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

 6 months to
28 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 170 175
Rank change year-on-year +67 +5 +78
Contract jobs citing GDPR 887 417 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.50% 1.62% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.30% 10.81% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 241 264
10th Percentile £350 £303 £320
25th Percentile £425 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +4.48% -8.64%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -2.38% +3.96% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 38
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.38 £11.06
25th Percentile £24.52 £15.50 £11.95
Median hourly rate £28.55 £17.74 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year +60.98% +5.10% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.45 £31.76 £25.00
90th Percentile £64.05 £32.96 £31.26
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £20.19 £16.88
% change year-on-year +41.41% +19.64% -25.61%

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 6,204 3,856 5,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.46% 15.01% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 2,340 3,538
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £604 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 153 328
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £12.37
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.25 £14.58
Median hourly rate £25.94 £31.76 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -18.32% +19.13% -23.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.39 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £30.11 £25.06
% change year-on-year -7.19% +20.14% -22.90%

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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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +57 434 £550 -1.12% 140
South East +35 158 £500 -2.44% 115
North of England -10 112 £550 +12.82% 79
Midlands -3 86 £475 - 65
Yorkshire -13 68 £554 +5.52% 17
South West +18 61 £475 +69.64% 29
West Midlands -23 45 £500 +5.26% 44
East Midlands +8 41 £447 -5.89% 21
North West -32 37 £490 +3.16% 50
East of England -27 19 £535 +7.00% 29
North East -15 7 £466 +0.76% 12
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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 48 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (4.17%) Confluence
4 25 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.71%) Apache
6 14 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.13%) TPMS
8 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.79%) SAS
9 6 (0.68%) Appian
9 6 (0.68%) Camunda
10 3 (0.34%) 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 46 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 351 (39.57%) Azure
2 256 (28.86%) AWS
3 137 (15.45%) GCP
4 100 (11.27%) Power Platform
5 96 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (9.92%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 46 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (4.06%) Amazon S3
10 36 (4.06%) SaaS
11 33 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (3.49%) OneDrive
13 30 (3.38%) Collibra
14 27 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.82%) Serverless
16 22 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (2.25%) GitHub
18 16 (1.80%) dbt
18 16 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.76%) Firewall
2 39 (4.40%) Network Security
3 30 (3.38%) DNS
4 25 (2.82%) VPN
5 24 (2.71%) DHCP
6 18 (2.03%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.92%) SSL
7 17 (1.92%) Wireless
8 14 (1.58%) Cisco IPT
9 11 (1.24%) SMS
9 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.13%) SNMP
10 10 (1.13%) SSH
11 9 (1.01%) LAN
11 9 (1.01%) WAN
12 8 (0.90%) PABX
12 8 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.90%) WLAN
13 7 (0.79%) BGP
13 7 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.15%) Power BI
2 62 (6.99%) Data Lake
3 41 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (4.06%) Metadata
5 21 (2.37%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.14%) Tableau
7 16 (1.80%) Mixpanel
8 15 (1.69%) OLAP
8 15 (1.69%) OLTP
9 13 (1.47%) Big Data
10 11 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (5.07%) JIRA
2 26 (2.93%) Git
3 18 (2.03%) GitLab
4 17 (1.92%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.80%) Burp Suite
6 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.68%) Postman
7 6 (0.68%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.34%) Subversion
9 2 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.23%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
9 2 (0.23%) Locust
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 400 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 251 (28.30%) Finance
3 140 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.19%) Legal
5 103 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 83 (9.36%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (7.33%) Marketing
8 50 (5.64%) Banking
9 22 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.03%) Law
10 18 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.80%) Retail
13 14 (1.58%) Electronics
13 14 (1.58%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.24%) Military
15 8 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.90%) Local Government
16 7 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 161 (18.15%) Architect
2 109 (12.29%) Analyst
3 81 (9.13%) Lead
4 63 (7.10%) Consultant
5 55 (6.20%) Senior
6 51 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 46 (5.19%) Business Analyst
9 44 (4.96%) Security Engineer
10 38 (4.28%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.04%) Developer
11 27 (3.04%) Security Architect
12 25 (2.82%) Administrator
12 25 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.82%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.71%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.03%) Security Analyst
15 15 (1.69%) Penetration Tester
15 15 (1.69%) Tester
16 14 (1.58%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.09%) LDAP
2 49 (5.52%) OAuth
3 46 (5.19%) REST
4 45 (5.07%) SAML
5 32 (3.61%) Kafka
6 29 (3.27%) Middleware
7 27 (3.04%) OpenID
8 22 (2.48%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (2.03%) .NET
11 17 (1.92%) PySpark
12 16 (1.80%) Great Expectations
12 16 (1.80%) HTML
12 16 (1.80%) SOAP
13 15 (1.69%) RESTful
14 14 (1.58%) CSS
15 13 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
17 9 (1.01%) GraphQL
17 9 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.98%) Management Information System
4 48 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 38 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 28 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 27 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 27 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.82%) Replication
9 19 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
11 15 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.47%) NHS
12 13 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
16 9 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.60%) Windows
2 43 (4.85%) Linux
3 20 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.45%) Solaris
8 3 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) Unix
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (26.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 191 (21.53%) Data Protection
3 189 (21.31%) Agile
4 183 (20.63%) Data Governance
5 165 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
6 164 (18.49%) DevOps
7 152 (17.14%) CI/CD
8 151 (17.02%) Migration
8 151 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (16.35%) Analytics
10 132 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 122 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 120 (13.53%) Roadmaps
13 115 (12.97%) Data Privacy
14 111 (12.51%) Risk Management
15 110 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
16 104 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (11.72%) Information Security
17 103 (11.61%) AI
18 100 (11.27%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 158 (17.81%) Python
2 151 (17.02%) SQL
3 127 (14.32%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.95%) Java
5 29 (3.27%) C#
6 27 (3.04%) Bash
7 24 (2.71%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.79%) Bicep
10 7 (0.79%) R
10 7 (0.79%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.45%) Go
12 4 (0.45%) Perl
13 2 (0.23%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.23%) PHP
13 2 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 167 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 116 (13.08%) Degree
4 111 (12.51%) CISSP
5 77 (8.68%) CISM
6 36 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.83%) AWS Certification
9 33 (3.72%) PMI Certification
10 30 (3.38%) PMP
11 28 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 22 (2.48%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.69%) CCSP
14 15 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
15 14 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (1.47%) CISA
16 13 (1.47%) CREST Certified
16 13 (1.47%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (27.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 181 (20.41%) NIST
3 109 (12.29%) PCI DSS
4 100 (11.27%) Data Quality
5 74 (8.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 51 (5.75%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.41%) QA
8 46 (5.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (3.83%) GRC
11 28 (3.16%) SOC 2
12 23 (2.59%) NCSC
13 19 (2.14%) PMO
13 19 (2.14%) SLA
14 18 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (2.03%) MiFID
14 18 (2.03%) PERC
15 13 (1.47%) FINRA
15 13 (1.47%) PSD2
16 10 (1.13%) GLBA
System Software
1 97 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.61%) Docker
3 18 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) NFS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.23%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) NDS
7 1 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 72 (8.12%) Terraform
2 48 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.25%) Ansible
6 19 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (1.92%) SCCM
8 15 (1.69%) Nmap
9 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.79%) QRadar
10 6 (0.68%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.56%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.56%) Grafana
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 226 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.54%) Google
3 54 (6.09%) CyberArk
4 52 (5.86%) Databricks
5 50 (5.64%) Salesforce
6 43 (4.85%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.62%) Oracle
8 34 (3.83%) SAP
9 30 (3.38%) BeyondTrust
10 28 (3.16%) Splunk
11 24 (2.71%) Workday
12 22 (2.48%) Adobe
13 20 (2.25%) Okta
13 20 (2.25%) VMware
14 19 (2.14%) Informatica
15 15 (1.69%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.69%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.47%) Cisco
16 13 (1.47%) OneTrust
16 13 (1.47%) Tealium
393 GDPR jobs in England