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

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 122 210
Rank change year-on-year -14 +88 +48
Contract jobs citing GDPR 864 590 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 2.17% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.26% 13.04% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 363 235
10th Percentile £363 £350 £304
25th Percentile £450 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £743 £738 £693
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 31 46
10th Percentile £16.13 £13.50 £11.77
25th Percentile £19.52 £15.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £63.94 £40.46 £28.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.36 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.99% -10.56% +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 7,673 4,525 4,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 16.68% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,926 2,938 3,109
10th Percentile £350 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £610 £624 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 207 368
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%

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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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +9 412 £575 - 246
South East -17 154 £575 +15.00% 166
North of England -41 115 £513 -2.38% 136
Midlands -37 74 £450 +9.09% 96
North West -7 70 £513 -2.38% 82
South West -16 52 £500 +25.00% 58
East of England 0 46 £625 +19.05% 49
West Midlands -52 41 £450 +12.50% 51
Yorkshire -62 35 £550 +8.48% 40
East Midlands -6 33 £475 +14.46% 45
North East -32 11 £463 -14.94% 14
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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 37 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.55%) Confluence
4 18 (2.08%) Apache
5 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (1.39%) CMS
8 8 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.58%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.12%) TPMS
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.50%) NEC Housing
2 13 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.69%) iTrent
5 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 293 (33.91%) Azure
2 199 (23.03%) AWS
3 119 (13.77%) Power Platform
4 103 (11.92%) GCP
5 59 (6.83%) Entra ID
6 56 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (4.98%) SaaS
9 36 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 35 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (4.05%) Snowflake
11 31 (3.59%) GitHub
12 30 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
13 26 (3.01%) Collibra
14 25 (2.89%) Serverless
15 21 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (2.43%) dbt
16 19 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.40%) Firewall
2 34 (3.94%) Network Security
3 17 (1.97%) VPN
4 16 (1.85%) DNS
5 13 (1.50%) DHCP
6 11 (1.27%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.16%) Cisco IPT
8 9 (1.04%) SMS
8 9 (1.04%) SSL
9 7 (0.81%) HTTP
10 5 (0.58%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.58%) WAN
11 4 (0.46%) LAN
11 4 (0.46%) Wireless
12 3 (0.35%) Intranet
12 3 (0.35%) MPLS
12 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.35%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.62%) Power BI
2 54 (6.25%) Metadata
3 49 (5.67%) Data Lake
3 49 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.20%) Tableau
7 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.39%) Big Data
11 11 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.27%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.04%) Looker
13 9 (1.04%) Mixpanel
13 9 (1.04%) OLTP
14 8 (0.93%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.93%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (4.40%) JIRA
2 16 (1.85%) Git
3 7 (0.81%) Postman
3 7 (0.81%) Selenium
4 6 (0.69%) Cypress.io
4 6 (0.69%) ERwin
4 6 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (0.69%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.46%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.35%) Protractor
7 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 291 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 268 (31.02%) Finance
3 154 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 99 (11.46%) Legal
6 45 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 45 (5.21%) Marketing
7 42 (4.86%) Banking
8 39 (4.51%) Retail
9 30 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (3.13%) Local Government
11 22 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.62%) Military
13 14 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.50%) Law
14 13 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 151 (17.48%) Architect
2 121 (14.00%) Lead
3 89 (10.30%) Analyst
4 67 (7.75%) Senior
5 55 (6.37%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.32%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 34 (3.94%) Consultant
9 34 (3.94%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.82%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.36%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.01%) Security Engineer
13 25 (2.89%) Administrator
14 23 (2.66%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.08%) Technical Architect
17 16 (1.85%) Developer
18 15 (1.74%) Principal Engineer
18 15 (1.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.28%) REST
2 36 (4.17%) LDAP
2 36 (4.17%) OAuth
2 36 (4.17%) SAML
3 35 (4.05%) Kafka
4 29 (3.36%) Middleware
5 23 (2.66%) OpenID
6 20 (2.31%) JSON
7 16 (1.85%) .NET
7 16 (1.85%) SOAP
8 15 (1.74%) PySpark
9 14 (1.62%) OAuth2
10 11 (1.27%) Great Expectations
11 9 (1.04%) CSS
11 9 (1.04%) HTML
11 9 (1.04%) J2EE
11 9 (1.04%) SailPoint
11 9 (1.04%) XML
12 7 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 7 (0.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 47 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.36%) Data Structures
8 26 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 21 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.85%) Replication
12 16 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.50%) NHS
15 11 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.16%) BYOD
16 10 (1.16%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.09%) Windows
2 18 (2.08%) Linux
2 18 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (26.04%) Data Protection
2 221 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 209 (24.19%) Data Governance
4 183 (21.18%) Agile
5 176 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
6 173 (20.02%) Migration
7 171 (19.79%) Analytics
8 145 (16.78%) DevOps
8 145 (16.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 142 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (16.20%) AI
11 139 (16.09%) Data Modelling
12 132 (15.28%) CI/CD
13 128 (14.81%) Roadmaps
14 124 (14.35%) Business Intelligence
15 121 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (12.73%) Validation
17 107 (12.38%) Information Security
18 104 (12.04%) Risk Management
19 97 (11.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 169 (19.56%) SQL
2 115 (13.31%) Python
3 62 (7.18%) PowerShell
4 42 (4.86%) Java
5 23 (2.66%) C#
6 18 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.62%) Bash
8 11 (1.27%) Bicep
9 8 (0.93%) Go
9 8 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.35%) Scala
13 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 1 (0.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 161 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 127 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.49%) CISSP
4 78 (9.03%) Degree
5 66 (7.64%) CISM
6 30 (3.47%) PMI Certification
6 30 (3.47%) PMP
7 25 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.93%) CISA
15 8 (0.93%) CRISC
15 8 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (21.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 146 (16.90%) Data Quality
3 120 (13.89%) NIST
4 76 (8.80%) PCI DSS
5 61 (7.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.28%) GRC
6 37 (4.28%) NCSC
7 34 (3.94%) SOC 2
8 33 (3.82%) QA
9 32 (3.70%) HIPAA
10 27 (3.13%) Accessibility
11 25 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (2.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (2.31%) PMO
14 16 (1.85%) PERC
14 16 (1.85%) WCAG
15 15 (1.74%) Solvency II
16 13 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
18 8 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.89%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (5.90%) Terraform
2 47 (5.44%) Kubernetes
3 38 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.50%) Grafana
6 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.46%) Ansible
8 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.46%) Istio
8 4 (0.46%) Rancher
9 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.23%) Nmap
9 2 (0.23%) QRadar
9 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) CASB
10 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 208 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.41%) Databricks
3 52 (6.02%) Google
3 52 (6.02%) SAP
4 51 (5.90%) Salesforce
5 49 (5.67%) Oracle
6 37 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 33 (3.82%) Workday
8 26 (3.01%) CyberArk
9 20 (2.31%) Adobe
10 15 (1.74%) Informatica
10 15 (1.74%) Okta
11 14 (1.62%) IFS
12 13 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (1.50%) NEC
13 12 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (1.27%) Splunk
15 7 (0.81%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.69%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.69%) Varonis
709 GDPR jobs in England