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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 186 204
Rank change year-on-year +91 +18 +82
Contract jobs citing GDPR 858 402 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 1.40% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.58% 9.94% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 220 233
10th Percentile £331 £302 £332
25th Percentile £416 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £675
90th Percentile £738 £705 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 6
10th Percentile £16.50 - £15.40
25th Percentile £29.40 £15.50 £16.34
Median hourly rate £39.23 £16.25 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year +141.42% -6.37% -50.41%
75th Percentile £65.92 £21.75 £19.08
90th Percentile £89.63 £25.00 £23.07
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £17.25 £17.36
% change year-on-year +97.10% -0.61% -61.03%

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 5,506 4,045 5,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.33% 14.13% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,578 2,351 3,553
10th Percentile £313 £266 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 162 216
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.37 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% -9.73% +54.44%
75th Percentile £60.31 £64.73 £64.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.94 £83.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +46.67%

GDPR
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

GDPR
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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +78 405 £550 +0.46% 241
South East +57 183 £500 -9.09% 332
North of England -9 101 £511 +13.44% 259
Midlands +6 78 £475 -5.00% 237
Yorkshire +5 59 £550 +4.76% 99
South West +24 50 £475 +111.11% 127
East Midlands +12 39 £442 -19.73% 101
West Midlands -9 39 £520 +6.67% 127
North West -18 36 £436 +2.59% 142
East of England -23 15 £553 +10.60% 168
North East -15 6 £466 +12.97% 18
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GDPR
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 30 (3.50%) Confluence
2 29 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.86%) Apache
6 15 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.82%) CMS
7 7 (0.82%) TPMS
8 6 (0.70%) Appian
8 6 (0.70%) Camunda
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.35%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.23%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.12%) Actimize
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 333 (38.81%) Azure
2 249 (29.02%) AWS
3 140 (16.32%) GCP
4 84 (9.79%) Power Platform
5 83 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (8.97%) Entra ID
7 37 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
7 37 (4.31%) SaaS
8 35 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.61%) Serverless
12 27 (3.15%) Collibra
13 26 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
14 25 (2.91%) GitHub
15 21 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (2.45%) OCI
16 20 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.58%) Firewall
2 43 (5.01%) Network Security
3 32 (3.73%) VPN
4 29 (3.38%) DNS
5 21 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.86%) Wireless
7 15 (1.75%) DHCP
8 14 (1.63%) SSL
9 12 (1.40%) Cisco IPT
10 9 (1.05%) LAN
10 9 (1.05%) WAN
11 8 (0.93%) PABX
11 8 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.93%) WLAN
12 7 (0.82%) SMS
12 7 (0.82%) SNMP
12 7 (0.82%) SSH
13 6 (0.70%) BGP
13 6 (0.70%) HTTP
13 6 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.86%) Power BI
2 48 (5.59%) Data Lake
3 39 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.31%) Metadata
5 19 (2.21%) Tableau
6 18 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.86%) Big Data
9 15 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.63%) SQL Server
11 13 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.40%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (1.05%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.05%) Mixpanel
14 9 (1.05%) OLAP
14 9 (1.05%) OLTP
14 9 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (7.34%) JIRA
2 22 (2.56%) Git
3 18 (2.10%) GitLab
4 10 (1.17%) Postman
5 9 (1.05%) Metasploit
6 8 (0.93%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.82%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.70%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.58%) Subversion
10 4 (0.47%) ERwin
10 4 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.47%) Selenium
10 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 2 (0.23%) Locust
11 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.23%) Snyk
General
1 411 (47.90%) Social Skills
2 230 (26.81%) Finance
3 132 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.47%) Legal
5 91 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 72 (8.39%) Marketing
7 62 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (6.41%) Banking
9 28 (3.26%) Law
10 20 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.75%) Electronics
14 14 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.40%) Retail
16 11 (1.28%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.17%) Local Government
18 9 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (17.25%) Architect
2 130 (15.15%) Analyst
3 94 (10.96%) Lead
4 63 (7.34%) Consultant
5 53 (6.18%) Senior
6 52 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 41 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (4.66%) Data Engineer
9 37 (4.31%) Security Architect
10 30 (3.50%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.50%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.38%) Project Manager
12 23 (2.68%) Administrator
13 20 (2.33%) Developer
13 20 (2.33%) Security Analyst
14 19 (2.21%) Data Architect
15 17 (1.98%) Salesforce Architect
16 16 (1.86%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (1.75%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.63%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.48%) REST
2 41 (4.78%) LDAP
2 41 (4.78%) OAuth
3 34 (3.96%) SAML
4 27 (3.15%) Kafka
5 26 (3.03%) OpenID
6 23 (2.68%) Middleware
7 22 (2.56%) SOAP
8 20 (2.33%) OAuth2
9 17 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.63%) HTML
10 14 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (1.52%) RESTful
11 13 (1.52%) Visualforce
12 12 (1.40%) PySpark
13 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (1.17%) .NET
14 10 (1.17%) scikit-learn
15 9 (1.05%) PyTorch
15 9 (1.05%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 53 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.18%) Security Posture
3 51 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 41 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 31 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
9 19 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 17 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
11 14 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.52%) NHS
12 13 (1.52%) Replication
13 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.74%) Windows
2 36 (4.20%) Linux
3 20 (2.33%) Mac OS
4 17 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.70%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.23%) Android
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Unix
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (24.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 197 (22.96%) Agile
3 185 (21.56%) Data Protection
4 178 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (20.63%) Data Governance
6 157 (18.30%) Cybersecurity
7 154 (17.95%) DevOps
8 150 (17.48%) CI/CD
9 145 (16.90%) Data Privacy
10 139 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (16.08%) Analytics
12 130 (15.15%) Data Modelling
13 120 (13.99%) Migration
14 117 (13.64%) Roadmaps
15 105 (12.24%) Risk Management
16 103 (12.00%) Information Security
17 102 (11.89%) Incident Response
18 98 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
19 96 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 95 (11.07%) AI
Programming Languages
1 147 (17.13%) Python
2 129 (15.03%) SQL
3 110 (12.82%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.73%) Bash
5 30 (3.50%) Java
6 17 (1.98%) C#
6 17 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.63%) Bicep
8 13 (1.52%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.17%) R
11 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.70%) Perl
13 4 (0.47%) C++
13 4 (0.47%) PHP
13 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 138 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 131 (15.27%) CISSP
3 114 (13.29%) Degree
4 105 (12.24%) SC Cleared
5 85 (9.91%) CISM
6 47 (5.48%) Azure Certification
7 44 (5.13%) AWS Certification
8 39 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (3.26%) Master's Degree
10 27 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (2.33%) CISA
13 20 (2.33%) PMI Certification
14 17 (1.98%) CCSP
15 16 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
15 16 (1.86%) PMP
16 15 (1.75%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.28%) CEH
18 10 (1.17%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 185 (21.56%) NIST
3 95 (11.07%) PCI DSS
4 89 (10.37%) Data Quality
5 64 (7.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 62 (7.23%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 44 (5.13%) QA
9 42 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (2.56%) SOC 2
11 21 (2.45%) PERC
12 20 (2.33%) GRC
13 19 (2.21%) Accessibility
13 19 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (2.10%) PSD2
15 16 (1.86%) NCSC
16 13 (1.52%) EU AI Act
16 13 (1.52%) SLA
17 10 (1.17%) PMO
18 9 (1.05%) MiFID
System Software
1 83 (9.67%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.38%) Docker
2 29 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.47%) NFS
5 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
5 4 (0.47%) Veritas File System
5 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.12%) NDS
7 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 70 (8.16%) Terraform
2 39 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (2.68%) SCCM
6 21 (2.45%) Ansible
7 16 (1.86%) QRadar
8 8 (0.93%) Nmap
9 6 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.70%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.58%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.47%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 225 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.46%) Salesforce
3 59 (6.88%) Google
4 48 (5.59%) Oracle
5 47 (5.48%) CyberArk
6 42 (4.90%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.78%) Databricks
8 39 (4.55%) SAP
9 35 (4.08%) Splunk
10 32 (3.73%) VMware
11 30 (3.50%) BeyondTrust
12 20 (2.33%) Citrix
12 20 (2.33%) Workday
13 19 (2.21%) Informatica
14 18 (2.10%) Adobe
15 17 (1.98%) Cisco
15 17 (1.98%) OneTrust
16 16 (1.86%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.86%) Palo Alto
17 14 (1.63%) Ping Identity
1,311 GDPR jobs in England