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

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 136 215
Rank change year-on-year +7 +79 +38
Contract jobs citing GDPR 880 543 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.12% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.82% 12.84% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 331 236
10th Percentile £363 £363 £304
25th Percentile £450 £435 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £529 £500
% change year-on-year +3.97% +5.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 28 49
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.64 £11.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +13.28% +31.58%
75th Percentile £54.63 £36.26 £28.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £70.86 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £26.93 £23.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% +17.07% +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 7,445 4,228 5,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.99% 16.49% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,802 2,738 3,142
10th Percentile £350 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 186 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £20.49 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +33.37% -43.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.94 £84.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +20.23% +26.05% -37.37%

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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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +5 423 £563 -2.17% 247
South East +1 162 £563 +11.66% 135
North of England -21 126 £550 +4.76% 103
Midlands -42 70 £475 +15.85% 66
North West -1 69 £525 - 67
South West -17 49 £500 +25.00% 39
Yorkshire -36 47 £554 +5.52% 29
West Midlands -42 40 £475 - 27
East of England -9 38 £575 +10.15% 34
East Midlands -6 30 £450 +11.11% 40
North East -25 11 £463 -14.94% 8
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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 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.84%) Confluence
4 19 (2.16%) Apache
5 15 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.36%) CMS
7 7 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) TPMS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 22 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.36%) NEC Housing
2 12 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.45%) iTrent
6 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) Workfront
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 305 (34.66%) Azure
2 208 (23.64%) AWS
3 122 (13.86%) Power Platform
4 106 (12.05%) GCP
5 67 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (7.05%) Entra ID
7 53 (6.02%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (5.00%) SaaS
9 42 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (3.98%) Snowflake
12 33 (3.75%) GitHub
13 29 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (3.07%) Collibra
15 26 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.73%) Serverless
17 23 (2.61%) OneDrive
18 20 (2.27%) dbt
19 18 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.77%) Firewall
2 34 (3.86%) Network Security
3 19 (2.16%) DNS
4 17 (1.93%) VPN
5 16 (1.82%) DHCP
6 14 (1.59%) Kerberos
7 11 (1.25%) SMS
7 11 (1.25%) SSL
8 7 (0.80%) HTTP
9 6 (0.68%) Wireless
10 5 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
10 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.57%) WAN
11 4 (0.45%) LAN
11 4 (0.45%) NGFW
12 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 3 (0.34%) IPv6
12 3 (0.34%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.50%) Power BI
2 54 (6.14%) Metadata
3 52 (5.91%) Data Lake
4 51 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (2.95%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.05%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.05%) Tableau
8 15 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.48%) Big Data
10 13 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.14%) Mixpanel
12 10 (1.14%) OLTP
12 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.02%) OLAP
14 8 (0.91%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.80%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 39 (4.43%) JIRA
2 21 (2.39%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.68%) ERwin
4 6 (0.68%) GitLab
4 6 (0.68%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.68%) Postman
4 6 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (0.68%) Selenium
5 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.45%) Jaeger
5 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.23%) Protractor
6 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 302 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 286 (32.50%) Finance
3 155 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (14.43%) Public Sector
5 103 (11.70%) Legal
6 55 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (5.45%) Marketing
8 45 (5.11%) Banking
9 36 (4.09%) Retail
10 28 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.95%) Local Government
12 22 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.59%) Law
16 12 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.25%) Military
18 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
19 9 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 157 (17.84%) Architect
2 116 (13.18%) Lead
3 90 (10.23%) Analyst
4 68 (7.73%) Senior
5 56 (6.36%) Project Manager
6 48 (5.45%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.66%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.98%) Consultant
10 33 (3.75%) Data Analyst
11 30 (3.41%) Data Architect
11 30 (3.41%) Security Manager
12 29 (3.30%) Security Engineer
13 23 (2.61%) Administrator
13 23 (2.61%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.16%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.05%) Developer
16 18 (2.05%) Microsoft 365 Architect
17 16 (1.82%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.66%) LDAP
1 41 (4.66%) REST
2 39 (4.43%) OAuth
3 38 (4.32%) SAML
4 36 (4.09%) Kafka
5 29 (3.30%) Middleware
6 22 (2.50%) OpenID
7 20 (2.27%) JSON
8 18 (2.05%) .NET
9 17 (1.93%) PySpark
9 17 (1.93%) SOAP
10 14 (1.59%) OAuth2
11 12 (1.36%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.25%) CSS
12 11 (1.25%) HTML
12 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.02%) J2EE
13 9 (1.02%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.02%) XML
14 7 (0.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.23%) Security Posture
4 44 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 28 (3.18%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.16%) Replication
12 16 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
13 15 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
14 14 (1.59%) NHS
15 13 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
16 12 (1.36%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.14%) BYOD
17 10 (1.14%) Clustering
18 9 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.59%) Windows
2 21 (2.39%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (25.34%) Data Protection
2 215 (24.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 202 (22.95%) Data Governance
4 191 (21.70%) Agile
5 174 (19.77%) Migration
6 173 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
7 164 (18.64%) Analytics
8 151 (17.16%) DevOps
9 147 (16.70%) CI/CD
10 143 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
11 136 (15.45%) Data Modelling
12 135 (15.34%) AI
13 134 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 127 (14.43%) Roadmaps
15 125 (14.20%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 109 (12.39%) Validation
18 100 (11.36%) ETL
19 99 (11.25%) Information Security
20 96 (10.91%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.55%) SQL
2 122 (13.86%) Python
3 72 (8.18%) PowerShell
4 45 (5.11%) Java
5 25 (2.84%) C#
6 19 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.59%) Bash
8 10 (1.14%) Bicep
8 10 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.80%) Go
11 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.45%) R
13 3 (0.34%) Scala
13 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
15 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 169 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.66%) Degree
4 84 (9.55%) CISSP
5 66 (7.50%) CISM
6 33 (3.75%) PMI Certification
6 33 (3.75%) PMP
7 25 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.48%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.25%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.02%) CISA
14 9 (1.02%) CRISC
14 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.91%) IIBA
15 8 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (21.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 146 (16.59%) Data Quality
3 127 (14.43%) NIST
4 86 (9.77%) PCI DSS
5 70 (7.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (4.43%) GRC
7 38 (4.32%) NCSC
8 35 (3.98%) QA
9 33 (3.75%) SOC 2
10 31 (3.52%) HIPAA
11 25 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (2.73%) Accessibility
12 24 (2.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 21 (2.39%) PMO
14 15 (1.70%) Solvency II
15 13 (1.48%) MiFID
15 13 (1.48%) WCAG
16 11 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (1.25%) PERC
17 10 (1.14%) FINRA
System Software
1 76 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.30%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (6.14%) Terraform
2 51 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.66%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.48%) Grafana
6 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.57%) Nmap
8 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.45%) Ansible
9 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.45%) Istio
9 4 (0.45%) 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
1 220 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.50%) Databricks
3 54 (6.14%) Google
4 51 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 47 (5.34%) SAP
6 46 (5.23%) Oracle
7 40 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.52%) Workday
9 29 (3.30%) CyberArk
10 19 (2.16%) Adobe
11 18 (2.05%) Okta
12 14 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
12 14 (1.59%) Informatica
13 13 (1.48%) IFS
13 13 (1.48%) Splunk
14 12 (1.36%) NEC
14 12 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 7 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.80%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.68%) Varonis
579 GDPR jobs in England