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

 6 months to
6 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 143 205
Rank change year-on-year +24 +62 +36
Contract jobs citing GDPR 870 486 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.01% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 12.34% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 302 245
10th Percentile £370 £360 £304
25th Percentile £450 £448 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £615
90th Percentile £738 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 21 48
10th Percentile £14.25 - £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +16.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £55.25 £34.46 £28.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.50 £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 7,091 3,939 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.81% 16.29% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,594 2,534 3,208
10th Percentile £350 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
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 455 163 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.60 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.59 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +43.75% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £32.50 £23.30
% change year-on-year +10.88% +39.51% -38.70%

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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 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 6 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 6 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 +13 416 £550 -4.35% 252
South East +17 159 £563 +7.14% 148
North of England +1 135 £550 +4.76% 103
North West -1 68 £528 +0.48% 73
Midlands -34 68 £492 +11.95% 92
Yorkshire -26 57 £550 +7.32% 24
South West -10 47 £500 +25.00% 37
West Midlands -50 37 £492 +3.58% 55
East of England -15 34 £550 +5.97% 37
East Midlands -10 31 £484 +18.11% 39
North East -18 11 £400 -26.44% 6
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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 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.56%) Confluence
4 27 (3.10%) Apache Spark
5 21 (2.41%) Apache
6 14 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.15%) CMS
8 7 (0.80%) SAS
9 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.57%) TPMS
10 4 (0.46%) IIS
11 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.11%) Appian
13 1 (0.11%) CICS
13 1 (0.11%) Drupal
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.38%) NEC Housing
3 9 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.46%) 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 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 306 (35.17%) Azure
2 218 (25.06%) AWS
3 121 (13.91%) Power Platform
4 111 (12.76%) GCP
5 80 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (7.70%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.48%) SaaS
9 35 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (3.56%) GitHub
13 30 (3.45%) Collibra
14 29 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.10%) OneDrive
15 27 (3.10%) Snowflake
16 25 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (2.76%) Serverless
18 20 (2.30%) Amazon S3
19 18 (2.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.17%) Firewall
2 32 (3.68%) Network Security
3 21 (2.41%) DNS
4 20 (2.30%) VPN
5 17 (1.95%) DHCP
6 15 (1.72%) Kerberos
7 14 (1.61%) SMS
8 12 (1.38%) SSL
9 8 (0.92%) Wireless
10 6 (0.69%) HTTP
10 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.69%) WAN
11 5 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.57%) LAN
11 5 (0.57%) SNMP
11 5 (0.57%) SSH
12 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.07%) Power BI
2 52 (5.98%) Metadata
3 49 (5.63%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
6 18 (2.07%) Tableau
7 14 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.49%) Mixpanel
8 13 (1.49%) OLTP
8 13 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.38%) OLAP
10 10 (1.15%) Big Data
10 10 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (5.06%) JIRA
2 24 (2.76%) Git
3 11 (1.26%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.15%) GitLab
4 10 (1.15%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.69%) ERwin
5 6 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.34%) Postman
7 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 297 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 275 (31.61%) Finance
3 148 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.45%) Legal
5 112 (12.87%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (5.75%) Marketing
8 47 (5.40%) Banking
9 34 (3.91%) Retail
10 25 (2.87%) Local Government
11 21 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.95%) Law
14 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.26%) Military
17 8 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 149 (17.13%) Architect
2 102 (11.72%) Lead
3 93 (10.69%) Analyst
4 62 (7.13%) Senior
5 59 (6.78%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.29%) Business Analyst
6 46 (5.29%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.71%) Consultant
8 39 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.91%) Data Analyst
10 31 (3.56%) Security Engineer
11 28 (3.22%) Security Manager
12 25 (2.87%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.76%) Security Architect
14 23 (2.64%) Developer
15 22 (2.53%) Administrator
16 20 (2.30%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 20 (2.30%) Data Architect
17 18 (2.07%) Principal Engineer
18 16 (1.84%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.29%) REST
2 43 (4.94%) LDAP
3 39 (4.48%) OAuth
4 37 (4.25%) SAML
5 36 (4.14%) Kafka
6 29 (3.33%) Middleware
7 20 (2.30%) OpenID
8 19 (2.18%) JSON
8 19 (2.18%) PySpark
9 18 (2.07%) .NET
10 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
11 16 (1.84%) CSS
11 16 (1.84%) HTML
11 16 (1.84%) SOAP
12 15 (1.72%) Great Expectations
13 14 (1.61%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.03%) J2EE
14 9 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (0.80%) Node.js
15 7 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (4.83%) Security Posture
4 34 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
4 34 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.07%) Replication
8 17 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.84%) NHS
10 15 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
11 11 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.15%) BYOD
12 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.28%) Windows
2 26 (2.99%) Linux
3 24 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (26.21%) Data Protection
2 202 (23.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (22.30%) Agile
4 187 (21.49%) Data Governance
5 176 (20.23%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (19.31%) Migration
7 163 (18.74%) DevOps
8 157 (18.05%) Analytics
9 156 (17.93%) CI/CD
10 138 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
11 124 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
12 122 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 121 (13.91%) Roadmaps
14 119 (13.68%) AI
14 119 (13.68%) Data Modelling
15 113 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (11.95%) Validation
17 99 (11.38%) Risk Management
18 94 (10.80%) Information Security
19 91 (10.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 175 (20.11%) SQL
2 132 (15.17%) Python
3 90 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 45 (5.17%) Java
5 31 (3.56%) C#
6 23 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.18%) Bash
8 13 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.03%) Bicep
9 9 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.69%) Go
10 6 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.69%) Degree
4 85 (9.77%) CISSP
5 68 (7.82%) CISM
6 40 (4.60%) PMI Certification
7 38 (4.37%) PMP
8 26 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.18%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.49%) IIBA
15 11 (1.26%) CRISC
15 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (1.03%) CHECK Team Member
17 9 (1.03%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (22.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (15.29%) NIST
3 129 (14.83%) Data Quality
4 88 (10.11%) PCI DSS
5 71 (8.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.37%) GRC
7 33 (3.79%) NCSC
7 33 (3.79%) QA
8 32 (3.68%) SOC 2
9 29 (3.33%) HIPAA
10 26 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (2.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 23 (2.64%) PMO
13 19 (2.18%) Accessibility
14 16 (1.84%) MiFID
15 13 (1.49%) FINRA
16 11 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (1.26%) Solvency II
17 10 (1.15%) WCAG
18 9 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.79%) Docker
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Firmware
6 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 56 (6.44%) Terraform
2 55 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.49%) Grafana
5 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.03%) Nmap
6 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.57%) SCCM
8 4 (0.46%) Ansible
8 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.46%) Istio
8 4 (0.46%) QRadar
8 4 (0.46%) Rancher
9 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 220 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.55%) Databricks
2 57 (6.55%) Google
3 45 (5.17%) Oracle
3 45 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 42 (4.83%) SAP
5 38 (4.37%) ServiceNow
6 32 (3.68%) CyberArk
7 31 (3.56%) Workday
8 19 (2.18%) Okta
9 15 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
10 14 (1.61%) Adobe
10 14 (1.61%) Informatica
10 14 (1.61%) Splunk
11 13 (1.49%) IFS
12 12 (1.38%) NEC
13 10 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 8 (0.92%) Qualys
14 8 (0.92%) Varonis
15 7 (0.80%) VMware
630 GDPR jobs in England