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

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 184 197
Rank change year-on-year +82 +13 +75
Contract jobs citing GDPR 830 388 442
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 1.42% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.19% 9.95% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 210 239
10th Percentile £333 £300 £338
25th Percentile £425 £384 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £638 £624 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £746
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.29% -0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 6
10th Percentile £16.50 - £15.40
25th Percentile £33.00 £15.50 £16.55
Median hourly rate £44.81 £16.13 £18.47
Median % change year-on-year +177.89% -12.67% -47.24%
75th Percentile £76.58 £20.19 £24.86
90th Percentile £89.63 £21.90 £26.66
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £16.25 £18.47
% change year-on-year +109.23% -12.00% -53.56%

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 5,465 3,901 5,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 14.26% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,563 2,267 3,461
10th Percentile £313 £263 £320
25th Percentile £410 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 153 215
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.70 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £17.61
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -8.45% +36.08%
75th Percentile £63.40 £64.73 £61.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £81.87
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.97% -10.77% +36.74%

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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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +81 400 £545 +3.81% 151
South East +40 170 £500 -5.66% 128
North of England -6 94 £545 +14.74% 73
Midlands +10 76 £475 -5.00% 60
Yorkshire -10 54 £550 +4.76% 26
South West +30 50 £475 +111.11% 27
West Midlands -12 40 £500 +2.56% 37
East Midlands +3 36 £447 -18.73% 23
North West -16 34 £436 -3.11% 39
East of England -20 15 £553 +10.60% 43
North East -18 6 £466 +12.97% 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 33 (3.98%) Confluence
2 31 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.93%) Apache
6 14 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.08%) TPMS
8 6 (0.72%) Appian
8 6 (0.72%) Camunda
8 6 (0.72%) SAS
9 5 (0.60%) CMS
10 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 54 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 316 (38.07%) Azure
2 236 (28.43%) AWS
3 126 (15.18%) GCP
4 85 (10.24%) Power Platform
5 77 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 72 (8.67%) Entra ID
7 40 (4.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (4.58%) SaaS
9 31 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 30 (3.61%) Amazon S3
11 27 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (3.25%) Collibra
11 27 (3.25%) Serverless
12 24 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
12 24 (2.89%) GitHub
13 22 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (2.65%) OCI
14 18 (2.17%) OneDrive
15 17 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.95%) Firewall
2 42 (5.06%) Network Security
3 31 (3.73%) VPN
4 28 (3.37%) DNS
5 20 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.41%) Wireless
6 16 (1.93%) SSL
7 15 (1.81%) DHCP
8 12 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
9 9 (1.08%) LAN
9 9 (1.08%) SNMP
9 9 (1.08%) SSH
9 9 (1.08%) WAN
10 8 (0.96%) PABX
10 8 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.96%) SMS
10 8 (0.96%) WLAN
11 6 (0.72%) BGP
11 6 (0.72%) OSPF
12 5 (0.60%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.16%) Power BI
2 50 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 39 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.46%) Metadata
5 19 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.05%) Tableau
7 15 (1.81%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.81%) SQL Server
8 13 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.45%) Big Data
9 12 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 9 (1.08%) Mixpanel
12 9 (1.08%) OLAP
12 9 (1.08%) OLTP
13 8 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (6.39%) JIRA
2 20 (2.41%) Git
2 20 (2.41%) GitLab
3 15 (1.81%) Metasploit
4 14 (1.69%) Burp Suite
5 7 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.60%) Postman
6 5 (0.60%) Subversion
7 4 (0.48%) Selenium
7 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.36%) ERwin
8 3 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) Locust
9 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.24%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 387 (46.63%) Social Skills
2 227 (27.35%) Finance
3 125 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.77%) Legal
5 89 (10.72%) Public Sector
6 72 (8.67%) Marketing
7 67 (8.07%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (6.39%) Banking
9 25 (3.01%) Law
10 18 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.93%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.81%) Electronics
13 12 (1.45%) Retail
14 11 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.08%) Local Government
15 9 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 141 (16.99%) Architect
2 116 (13.98%) Analyst
3 93 (11.20%) Lead
4 63 (7.59%) Consultant
5 51 (6.14%) Business Analyst
6 50 (6.02%) Senior
7 42 (5.06%) Data Engineer
7 42 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (3.98%) Security Architect
9 32 (3.86%) Project Manager
10 30 (3.61%) Data Analyst
11 29 (3.49%) Security Engineer
12 23 (2.77%) Developer
13 22 (2.65%) Administrator
14 19 (2.29%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.05%) Salesforce Architect
15 17 (2.05%) Security Analyst
16 15 (1.81%) Data Manager
17 14 (1.69%) Enterprise Architect
17 14 (1.69%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.14%) REST
2 40 (4.82%) OAuth
3 39 (4.70%) LDAP
4 32 (3.86%) SAML
5 27 (3.25%) Kafka
6 25 (3.01%) OpenID
7 23 (2.77%) Middleware
7 23 (2.77%) SOAP
8 21 (2.53%) OAuth2
9 17 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.93%) HTML
11 15 (1.81%) PySpark
12 13 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (1.57%) Visualforce
13 12 (1.45%) RESTful
14 10 (1.20%) CSS
14 10 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (1.08%) Great Expectations
16 8 (0.96%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.75%) Onboarding
2 53 (6.39%) Management Information System
3 51 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 48 (5.78%) Security Posture
5 39 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 34 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.29%) Marketing Technology
10 16 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
13 13 (1.57%) NHS
13 13 (1.57%) Replication
14 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (9.40%) Windows
2 36 (4.34%) Linux
3 16 (1.93%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.72%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Unix
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (24.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 193 (23.25%) Agile
3 179 (21.57%) Data Governance
4 176 (21.20%) Data Protection
5 168 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (18.07%) Cybersecurity
7 146 (17.59%) DevOps
8 141 (16.99%) CI/CD
9 136 (16.39%) Analytics
10 134 (16.14%) Data Privacy
10 134 (16.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 127 (15.30%) Data Modelling
12 125 (15.06%) Migration
13 116 (13.98%) Roadmaps
14 99 (11.93%) Information Security
14 99 (11.93%) Risk Management
15 96 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
16 93 (11.20%) Incident Response
17 89 (10.72%) Regulatory Compliance
18 87 (10.48%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.63%) Python
2 125 (15.06%) SQL
3 102 (12.29%) PowerShell
4 27 (3.25%) Bash
5 25 (3.01%) Java
6 19 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.17%) C#
8 13 (1.57%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.33%) Bicep
11 8 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.84%) R
12 7 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.72%) Perl
14 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.24%) PHP
17 2 (0.24%) Rust
17 2 (0.24%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 141 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.46%) CISSP
3 113 (13.61%) Degree
4 112 (13.49%) SC Cleared
5 78 (9.40%) CISM
6 41 (4.94%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.70%) AWS Certification
8 35 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (2.89%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.65%) PMI Certification
11 20 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (2.29%) CISA
12 19 (2.29%) PMP
13 18 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (1.93%) CCSP
14 16 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (1.81%) DV Cleared
16 14 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
17 12 (1.45%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (29.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 173 (20.84%) NIST
3 95 (11.45%) PCI DSS
4 87 (10.48%) Data Quality
5 64 (7.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 54 (6.51%) HIPAA
7 49 (5.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 47 (5.66%) QA
9 40 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (2.53%) SOC 2
11 19 (2.29%) PERC
11 19 (2.29%) PSD2
12 18 (2.17%) Accessibility
12 18 (2.17%) GRC
12 18 (2.17%) NCSC
13 17 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (1.69%) PMO
15 13 (1.57%) SLA
16 10 (1.20%) EU AI Act
16 10 (1.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 78 (9.40%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.49%) Docker
3 24 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) NFS
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) NDS
9 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 66 (7.95%) Terraform
2 36 (4.34%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.53%) Ansible
6 19 (2.29%) SCCM
7 16 (1.93%) QRadar
8 14 (1.69%) Nmap
9 6 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.72%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.48%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 204 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.47%) Salesforce
3 52 (6.27%) Google
4 48 (5.78%) Oracle
5 44 (5.30%) CyberArk
6 38 (4.58%) SAP
7 37 (4.46%) Databricks
7 37 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 35 (4.22%) Splunk
9 27 (3.25%) VMware
10 25 (3.01%) BeyondTrust
11 20 (2.41%) Informatica
11 20 (2.41%) Workday
12 19 (2.29%) Adobe
13 17 (2.05%) Cisco
13 17 (2.05%) OneTrust
14 16 (1.93%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.93%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.81%) Citrix
16 13 (1.57%) Ping Identity
433 GDPR jobs in England