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

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 123 220
Rank change year-on-year -30 +97 +32
Contract jobs citing GDPR 820 635 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 2.30% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.48% 13.47% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 388 214
10th Percentile £361 £356 £333
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.43% -8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £738 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +4.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 38 25
10th Percentile £16.13 £14.64 £19.35
25th Percentile £19.52 £15.47 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.53 £30.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +20.98% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.12 £28.75
90th Percentile - £89.01 £34.10
UK median hourly rate £35.53 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +108.97% -32.00% +31.58%

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 7,825 4,714 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.34% 17.07% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,014 3,082 2,801
10th Percentile £340 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 215 282
10th Percentile £14.42 £15.12 £10.96
25th Percentile £19.47 £18.21 £14.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £62.54
90th Percentile £81.94 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.93 £25.77
% change year-on-year +48.56% +4.50% -34.64%

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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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -9 392 £565 -1.70% 464
South East -28 150 £575 +15.00% 144
North of England -28 108 £492 -5.29% 119
North West -15 68 £500 -4.76% 73
Midlands -48 65 £500 +16.41% 91
South West -34 49 £500 +25.00% 80
East of England +6 46 £625 +19.05% 41
West Midlands -43 45 £450 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire -56 27 £471 -7.20% 33
East Midlands -19 20 £537 +27.86% 40
North East -32 12 £463 -14.94% 13
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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 35 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.68%) Confluence
3 20 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.71%) Apache
6 12 (1.46%) CMS
7 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.61%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (1.34%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.73%) iTrent
6 5 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.61%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.49%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.37%) Workfront
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 281 (34.27%) Azure
2 186 (22.68%) AWS
3 111 (13.54%) Power Platform
4 88 (10.73%) GCP
5 52 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (6.34%) Entra ID
6 49 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (5.61%) SaaS
8 44 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
9 37 (4.51%) Snowflake
10 34 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (3.90%) GitHub
12 31 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (3.66%) Serverless
14 22 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.56%) Collibra
15 21 (2.56%) dbt
16 19 (2.32%) Power Automate
17 18 (2.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.63%) Firewall
2 34 (4.15%) Network Security
3 16 (1.95%) VPN
4 12 (1.46%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.98%) SMS
5 8 (0.98%) SSL
6 7 (0.85%) HTTP
7 6 (0.73%) DNS
8 5 (0.61%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.61%) WAN
9 4 (0.49%) LAN
9 4 (0.49%) Wireless
9 4 (0.49%) X.509
10 3 (0.37%) DHCP
10 3 (0.37%) FTP
10 3 (0.37%) Intranet
10 3 (0.37%) IPv4
10 3 (0.37%) IPv6
10 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.44%) Power BI
2 51 (6.22%) Metadata
3 49 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (5.37%) Data Lake
5 29 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.20%) Tableau
8 16 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.34%) Big Data
11 11 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.34%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.10%) Looker
13 7 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.85%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.73%) OLTP
14 6 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.51%) JIRA
2 13 (1.59%) Git
3 10 (1.22%) Postman
3 10 (1.22%) Selenium
4 9 (1.10%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.10%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.73%) ERwin
5 6 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.61%) GitLab
6 5 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.49%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.37%) Protractor
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 276 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 253 (30.85%) Finance
3 152 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (15.98%) Public Sector
5 90 (10.98%) Legal
6 42 (5.12%) Marketing
7 40 (4.88%) Banking
7 40 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (4.51%) Retail
9 31 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (3.41%) Local Government
11 20 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.71%) Law
12 14 (1.71%) Military
12 14 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (18.17%) Architect
2 118 (14.39%) Lead
3 86 (10.49%) Analyst
4 74 (9.02%) Senior
5 50 (6.10%) Project Manager
6 45 (5.49%) Data Engineer
7 44 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.27%) Consultant
10 34 (4.15%) Data Architect
11 31 (3.78%) Data Analyst
12 27 (3.29%) Security Manager
13 26 (3.17%) Security Architect
14 24 (2.93%) Security Engineer
15 21 (2.56%) Administrator
16 20 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.20%) Senior Manager
18 17 (2.07%) Technical Architect
19 15 (1.83%) Developer
20 14 (1.71%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.51%) REST
2 29 (3.54%) Kafka
2 29 (3.54%) OAuth
3 27 (3.29%) SAML
4 25 (3.05%) LDAP
4 25 (3.05%) Middleware
5 24 (2.93%) OpenID
6 19 (2.32%) JSON
7 16 (1.95%) .NET
7 16 (1.95%) PySpark
8 15 (1.83%) OAuth2
9 14 (1.71%) SOAP
10 10 (1.22%) HTML
11 9 (1.10%) Gherkin
12 8 (0.98%) CSS
12 8 (0.98%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.85%) XML
14 6 (0.73%) Node.js
14 6 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.24%) Security Posture
4 38 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
9 16 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.95%) Freedom of Information
9 16 (1.95%) NHS
9 16 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
10 15 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
11 13 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.22%) BYOD
13 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.54%) Windows
2 17 (2.07%) Linux
3 8 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 209 (25.49%) Data Protection
3 208 (25.37%) Data Governance
4 177 (21.59%) Agile
5 176 (21.46%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (20.49%) Analytics
7 165 (20.12%) Migration
8 160 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 143 (17.44%) AI
10 134 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (16.22%) DevOps
12 131 (15.98%) Data Modelling
13 125 (15.24%) CI/CD
14 121 (14.76%) Roadmaps
15 116 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
16 111 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 110 (13.41%) Information Security
18 102 (12.44%) Risk Management
19 101 (12.32%) Validation
20 90 (10.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 153 (18.66%) SQL
2 103 (12.56%) Python
3 46 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.90%) Java
5 23 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.68%) C#
7 15 (1.83%) Bash
8 11 (1.34%) Bicep
9 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.85%) Go
11 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.37%) R
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
13 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.24%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 154 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.37%) CISSP
4 68 (8.29%) Degree
5 67 (8.17%) CISM
6 26 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.93%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.93%) PMP
8 21 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (1.59%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.34%) CISA
13 11 (1.34%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (0.98%) CEH
16 7 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (23.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (16.95%) Data Quality
3 117 (14.27%) NIST
4 70 (8.54%) PCI DSS
5 52 (6.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.51%) NCSC
7 33 (4.02%) Accessibility
7 33 (4.02%) GRC
7 33 (4.02%) QA
7 33 (4.02%) SOC 2
8 30 (3.66%) HIPAA
9 29 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (2.44%) WCAG
11 19 (2.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (2.32%) PMO
12 17 (2.07%) PERC
13 16 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (1.71%) Solvency II
15 9 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (5.85%) Terraform
2 40 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.59%) Grafana
5 10 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.61%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.49%) Ansible
9 4 (0.49%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.49%) Istio
9 4 (0.49%) Rancher
10 2 (0.24%) CASB
10 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.24%) Nmap
10 2 (0.24%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.12%) Kibana
11 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 198 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.56%) Databricks
3 53 (6.46%) Oracle
3 53 (6.46%) SAP
4 48 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 42 (5.12%) Google
6 37 (4.51%) Workday
7 33 (4.02%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.44%) CyberArk
9 17 (2.07%) Adobe
10 14 (1.71%) IFS
11 12 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (1.34%) Informatica
12 11 (1.34%) NEC
13 9 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.85%) Splunk
15 6 (0.73%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.73%) Tealium
15 6 (0.73%) Varonis
908 GDPR jobs in England