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

 6 months to
31 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 123 224
Rank change year-on-year -28 +101 +32
Contract jobs citing GDPR 828 642 376
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 2.33% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.53% 13.67% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 396 223
10th Percentile £363 £353 £314
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 37 26
10th Percentile £16.18 £14.48 £19.63
25th Percentile £19.63 £15.13 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.49 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +25.96% +31.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.16 £28.75
90th Percentile - £89.10 £34.07
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £17.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +64.08% -30.40% +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 7,864 4,696 4,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.35% 17.06% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,036 3,066 2,874
10th Percentile £341 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £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 532 215 295
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.21 £14.42
Median hourly rate £38.86 £31.50 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +23.37% +18.07% -36.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.22 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +9.40% -34.21%

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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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -11 396 £568 -1.26% 281
South East -31 150 £575 +15.00% 132
North of England -42 109 £495 -4.72% 96
North West -18 68 £500 -4.76% 61
Midlands -49 66 £475 +10.72% 65
South West -32 49 £500 +25.00% 70
East of England +5 47 £625 +19.05% 32
West Midlands -50 43 £450 -10.00% 36
Yorkshire -65 28 £550 +8.48% 25
East Midlands -20 23 £537 +28.62% 29
North East -35 12 £463 -14.94% 10
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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 36 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.66%) Confluence
3 21 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.81%) Apache
4 15 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.45%) CMS
7 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.24%) Drupal
8 2 (0.24%) Mendix
8 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (1.33%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.72%) iTrent
6 5 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.36%) 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%) Actimize
10 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 280 (33.82%) Azure
2 189 (22.83%) AWS
3 110 (13.29%) Power Platform
4 90 (10.87%) GCP
5 52 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (6.16%) Entra ID
7 50 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 45 (5.43%) SaaS
9 37 (4.47%) Snowflake
10 32 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 32 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (3.62%) GitHub
12 29 (3.50%) Serverless
13 21 (2.54%) Collibra
13 21 (2.54%) dbt
14 20 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.05%) OCI
15 17 (2.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.59%) Firewall
2 33 (3.99%) Network Security
3 16 (1.93%) VPN
4 12 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (0.97%) SMS
5 8 (0.97%) SSL
6 7 (0.85%) HTTP
7 6 (0.72%) DNS
8 5 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.60%) WAN
9 4 (0.48%) LAN
9 4 (0.48%) Wireless
9 4 (0.48%) X.509
10 3 (0.36%) DHCP
10 3 (0.36%) FTP
10 3 (0.36%) Intranet
10 3 (0.36%) IPv4
10 3 (0.36%) IPv6
10 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.20%) Power BI
2 51 (6.16%) Metadata
3 49 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.43%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.17%) Tableau
7 17 (2.05%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.33%) Big Data
10 11 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.33%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.21%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.09%) Looker
13 8 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.85%) Data Vault
14 7 (0.85%) OLTP
15 6 (0.72%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 37 (4.47%) JIRA
2 13 (1.57%) Git
3 9 (1.09%) Postman
3 9 (1.09%) Selenium
4 8 (0.97%) Cypress.io
4 8 (0.97%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.72%) ERwin
5 6 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.36%) Protractor
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 278 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 256 (30.92%) Finance
3 152 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (15.82%) Public Sector
5 95 (11.47%) Legal
6 43 (5.19%) Marketing
7 41 (4.95%) Banking
7 41 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (4.47%) Retail
9 31 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.38%) Local Government
11 27 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.69%) Law
13 14 (1.69%) Military
13 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 150 (18.12%) Architect
2 117 (14.13%) Lead
3 87 (10.51%) Analyst
4 71 (8.57%) Senior
5 51 (6.16%) Project Manager
6 45 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 43 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.23%) Consultant
10 32 (3.86%) Data Analyst
10 32 (3.86%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.38%) Security Manager
12 24 (2.90%) Security Architect
12 24 (2.90%) Security Engineer
13 22 (2.66%) Administrator
14 21 (2.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.29%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.17%) Senior Manager
17 15 (1.81%) Developer
18 14 (1.69%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.59%) REST
2 29 (3.50%) Kafka
3 28 (3.38%) Middleware
4 27 (3.26%) OAuth
5 25 (3.02%) LDAP
5 25 (3.02%) SAML
6 23 (2.78%) OpenID
7 19 (2.29%) JSON
8 16 (1.93%) .NET
8 16 (1.93%) PySpark
9 15 (1.81%) SOAP
10 14 (1.69%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.09%) HTML
11 9 (1.09%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.97%) CSS
12 8 (0.97%) Gherkin
13 7 (0.85%) FHIR
13 7 (0.85%) Jakarta EE
13 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 41 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
6 34 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.62%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (2.05%) Freedom of Information
11 17 (2.05%) NHS
12 16 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
14 13 (1.57%) AI Agents
15 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.21%) BYOD
16 10 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.62%) Windows
2 17 (2.05%) Linux
3 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.36%) 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
1 216 (26.09%) Data Protection
2 214 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 207 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 181 (21.86%) Agile
5 175 (21.14%) Cybersecurity
6 169 (20.41%) Migration
7 168 (20.29%) Analytics
8 155 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 141 (17.03%) AI
10 134 (16.18%) DevOps
10 134 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (15.70%) Data Modelling
12 126 (15.22%) CI/CD
13 123 (14.86%) Roadmaps
14 117 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
15 114 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (13.41%) Information Security
17 102 (12.32%) Validation
18 101 (12.20%) Risk Management
19 90 (10.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 154 (18.60%) SQL
2 104 (12.56%) Python
3 48 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.99%) Java
5 22 (2.66%) C#
5 22 (2.66%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.69%) Bash
7 9 (1.09%) Bicep
7 9 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.85%) Go
9 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.36%) R
11 3 (0.36%) Ruby
11 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 152 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.14%) CISSP
4 68 (8.21%) Degree
5 67 (8.09%) CISM
6 26 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.14%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.14%) PMP
7 21 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.33%) CISA
12 10 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (1.21%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.97%) CEH
14 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (22.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 115 (13.89%) NIST
4 70 (8.45%) PCI DSS
5 53 (6.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.47%) NCSC
7 34 (4.11%) GRC
8 33 (3.99%) QA
8 33 (3.99%) SOC 2
9 32 (3.86%) Accessibility
10 30 (3.62%) HIPAA
11 29 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (2.42%) PMO
13 19 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (2.29%) WCAG
14 17 (2.05%) PERC
15 16 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (1.69%) Solvency II
17 9 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.85%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.42%) Docker
3 3 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (5.56%) Terraform
2 40 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.57%) Grafana
5 10 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.60%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.48%) Ansible
9 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Istio
9 4 (0.48%) Rancher
10 3 (0.36%) QRadar
11 2 (0.24%) CASB
11 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Nmap
11 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 199 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.85%) Databricks
3 52 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 52 (6.28%) SAP
4 51 (6.16%) Oracle
5 44 (5.31%) Google
6 35 (4.23%) Workday
7 34 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.54%) CyberArk
9 17 (2.05%) Adobe
10 14 (1.69%) IFS
11 13 (1.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (1.33%) Informatica
12 11 (1.33%) NEC
13 9 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (0.97%) Splunk
15 7 (0.85%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.72%) Ping Identity
16 6 (0.72%) Tealium
16 6 (0.72%) Varonis
629 GDPR jobs in England