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

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 160 174
Rank change year-on-year +57 +14 +87
Contract jobs citing GDPR 929 410 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.48% 1.67% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.23% 10.86% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 241 249
10th Percentile £363 £313 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 46
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% +3.62% -27.83%
75th Percentile £60.00 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £34.27 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £24.25 £19.49
% change year-on-year +5.15% +24.45% -14.11%

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 6,527 3,776 5,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 15.42% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,228 2,415 3,444
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £629 £638
90th Percentile £700 £737 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 162 339
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.14 £13.62
Median hourly rate £26.28 £32.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% +34.38% -43.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £22.94
% change year-on-year -10.97% +38.48% -41.19%

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

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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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +49 446 £550 -2.65% 173
South East +34 175 £515 +3.00% 114
North of England +2 134 £550 +9.67% 99
Midlands -9 82 £475 +10.85% 54
Yorkshire -8 68 £550 +4.76% 31
North West -7 55 £531 +6.09% 60
South West +13 53 £494 -10.23% 35
West Midlands -33 48 £500 +5.26% 33
East Midlands -7 34 £442 +13.11% 21
East of England -21 24 £553 +10.60% 40
North East -11 11 £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 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.88%) Confluence
4 34 (3.66%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.80%) Apache
6 15 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.08%) TPMS
8 7 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.75%) SAS
9 6 (0.65%) Appian
9 6 (0.65%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) 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 44 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
9 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 364 (39.18%) Azure
2 284 (30.57%) AWS
3 147 (15.82%) GCP
4 119 (12.81%) Power Platform
5 87 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (9.15%) Entra ID
7 59 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 50 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 37 (3.98%) Collibra
12 36 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (3.88%) SaaS
13 30 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (3.23%) OneDrive
14 26 (2.80%) Serverless
15 25 (2.69%) GitHub
16 22 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (2.26%) Snowflake
18 19 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.89%) Firewall
2 48 (5.17%) Network Security
3 28 (3.01%) DNS
4 25 (2.69%) DHCP
5 24 (2.58%) VPN
6 18 (1.94%) Wireless
7 15 (1.61%) Cisco IPT
7 15 (1.61%) Kerberos
7 15 (1.61%) SSL
8 11 (1.18%) LAN
8 11 (1.18%) SMS
8 11 (1.18%) WAN
9 10 (1.08%) SNMP
9 10 (1.08%) SSH
10 9 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.86%) HTTP
11 8 (0.86%) IPv4
11 8 (0.86%) IPv6
11 8 (0.86%) WLAN
12 7 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.73%) Power BI
2 69 (7.43%) Data Lake
3 50 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (4.74%) Metadata
5 25 (2.69%) BigQuery
6 24 (2.58%) Tableau
7 23 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (2.26%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.15%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.94%) Mixpanel
11 18 (1.94%) OLAP
11 18 (1.94%) OLTP
12 17 (1.83%) Big Data
13 16 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (0.97%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
17 8 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (4.95%) JIRA
2 26 (2.80%) Git
3 18 (1.94%) Burp Suite
3 18 (1.94%) GitLab
3 18 (1.94%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) ERwin
5 5 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.43%) Postman
6 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 398 (42.84%) Social Skills
2 271 (29.17%) Finance
3 149 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.35%) Legal
5 111 (11.95%) Public Sector
6 82 (8.83%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (6.57%) Marketing
8 49 (5.27%) Banking
9 28 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.26%) Law
11 21 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.72%) Retail
13 15 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.51%) Electronics
15 12 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.29%) Local Government
16 10 (1.08%) Military
17 8 (0.86%) Billing
17 8 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 177 (19.05%) Architect
2 105 (11.30%) Analyst
3 99 (10.66%) Lead
4 58 (6.24%) Consultant
5 57 (6.14%) Senior
6 53 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 50 (5.38%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.06%) Project Manager
10 44 (4.74%) Security Engineer
11 33 (3.55%) Security Architect
12 31 (3.34%) Data Architect
13 27 (2.91%) Developer
14 26 (2.80%) Administrator
15 25 (2.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
16 24 (2.58%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.05%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (2.05%) Security Manager
18 17 (1.83%) Security Analyst
19 16 (1.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.60%) LDAP
2 44 (4.74%) Kafka
3 41 (4.41%) OAuth
4 40 (4.31%) SAML
5 39 (4.20%) REST
6 33 (3.55%) Middleware
7 25 (2.69%) OpenID
8 19 (2.05%) Great Expectations
8 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (1.94%) .NET
9 18 (1.94%) OAuth2
9 18 (1.94%) PySpark
10 15 (1.61%) SOAP
11 14 (1.51%) HTML
11 14 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.40%) CSS
12 13 (1.40%) RESTful
13 10 (1.08%) SailPoint
13 10 (1.08%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 57 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 24 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
13 17 (1.83%) Replication
14 13 (1.40%) BYOD
14 13 (1.40%) NHS
14 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
16 11 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.36%) Windows
2 40 (4.31%) Linux
3 24 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.32%) Android
6 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (22.93%) Data Protection
3 195 (20.99%) Agile
3 195 (20.99%) Data Governance
4 192 (20.67%) Cybersecurity
5 168 (18.08%) CI/CD
5 168 (18.08%) DevOps
6 167 (17.98%) Analytics
7 160 (17.22%) Migration
8 155 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (14.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 135 (14.53%) Business Intelligence
10 135 (14.53%) Data Modelling
11 123 (13.24%) Roadmaps
12 122 (13.13%) AI
13 112 (12.06%) Data Privacy
14 108 (11.63%) Information Security
15 107 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (11.41%) Risk Management
17 105 (11.30%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 171 (18.41%) SQL
2 164 (17.65%) Python
3 119 (12.81%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.98%) Java
5 34 (3.66%) C#
6 24 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.83%) Bash
8 14 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.08%) Bicep
10 8 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.65%) R
11 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.54%) Go
13 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.22%) Perl
14 2 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 143 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 119 (12.81%) Degree
4 116 (12.49%) CISSP
5 84 (9.04%) CISM
6 38 (4.09%) PMI Certification
7 35 (3.77%) PMP
8 34 (3.66%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (3.44%) AWS Certification
10 30 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 22 (2.37%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
14 15 (1.61%) CCSP
14 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (1.51%) CREST Certified
15 14 (1.51%) Cyber Scheme
15 14 (1.51%) DV Cleared
16 11 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (27.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 190 (20.45%) NIST
3 120 (12.92%) Data Quality
4 117 (12.59%) PCI DSS
5 79 (8.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 47 (5.06%) QA
7 46 (4.95%) HIPAA
8 43 (4.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (3.66%) GRC
11 32 (3.44%) SOC 2
12 24 (2.58%) NCSC
13 23 (2.48%) PERC
14 22 (2.37%) PMO
15 18 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (1.94%) MiFID
16 15 (1.61%) SLA
17 14 (1.51%) Accessibility
18 13 (1.40%) FINRA
18 13 (1.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 91 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.09%) Docker
3 12 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 79 (8.50%) Terraform
2 57 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 44 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (1.83%) Ansible
7 16 (1.72%) Nmap
8 11 (1.18%) Grafana
8 11 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.08%) SCCM
10 5 (0.54%) QRadar
11 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.32%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.32%) Istio
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.32%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 224 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.64%) Google
3 64 (6.89%) Databricks
4 53 (5.71%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 43 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.41%) Oracle
8 39 (4.20%) SAP
9 32 (3.44%) BeyondTrust
10 28 (3.01%) Workday
11 25 (2.69%) Splunk
12 22 (2.37%) Adobe
12 22 (2.37%) Informatica
13 21 (2.26%) Okta
14 15 (1.61%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.51%) Cisco
15 14 (1.51%) OneTrust
15 14 (1.51%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.51%) VMware
16 13 (1.40%) Tealium
457 GDPR jobs in England