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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 100 223
Rank change year-on-year -83 +123 +30
Contract jobs citing GDPR 736 735 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 2.63% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.85% 15.19% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 474 214
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.95% -13.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £746 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £505
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 38 15
10th Percentile £13.82 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.32 £34.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% +61.90% +21.74%
75th Percentile £61.88 £63.38 £30.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.99 £54.07
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +32.51% -19.05% +21.74%

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 8,319 4,839 4,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.87% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,211 3,153 2,475
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £717 £762
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 629 231 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £17.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.32 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -51 353 £575 - 1,030
South East -64 110 £575 +15.00% 260
North of England -63 90 £483 -4.83% 255
Midlands -52 73 £450 +0.33% 163
South West -25 58 £475 +18.75% 93
West Midlands -19 52 £430 -18.19% 94
North West -29 49 £500 +9.29% 137
East of England -2 46 £525 - 95
Yorkshire -53 32 £471 -14.45% 95
East Midlands -35 21 £538 +25.15% 69
North East -33 8 £463 -15.22% 26
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UK

GDPR
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 39 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.63%) CMS
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.49%) IIS
4 9 (1.22%) Apache
5 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.41%) Confluence
7 3 (0.41%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) Mendix
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 38 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (5.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.09%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.95%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.82%) iTrent
6 5 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.54%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.54%) Workfront
8 2 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 247 (33.56%) Azure
2 136 (18.48%) AWS
3 87 (11.82%) Power Platform
4 68 (9.24%) GCP
5 60 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (6.11%) SaaS
8 44 (5.98%) Dynamics 365
9 43 (5.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 38 (5.16%) Entra ID
11 35 (4.76%) Serverless
12 31 (4.21%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.94%) Power Automate
14 27 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (3.67%) GitHub
15 22 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (2.85%) Azure Functions
17 19 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.58%) OCI
18 17 (2.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.94%) Network Security
2 28 (3.80%) Firewall
3 18 (2.45%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.36%) VPN
5 5 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.68%) SMS
5 5 (0.68%) X.509
6 4 (0.54%) SSL
6 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.41%) DNS
7 3 (0.41%) FTP
7 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.41%) IPsec
7 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (9.24%) Power BI
2 48 (6.52%) Metadata
3 36 (4.89%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.77%) BigQuery
7 12 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 11 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.49%) Tableau
9 10 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.09%) Looker
11 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.82%) Big Data
12 6 (0.82%) GIS
12 6 (0.82%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (2.99%) Git
2 15 (2.04%) Postman
3 14 (1.90%) JIRA
4 13 (1.77%) GitLab
5 11 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.49%) Selenium
5 11 (1.49%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.41%) ERwin
8 3 (0.41%) Protractor
9 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.27%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.14%) Capybara
10 1 (0.14%) LSMW
10 1 (0.14%) RSpec
General
1 278 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 177 (24.05%) Finance
3 133 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.82%) Legal
5 41 (5.57%) Local Government
6 38 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (4.48%) Marketing
9 29 (3.94%) Banking
10 28 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
11 27 (3.67%) Retail
12 22 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.31%) Military
14 15 (2.04%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.63%) Law
16 10 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 128 (17.39%) Architect
2 110 (14.95%) Lead
3 85 (11.55%) Analyst
4 76 (10.33%) Senior
5 42 (5.71%) Administrator
6 35 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 32 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 30 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.94%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.80%) Consultant
12 23 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.13%) Developer
12 23 (3.13%) Security Architect
13 21 (2.85%) Security Manager
14 19 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.31%) Coordinator
16 16 (2.17%) Security Engineer
17 15 (2.04%) Information Officer
18 13 (1.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.84%) Terraform
2 42 (5.71%) REST
3 23 (3.13%) OAuth
4 22 (2.99%) JSON
5 21 (2.85%) SAML
6 20 (2.72%) LDAP
7 16 (2.17%) Kafka
7 16 (2.17%) OpenID
8 15 (2.04%) SOAP
9 14 (1.90%) XML
10 13 (1.77%) .NET
10 13 (1.77%) XSLT
11 12 (1.63%) SailPoint
12 11 (1.49%) Gherkin
12 11 (1.49%) OAuth2
12 11 (1.49%) PySpark
13 9 (1.22%) JDBC
13 9 (1.22%) Middleware
14 8 (1.09%) HTML
15 7 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.09%) Management Information System
2 46 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.80%) Freedom of Information
7 25 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 24 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
8 24 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.72%) NHS
9 20 (2.72%) Taxonomies
10 19 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 14 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
12 12 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.63%) Freedom of Information Act
12 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.72%) Windows
2 16 (2.17%) Linux
3 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 207 (28.13%) Data Protection
3 199 (27.04%) Data Governance
4 156 (21.20%) Analytics
5 148 (20.11%) Agile
6 140 (19.02%) AI
7 139 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 128 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
9 122 (16.58%) Migration
10 119 (16.17%) Information Security
10 119 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (15.90%) Data Modelling
12 110 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (14.67%) DevOps
14 107 (14.54%) Roadmaps
15 105 (14.27%) Decision-Making
16 97 (13.18%) CI/CD
17 88 (11.96%) Risk Management
18 83 (11.28%) CRM
18 83 (11.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.49%) SQL
2 79 (10.73%) Python
3 33 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 32 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.08%) C#
6 29 (3.94%) Java
7 13 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.22%) Bicep
10 8 (1.09%) Bash
10 8 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.82%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) VBA
14 1 (0.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 146 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.05%) Degree
4 68 (9.24%) CISSP
5 54 (7.34%) CISM
6 29 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (2.31%) PMP
10 16 (2.17%) PMI Certification
11 15 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.90%) CISA
13 11 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.49%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.36%) CCSP
15 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.22%) CRISC
16 7 (0.95%) CEH
16 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (16.98%) Data Quality
3 81 (11.01%) NIST
4 56 (7.61%) PCI DSS
5 43 (5.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (5.30%) GRC
7 37 (5.03%) Accessibility
8 36 (4.89%) NCSC
9 34 (4.62%) QA
10 28 (3.80%) WCAG
11 23 (3.13%) HIPAA
12 19 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (2.45%) SOC 2
14 15 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 14 (1.90%) PERC
16 10 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (1.22%) Solvency II
18 8 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 8 (1.09%) PMO
19 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 46 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.49%) Docker
3 5 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.49%) CASB
4 8 (1.09%) Ansible
4 8 (1.09%) Grafana
5 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.27%) Argo
8 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.27%) QRadar
8 2 (0.27%) systemd
9 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.14%) Rancher
9 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 216 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.79%) Oracle
2 50 (6.79%) SAP
3 49 (6.66%) Databricks
4 40 (5.43%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.89%) Google
6 28 (3.80%) Workday
7 23 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.45%) Adobe
9 17 (2.31%) Splunk
10 13 (1.77%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 9 (1.22%) Cisco
12 9 (1.22%) Informatica
13 8 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.09%) IFS
13 8 (1.09%) NEC
14 7 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.95%) F5
15 6 (0.82%) Foundry