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

 6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 162 176
Rank change year-on-year +64 +14 +82
Contract jobs citing GDPR 913 408 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 1.65% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.51% 10.84% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 243 258
10th Percentile £356 £303 £327
25th Percentile £443 £396 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 44
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.38 £11.27
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.92 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.01 £20.60
Median % change year-on-year +41.59% -12.57% -23.70%
75th Percentile £55.50 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £32.96 £29.63
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £20.60
% change year-on-year +26.30% -1.99% -9.19%

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 6,294 3,763 5,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.34% 15.24% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,063 2,372 3,524
10th Percentile £331 £263 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 153 363
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.23 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £14.15
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.41% +28.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.20 £78.40 £70.17
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +27.04% -33.33%

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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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +54 440 £550 -2.65% 167
South East +38 174 £500 - 110
North of England -13 118 £550 +10.00% 95
Midlands -10 86 £475 +7.34% 58
Yorkshire -17 67 £550 +4.76% 25
South West +23 56 £475 +69.64% 33
West Midlands -29 47 £500 +5.26% 35
North West -31 41 £495 +1.54% 61
East Midlands -4 39 £447 +14.32% 23
East of England -27 21 £553 +10.60% 29
North East -9 10 £466 +0.76% 10
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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 47 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (3.83%) Confluence
4 33 (3.61%) Apache Spark
5 28 (3.07%) Apache
6 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.10%) TPMS
8 7 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.77%) SAS
9 6 (0.66%) Appian
9 6 (0.66%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 45 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 355 (38.88%) Azure
2 272 (29.79%) AWS
3 144 (15.77%) GCP
4 110 (12.05%) Power Platform
5 95 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (9.42%) Entra ID
7 58 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 47 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 35 (3.83%) Collibra
12 33 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (3.61%) SaaS
13 31 (3.40%) OneDrive
14 28 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (2.63%) Serverless
16 23 (2.52%) GitHub
17 21 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
18 18 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (1.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.12%) Firewall
2 41 (4.49%) Network Security
3 29 (3.18%) DNS
4 27 (2.96%) VPN
5 25 (2.74%) DHCP
6 17 (1.86%) Wireless
7 16 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
7 16 (1.75%) Kerberos
7 16 (1.75%) SSL
8 11 (1.20%) SMS
9 10 (1.10%) LAN
9 10 (1.10%) SNMP
9 10 (1.10%) SSH
9 10 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 10 (1.10%) WAN
10 8 (0.88%) HTTP
10 8 (0.88%) IPv4
10 8 (0.88%) IPv6
10 8 (0.88%) PABX
10 8 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (10.95%) Power BI
2 68 (7.45%) Data Lake
3 46 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (4.49%) Metadata
5 26 (2.85%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.52%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (2.41%) Tableau
8 21 (2.30%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.97%) Mixpanel
11 17 (1.86%) OLAP
11 17 (1.86%) OLTP
12 16 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.75%) Big Data
13 13 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (4.49%) JIRA
2 28 (3.07%) Git
3 19 (2.08%) GitLab
4 17 (1.86%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.86%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.44%) Postman
6 4 (0.44%) Selenium
7 3 (0.33%) ERwin
7 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 397 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 267 (29.24%) Finance
3 145 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (13.69%) Legal
5 110 (12.05%) Public Sector
6 83 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (6.68%) Marketing
8 52 (5.70%) Banking
9 26 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.30%) Law
12 19 (2.08%) Retail
13 18 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.64%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.53%) Electronics
15 14 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.20%) Military
17 9 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.99%) Local Government
18 7 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 165 (18.07%) Architect
2 105 (11.50%) Analyst
3 95 (10.41%) Lead
4 62 (6.79%) Consultant
5 60 (6.57%) Senior
6 53 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
7 49 (5.37%) Data Engineer
8 46 (5.04%) Business Analyst
9 44 (4.82%) Project Manager
9 44 (4.82%) Security Engineer
10 27 (2.96%) Data Architect
10 27 (2.96%) Developer
10 27 (2.96%) Security Architect
11 25 (2.74%) Administrator
11 25 (2.74%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 24 (2.63%) Data Analyst
13 18 (1.97%) Principal Engineer
14 17 (1.86%) Security Analyst
15 16 (1.75%) Security Manager
16 15 (1.64%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.70%) LDAP
2 44 (4.82%) OAuth
3 41 (4.49%) Kafka
3 41 (4.49%) REST
4 40 (4.38%) SAML
5 33 (3.61%) Middleware
6 24 (2.63%) OpenID
7 21 (2.30%) OAuth2
8 20 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (1.97%) .NET
9 18 (1.97%) Great Expectations
10 16 (1.75%) HTML
10 16 (1.75%) PySpark
11 15 (1.64%) RESTful
12 14 (1.53%) CSS
13 13 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (1.42%) SOAP
14 10 (1.10%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (0.99%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.99%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 55 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 49 (5.37%) Security Posture
5 37 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 31 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (2.41%) Replication
11 20 (2.19%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.31%) BYOD
14 12 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.10%) IoT
15 10 (1.10%) NHS
15 10 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.51%) Windows
2 41 (4.49%) Linux
3 24 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) Android
7 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.33%) Solaris
8 2 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 209 (22.89%) Data Protection
3 193 (21.14%) Data Governance
4 192 (21.03%) Agile
5 177 (19.39%) Cybersecurity
6 166 (18.18%) DevOps
7 163 (17.85%) CI/CD
8 159 (17.42%) Analytics
9 153 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
10 150 (16.43%) Migration
11 134 (14.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 129 (14.13%) Data Modelling
13 124 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
14 123 (13.47%) Roadmaps
15 117 (12.81%) Data Privacy
16 113 (12.38%) AI
17 112 (12.27%) Information Security
18 110 (12.05%) Risk Management
19 108 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
20 101 (11.06%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 163 (17.85%) Python
2 160 (17.52%) SQL
3 126 (13.80%) PowerShell
4 37 (4.05%) Java
5 32 (3.50%) C#
6 23 (2.52%) Bash
6 23 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (0.99%) Bicep
8 9 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.88%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.77%) R
11 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.55%) Go
13 4 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 174 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 145 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 121 (13.25%) Degree
4 111 (12.16%) CISSP
5 78 (8.54%) CISM
6 37 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 36 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.83%) AWS Certification
8 35 (3.83%) PMI Certification
9 32 (3.50%) PMP
10 29 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (2.41%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.64%) CCSP
13 15 (1.64%) CHECK Team Member
14 14 (1.53%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.42%) CISA
15 13 (1.42%) CREST Certified
15 13 (1.42%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (28.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 191 (20.92%) NIST
3 115 (12.60%) PCI DSS
4 110 (12.05%) Data Quality
5 74 (8.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 49 (5.37%) QA
7 46 (5.04%) HIPAA
8 45 (4.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (3.83%) GRC
11 30 (3.29%) SOC 2
12 24 (2.63%) NCSC
13 21 (2.30%) PERC
14 20 (2.19%) PMO
15 18 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (1.97%) MiFID
15 18 (1.97%) SLA
16 14 (1.53%) Accessibility
17 13 (1.42%) FINRA
17 13 (1.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (10.73%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.16%) Docker
3 16 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) NDS
8 1 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 75 (8.21%) Terraform
2 55 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 43 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (1.97%) Ansible
6 15 (1.64%) Nmap
7 14 (1.53%) SCCM
8 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.99%) Grafana
10 6 (0.66%) QRadar
11 5 (0.55%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.44%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.33%) Istio
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.33%) Rancher
13 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 226 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.45%) Google
3 61 (6.68%) Databricks
4 55 (6.02%) CyberArk
5 47 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 41 (4.49%) Oracle
6 41 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.72%) SAP
8 31 (3.40%) BeyondTrust
9 27 (2.96%) Workday
10 25 (2.74%) Splunk
11 22 (2.41%) Adobe
12 21 (2.30%) Informatica
13 20 (2.19%) Okta
14 18 (1.97%) VMware
15 15 (1.64%) Fortinet
16 14 (1.53%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.53%) Tealium
17 13 (1.42%) Cisco
17 13 (1.42%) OneTrust
445 GDPR jobs in England