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

 6 months to
6 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 125 216
Rank change year-on-year -23 +91 +30
Contract jobs citing GDPR 830 635 365
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 2.30% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.48% 13.44% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 389 213
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £740 £685
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £501
% change year-on-year +4.76% +4.90% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 39 25
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.80 £19.35
25th Percentile £18.23 £15.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.49 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +25.96% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.08 £28.75
90th Percentile - £88.93 £34.10
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £17.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +64.08% -30.40% +31.58%

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 7,921 4,725 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 17.10% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,091 2,795
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 216 282
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.12 £10.96
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.22 £14.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.10% +11.80% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £62.19
90th Percentile £81.14 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.77
% change year-on-year +46.25% +6.15% -34.64%

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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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -15 393 £568 -1.26% 446
South East -23 153 £575 +15.00% 152
North of England -35 112 £495 -3.70% 110
North West -13 71 £525 - 66
Midlands -49 66 £488 +13.50% 89
South West -36 49 £500 +25.00% 78
East of England +3 46 £625 +19.05% 43
West Midlands -41 46 £450 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire -60 28 £471 -7.20% 31
East Midlands -19 20 £537 +27.86% 38
North East -32 12 £463 -14.94% 13
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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 35 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.65%) Confluence
3 20 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.69%) Apache
6 12 (1.45%) CMS
7 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (1.33%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.72%) iTrent
6 5 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.60%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.36%) Workfront
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 288 (34.70%) Azure
2 189 (22.77%) AWS
3 112 (13.49%) Power Platform
4 88 (10.60%) GCP
5 53 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (6.39%) Entra ID
6 51 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (5.78%) SaaS
8 46 (5.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 37 (4.46%) Snowflake
10 35 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (4.10%) GitHub
12 32 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 30 (3.61%) Serverless
14 22 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.53%) Collibra
15 21 (2.53%) dbt
16 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 18 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.82%) Firewall
2 36 (4.34%) Network Security
3 16 (1.93%) VPN
4 12 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.96%) SMS
5 8 (0.96%) SSL
6 7 (0.84%) HTTP
7 6 (0.72%) DNS
8 5 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.60%) WAN
9 4 (0.48%) LAN
9 4 (0.48%) Wireless
9 4 (0.48%) X.509
10 3 (0.36%) DHCP
10 3 (0.36%) FTP
10 3 (0.36%) Intranet
10 3 (0.36%) IPv4
10 3 (0.36%) IPv6
10 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.41%) Power BI
2 52 (6.27%) Metadata
3 49 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.54%) Data Lake
5 29 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.17%) Tableau
8 16 (1.93%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.33%) Big Data
12 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.08%) Looker
14 7 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.84%) Data Vault
14 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.72%) OLTP
15 6 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.46%) JIRA
2 14 (1.69%) Git
3 10 (1.20%) GitLab
3 10 (1.20%) Postman
3 10 (1.20%) Selenium
4 9 (1.08%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.08%) WebDriver
5 7 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.72%) ERwin
6 6 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.48%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.36%) Protractor
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 281 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 256 (30.84%) Finance
3 151 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (15.90%) Public Sector
5 92 (11.08%) Legal
6 43 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.94%) Marketing
8 40 (4.82%) Banking
9 37 (4.46%) Retail
10 31 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.37%) Local Government
12 20 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.69%) Law
13 14 (1.69%) Military
13 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 152 (18.31%) Architect
2 118 (14.22%) Lead
3 87 (10.48%) Analyst
4 74 (8.92%) Senior
5 50 (6.02%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 37 (4.46%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.22%) Consultant
10 34 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 32 (3.86%) Data Analyst
12 27 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 26 (3.13%) Security Architect
14 24 (2.89%) Security Engineer
15 23 (2.77%) Administrator
16 20 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.17%) Senior Manager
18 17 (2.05%) Technical Architect
19 15 (1.81%) Developer
20 14 (1.69%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.46%) REST
2 29 (3.49%) Kafka
2 29 (3.49%) OAuth
3 27 (3.25%) SAML
4 25 (3.01%) LDAP
4 25 (3.01%) Middleware
5 24 (2.89%) OpenID
6 19 (2.29%) JSON
7 16 (1.93%) .NET
7 16 (1.93%) PySpark
8 15 (1.81%) OAuth2
9 14 (1.69%) SOAP
10 11 (1.33%) HTML
11 9 (1.08%) Gherkin
12 8 (0.96%) CSS
12 8 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.96%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.84%) AWS CDK
13 7 (0.84%) XML
14 6 (0.72%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 44 (5.30%) Security Posture
4 43 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (4.22%) Onboarding
7 28 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.25%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
11 16 (1.93%) NHS
11 16 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.57%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.33%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.20%) BYOD
15 10 (1.20%) Taxonomies
15 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.49%) Windows
2 17 (2.05%) Linux
3 8 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (25.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 212 (25.54%) Data Protection
3 208 (25.06%) Data Governance
4 181 (21.81%) Agile
5 174 (20.96%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (20.24%) Migration
7 167 (20.12%) Analytics
8 158 (19.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 143 (17.23%) AI
10 135 (16.27%) DevOps
10 135 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (16.02%) Data Modelling
12 129 (15.54%) CI/CD
13 121 (14.58%) Roadmaps
14 116 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
15 111 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (13.13%) Information Security
17 102 (12.29%) Validation
18 101 (12.17%) Risk Management
19 91 (10.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 156 (18.80%) SQL
2 107 (12.89%) Python
3 48 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.86%) Java
5 23 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.65%) C#
7 16 (1.93%) Bash
8 11 (1.33%) Bicep
9 9 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.84%) Go
11 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.36%) R
13 3 (0.36%) Ruby
13 3 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 154 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 122 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.48%) CISSP
4 69 (8.31%) Degree
5 67 (8.07%) CISM
6 26 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.89%) PMP
8 21 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (1.57%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.33%) CISA
12 11 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.33%) ISTQB
13 10 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 8 (0.96%) CEH
15 7 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (22.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (17.11%) Data Quality
3 116 (13.98%) NIST
4 73 (8.80%) PCI DSS
5 56 (6.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 36 (4.34%) NCSC
7 35 (4.22%) QA
8 33 (3.98%) Accessibility
8 33 (3.98%) SOC 2
9 32 (3.86%) GRC
10 30 (3.61%) HIPAA
11 29 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (2.41%) WCAG
13 19 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (2.29%) PMO
14 17 (2.05%) PERC
15 16 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (1.69%) Solvency II
17 9 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.65%) Docker
3 3 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (5.90%) Terraform
2 41 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.57%) Grafana
5 10 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.72%) Ansible
9 5 (0.60%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) CASB
10 4 (0.48%) Istio
10 4 (0.48%) Rancher
11 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.24%) Nmap
12 2 (0.24%) QRadar
13 1 (0.12%) Argo
13 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
13 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 210 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.47%) Databricks
3 54 (6.51%) Oracle
4 53 (6.39%) SAP
5 48 (5.78%) Salesforce
6 42 (5.06%) Google
7 37 (4.46%) Workday
8 33 (3.98%) ServiceNow
9 20 (2.41%) CyberArk
10 17 (2.05%) Adobe
11 14 (1.69%) IFS
12 12 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (1.33%) Informatica
13 11 (1.33%) NEC
14 9 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (1.08%) Splunk
15 7 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.72%) Ping Identity
16 6 (0.72%) Tealium
16 6 (0.72%) Varonis
889 GDPR jobs in England