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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 163 178
Rank change year-on-year +58 +15 +88
Contract jobs citing GDPR 931 416 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 1.71% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.82% 11.01% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 240 256
10th Percentile £363 £315 £319
25th Percentile £450 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +5.97% -8.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £739 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 45
10th Percentile £13.24 £14.73 £11.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.47 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.85 £24.82 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +27.28% -35.00%
75th Percentile £54.63 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.58 £45.12 £29.50
UK median hourly rate £24.85 £27.35 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.16% +40.26% -35.00%

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 6,739 3,778 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.24% 15.51% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,385 2,446 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £267 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £706 £736 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 156 338
10th Percentile £14.29 £17.48 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £28.55 £32.66 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +52.75% -49.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.73 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £20.80
% change year-on-year -4.44% +53.83% -47.99%

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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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +45 439 £550 -4.35% 175
South East +43 183 £515 -1.90% 119
North of England +13 140 £550 +4.76% 99
Midlands -8 82 £475 +12.16% 58
Yorkshire -3 68 £550 +3.77% 29
North West +1 62 £513 -0.39% 60
West Midlands -36 49 £492 +3.58% 35
South West -5 48 £494 +23.44% 29
East Midlands -4 33 £447 +29.38% 23
East of England -29 24 £553 +4.83% 41
North East -11 11 £508 +9.84% 13
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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 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (4.08%) Confluence
4 34 (3.65%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.79%) Apache
6 15 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.97%) TPMS
8 7 (0.75%) SAS
9 6 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.64%) Appian
9 6 (0.64%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) 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 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.64%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.43%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
9 1 (0.11%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 357 (38.35%) Azure
2 279 (29.97%) AWS
3 156 (16.76%) GCP
4 123 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 85 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (8.16%) Entra ID
7 59 (6.34%) Microsoft Purview
8 50 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 41 (4.40%) SaaS
10 36 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 36 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (3.87%) Collibra
11 30 (3.22%) OneDrive
12 29 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (2.79%) Serverless
14 25 (2.69%) GitHub
15 24 (2.58%) Snowflake
16 19 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.09%) Firewall
2 41 (4.40%) Network Security
3 29 (3.11%) DNS
4 26 (2.79%) VPN
5 25 (2.69%) DHCP
6 18 (1.93%) Wireless
7 16 (1.72%) SSL
8 15 (1.61%) Cisco IPT
8 15 (1.61%) Kerberos
9 12 (1.29%) WAN
10 11 (1.18%) LAN
10 11 (1.18%) SMS
11 10 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.97%) SNMP
12 9 (0.97%) SSH
13 8 (0.86%) IPv4
13 8 (0.86%) IPv6
13 8 (0.86%) WLAN
14 6 (0.64%) HTTP
14 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (12.24%) Power BI
2 66 (7.09%) Data Lake
3 51 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (4.94%) Metadata
5 26 (2.79%) BigQuery
5 26 (2.79%) Tableau
6 23 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.93%) Mixpanel
9 18 (1.93%) OLAP
9 18 (1.93%) OLTP
10 17 (1.83%) Big Data
11 13 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.97%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.86%) Looker
13 8 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (5.48%) JIRA
2 27 (2.90%) Git
3 18 (1.93%) Burp Suite
3 18 (1.93%) GitLab
4 17 (1.83%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.07%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.54%) ERwin
6 5 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.43%) Charles Proxy
7 4 (0.43%) Postman
7 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.43%) Selenium
8 3 (0.32%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.21%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 372 (39.96%) Social Skills
2 280 (30.08%) Finance
3 156 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (14.50%) Legal
5 110 (11.82%) Public Sector
6 79 (8.49%) Documentation Skills
7 59 (6.34%) Marketing
8 53 (5.69%) Banking
9 25 (2.69%) Retail
10 23 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.36%) Law
12 21 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.15%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.83%) Local Government
15 16 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.18%) Electronics
17 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.18%) Military
18 9 (0.97%) Billing
Job Titles
1 171 (18.37%) Architect
2 105 (11.28%) Lead
3 103 (11.06%) Analyst
4 57 (6.12%) Consultant
5 54 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 52 (5.59%) Senior
6 52 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (5.48%) Business Analyst
7 51 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 36 (3.87%) Security Engineer
9 30 (3.22%) Data Architect
9 30 (3.22%) Security Architect
10 26 (2.79%) Administrator
10 26 (2.79%) Data Analyst
11 25 (2.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 22 (2.36%) Security Manager
13 21 (2.26%) Developer
14 19 (2.04%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (1.93%) Migration Manager
16 17 (1.83%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.80%) LDAP
2 45 (4.83%) Kafka
3 36 (3.87%) REST
4 35 (3.76%) OAuth
4 35 (3.76%) SAML
5 33 (3.54%) Middleware
6 20 (2.15%) OpenID
6 20 (2.15%) PySpark
7 19 (2.04%) Great Expectations
8 17 (1.83%) HTML
8 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 16 (1.72%) .NET
10 15 (1.61%) CSS
11 14 (1.50%) OAuth2
11 14 (1.50%) SOAP
12 13 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.18%) JSON
14 10 (1.07%) Spark Streaming
15 7 (0.75%) RESTful
15 7 (0.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.02%) Management Information System
3 53 (5.69%) Security Posture
4 52 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 37 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
12 20 (2.15%) Replication
13 14 (1.50%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.40%) NHS
14 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.18%) BYOD
16 11 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.34%) Windows
2 38 (4.08%) Linux
3 27 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.64%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.32%) Android
6 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.21%) Solaris
7 2 (0.21%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (25.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 232 (24.92%) Data Protection
3 199 (21.37%) Agile
4 194 (20.84%) Data Governance
5 188 (20.19%) Cybersecurity
6 173 (18.58%) CI/CD
7 171 (18.37%) Analytics
7 171 (18.37%) DevOps
8 168 (18.05%) Migration
9 154 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
10 137 (14.72%) Business Intelligence
11 133 (14.29%) Data Modelling
12 129 (13.86%) AI
12 129 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 122 (13.10%) Roadmaps
14 115 (12.35%) Data Privacy
15 113 (12.14%) Risk Management
16 107 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 107 (11.49%) Validation
17 106 (11.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 181 (19.44%) SQL
2 165 (17.72%) Python
3 110 (11.82%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.97%) Java
5 34 (3.65%) C#
6 24 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.04%) Bash
8 14 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (0.97%) Bicep
10 8 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.75%) R
12 5 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.54%) Go
12 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.21%) Perl
14 2 (0.21%) PHP
14 2 (0.21%) Rust
14 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 163 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.71%) CISSP
4 105 (11.28%) Degree
5 78 (8.38%) CISM
6 42 (4.51%) PMI Certification
7 39 (4.19%) PMP
8 31 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 28 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.79%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (1.83%) Master's Degree
14 16 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
15 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (1.50%) CREST Certified
16 14 (1.50%) Cyber Scheme
17 12 (1.29%) CCSP
17 12 (1.29%) DV Cleared
18 11 (1.18%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (27.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (19.55%) NIST
3 119 (12.78%) Data Quality
4 115 (12.35%) PCI DSS
5 71 (7.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 48 (5.16%) QA
7 42 (4.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 36 (3.87%) SOC 2
9 35 (3.76%) GRC
10 33 (3.54%) HIPAA
11 31 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (2.79%) PERC
13 25 (2.69%) NCSC
14 24 (2.58%) PMO
15 17 (1.83%) MiFID
16 16 (1.72%) Accessibility
17 14 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 13 (1.40%) FINRA
19 11 (1.18%) SLA
19 11 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.76%) Docker
3 12 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (8.38%) Terraform
2 59 (6.34%) Kubernetes
3 44 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.72%) Nmap
6 15 (1.61%) Ansible
7 10 (1.07%) Grafana
8 8 (0.86%) PingFederate
8 8 (0.86%) SCCM
9 7 (0.75%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.54%) QRadar
11 4 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
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 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 223 (23.95%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.49%) Google
3 65 (6.98%) Databricks
4 52 (5.59%) CyberArk
5 47 (5.05%) ServiceNow
6 46 (4.94%) Salesforce
7 42 (4.51%) Oracle
8 34 (3.65%) SAP
9 31 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
10 25 (2.69%) Workday
11 24 (2.58%) Adobe
11 24 (2.58%) Splunk
12 21 (2.26%) Informatica
13 20 (2.15%) Okta
14 15 (1.61%) Tealium
15 14 (1.50%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.50%) OneTrust
16 13 (1.40%) Cisco
16 13 (1.40%) VMware
17 12 (1.29%) Palo Alto