect
13 23 (3.00%) Security Manager
14 21 (2.74%) Developer
15 18 (2.35%) Security Engineer
15 18 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 16 (2.09%) Coordinator
18 14 (1.83%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.74%) REST
2 43 (5.61%) Terraform
3 30 (3.91%) OAuth
4 28 (3.65%) SAML
5 27 (3.52%) JSON
5 27 (3.52%) LDAP
6 23 (3.00%) OpenID
7 18 (2.35%) SOAP
8 16 (2.09%) Kafka
9 15 (1.96%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.96%) PySpark
10 14 (1.83%) XML
11 13 (1.69%) XSLT
12 12 (1.56%) JDBC
13 11 (1.43%) .NET
13 11 (1.43%) Gherkin
13 11 (1.43%) SailPoint
14 10 (1.30%) HTML
14 10 (1.30%) Middleware
15 8 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.82%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 41 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 40 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (3.26%) Data Structures
8 24 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 23 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
9 23 (3.00%) Freedom of Information
10 21 (2.74%) NHS
11 20 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (2.48%) Taxonomies
13 15 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.56%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.87%) Windows
2 15 (1.96%) Linux
3 8 (1.04%) 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
1 219 (28.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 206 (26.86%) Data Protection
3 200 (26.08%) Data Governance
4 157 (20.47%) Agile
5 155 (20.21%) Analytics
6 149 (19.43%) AI
6 149 (19.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 144 (18.77%) Cybersecurity
8 133 (17.34%) Migration
9 120 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 117 (15.25%) DevOps
12 116 (15.12%) Information Security
13 112 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (14.60%) Roadmaps
14 105 (13.69%) CI/CD
15 103 (13.43%) Decision-Making
16 99 (12.91%) Risk Management
17 83 (10.82%) Validation
18 81 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 121 (15.78%) SQL
2 89 (11.60%) Python
3 40 (5.22%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.69%) Java
5 35 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 29 (3.78%) 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
1 148 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.52%) CISSP
4 70 (9.13%) Degree
5 57 (7.43%) CISM
6 30 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 26 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (2.48%) PMP
11 18 (2.35%) PMI Certification
12 16 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (1.56%) CISA
13 12 (1.56%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.30%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.17%) CCSP
16 8 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.91%) CRISC
17 7 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (19.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (16.17%) Data Quality
3 91 (11.86%) NIST
4 59 (7.69%) PCI DSS
5 51 (6.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.95%) Accessibility
6 38 (4.95%) NCSC
7 36 (4.69%) GRC
7 36 (4.69%) QA
8 29 (3.78%) WCAG
9 28 (3.65%) HIPAA
10 24 (3.13%) SOC 2
11 23 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 15 (1.96%) PERC
13 12 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (1.43%) PMO
15 9 (1.17%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 54 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.69%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) 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 32 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.30%) CASB
4 9 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (1.17%) Grafana
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%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 220 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.30%) SAP
3 53 (6.91%) Oracle
4 45 (5.87%) Databricks
5 41 (5.35%) Salesforce
6 39 (5.08%) Google
7 31 (4.04%) Workday
8 29 (3.78%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.48%) Adobe
10 17 (2.22%) Splunk
11 15 (1.96%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 10 (1.30%) IFS
13 10 (1.30%) Informatica
14 9 (1.17%) Cisco
15 8 (1.04%) NEC
16 7 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
16 7 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.91%) Ping Identity
17 6 (0.78%) Civica
1,619 GDPR jobs in England