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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 137 202
Rank change year-on-year +21 +65 +45
Contract jobs citing GDPR 883 492 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.01% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.89% 12.55% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 298 261
10th Percentile £364 £354 £318
25th Percentile £450 £438 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +1.37% +6.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 46
10th Percentile £14.43 £14.38 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.20 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +18.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £51.81 £32.36 £28.52
90th Percentile £63.98 £52.23 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £27.64 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.74% +20.17% +21.05%

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 6,849 3,921 5,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.84% 16.01% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,462 2,522 3,346
10th Percentile £340 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 155 350
10th Percentile £14.09 £18.11 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.63 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.68 £35.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +53.85% -40.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £78.58 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.12
% change year-on-year - +65.76% -39.67%

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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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +21 418 £550 -4.35% 183
South East +20 175 £560 +6.67% 134
North of England +3 127 £550 +4.76% 94
Midlands -28 75 £482 +9.67% 80
North West -12 63 £528 +0.48% 53
Yorkshire -13 54 £550 +3.77% 30
South West -18 47 £500 +25.00% 42
West Midlands -47 41 £492 +3.58% 43
East Midlands -9 34 £450 +15.09% 37
East of England -23 29 £625 +18.48% 40
North East -8 11 £588 +27.03% 11
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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 46 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.96%) Confluence
2 35 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.60%) Apache
5 15 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.79%) SAS
6 7 (0.79%) TPMS
7 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
Applications
1 33 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.02%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.68%) SAP HCM
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Actimize
7 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 327 (37.03%) Azure
2 245 (27.75%) AWS
3 138 (15.63%) GCP
4 128 (14.50%) Power Platform
5 80 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (7.59%) Entra ID
7 49 (5.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (3.96%) Collibra
11 34 (3.85%) SaaS
12 28 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (3.17%) OneDrive
13 24 (2.72%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.72%) GitHub
14 23 (2.60%) Snowflake
15 19 (2.15%) dbt
15 19 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (2.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.12%) Firewall
2 36 (4.08%) Network Security
3 23 (2.60%) DNS
4 19 (2.15%) DHCP
4 19 (2.15%) VPN
5 15 (1.70%) Kerberos
6 14 (1.59%) SSL
6 14 (1.59%) Wireless
7 10 (1.13%) SMS
8 8 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
9 7 (0.79%) SNMP
9 7 (0.79%) SSH
10 6 (0.68%) HTTP
10 6 (0.68%) WAN
11 5 (0.57%) LAN
11 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.45%) NGFW
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 3 (0.34%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.14%) Power BI
2 56 (6.34%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.55%) Metadata
4 48 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.83%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.49%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.27%) Tableau
8 18 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.81%) Mixpanel
10 16 (1.81%) OLAP
10 16 (1.81%) OLTP
11 13 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.36%) Big Data
13 10 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.91%) Looker
14 8 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (5.66%) JIRA
2 29 (3.28%) Git
3 18 (2.04%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.93%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.81%) GitLab
6 10 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.68%) ERwin
7 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.45%) Postman
8 4 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.11%) Ant
11 1 (0.11%) AppScan
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 324 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 278 (31.48%) Finance
3 148 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (14.72%) Legal
5 103 (11.66%) Public Sector
6 74 (8.38%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (6.12%) Marketing
8 52 (5.89%) Banking
9 35 (3.96%) Retail
10 21 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.04%) Local Government
11 18 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.93%) Law
12 17 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.02%) Military
16 7 (0.79%) Electronics
16 7 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (17.33%) Architect
2 104 (11.78%) Lead
3 98 (11.10%) Analyst
4 58 (6.57%) Project Manager
5 56 (6.34%) Senior
6 51 (5.78%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.44%) Consultant
7 48 (5.44%) Data Engineer
8 38 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.85%) Security Engineer
10 31 (3.51%) Data Analyst
11 25 (2.83%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 25 (2.83%) Security Manager
12 23 (2.60%) Security Architect
13 22 (2.49%) Data Architect
13 22 (2.49%) Developer
14 21 (2.38%) Administrator
15 20 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
16 18 (2.04%) Migration Manager
17 17 (1.93%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.55%) LDAP
2 46 (5.21%) REST
3 41 (4.64%) Kafka
4 38 (4.30%) OAuth
5 34 (3.85%) SAML
6 33 (3.74%) Middleware
7 20 (2.27%) PySpark
8 18 (2.04%) .NET
8 18 (2.04%) Great Expectations
8 18 (2.04%) SOAP
9 17 (1.93%) JSON
9 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.93%) OpenID
10 16 (1.81%) HTML
11 15 (1.70%) CSS
12 13 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (1.36%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.02%) J2EE
14 9 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
15 7 (0.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 47 (5.32%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 34 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.27%) Replication
10 18 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
11 17 (1.93%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.93%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (1.47%) NHS
14 12 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.13%) BYOD
16 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.17%) Windows
2 28 (3.17%) Linux
3 25 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (24.80%) Data Protection
2 218 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 206 (23.33%) Agile
4 191 (21.63%) Data Governance
5 170 (19.25%) Migration
6 169 (19.14%) Cybersecurity
7 165 (18.69%) DevOps
8 164 (18.57%) CI/CD
9 158 (17.89%) Analytics
10 145 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (15.18%) Business Intelligence
12 131 (14.84%) Data Modelling
13 120 (13.59%) Roadmaps
14 118 (13.36%) AI
15 116 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 108 (12.23%) Validation
17 101 (11.44%) Information Security
18 100 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (11.33%) ETL
18 100 (11.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (20.39%) SQL
2 151 (17.10%) Python
3 99 (11.21%) PowerShell
4 46 (5.21%) Java
5 33 (3.74%) C#
6 24 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.38%) Bash
8 11 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.02%) Bicep
9 9 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.68%) Go
12 6 (0.68%) R
12 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 2 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 155 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.99%) Degree
4 93 (10.53%) CISSP
5 75 (8.49%) CISM
6 41 (4.64%) PMI Certification
7 39 (4.42%) PMP
8 24 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.81%) CHECK Team Member
13 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.59%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.59%) Cyber Scheme
15 13 (1.47%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.47%) IIBA
16 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
16 12 (1.36%) Postgraduate
17 11 (1.25%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (25.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 151 (17.10%) NIST
3 119 (13.48%) Data Quality
4 108 (12.23%) PCI DSS
5 78 (8.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 42 (4.76%) QA
7 39 (4.42%) GRC
8 32 (3.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 32 (3.62%) SOC 2
9 29 (3.28%) HIPAA
9 29 (3.28%) NCSC
10 25 (2.83%) PMO
11 23 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (2.15%) MiFID
12 19 (2.15%) PERC
13 15 (1.70%) Accessibility
14 13 (1.47%) FINRA
15 11 (1.25%) Solvency II
16 9 (1.02%) COBIT
16 9 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.08%) Docker
3 7 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (7.02%) Kubernetes
1 62 (7.02%) Terraform
2 41 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (1.81%) Nmap
5 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.36%) Grafana
7 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.91%) Ansible
9 6 (0.68%) SCCM
10 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.45%) QRadar
11 4 (0.45%) Rancher
12 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 208 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.70%) Google
3 59 (6.68%) Databricks
4 45 (5.10%) CyberArk
4 45 (5.10%) SAP
5 44 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 43 (4.87%) Oracle
7 42 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 30 (3.40%) Workday
9 25 (2.83%) BeyondTrust
10 21 (2.38%) Adobe
11 20 (2.27%) Okta
12 19 (2.15%) Informatica
13 18 (2.04%) Splunk
14 13 (1.47%) IFS
14 13 (1.47%) Tealium
15 10 (1.13%) OneTrust
16 9 (1.02%) NEC
17 8 (0.91%) Qualys
17 8 (0.91%) VMware