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

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 140 216
Rank change year-on-year +17 +76 +29
Contract jobs citing GDPR 877 505 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.04% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.05% 12.43% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 308 235
10th Percentile £363 £356 £304
25th Percentile £450 £429 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 48
10th Percentile £14.78 - £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £27.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +10.56% +31.58%
75th Percentile £54.88 £34.31 £28.75
90th Percentile £81.43 £72.03 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £18.22 £24.00
% change year-on-year +39.96% -24.08% +26.32%

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 7,279 4,062 5,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.93% 16.37% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 2,614 3,197
10th Percentile £345 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 176 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +36.06% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.30
% change year-on-year +13.35% +36.34% -37.88%

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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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +22 421 £550 -4.35% 231
South East +16 161 £575 +9.52% 147
North of England -7 129 £550 +4.76% 95
Midlands -37 70 £492 +16.45% 67
North West +1 66 £530 +0.95% 64
Yorkshire -35 53 £550 +9.24% 26
South West -12 47 £500 +25.00% 39
West Midlands -41 42 £492 +3.58% 31
East of England -14 37 £550 +5.36% 36
East Midlands -14 28 £522 +28.83% 37
North East -28 11 £463 -14.94% 6
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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 52 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.53%) Confluence
4 25 (2.85%) Apache Spark
5 19 (2.17%) Apache
6 14 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.14%) CMS
8 7 (0.80%) SAS
9 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.57%) IIS
9 5 (0.57%) TPMS
10 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.48%) NEC Housing
3 9 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 306 (34.89%) Azure
2 212 (24.17%) AWS
3 127 (14.48%) Power Platform
4 104 (11.86%) GCP
5 74 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (7.07%) Entra ID
7 56 (6.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (5.02%) SaaS
9 39 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (3.65%) GitHub
12 30 (3.42%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (3.08%) OneDrive
15 25 (2.85%) Collibra
15 25 (2.85%) Serverless
16 19 (2.17%) dbt
17 18 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.25%) Firewall
2 34 (3.88%) Network Security
3 20 (2.28%) DNS
4 19 (2.17%) VPN
5 16 (1.82%) DHCP
6 14 (1.60%) Kerberos
7 13 (1.48%) SMS
7 13 (1.48%) SSL
8 8 (0.91%) Wireless
9 7 (0.80%) HTTP
10 6 (0.68%) WAN
11 5 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.57%) LAN
11 5 (0.57%) SNMP
11 5 (0.57%) SSH
11 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
13 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (12.88%) Power BI
2 51 (5.82%) Metadata
3 50 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.59%) Data Lake
5 27 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.17%) Tableau
8 17 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.25%) Mixpanel
12 11 (1.25%) OLTP
13 10 (1.14%) Big Data
13 10 (1.14%) OLAP
13 10 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.80%) Looker
15 7 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (5.13%) JIRA
2 22 (2.51%) Git
3 10 (1.14%) Burp Suite
4 9 (1.03%) Metasploit
5 8 (0.91%) GitLab
6 6 (0.68%) ERwin
6 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.23%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 300 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 285 (32.50%) Finance
3 152 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 113 (12.88%) Legal
6 64 (7.30%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (5.25%) Marketing
8 45 (5.13%) Banking
9 34 (3.88%) Retail
10 25 (2.85%) Local Government
11 22 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.71%) Law
16 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.25%) Military
18 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 158 (18.02%) Architect
2 105 (11.97%) Lead
3 90 (10.26%) Analyst
4 67 (7.64%) Senior
5 59 (6.73%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.25%) Business Analyst
6 46 (5.25%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (4.56%) Consultant
9 32 (3.65%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.42%) Security Manager
11 29 (3.31%) Security Engineer
12 24 (2.74%) Data Architect
12 24 (2.74%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 24 (2.74%) Security Architect
13 23 (2.62%) Administrator
14 22 (2.51%) Developer
15 21 (2.39%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.05%) Technical Architect
17 17 (1.94%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.13%) REST
2 41 (4.68%) LDAP
3 38 (4.33%) OAuth
3 38 (4.33%) SAML
4 34 (3.88%) Kafka
5 28 (3.19%) Middleware
6 21 (2.39%) OpenID
7 20 (2.28%) JSON
8 19 (2.17%) PySpark
9 18 (2.05%) .NET
10 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.82%) SOAP
11 15 (1.71%) CSS
11 15 (1.71%) HTML
12 14 (1.60%) OAuth2
13 13 (1.48%) Great Expectations
14 9 (1.03%) J2EE
14 9 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.03%) SailPoint
15 8 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.07%) Management Information System
2 61 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.25%) Security Posture
4 43 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 22 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.17%) Replication
9 16 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
11 14 (1.60%) NHS
11 14 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (1.14%) BYOD
14 10 (1.14%) Clustering
15 9 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.53%) Windows
2 24 (2.74%) Linux
3 21 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (25.77%) Data Protection
2 213 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (22.12%) Agile
4 193 (22.01%) Data Governance
5 175 (19.95%) Cybersecurity
5 175 (19.95%) Migration
6 159 (18.13%) DevOps
7 157 (17.90%) Analytics
8 150 (17.10%) CI/CD
9 139 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 128 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
11 126 (14.37%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.14%) AI
13 123 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 122 (13.91%) Roadmaps
15 115 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 107 (12.20%) Validation
17 99 (11.29%) Information Security
18 97 (11.06%) Risk Management
19 94 (10.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.61%) SQL
2 125 (14.25%) Python
3 78 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 44 (5.02%) Java
5 27 (3.08%) C#
6 22 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.60%) Bash
8 12 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.03%) Bicep
10 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.68%) Go
12 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.46%) R
14 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 2 (0.23%) Scala
16 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 165 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.49%) Degree
4 85 (9.69%) CISSP
5 67 (7.64%) CISM
6 38 (4.33%) PMI Certification
7 37 (4.22%) PMP
8 23 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 22 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.48%) IIBA
14 11 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.25%) CRISC
14 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (1.14%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.03%) CISA
17 8 (0.91%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (22.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (15.85%) Data Quality
3 134 (15.28%) NIST
4 90 (10.26%) PCI DSS
5 73 (8.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (4.45%) GRC
7 36 (4.10%) NCSC
8 32 (3.65%) SOC 2
9 31 (3.53%) QA
10 30 (3.42%) HIPAA
11 26 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (2.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 22 (2.51%) PMO
14 21 (2.39%) Accessibility
15 16 (1.82%) MiFID
16 14 (1.60%) Solvency II
17 13 (1.48%) FINRA
18 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (1.25%) WCAG
19 9 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.53%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (6.27%) Terraform
2 53 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 39 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.48%) Grafana
6 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.91%) Nmap
8 5 (0.57%) Ansible
8 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.46%) Istio
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.23%) QRadar
10 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) CASB
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 218 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.96%) Databricks
3 51 (5.82%) Google
4 46 (5.25%) Oracle
4 46 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 45 (5.13%) SAP
6 40 (4.56%) ServiceNow
7 31 (3.53%) CyberArk
7 31 (3.53%) Workday
8 18 (2.05%) Okta
9 16 (1.82%) Adobe
10 15 (1.71%) Splunk
11 14 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
11 14 (1.60%) Informatica
12 13 (1.48%) IFS
12 13 (1.48%) NEC
13 10 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.68%) Rapid7
15 6 (0.68%) Varonis
558 GDPR jobs in England