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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 197 216
Rank change year-on-year +100 +19 +75
Contract jobs citing GDPR 836 388 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.73% 1.28% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.51% 9.36% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 209 229
10th Percentile £337 £302 £336
25th Percentile £419 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -0.10% -
75th Percentile £638 £623 £675
90th Percentile £738 £678 £746
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 12
10th Percentile £15.13 - £15.58
25th Percentile £18.81 £15.50 £16.52
Median hourly rate £39.23 £16.75 £17.98
Median % change year-on-year +134.21% -6.84% -5.37%
75th Percentile £70.16 £21.63 £20.06
90th Percentile £89.63 £25.00 £21.38
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £18.72 £17.98
% change year-on-year +81.62% +4.12% -58.90%

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 5,390 4,145 5,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.57% 13.66% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,493 2,411 3,707
10th Percentile £313 £288 £324
25th Percentile £404 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 175 224
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.31 £21.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -21.09% +61.54%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.99 £65.63
90th Percentile £76.19 £70.00 £83.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.62% +51.62%

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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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +98 387 £550 +0.92% 190
South East +65 184 £500 -5.66% 192
North of England -13 96 £539 +19.69% 133
Midlands +21 73 £449 -10.30% 85
Yorkshire +6 57 £550 +7.32% 47
South West +33 53 £475 +111.11% 46
East Midlands +16 38 £415 -30.83% 44
West Midlands -9 35 £544 +14.47% 41
North West -20 33 £437 +2.82% 78
East of England -11 18 £577 +15.30% 32
North East -12 6 £508 +23.15% 9
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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 32 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.59%) Confluence
3 27 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.44%) Apache
6 7 (0.84%) CMS
7 6 (0.72%) Appian
7 6 (0.72%) TPMS
8 5 (0.60%) Camunda
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 48 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 317 (37.92%) Azure
2 228 (27.27%) AWS
3 136 (16.27%) GCP
4 78 (9.33%) Entra ID
4 78 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (8.01%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.78%) SaaS
7 36 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 33 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 32 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (3.35%) Amazon S3
11 28 (3.35%) Serverless
12 27 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 27 (3.23%) GitHub
13 21 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (2.51%) Collibra
14 18 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (2.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 68 (8.13%) Firewall
2 46 (5.50%) Network Security
3 27 (3.23%) DNS
3 27 (3.23%) VPN
4 19 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.67%) DHCP
5 14 (1.67%) Wireless
6 11 (1.32%) Cisco IPT
6 11 (1.32%) SSL
7 9 (1.08%) WAN
8 8 (0.96%) LAN
8 8 (0.96%) PABX
9 7 (0.84%) BGP
9 7 (0.84%) OSPF
9 7 (0.84%) WLAN
10 6 (0.72%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.72%) SNMP
10 6 (0.72%) SSH
11 5 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.66%) Power BI
2 43 (5.14%) Data Lake
3 39 (4.67%) Metadata
4 35 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (2.15%) Tableau
6 16 (1.91%) Big Data
7 15 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.56%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.96%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.60%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 70 (8.37%) JIRA
2 18 (2.15%) Git
3 13 (1.56%) GitLab
4 9 (1.08%) Postman
5 7 (0.84%) Metasploit
6 6 (0.72%) Burp Suite
6 6 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.72%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.60%) Subversion
8 4 (0.48%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Locust
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) Snyk
10 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 402 (48.09%) Social Skills
2 239 (28.59%) Finance
3 129 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.48%) Legal
5 91 (10.89%) Public Sector
6 63 (7.54%) Marketing
7 57 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (6.70%) Banking
9 27 (3.23%) Law
10 20 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.03%) Retail
12 16 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.56%) Electronics
15 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.20%) Local Government
16 10 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 140 (16.75%) Architect
2 132 (15.79%) Analyst
3 88 (10.53%) Lead
4 55 (6.58%) Consultant
5 53 (6.34%) Senior
6 50 (5.98%) Business Analyst
7 41 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.43%) Security Architect
9 34 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 31 (3.71%) Security Engineer
11 28 (3.35%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.23%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.87%) Administrator
14 21 (2.51%) Data Architect
14 21 (2.51%) Security Analyst
15 18 (2.15%) SOC Analyst
16 16 (1.91%) Azure Architect
16 16 (1.91%) Salesforce Architect
17 15 (1.79%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (1.79%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.38%) LDAP
2 42 (5.02%) OAuth
3 40 (4.78%) REST
4 37 (4.43%) SAML
5 30 (3.59%) OpenID
6 23 (2.75%) Middleware
7 22 (2.63%) SOAP
8 21 (2.51%) Kafka
9 19 (2.27%) OAuth2
10 16 (1.91%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.79%) RESTful
12 14 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (1.56%) SailPoint
13 13 (1.56%) Visualforce
14 12 (1.44%) .NET
15 10 (1.20%) HTML
15 10 (1.20%) PyTorch
16 9 (1.08%) scikit-learn
17 8 (0.96%) GraphQL
18 7 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.58%) Security Posture
2 54 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 49 (5.86%) Management Information System
4 48 (5.74%) Cloud Native
5 45 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.19%) Data Structures
7 34 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.56%) NHS
14 13 (1.56%) Replication
15 12 (1.44%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.44%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.01%) Windows
2 33 (3.95%) Linux
3 16 (1.91%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.72%) Solaris
7 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (22.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 185 (22.13%) Agile
3 181 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
4 176 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 165 (19.74%) Data Governance
6 161 (19.26%) Cybersecurity
7 138 (16.51%) DevOps
8 137 (16.39%) CI/CD
9 135 (16.15%) Data Privacy
10 133 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 121 (14.47%) Data Modelling
12 119 (14.23%) Analytics
13 117 (14.00%) Roadmaps
14 106 (12.68%) Migration
15 102 (12.20%) Information Security
16 98 (11.72%) Incident Response
16 98 (11.72%) Regulatory Compliance
17 96 (11.48%) Risk Management
18 94 (11.24%) Cloud Security
19 91 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (16.03%) Python
2 106 (12.68%) SQL
3 103 (12.32%) PowerShell
4 30 (3.59%) Bash
5 29 (3.47%) Java
6 16 (1.91%) Bicep
7 15 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.56%) Apex Code
9 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.08%) C#
11 8 (0.96%) R
11 8 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.84%) Perl
13 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.48%) C++
14 4 (0.48%) PHP
15 3 (0.36%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.36%) C
15 3 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.71%) CISSP
3 108 (12.92%) Degree
4 95 (11.36%) SC Cleared
5 76 (9.09%) CISM
6 44 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.78%) Azure Certification
8 37 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 25 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (2.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (2.39%) CISA
13 17 (2.03%) CCSP
14 16 (1.91%) DV Cleared
15 14 (1.67%) PMI Certification
16 12 (1.44%) CEH
16 12 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
16 12 (1.44%) PMP
17 11 (1.32%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (30.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (22.37%) NIST
3 86 (10.29%) PCI DSS
4 79 (9.45%) Data Quality
5 75 (8.97%) HIPAA
6 68 (8.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 51 (6.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 41 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (4.55%) QA
10 22 (2.63%) SOC 2
11 20 (2.39%) GRC
11 20 (2.39%) PERC
12 19 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (2.15%) Accessibility
14 17 (2.03%) NCSC
15 16 (1.91%) PSD2
16 13 (1.56%) SLA
17 11 (1.32%) EU AI Act
17 11 (1.32%) Solvency II
18 8 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (10.05%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.59%) Docker
3 25 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.60%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.48%) NFS
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 69 (8.25%) Terraform
2 37 (4.43%) Kubernetes
3 36 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.27%) Ansible
6 18 (2.15%) SCCM
7 15 (1.79%) QRadar
8 6 (0.72%) Nmap
8 6 (0.72%) PingFederate
8 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.60%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 4 (0.48%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.36%) Grafana
11 3 (0.36%) Nessus
11 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 221 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.78%) Salesforce
3 54 (6.46%) Google
4 51 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 49 (5.86%) CyberArk
6 40 (4.78%) Oracle
7 38 (4.55%) Databricks
8 37 (4.43%) SAP
9 35 (4.19%) Splunk
10 30 (3.59%) BeyondTrust
11 27 (3.23%) VMware
12 21 (2.51%) Workday
13 18 (2.15%) Informatica
13 18 (2.15%) OneTrust
14 17 (2.03%) Ping Identity
15 16 (1.91%) Adobe
15 16 (1.91%) Citrix
15 16 (1.91%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.79%) Cisco
17 14 (1.67%) Fortinet
576 GDPR jobs in England