GDPR Contracts in England

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 212 253
Rank change year-on-year +88 +41 +8
Contract jobs citing GDPR 573 419 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.16% 1.12% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.09% 8.36% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 237 344
10th Percentile £360 £304 £400
25th Percentile £425 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 48 21
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.56 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £11.95 £16.61
Median hourly rate £27.64 £24.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% +26.32% -22.96%
75th Percentile £34.86 £28.75 £21.50
90th Percentile £70.63 £34.21 £30.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.22% +21.05% -25.61%

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 4,376 5,014 6,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.50% 13.45% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 3,143 4,420
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 376 234
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.02 £13.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £24.18 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -40.03% +55.08%
75th Percentile £64.69 £52.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% -36.53% +38.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in England.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in England.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +105 271 £575 +6.98% 1,637
South East +28 85 £500 +5.26% 477
North of England +19 75 £525 +23.53% 480
Midlands +32 54 £410 -13.68% 323
Yorkshire +29 40 £516 +197.94% 180
South West +43 37 £400 -30.43% 242
North West -7 31 £525 +20.00% 266
West Midlands +11 29 £438 -7.89% 201
East of England +22 26 £522 +27.32% 249
East Midlands +23 25 £410 -11.35% 120
North East 0 4 £544 - 35
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UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.09%) Apache
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.57%) Confluence
5 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.87%) CMS
7 4 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.70%) SAS
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.35%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) CICS
10 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.22%) SAP HR
2 6 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.87%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.52%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.52%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.35%) iTrent
6 2 (0.35%) Magento
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 213 (37.17%) Azure
2 153 (26.70%) AWS
3 99 (17.28%) GCP
4 50 (8.73%) Power Platform
5 47 (8.20%) Entra ID
6 40 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (4.89%) SaaS
9 27 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 25 (4.36%) GitHub
11 23 (4.01%) Serverless
12 21 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (3.32%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.14%) IaaS
16 16 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.79%) PaaS
17 15 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.20%) Firewall
2 27 (4.71%) Network Security
3 14 (2.44%) DNS
4 10 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (1.40%) VPN
6 7 (1.22%) NAS
6 7 (1.22%) SAN
7 6 (1.05%) HTTP
7 6 (1.05%) Wireless
8 5 (0.87%) SSL
9 4 (0.70%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.70%) SSH
10 3 (0.52%) DHCP
10 3 (0.52%) WAN
10 3 (0.52%) X.509
11 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.35%) SMTP
11 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.73%) Power BI
2 25 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (4.36%) Metadata
2 25 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (3.84%) Data Lake
4 20 (3.49%) Big Data
4 20 (3.49%) Tableau
5 15 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 10 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 10 (1.75%) Oracle Database
8 9 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.05%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 38 (6.63%) JIRA
2 20 (3.49%) Git
3 12 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.40%) GitLab
5 7 (1.22%) ERwin
6 6 (1.05%) Postman
6 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.87%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.87%) Subversion
8 4 (0.70%) RStudio
8 4 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.35%) NetBeans
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.17%) JMeter
10 1 (0.17%) Maven
10 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 224 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 140 (24.43%) Finance
3 99 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.38%) Legal
5 40 (6.98%) Banking
5 40 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.36%) Marketing
7 20 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.62%) Law
9 14 (2.44%) Retail
10 13 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.57%) Local Government
14 8 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.22%) Automotive
15 7 (1.22%) Police
16 6 (1.05%) Advertising
17 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (19.37%) Architect
2 105 (18.32%) Analyst
3 54 (9.42%) Senior
4 44 (7.68%) Lead
5 40 (6.98%) Security Architect
6 35 (6.11%) Consultant
7 28 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 23 (4.01%) Data Analyst
9 22 (3.84%) Administrator
9 22 (3.84%) Data Architect
9 22 (3.84%) Data Engineer
10 19 (3.32%) Azure Architect
10 19 (3.32%) Project Manager
10 19 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.62%) Security Engineer
12 15 (2.62%) Senior Architect
13 14 (2.44%) Applications Support
13 14 (2.44%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.54%) SailPoint
2 24 (4.19%) OAuth
2 24 (4.19%) SAML
3 21 (3.66%) LDAP
4 20 (3.49%) OpenID
5 18 (3.14%) Kafka
6 14 (2.44%) PySpark
7 13 (2.27%) Spring
8 11 (1.92%) Hibernate
8 11 (1.92%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.57%) .NET
9 9 (1.57%) Middleware
9 9 (1.57%) Web Services
10 8 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (1.40%) React
10 8 (1.40%) REST
10 8 (1.40%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.22%) NumPy
11 7 (1.22%) Pandas
11 7 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 38 (6.63%) Security Posture
3 27 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.66%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 19 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.79%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.44%) Replication
11 11 (1.92%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
12 10 (1.75%) Insider Threat
13 9 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.57%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.40%) NHS
14 8 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.03%) Windows
2 30 (5.24%) Linux
3 14 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.40%) Solaris
6 5 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.52%) AIX
8 3 (0.52%) Unix
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 121 (21.12%) Data Protection
3 99 (17.28%) Cybersecurity
4 96 (16.75%) Data Governance
5 88 (15.36%) Analytics
6 85 (14.83%) Agile
7 84 (14.66%) DevOps
8 80 (13.96%) CI/CD
9 77 (13.44%) Identity Access Management
9 77 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 73 (12.74%) Cloud Security
11 72 (12.57%) Risk Management
12 69 (12.04%) Information Security
13 68 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (11.52%) Incident Response
15 65 (11.34%) Migration
16 64 (11.17%) Data Privacy
17 63 (10.99%) Regulatory Compliance
18 62 (10.82%) Data Security
19 58 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 108 (18.85%) SQL
2 106 (18.50%) Python
3 63 (10.99%) PowerShell
4 40 (6.98%) Bash
5 33 (5.76%) Java
6 14 (2.44%) Bicep
7 11 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.92%) R
8 9 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.40%) Scala
9 8 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.22%) C
10 7 (1.22%) C++
10 7 (1.22%) Perl
11 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.70%) PHP
14 3 (0.52%) Go
14 3 (0.52%) Groovy
14 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (12.39%) CISSP
2 65 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 57 (9.95%) Degree
4 55 (9.60%) SC Cleared
5 54 (9.42%) CISM
6 22 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (3.66%) AWS Certification
8 20 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.32%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.27%) CEH
10 13 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.27%) PMP
11 11 (1.92%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.75%) CRISC
13 9 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.40%) CISA
14 8 (1.40%) CISMP
14 8 (1.40%) GSEC
15 7 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (24.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 116 (20.24%) NIST
3 106 (18.50%) HIPAA
4 59 (10.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 56 (9.77%) PCI DSS
6 51 (8.90%) Data Quality
7 43 (7.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 27 (4.71%) SOC 2
9 20 (3.49%) GRC
10 12 (2.09%) Accessibility
10 12 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (1.92%) EU AI Act
12 9 (1.57%) SLA
13 7 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.22%) COBIT
13 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.22%) QA
14 6 (1.05%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.87%) MiFID
15 5 (0.87%) PERC
System Software
1 42 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.41%) Docker
3 14 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.70%) vSphere
8 2 (0.35%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) HDFS
9 1 (0.17%) IAG
9 1 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.17%) RACF
9 1 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (7.85%) Terraform
2 35 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.97%) Ansible
4 15 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.09%) CASB
6 10 (1.75%) Grafana
6 10 (1.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 7 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.05%) Nessus
8 6 (1.05%) SmoothWall
9 5 (0.87%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.87%) QRadar
9 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.70%) SCCM
10 4 (0.70%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 143 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.50%) Google
3 34 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.41%) Oracle
5 27 (4.71%) SAP
6 26 (4.54%) CyberArk
7 23 (4.01%) Databricks
8 18 (3.14%) Okta
9 17 (2.97%) Informatica
9 17 (2.97%) Ping Identity
9 17 (2.97%) VMware
10 16 (2.79%) IBM
11 15 (2.62%) Salesforce
11 15 (2.62%) Splunk
12 12 (2.09%) BeyondTrust
12 12 (2.09%) Qualys
13 9 (1.57%) EMC
14 8 (1.40%) Workday
15 7 (1.22%) Adobe
16 6 (1.05%) Cisco
3,417 GDPR jobs in England