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

 6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 132 199
Rank change year-on-year +10 +67 +41
Contract jobs citing GDPR 857 487 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.02% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.28% 12.45% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 304 248
10th Percentile £370 £361 £304
25th Percentile £450 £445 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £618
90th Percentile £738 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 18 48
10th Percentile £14.16 £14.64 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.79 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +13.28% +31.58%
75th Percentile £54.88 £33.98 £28.75
90th Percentile £76.78 £75.63 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £27.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% +13.96% +26.32%

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 6,978 3,913 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.75% 16.25% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,523 2,524 3,239
10th Percentile £342 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -3.71% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 157 368
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.18 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +44.96% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.91 £79.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.19% +46.49% -40.00%

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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 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +15 407 £550 -4.35% 282
South East +15 160 £563 +7.14% 149
North of England -1 131 £541 +3.10% 109
Midlands -32 71 £492 +11.95% 86
North West -5 64 £500 -4.76% 72
Yorkshire -22 57 £550 +7.32% 29
South West -16 44 £500 +25.00% 46
West Midlands -50 39 £492 +3.58% 50
East of England -23 33 £588 +13.20% 40
East Midlands -13 32 £484 +15.30% 37
North East -18 11 £400 -26.44% 8
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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 50 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.62%) Confluence
4 29 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 22 (2.57%) Apache
6 14 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.05%) CMS
8 7 (0.82%) SAS
9 5 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.58%) TPMS
10 4 (0.47%) IIS
11 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.12%) Appian
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) CICS
13 1 (0.12%) Drupal
13 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
13 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.40%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 309 (36.06%) Azure
2 221 (25.79%) AWS
3 122 (14.24%) Power Platform
4 113 (13.19%) GCP
5 79 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (7.70%) Entra ID
7 56 (6.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 37 (4.32%) SaaS
9 35 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (3.62%) GitHub
13 30 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (3.50%) Collibra
14 27 (3.15%) OneDrive
14 27 (3.15%) Snowflake
15 25 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (2.80%) Serverless
17 21 (2.45%) Amazon S3
18 18 (2.10%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.13%) Firewall
2 30 (3.50%) Network Security
3 21 (2.45%) DNS
4 18 (2.10%) VPN
5 17 (1.98%) DHCP
6 15 (1.75%) Kerberos
7 13 (1.52%) SMS
8 12 (1.40%) SSL
9 9 (1.05%) Wireless
10 6 (0.70%) HTTP
10 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.58%) SNMP
11 5 (0.58%) SSH
12 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.47%) NGFW
12 4 (0.47%) WAN
13 3 (0.35%) IPv4
13 3 (0.35%) IPv6
13 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.49%) Power BI
2 52 (6.07%) Data Lake
3 50 (5.83%) Metadata
4 49 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.10%) Tableau
9 15 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.63%) Mixpanel
10 14 (1.63%) OLTP
10 14 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.52%) OLAP
12 12 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.28%) Big Data
14 10 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (5.25%) JIRA
2 25 (2.92%) Git
3 12 (1.40%) Burp Suite
3 12 (1.40%) GitLab
4 11 (1.28%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.70%) ERwin
5 6 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.35%) Postman
8 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.12%) Deequ
10 1 (0.12%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) TestRail
10 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 296 (34.54%) Social Skills
2 270 (31.51%) Finance
3 144 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (12.95%) Legal
5 106 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.70%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (5.83%) Marketing
8 47 (5.48%) Banking
9 34 (3.97%) Retail
10 25 (2.92%) Local Government
11 21 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.87%) Law
15 14 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.17%) Military
18 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 148 (17.27%) Architect
2 98 (11.44%) Lead
3 88 (10.27%) Analyst
4 61 (7.12%) Senior
5 58 (6.77%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.37%) Business Analyst
6 46 (5.37%) Data Engineer
7 42 (4.90%) Consultant
8 40 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.73%) Data Analyst
9 32 (3.73%) Security Engineer
10 27 (3.15%) Security Manager
11 25 (2.92%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 24 (2.80%) Security Architect
13 23 (2.68%) Developer
14 22 (2.57%) Administrator
15 20 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 19 (2.22%) Data Architect
17 18 (2.10%) Principal Engineer
18 16 (1.87%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.37%) REST
2 43 (5.02%) LDAP
3 39 (4.55%) OAuth
4 37 (4.32%) Kafka
4 37 (4.32%) SAML
5 30 (3.50%) Middleware
6 20 (2.33%) OpenID
6 20 (2.33%) PySpark
7 19 (2.22%) JSON
8 18 (2.10%) .NET
9 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.87%) CSS
10 16 (1.87%) Great Expectations
10 16 (1.87%) HTML
10 16 (1.87%) SOAP
11 14 (1.63%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.05%) J2EE
14 7 (0.82%) Node.js
14 7 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.65%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (4.78%) Security Posture
5 34 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.10%) Replication
10 16 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
11 15 (1.75%) NHS
12 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (1.17%) BYOD
13 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.52%) Windows
2 26 (3.03%) Linux
3 24 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (25.55%) Data Protection
2 199 (23.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 193 (22.52%) Agile
4 182 (21.24%) Data Governance
5 169 (19.72%) Migration
6 166 (19.37%) Cybersecurity
6 166 (19.37%) DevOps
7 159 (18.55%) CI/CD
8 154 (17.97%) Analytics
9 134 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
11 119 (13.89%) Data Modelling
11 119 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 116 (13.54%) Roadmaps
13 115 (13.42%) AI
14 107 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 104 (12.14%) Validation
16 99 (11.55%) Risk Management
17 95 (11.09%) Information Security
18 92 (10.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 176 (20.54%) SQL
2 134 (15.64%) Python
3 89 (10.39%) PowerShell
4 46 (5.37%) Java
5 32 (3.73%) C#
6 23 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.22%) Bash
8 13 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.05%) Bicep
9 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.70%) Go
10 6 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.58%) R
11 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 129 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.74%) Degree
4 86 (10.04%) CISSP
5 69 (8.05%) CISM
6 39 (4.55%) PMI Certification
7 37 (4.32%) PMP
8 26 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (1.87%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.52%) IIBA
13 11 (1.28%) CRISC
14 10 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.17%) CHECK Team Member
14 10 (1.17%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.17%) Cyber Scheme
14 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (22.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 131 (15.29%) NIST
3 125 (14.59%) Data Quality
4 93 (10.85%) PCI DSS
5 72 (8.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.43%) GRC
7 33 (3.85%) QA
8 31 (3.62%) NCSC
8 31 (3.62%) SOC 2
9 28 (3.27%) HIPAA
10 25 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 24 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 23 (2.68%) PMO
13 19 (2.22%) Accessibility
14 16 (1.87%) MiFID
15 13 (1.52%) FINRA
16 11 (1.28%) Solvency II
17 10 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (1.17%) PERC
17 10 (1.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.97%) Docker
3 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.65%) Terraform
3 41 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.52%) Grafana
5 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.17%) Nmap
7 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.58%) SCCM
9 4 (0.47%) Ansible
9 4 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Istio
9 4 (0.47%) QRadar
9 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 221 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.88%) Databricks
3 58 (6.77%) Google
4 44 (5.13%) Oracle
4 44 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.90%) SAP
6 38 (4.43%) ServiceNow
7 32 (3.73%) CyberArk
8 30 (3.50%) Workday
9 19 (2.22%) Okta
10 15 (1.75%) BeyondTrust
11 14 (1.63%) Adobe
11 14 (1.63%) Splunk
12 13 (1.52%) IFS
12 13 (1.52%) Informatica
13 12 (1.40%) NEC
14 9 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.93%) Qualys
15 8 (0.93%) Varonis
16 7 (0.82%) VMware
667 GDPR jobs in England