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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 216 241
Rank change year-on-year +116 +25 +53
Contract jobs citing GDPR 775 355 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 1.14% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.04% 8.77% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 204 227
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £414 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £675
90th Percentile £723 £668 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £540
% change year-on-year - -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 15
10th Percentile £15.13 - £15.33
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £16.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £21.00 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% +20.27% -8.11%
75th Percentile £70.16 £25.00 £20.13
90th Percentile £89.63 £32.14 £22.40
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £21.00 £17.46
% change year-on-year -19.05% +20.27% -23.03%

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 5,153 4,048 5,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.72% 13.01% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 2,361 3,819
10th Percentile £306 £291 £325
25th Percentile £401 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 171 239
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.17
25th Percentile £17.55 £16.11 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +44.23%
75th Percentile £63.40 £64.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.14
UK median hourly rate £27.54 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.13% -26.67% +44.23%

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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 November 2025.

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 November 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 2 November 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 +107 351 £568 +8.10% 313
South East +67 152 £500 - 298
North of England -5 87 £527 +20.51% 88
Midlands +36 83 £447 -10.60% 91
Yorkshire +5 54 £550 +6.59% 30
South West +40 50 £475 +35.71% 43
East Midlands +25 44 £415 -30.83% 47
West Midlands -4 39 £525 +10.53% 43
North West -24 28 £447 +5.24% 49
East of England +4 25 £553 +73.90% 61
North East -16 5 £550 +33.33% 9
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UK

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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 30 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.35%) Confluence
3 23 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.03%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.52%) Appian
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
8 3 (0.39%) TPMS
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 41 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Revit
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.65%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.65%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.26%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 286 (36.90%) Azure
2 205 (26.45%) AWS
3 124 (16.00%) GCP
4 73 (9.42%) Entra ID
5 72 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (7.74%) Power Platform
7 38 (4.90%) SaaS
8 35 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 34 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (4.39%) GitHub
10 32 (4.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 30 (3.87%) Serverless
12 27 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.10%) Amazon S3
15 23 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (2.71%) Collibra
17 18 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (2.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.26%) Firewall
2 49 (6.32%) Network Security
3 26 (3.35%) DNS
4 24 (3.10%) VPN
5 21 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.42%) DHCP
7 9 (1.16%) SSL
8 8 (1.03%) PABX
8 8 (1.03%) WAN
8 8 (1.03%) Wireless
9 7 (0.90%) BGP
9 7 (0.90%) LAN
9 7 (0.90%) OSPF
10 6 (0.77%) HTTP
10 6 (0.77%) WLAN
11 5 (0.65%) EIGRP
11 5 (0.65%) IPv4
11 5 (0.65%) IPv6
11 5 (0.65%) MPLS
11 5 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.35%) Power BI
2 36 (4.65%) Data Lake
3 35 (4.52%) Metadata
4 31 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (2.32%) Big Data
6 17 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.06%) Tableau
8 13 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.68%) Delta Lake
8 13 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.16%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 7 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (8.13%) JIRA
2 15 (1.94%) Git
3 13 (1.68%) GitLab
4 8 (1.03%) Postman
5 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.77%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.65%) ERwin
7 5 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.65%) Subversion
8 4 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Locust
9 2 (0.26%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.13%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 347 (44.77%) Social Skills
2 215 (27.74%) Finance
3 113 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 69 (8.90%) Legal
6 54 (6.97%) Marketing
7 49 (6.32%) Banking
8 46 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.23%) Law
10 19 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.32%) Retail
12 14 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.42%) Local Government
15 10 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.03%) Military
16 8 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (17.29%) Architect
2 127 (16.39%) Analyst
3 81 (10.45%) Lead
4 52 (6.71%) Senior
5 45 (5.81%) Business Analyst
5 45 (5.81%) Consultant
6 39 (5.03%) Security Architect
6 39 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (3.87%) Data Engineer
7 30 (3.87%) Security Engineer
8 28 (3.61%) Data Analyst
9 23 (2.97%) Administrator
10 22 (2.84%) Project Manager
11 18 (2.32%) Data Architect
11 18 (2.32%) SOC Analyst
12 17 (2.19%) Azure Architect
12 17 (2.19%) Security Analyst
13 15 (1.94%) Developer
14 14 (1.81%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (1.81%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.81%) OAuth
2 40 (5.16%) LDAP
2 40 (5.16%) SAML
3 37 (4.77%) REST
4 34 (4.39%) OpenID
5 21 (2.71%) Kafka
5 21 (2.71%) Middleware
6 19 (2.45%) SOAP
7 17 (2.19%) OAuth2
7 17 (2.19%) RESTful
8 15 (1.94%) SailPoint
9 14 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (1.42%) .NET
10 11 (1.42%) GraphQL
10 11 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (1.42%) Visualforce
11 10 (1.29%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.16%) Hibernate
12 9 (1.16%) Spring
13 8 (1.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.84%) Security Posture
2 52 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 49 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 49 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 36 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 33 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 31 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.71%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.94%) Freedom of Information
13 14 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.81%) NHS
13 14 (1.81%) Replication
13 14 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.55%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.29%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.48%) Windows
2 25 (3.23%) Linux
3 16 (2.06%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.65%) Solaris
6 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (21.03%) Data Protection
3 154 (19.87%) Agile
4 151 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 144 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
6 142 (18.32%) Data Governance
7 132 (17.03%) DevOps
8 124 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 116 (14.97%) Data Modelling
9 116 (14.97%) Data Privacy
10 114 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 111 (14.32%) Analytics
12 103 (13.29%) Roadmaps
13 101 (13.03%) Information Security
14 95 (12.26%) Migration
15 93 (12.00%) Incident Response
16 92 (11.87%) Cloud Security
17 88 (11.35%) Regulatory Compliance
18 84 (10.84%) Risk Management
19 83 (10.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 123 (15.87%) Python
2 102 (13.16%) SQL
3 87 (11.23%) PowerShell
4 32 (4.13%) Bash
5 30 (3.87%) Java
6 19 (2.45%) Bicep
7 12 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.42%) Apex Code
9 10 (1.29%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.03%) C#
10 8 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.77%) Perl
12 6 (0.77%) R
13 4 (0.52%) C++
13 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.39%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.39%) C
14 3 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 117 (15.10%) CISSP
2 111 (14.32%) Security Cleared
3 95 (12.26%) Degree
4 81 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 74 (9.55%) CISM
6 41 (5.29%) AWS Certification
7 39 (5.03%) Azure Certification
8 36 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 23 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (2.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (2.45%) CISA
13 16 (2.06%) CCSP
14 14 (1.81%) DV Cleared
15 12 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (1.42%) CRISC
16 11 (1.42%) GIAC
16 11 (1.42%) GSEC
17 10 (1.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (29.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 173 (22.32%) NIST
3 87 (11.23%) HIPAA
4 73 (9.42%) Data Quality
5 72 (9.29%) PCI DSS
6 62 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 43 (5.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 40 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (3.23%) SOC 2
10 24 (3.10%) QA
11 20 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 17 (2.19%) GRC
12 17 (2.19%) PSD2
13 15 (1.94%) SLA
14 14 (1.81%) Accessibility
15 12 (1.55%) NCSC
16 10 (1.29%) Solvency II
17 8 (1.03%) COBIT
17 8 (1.03%) EU AI Act
17 8 (1.03%) PERC
System Software
1 68 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.90%) Docker
3 24 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.65%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.52%) NFS
6 4 (0.52%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.26%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.13%) NDS
8 1 (0.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.13%) RACF
8 1 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 66 (8.52%) Terraform
2 45 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.77%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (2.19%) Ansible
4 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.94%) QRadar
5 15 (1.94%) SCCM
6 10 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.16%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 7 (0.90%) Grafana
9 6 (0.77%) Nessus
9 6 (0.77%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.52%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.52%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.39%) Kibana
12 3 (0.39%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 216 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.48%) Salesforce
3 48 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 46 (5.94%) Oracle
5 42 (5.42%) Google
6 37 (4.77%) SAP
7 35 (4.52%) Databricks
8 33 (4.26%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.13%) Splunk
10 26 (3.35%) VMware
11 21 (2.71%) Workday
12 20 (2.58%) Ping Identity
13 17 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
13 17 (2.19%) Informatica
14 16 (2.06%) Citrix
15 15 (1.94%) Cisco
15 15 (1.94%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.68%) Qualys
17 12 (1.55%) IBM
18 11 (1.42%) Fortinet
806 GDPR jobs in England