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

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 116 237
Rank change year-on-year -43 +121 +25
Contract jobs citing GDPR 795 671 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.43% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.66% 14.19% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 411 200
10th Percentile £326 £358 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £524
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.29% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 14
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £25.50 £33.56 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% +45.89% +24.32%
75th Percentile £71.37 £65.43 £32.41
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.01 £57.43
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -5.43% +24.32%

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 8,231 4,729 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.14% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,199 3,089 2,576
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 222 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.96 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.64 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +11.02% -18.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.66 £63.99
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%

GDPR
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

GDPR
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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -39 375 £563 -2.17% 794
South East -48 135 £591 +18.25% 187
North of England -46 103 £495 -2.37% 218
Midlands -50 70 £450 +2.39% 127
North West -21 62 £528 +17.94% 132
South West -34 54 £475 +18.75% 111
East of England +6 50 £575 +9.52% 65
West Midlands -29 50 £430 -14.00% 75
Yorkshire -54 27 £470 -13.32% 63
East Midlands -30 20 £537 +29.46% 53
North East -36 13 £463 -26.00% 24
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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 39 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.51%) CMS
4 11 (1.38%) Apache
5 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.01%) Confluence
7 7 (0.88%) IIS
8 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.25%) Drupal
9 2 (0.25%) Mendix
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 33 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 31 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.01%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.75%) iTrent
6 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.50%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.38%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.38%) Workfront
8 2 (0.25%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 274 (34.47%) Azure
2 174 (21.89%) AWS
3 104 (13.08%) Power Platform
4 93 (11.70%) GCP
5 56 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 48 (6.04%) SaaS
9 47 (5.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 39 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
11 35 (4.40%) Serverless
12 32 (4.03%) Snowflake
13 31 (3.90%) GitHub
14 30 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 24 (3.02%) Power Automate
17 20 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.52%) OCI
18 18 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
18 18 (2.26%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.53%) Firewall
2 34 (4.28%) Network Security
3 15 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
4 13 (1.64%) VPN
5 8 (1.01%) SSL
6 7 (0.88%) DNS
6 7 (0.88%) SMS
7 5 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.63%) WAN
7 5 (0.63%) X.509
8 4 (0.50%) HTTP
8 4 (0.50%) LAN
8 4 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.38%) DHCP
9 3 (0.38%) FTP
9 3 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.38%) IPv4
9 3 (0.38%) IPv6
9 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.19%) Power BI
2 55 (6.92%) Metadata
3 43 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 31 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.01%) Tableau
8 14 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.51%) Big Data
10 12 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.38%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.01%) Looker
13 8 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
14 7 (0.88%) Data Vault
15 6 (0.75%) GIS
15 6 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.89%) JIRA
2 19 (2.39%) Git
3 12 (1.51%) GitLab
3 12 (1.51%) Postman
4 9 (1.13%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.13%) Selenium
4 9 (1.13%) WebDriver
5 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.50%) ERwin
7 4 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.38%) Protractor
9 2 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.25%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 288 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 212 (26.67%) Finance
3 148 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (16.35%) Public Sector
5 88 (11.07%) Legal
6 38 (4.78%) Local Government
7 37 (4.65%) Marketing
8 35 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (4.03%) Banking
10 32 (4.03%) Retail
11 21 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.39%) Military
13 13 (1.64%) Law
13 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (17.86%) Architect
2 121 (15.22%) Lead
3 87 (10.94%) Analyst
4 72 (9.06%) Senior
5 44 (5.53%) Project Manager
6 41 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
7 39 (4.91%) Data Engineer
8 34 (4.28%) Data Analyst
9 33 (4.15%) Consultant
10 32 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.03%) Data Architect
11 31 (3.90%) Administrator
12 28 (3.52%) Security Architect
13 24 (3.02%) Security Manager
14 19 (2.39%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 18 (2.26%) Developer
16 17 (2.14%) Security Engineer
17 16 (2.01%) Senior Manager
18 15 (1.89%) Coordinator
18 15 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.91%) Terraform
2 44 (5.53%) REST
3 31 (3.90%) OAuth
4 28 (3.52%) LDAP
4 28 (3.52%) SAML
5 24 (3.02%) JSON
5 24 (3.02%) OpenID
6 22 (2.77%) Kafka
7 18 (2.26%) SOAP
8 16 (2.01%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.89%) Middleware
10 14 (1.76%) PySpark
11 12 (1.51%) JDBC
12 11 (1.38%) .NET
12 11 (1.38%) HTML
12 11 (1.38%) SailPoint
12 11 (1.38%) XML
13 9 (1.13%) Gherkin
13 9 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 57 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 38 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 37 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 36 (4.53%) Data Protection Act
6 32 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (3.40%) Data Structures
8 24 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.89%) Freedom of Information
10 22 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
11 21 (2.64%) NHS
12 20 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
14 15 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.76%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.76%) Taxonomies
16 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.77%) Windows
2 14 (1.76%) Linux
3 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (27.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 211 (26.54%) Data Protection
3 209 (26.29%) Data Governance
4 164 (20.63%) Analytics
5 162 (20.38%) Agile
6 154 (19.37%) Cybersecurity
6 154 (19.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 146 (18.36%) AI
8 142 (17.86%) Migration
9 126 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (15.60%) Data Modelling
11 120 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (14.84%) DevOps
13 116 (14.59%) CI/CD
14 106 (13.33%) Information Security
14 106 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 101 (12.70%) Decision-Making
16 98 (12.33%) Risk Management
17 96 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
18 91 (11.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (17.23%) SQL
2 93 (11.70%) Python
3 42 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.53%) Java
5 30 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 25 (3.14%) C#
7 12 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.38%) Bash
8 11 (1.38%) Bicep
9 10 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.75%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.38%) Go
12 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.38%) R
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.69%) CISSP
4 67 (8.43%) Degree
5 60 (7.55%) CISM
6 28 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 20 (2.52%) PMP
9 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.51%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.26%) ISTQB
14 9 (1.13%) CISA
15 7 (0.88%) CCSP
15 7 (0.88%) CEH
15 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 6 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (20.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (16.60%) Data Quality
3 99 (12.45%) NIST
4 60 (7.55%) PCI DSS
5 55 (6.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 35 (4.40%) NCSC
6 35 (4.40%) QA
7 34 (4.28%) Accessibility
7 34 (4.28%) GRC
8 28 (3.52%) HIPAA
8 28 (3.52%) SOC 2
9 23 (2.89%) WCAG
10 22 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (2.01%) PERC
12 15 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (1.64%) PMO
13 13 (1.64%) Solvency II
14 12 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.26%) Docker
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.25%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.38%) Grafana
4 10 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.01%) Ansible
5 8 (1.01%) CASB
5 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.63%) PingFederate
6 5 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.50%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.38%) QRadar
9 2 (0.25%) Argo
9 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.25%) systemd
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) Rancher
10 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.04%) Oracle
2 56 (7.04%) SAP
3 50 (6.29%) Databricks
4 44 (5.53%) Salesforce
5 43 (5.41%) Google
6 31 (3.90%) Workday
7 29 (3.65%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.39%) CyberArk
9 18 (2.26%) Adobe
10 15 (1.89%) Splunk
11 12 (1.51%) IFS
11 12 (1.51%) Informatica
11 12 (1.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
12 8 (1.01%) NEC
13 7 (0.88%) Cisco
14 6 (0.75%) Civica
14 6 (0.75%) Foundry
14 6 (0.75%) Ping Identity
1,432 GDPR jobs in England