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

 6 months to
4 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 167 173
Rank change year-on-year +60 +6 +79
Contract jobs citing GDPR 895 410 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 1.63% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 10.80% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 236 264
10th Percentile £350 £301 £325
25th Percentile £428 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 40
10th Percentile £13.24 £15.38 £11.06
25th Percentile £24.19 £15.50 £11.95
Median hourly rate £28.03 £17.74 £17.73
Median % change year-on-year +58.02% +0.03% -34.33%
75th Percentile £52.45 £31.76 £26.66
90th Percentile £64.05 £32.96 £30.42
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £20.19 £17.73
% change year-on-year +36.21% +13.87% -21.84%

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 6,261 3,798 5,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.41% 15.09% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,049 2,331 3,512
10th Percentile £330 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 157 338
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £25.57
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% +28.30% -31.81%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £72.08
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £31.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.74% +27.52% -28.57%

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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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +53 438 £550 - 178
South East +35 161 £500 - 126
North of England -10 111 £550 +10.00% 122
Midlands -6 87 £475 - 83
Yorkshire -11 67 £550 +4.76% 33
South West +18 61 £475 +69.64% 44
West Midlands -28 46 £500 +5.26% 53
East Midlands +1 41 £447 +3.23% 29
North West -33 37 £490 +3.16% 74
East of England -28 19 £535 +7.00% 59
North East -15 7 £466 +0.76% 16
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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 50 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (4.02%) Confluence
4 28 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.79%) Apache
6 14 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.12%) TPMS
8 7 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.78%) SAS
9 6 (0.67%) Appian
9 6 (0.67%) Camunda
10 3 (0.34%) 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 46 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) 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 11 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.34%) 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%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 353 (39.44%) Azure
2 258 (28.83%) AWS
3 138 (15.42%) GCP
4 103 (11.51%) Power Platform
5 99 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (10.06%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 46 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (4.13%) Amazon S3
11 35 (3.91%) SaaS
12 33 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (3.69%) Collibra
13 31 (3.46%) OneDrive
14 28 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.79%) Serverless
16 22 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (2.23%) GitHub
18 16 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.70%) Firewall
2 41 (4.58%) Network Security
3 29 (3.24%) DNS
4 25 (2.79%) VPN
5 24 (2.68%) DHCP
6 18 (2.01%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.90%) SSL
7 17 (1.90%) Wireless
8 15 (1.68%) Cisco IPT
9 11 (1.23%) SMS
10 10 (1.12%) SNMP
10 10 (1.12%) SSH
10 10 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.01%) LAN
11 9 (1.01%) WAN
12 8 (0.89%) PABX
12 8 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.89%) WLAN
13 7 (0.78%) BGP
13 7 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.39%) Power BI
2 65 (7.26%) Data Lake
3 41 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (4.25%) Metadata
5 22 (2.46%) BigQuery
6 20 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.12%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.12%) Tableau
8 17 (1.90%) Mixpanel
9 16 (1.79%) OLAP
9 16 (1.79%) OLTP
10 13 (1.45%) Big Data
11 11 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.89%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (4.80%) JIRA
2 25 (2.79%) Git
3 18 (2.01%) GitLab
4 17 (1.90%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.79%) Burp Suite
6 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) Postman
7 6 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.22%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) Locust
9 2 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 398 (44.47%) Social Skills
2 250 (27.93%) Finance
3 138 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (13.41%) Legal
5 104 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 82 (9.16%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (7.15%) Marketing
8 49 (5.47%) Banking
9 22 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.12%) Law
11 18 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.79%) Retail
14 14 (1.56%) Electronics
14 14 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.23%) Military
16 9 (1.01%) Local Government
17 8 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 163 (18.21%) Architect
2 108 (12.07%) Analyst
3 87 (9.72%) Lead
4 65 (7.26%) Consultant
5 56 (6.26%) Senior
6 52 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
7 48 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 45 (5.03%) Business Analyst
9 44 (4.92%) Security Engineer
10 38 (4.25%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.02%) Developer
12 26 (2.91%) Security Architect
13 25 (2.79%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 24 (2.68%) Administrator
14 24 (2.68%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.01%) Security Analyst
16 16 (1.79%) Principal Engineer
17 15 (1.68%) Penetration Tester
17 15 (1.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.03%) LDAP
2 48 (5.36%) OAuth
3 45 (5.03%) SAML
4 44 (4.92%) REST
5 35 (3.91%) Kafka
6 29 (3.24%) Middleware
7 27 (3.02%) OpenID
8 22 (2.46%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (2.01%) .NET
11 17 (1.90%) Great Expectations
11 17 (1.90%) PySpark
12 16 (1.79%) HTML
13 15 (1.68%) RESTful
13 15 (1.68%) SOAP
14 14 (1.56%) CSS
15 13 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
17 9 (1.01%) GraphQL
17 9 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 54 (6.03%) Management Information System
4 48 (5.36%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.68%) Replication
10 19 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
12 14 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.34%) NHS
15 11 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.12%) BYOD
16 10 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
16 10 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.50%) Windows
2 42 (4.69%) Linux
3 20 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.34%) Android
7 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.34%) Solaris
8 2 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (25.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 196 (21.90%) Data Protection
3 190 (21.23%) Agile
4 185 (20.67%) Data Governance
5 167 (18.66%) Cybersecurity
6 163 (18.21%) DevOps
7 152 (16.98%) Migration
8 150 (16.76%) CI/CD
9 149 (16.65%) Analytics
9 149 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
10 132 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 124 (13.85%) Data Modelling
12 121 (13.52%) Roadmaps
13 118 (13.18%) Data Privacy
14 113 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
15 112 (12.51%) Risk Management
16 107 (11.96%) Information Security
17 106 (11.84%) AI
18 105 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
19 100 (11.17%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 160 (17.88%) Python
2 156 (17.43%) SQL
3 129 (14.41%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.91%) Java
5 30 (3.35%) C#
6 26 (2.91%) Bash
7 24 (2.68%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.78%) Bicep
10 7 (0.78%) R
10 7 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.45%) Go
13 3 (0.34%) Perl
14 2 (0.22%) PHP
14 2 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 141 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 118 (13.18%) Degree
4 111 (12.40%) CISSP
5 77 (8.60%) CISM
6 37 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (3.69%) AWS Certification
8 33 (3.69%) PMI Certification
9 30 (3.35%) PMP
10 28 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (2.46%) Master's Degree
12 18 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.68%) CCSP
13 15 (1.68%) CHECK Team Member
14 14 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
15 13 (1.45%) CISA
15 13 (1.45%) CREST Certified
15 13 (1.45%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (27.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (20.34%) NIST
3 110 (12.29%) PCI DSS
4 103 (11.51%) Data Quality
5 72 (8.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 51 (5.70%) HIPAA
7 49 (5.47%) QA
8 46 (5.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (3.80%) GRC
11 28 (3.13%) SOC 2
12 25 (2.79%) NCSC
13 19 (2.12%) PERC
13 19 (2.12%) PMO
13 19 (2.12%) SLA
14 18 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (2.01%) MiFID
15 13 (1.45%) FINRA
15 13 (1.45%) PSD2
16 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 98 (10.95%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.58%) Docker
3 17 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
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 72 (8.04%) Terraform
2 48 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 45 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (2.12%) Ansible
6 17 (1.90%) SCCM
7 15 (1.68%) Nmap
8 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.67%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.67%) QRadar
10 5 (0.56%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.56%) Grafana
10 5 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.34%) Rancher
12 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) systemd
13 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.70%) Google
3 54 (6.03%) Databricks
4 53 (5.92%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.47%) Salesforce
6 42 (4.69%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.58%) Oracle
8 34 (3.80%) SAP
9 30 (3.35%) BeyondTrust
10 27 (3.02%) Splunk
11 25 (2.79%) Workday
12 22 (2.46%) Adobe
13 20 (2.23%) Okta
14 19 (2.12%) Informatica
14 19 (2.12%) VMware
15 15 (1.68%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.68%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.45%) Cisco
16 13 (1.45%) OneTrust
16 13 (1.45%) Tealium
572 GDPR jobs in England