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

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 140 193
Rank change year-on-year +26 +53 +52
Contract jobs citing GDPR 892 479 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 1.96% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.99% 12.32% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 290 265
10th Percentile £366 £350 £309
25th Percentile £450 £440 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £537 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +0.37% +7.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 46
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.85 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +15.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £54.63 £31.76 £28.52
90th Percentile £65.20 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £27.35 £23.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% +18.91% +21.05%

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 6,869 3,889 5,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.90% 15.94% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,464 2,492 3,358
10th Percentile £340 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 159 350
10th Percentile £14.02 £18.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.39 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +56.11% -40.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.20 £79.51 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year - +63.84% -39.84%

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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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +27 426 £550 -4.35% 179
South East +30 177 £555 +5.71% 135
North of England +10 131 £550 +4.76% 96
Midlands -25 77 £475 +7.16% 83
North West -12 63 £528 +0.48% 49
Yorkshire -17 58 £550 +4.76% 33
West Midlands -35 43 £492 +3.58% 43
South West -24 40 £500 +25.00% 39
East Midlands -4 34 £449 +8.01% 40
East of England -27 29 £625 +19.05% 50
North East -10 11 £588 +27.03% 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 45 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.92%) Confluence
2 35 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.58%) Apache
5 16 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.90%) TPMS
7 7 (0.78%) SAS
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) Appian
9 3 (0.34%) Camunda
9 3 (0.34%) CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.90%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.67%) SAP HCM
5 5 (0.56%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Actimize
7 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 334 (37.44%) Azure
2 253 (28.36%) AWS
3 142 (15.92%) GCP
4 127 (14.24%) Power Platform
5 85 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (7.74%) Entra ID
7 54 (6.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 39 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (4.26%) SaaS
10 36 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (3.92%) Collibra
12 28 (3.14%) OneDrive
13 27 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (2.80%) Amazon S3
15 24 (2.69%) GitHub
15 24 (2.69%) Snowflake
16 20 (2.24%) Serverless
17 19 (2.13%) dbt
18 18 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.50%) Firewall
2 36 (4.04%) Network Security
3 24 (2.69%) DNS
4 21 (2.35%) VPN
5 20 (2.24%) DHCP
6 15 (1.68%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.68%) SSL
7 14 (1.57%) Wireless
8 10 (1.12%) SMS
9 9 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
10 8 (0.90%) SNMP
10 8 (0.90%) SSH
11 6 (0.67%) HTTP
11 6 (0.67%) WAN
12 5 (0.56%) LAN
12 5 (0.56%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.45%) NGFW
14 3 (0.34%) IPv4
14 3 (0.34%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.00%) Power BI
2 58 (6.50%) Data Lake
3 50 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.49%) Metadata
5 25 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.35%) Tableau
8 20 (2.24%) NoSQL
9 19 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.79%) Mixpanel
11 16 (1.79%) OLAP
11 16 (1.79%) OLTP
12 14 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.46%) Big Data
14 12 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (5.61%) JIRA
2 29 (3.25%) Git
3 18 (2.02%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.91%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.79%) GitLab
6 10 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) ERwin
7 6 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.45%) Postman
8 4 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.11%) AppScan
11 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.11%) Gradle
11 1 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 337 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 288 (32.29%) Finance
3 151 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (15.13%) Legal
5 98 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 76 (8.52%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (6.28%) Banking
8 55 (6.17%) Marketing
9 35 (3.92%) Retail
10 21 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.02%) Local Government
11 18 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.91%) Law
12 17 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.01%) Military
15 8 (0.90%) Billing
16 7 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 157 (17.60%) Architect
2 105 (11.77%) Lead
3 98 (10.99%) Analyst
4 59 (6.61%) Project Manager
5 54 (6.05%) Senior
6 51 (5.72%) Business Analyst
7 50 (5.61%) Consultant
8 49 (5.49%) Data Engineer
9 41 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (3.92%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.25%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.80%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 25 (2.80%) Security Architect
13 23 (2.58%) Data Architect
13 23 (2.58%) Security Manager
14 22 (2.47%) Developer
15 20 (2.24%) Administrator
16 19 (2.13%) Principal Engineer
17 18 (2.02%) Migration Manager
18 17 (1.91%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.49%) LDAP
2 44 (4.93%) REST
3 42 (4.71%) Kafka
4 36 (4.04%) OAuth
5 34 (3.81%) Middleware
6 32 (3.59%) SAML
7 20 (2.24%) PySpark
8 18 (2.02%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.79%) .NET
10 16 (1.79%) HTML
10 16 (1.79%) JSON
10 16 (1.79%) OpenID
10 16 (1.79%) SOAP
11 15 (1.68%) CSS
12 13 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (1.35%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.01%) J2EE
14 9 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
15 8 (0.90%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.83%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.16%) Security Posture
4 42 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 41 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.24%) Replication
11 19 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
12 17 (1.91%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.46%) NHS
15 12 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.23%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.12%) BYOD
17 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.42%) Windows
2 31 (3.48%) Linux
3 27 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Android
7 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 221 (24.78%) Data Protection
3 207 (23.21%) Agile
4 196 (21.97%) Data Governance
5 171 (19.17%) Cybersecurity
6 169 (18.95%) Migration
7 165 (18.50%) CI/CD
7 165 (18.50%) DevOps
8 159 (17.83%) Analytics
9 149 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (15.02%) Business Intelligence
10 134 (15.02%) Data Modelling
11 123 (13.79%) Roadmaps
12 121 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 120 (13.45%) AI
14 108 (12.11%) Validation
15 106 (11.88%) Risk Management
16 103 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (11.32%) ETL
18 100 (11.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 180 (20.18%) SQL
2 156 (17.49%) Python
3 105 (11.77%) PowerShell
4 44 (4.93%) Java
5 33 (3.70%) C#
6 24 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.47%) Bash
8 12 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.01%) Bicep
9 9 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.90%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.78%) R
12 6 (0.67%) Go
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
15 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 150 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 99 (11.10%) Degree
4 97 (10.87%) CISSP
5 77 (8.63%) CISM
6 44 (4.93%) PMI Certification
7 41 (4.60%) PMP
8 26 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.79%) CHECK Team Member
12 16 (1.79%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.57%) CREST Certified
13 14 (1.57%) Cyber Scheme
14 13 (1.46%) IIBA
15 12 (1.35%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (1.35%) Postgraduate
16 11 (1.23%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (25.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (17.71%) NIST
3 119 (13.34%) Data Quality
4 110 (12.33%) PCI DSS
5 81 (9.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 42 (4.71%) QA
7 39 (4.37%) GRC
8 34 (3.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (3.59%) SOC 2
10 30 (3.36%) HIPAA
11 25 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (2.80%) PMO
12 22 (2.47%) NCSC
13 20 (2.24%) PERC
14 19 (2.13%) MiFID
15 17 (1.91%) Accessibility
16 13 (1.46%) FINRA
17 11 (1.23%) Solvency II
18 9 (1.01%) COBIT
18 9 (1.01%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 83 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.04%) Docker
3 7 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (7.17%) Terraform
2 61 (6.84%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.79%) Nmap
6 12 (1.35%) Grafana
7 9 (1.01%) Ansible
7 9 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.90%) SCCM
9 5 (0.56%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.45%) Istio
10 4 (0.45%) QRadar
10 4 (0.45%) Rancher
11 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.22%) systemd
12 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 214 (23.99%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.96%) Google
3 60 (6.73%) Databricks
4 48 (5.38%) CyberArk
5 46 (5.16%) SAP
5 46 (5.16%) ServiceNow
6 44 (4.93%) Oracle
6 44 (4.93%) Salesforce
7 31 (3.48%) Workday
8 27 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
9 21 (2.35%) Adobe
10 20 (2.24%) Okta
11 19 (2.13%) Informatica
12 18 (2.02%) Splunk
13 13 (1.46%) IFS
13 13 (1.46%) Tealium
14 11 (1.23%) OneTrust
15 9 (1.01%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.90%) Varonis
544 GDPR jobs in England