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

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 106 220
Rank change year-on-year -70 +114 +35
Contract jobs citing GDPR 753 715 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.57% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.10% 14.82% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 457 213
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £416 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.55% -12.40%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £509
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.19% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 14
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +47.83% +28.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £70.16 £32.41
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.10 £57.43
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +41.18% -26.09% +28.67%

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 8,271 4,825 4,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,152 2,531
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.46%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 228 208
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% -6.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.49 £65.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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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 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 25 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 25 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 -51 359 £575 - 925
South East -67 116 £575 +15.00% 237
North of England -50 92 £483 -4.83% 224
Midlands -45 75 £450 +0.67% 142
South West -28 55 £475 +18.75% 92
West Midlands -18 54 £430 -18.19% 81
North West -34 51 £500 +9.29% 116
East of England -5 50 £525 - 77
Yorkshire -53 31 £471 -14.45% 87
East Midlands -30 21 £538 +25.00% 61
North East -38 9 £463 -15.22% 22
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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 40 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.59%) CMS
3 11 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.33%) IIS
5 9 (1.20%) Apache
5 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.93%) Confluence
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) 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 36 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (4.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.06%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.80%) iTrent
4 6 (0.80%) SAP HR
5 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.53%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.53%) Workfront
7 2 (0.27%) BambooHR
7 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 255 (33.86%) Azure
2 145 (19.26%) AWS
3 91 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 74 (9.83%) GCP
5 60 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (6.11%) Entra ID
8 45 (5.98%) Dynamics 365
8 45 (5.98%) SaaS
9 44 (5.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 38 (5.05%) Serverless
11 32 (4.25%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.85%) Power Automate
13 28 (3.72%) GitHub
14 27 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (2.92%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.52%) OCI
17 17 (2.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.85%) Firewall
2 27 (3.59%) Network Security
3 18 (2.39%) Cisco IPT
4 11 (1.46%) VPN
5 8 (1.06%) SSL
6 7 (0.93%) SMS
7 5 (0.66%) DNS
7 5 (0.66%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.66%) X.509
8 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.40%) FTP
9 3 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.40%) IPsec
9 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
9 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.27%) MPLS
10 2 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.56%) Power BI
2 53 (7.04%) Metadata
3 36 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 35 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (1.73%) BigQuery
6 13 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.59%) Tableau
8 11 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.20%) Data Vault
10 9 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.06%) Looker
12 7 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.80%) Big Data
13 6 (0.80%) GIS
13 6 (0.80%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (3.05%) Git
2 19 (2.52%) JIRA
3 15 (1.99%) Postman
4 13 (1.73%) GitLab
5 11 (1.46%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.46%) Selenium
5 11 (1.46%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.40%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Protractor
9 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.27%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.13%) Capybara
10 1 (0.13%) Gradle
10 1 (0.13%) RSpec
General
1 281 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 188 (24.97%) Finance
3 134 (17.80%) Public Sector
4 133 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (11.42%) Legal
6 40 (5.31%) Local Government
7 39 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.52%) Marketing
10 31 (4.12%) Banking
10 31 (4.12%) Retail
11 30 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.26%) Military
14 14 (1.86%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.86%) Law
15 11 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 130 (17.26%) Architect
2 117 (15.54%) Lead
3 85 (11.29%) Analyst
4 74 (9.83%) Senior
5 38 (5.05%) Administrator
6 37 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 33 (4.38%) Data Engineer
9 31 (4.12%) Consultant
9 31 (4.12%) Data Analyst
10 29 (3.85%) Data Architect
11 25 (3.32%) Business Analyst
12 22 (2.92%) Developer
12 22 (2.92%) Security Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Security Manager
14 18 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.26%) Coordinator
15 17 (2.26%) Security Engineer
16 14 (1.86%) Azure Architect
17 13 (1.73%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.84%) Terraform
2 42 (5.58%) REST
3 28 (3.72%) OAuth
4 26 (3.45%) SAML
5 25 (3.32%) LDAP
6 24 (3.19%) JSON
7 21 (2.79%) OpenID
8 17 (2.26%) Kafka
9 15 (1.99%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.99%) SOAP
10 14 (1.86%) XML
11 13 (1.73%) PySpark
11 13 (1.73%) XSLT
12 12 (1.59%) .NET
12 12 (1.59%) SailPoint
13 11 (1.46%) Gherkin
14 10 (1.33%) Middleware
15 9 (1.20%) JDBC
16 8 (1.06%) HTML
17 7 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.42%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.51%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.25%) Security Posture
6 26 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 25 (3.32%) Freedom of Information
7 25 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
9 21 (2.79%) NHS
10 20 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
11 19 (2.52%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.59%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.46%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.79%) Windows
2 15 (1.99%) Linux
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) 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 (29.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 210 (27.89%) Data Protection
3 203 (26.96%) Data Governance
4 154 (20.45%) Analytics
5 153 (20.32%) Agile
6 144 (19.12%) AI
7 141 (18.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 134 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
9 128 (17.00%) Migration
10 120 (15.94%) Data Modelling
10 120 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (15.54%) Information Security
12 115 (15.27%) DevOps
13 110 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (14.61%) Roadmaps
14 104 (13.81%) Decision-Making
15 102 (13.55%) CI/CD
16 96 (12.75%) Risk Management
17 82 (10.89%) CRM
18 80 (10.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (15.41%) SQL
2 82 (10.89%) Python
3 36 (4.78%) PowerShell
4 33 (4.38%) Java
4 33 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 29 (3.85%) C#
6 13 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (1.33%) Bash
7 10 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.20%) Bicep
9 7 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.80%) BeanShell
10 6 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.40%) Go
11 3 (0.40%) R
11 3 (0.40%) Ruby
12 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.83%) Degree
4 69 (9.16%) CISSP
5 55 (7.30%) CISM
6 30 (3.98%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 26 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.39%) PMP
11 17 (2.26%) PMI Certification
12 14 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.73%) CISA
14 11 (1.46%) ISTQB
15 10 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.33%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.20%) CCSP
16 9 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (1.20%) CRISC
17 7 (0.93%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (19.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (16.47%) Data Quality
3 89 (11.82%) NIST
4 58 (7.70%) PCI DSS
5 44 (5.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (5.05%) Accessibility
7 37 (4.91%) GRC
8 36 (4.78%) NCSC
9 35 (4.65%) QA
10 29 (3.85%) WCAG
11 25 (3.32%) HIPAA
12 22 (2.92%) SOC 2
13 20 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (1.86%) PERC
15 13 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (1.20%) Solvency II
18 8 (1.06%) PMO
19 7 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 55 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.46%) Docker
3 4 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.33%) CASB
4 9 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.06%) Ansible
5 8 (1.06%) Grafana
6 7 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.66%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.53%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.27%) QRadar
10 2 (0.27%) systemd
11 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 219 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.77%) Oracle
3 48 (6.37%) SAP
4 46 (6.11%) Databricks
5 41 (5.44%) Salesforce
6 37 (4.91%) Google
7 28 (3.72%) Workday
8 26 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.52%) Adobe
10 16 (2.12%) Splunk
11 14 (1.86%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 10 (1.33%) Informatica
14 9 (1.20%) IFS
15 8 (1.06%) Cisco
15 8 (1.06%) NEC
16 7 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
16 7 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.93%) Ping Identity
17 6 (0.80%) Civica
1,690 GDPR jobs in England