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

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 116 232
Rank change year-on-year -41 +116 +26
Contract jobs citing GDPR 799 654 340
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.37% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.98% 13.80% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 406 199
10th Percentile £331 £362 £344
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £744 £678
UK median daily rate £561 £525 £511
% change year-on-year +6.90% +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 19
10th Percentile £14.52 £14.64 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.47 £21.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +20.98% +33.69%
75th Percentile £72.91 £65.43 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.01 £40.64
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -32.00% +33.69%

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 8,009 4,738 4,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.53% 17.20% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,095 2,705
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% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 230 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.59 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%
75th Percentile £69.87 £64.69 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.27% +18.00% -28.57%

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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

GDPR
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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -19 379 £575 - 467
South East -41 143 £591 +18.25% 96
North of England -43 103 £494 -2.66% 159
Midlands -62 63 £463 +6.38% 79
North West -13 62 £528 +3.63% 89
East of England +7 50 £613 +16.67% 65
South West -31 50 £488 +21.88% 99
West Midlands -32 43 £440 -12.00% 46
Yorkshire -52 27 £470 -7.30% 55
East Midlands -33 20 £537 +28.68% 33
North East -29 13 £463 -26.00% 15
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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 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.50%) Apache
4 12 (1.50%) CMS
5 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.13%) Confluence
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.63%) IIS
8 2 (0.25%) Drupal
8 2 (0.25%) 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
9 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.00%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.75%) iTrent
6 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.38%) Workfront
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 268 (33.54%) Azure
2 182 (22.78%) AWS
3 103 (12.89%) Power Platform
4 91 (11.39%) GCP
5 53 (6.63%) Entra ID
6 51 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (6.26%) SaaS
8 49 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 35 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 31 (3.88%) GitHub
11 31 (3.88%) Serverless
12 28 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.63%) dbt
14 21 (2.63%) Power Automate
15 20 (2.50%) OCI
16 19 (2.38%) Collibra
16 19 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.88%) Firewall
2 37 (4.63%) Network Security
3 16 (2.00%) Cisco IPT
3 16 (2.00%) VPN
4 8 (1.00%) SSL
5 7 (0.88%) SMS
6 6 (0.75%) DNS
7 5 (0.63%) HTTP
7 5 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) WAN
7 5 (0.63%) X.509
8 4 (0.50%) LAN
9 3 (0.38%) DHCP
9 3 (0.38%) FTP
9 3 (0.38%) Intranet
9 3 (0.38%) IPv4
9 3 (0.38%) IPv6
9 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (11.76%) Power BI
2 57 (7.13%) Metadata
3 47 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 26 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.00%) Tableau
7 15 (1.88%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.38%) Delta Lake
9 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.25%) Big Data
10 10 (1.25%) Looker
10 10 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.88%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.75%) GIS
13 6 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (3.00%) JIRA
2 13 (1.63%) Git
3 11 (1.38%) GitLab
4 9 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.13%) Postman
4 9 (1.13%) Selenium
4 9 (1.13%) WebDriver
5 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.50%) ERwin
7 4 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.38%) Protractor
9 2 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.25%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 278 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 224 (28.04%) Finance
3 144 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (16.15%) Public Sector
5 89 (11.14%) Legal
6 40 (5.01%) Marketing
7 39 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.51%) Local Government
8 36 (4.51%) Retail
9 32 (4.01%) Banking
9 32 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.13%) Military
12 15 (1.88%) Law
13 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 144 (18.02%) Architect
2 122 (15.27%) Lead
3 83 (10.39%) Analyst
4 69 (8.64%) Senior
5 47 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 42 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (5.01%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.38%) Consultant
9 34 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 33 (4.13%) Data Architect
11 32 (4.01%) Business Analyst
12 26 (3.25%) Security Architect
12 26 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.13%) Administrator
14 19 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 17 (2.13%) Security Engineer
16 16 (2.00%) Senior Manager
17 15 (1.88%) Developer
18 14 (1.75%) Coordinator
18 14 (1.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.01%) Terraform
2 40 (5.01%) REST
3 31 (3.88%) OAuth
4 28 (3.50%) LDAP
4 28 (3.50%) SAML
5 27 (3.38%) Kafka
6 24 (3.00%) OpenID
7 20 (2.50%) JSON
8 17 (2.13%) Middleware
8 17 (2.13%) SOAP
9 16 (2.00%) OAuth2
10 14 (1.75%) PySpark
11 12 (1.50%) .NET
12 11 (1.38%) HTML
13 10 (1.25%) JDBC
13 10 (1.25%) SailPoint
14 9 (1.13%) Gherkin
15 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
16 7 (0.88%) AWS CDK
16 7 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 38 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 37 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
8 21 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
9 20 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 19 (2.38%) NHS
11 18 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.25%) CSOC
16 10 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.88%) Windows
2 11 (1.38%) Linux
3 8 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) 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
1 217 (27.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (26.66%) Data Protection
3 209 (26.16%) Data Governance
4 165 (20.65%) Agile
5 164 (20.53%) Analytics
6 159 (19.90%) Cybersecurity
7 152 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 146 (18.27%) Migration
9 137 (17.15%) AI
10 127 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (15.77%) Data Modelling
12 119 (14.89%) CI/CD
13 116 (14.52%) DevOps
14 113 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (13.39%) Roadmaps
16 104 (13.02%) Information Security
17 103 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
18 96 (12.02%) Decision-Making
19 95 (11.89%) Risk Management
20 91 (11.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 144 (18.02%) SQL
2 96 (12.02%) Python
3 45 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.51%) Java
5 22 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.50%) C#
7 11 (1.38%) Bash
7 11 (1.38%) Bicep
7 11 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.63%) BeanShell
10 5 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.50%) Go
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) R
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.76%) CISSP
4 61 (7.63%) CISM
4 61 (7.63%) Degree
5 28 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.75%) PMP
8 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
12 9 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.88%) CEH
13 7 (0.88%) CISA
13 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (21.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (16.77%) Data Quality
3 104 (13.02%) NIST
4 60 (7.51%) PCI DSS
5 56 (7.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.63%) NCSC
7 34 (4.26%) QA
8 31 (3.88%) Accessibility
9 30 (3.75%) GRC
10 28 (3.50%) SOC 2
11 26 (3.25%) HIPAA
12 24 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (2.38%) WCAG
14 18 (2.25%) PERC
15 15 (1.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 13 (1.63%) PMO
17 12 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (1.50%) Solvency II
18 8 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 62 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.13%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) Firmware
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.38%) Grafana
4 10 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.00%) Ansible
5 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.75%) CASB
7 5 (0.63%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.50%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.38%) QRadar
10 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.25%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 205 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.76%) Databricks
2 54 (6.76%) Oracle
2 54 (6.76%) SAP
3 42 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 41 (5.13%) Google
5 34 (4.26%) Workday
6 30 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 18 (2.25%) Adobe
9 14 (1.75%) IFS
10 12 (1.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 12 (1.50%) Splunk
11 11 (1.38%) Informatica
12 9 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (1.00%) NEC
14 6 (0.75%) Civica
14 6 (0.75%) Ping Identity
14 6 (0.75%) Tealium
15 5 (0.63%) Cribl.io
942 GDPR jobs in England