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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 141 199
Rank change year-on-year +21 +58 +52
Contract jobs citing GDPR 861 483 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.02% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.29% 12.38% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 302 248
10th Percentile £366 £360 £304
25th Percentile £450 £448 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £618
90th Percentile £738 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 18 48
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.79 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +13.28% +31.58%
75th Percentile £55.25 £33.98 £28.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £75.63 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £27.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% +13.96% +26.32%

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 7,007 3,902 5,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.80% 16.30% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,532 2,518 3,239
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 157 369
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.55 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +44.96% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.98 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £22.42
% change year-on-year +7.18% +45.65% -40.21%

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

GDPR
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

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

GDPR
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

GDPR
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in England

GDPR
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 3 June 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 +7 410 £550 -4.35% 265
South East +20 160 £563 +7.14% 139
North of England -2 132 £545 +3.81% 109
Midlands -32 69 £492 +11.95% 84
North West +3 65 £500 -4.76% 73
Yorkshire -20 57 £550 +7.32% 29
South West -12 46 £500 +25.00% 42
West Midlands -49 37 £492 +3.58% 50
East of England -19 33 £588 +13.20% 41
East Midlands -12 32 £484 +15.30% 36
North East -22 11 £400 -26.44% 7
GDPR
UK

GDPR
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 50 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.60%) Confluence
4 28 (3.25%) Apache Spark
5 21 (2.44%) Apache
6 14 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.05%) CMS
8 7 (0.81%) SAS
9 5 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.58%) TPMS
10 4 (0.46%) IIS
11 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.12%) Appian
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) CICS
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
13 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.39%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.58%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 308 (35.77%) Azure
2 220 (25.55%) AWS
3 121 (14.05%) Power Platform
4 112 (13.01%) GCP
5 80 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (7.78%) Entra ID
7 56 (6.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 38 (4.41%) SaaS
9 35 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.60%) GitHub
12 29 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (3.37%) Collibra
13 27 (3.14%) OneDrive
13 27 (3.14%) Snowflake
14 25 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (2.79%) Serverless
16 20 (2.32%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.11%) Firewall
2 31 (3.60%) Network Security
3 21 (2.44%) DNS
4 18 (2.09%) VPN
5 17 (1.97%) DHCP
6 15 (1.74%) Kerberos
7 13 (1.51%) SMS
8 10 (1.16%) SSL
9 9 (1.05%) Wireless
10 6 (0.70%) HTTP
10 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.58%) SNMP
11 5 (0.58%) SSH
12 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
12 4 (0.46%) WAN
13 3 (0.35%) FTP
13 3 (0.35%) LAN
13 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.20%) Power BI
2 51 (5.92%) Metadata
3 50 (5.81%) Data Lake
4 49 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.09%) Tableau
8 14 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.51%) Mixpanel
9 13 (1.51%) OLTP
9 13 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.39%) OLAP
11 11 (1.28%) Big Data
12 10 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (5.23%) JIRA
2 24 (2.79%) Git
3 12 (1.39%) Burp Suite
4 11 (1.28%) GitLab
4 11 (1.28%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.70%) ERwin
5 6 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.35%) Postman
8 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.12%) AppScan
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 298 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 275 (31.94%) Finance
3 146 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (13.36%) Legal
5 111 (12.89%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.67%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (5.81%) Marketing
8 47 (5.46%) Banking
9 34 (3.95%) Retail
10 25 (2.90%) Local Government
11 21 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.86%) Law
15 14 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.28%) Military
18 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 149 (17.31%) Architect
2 99 (11.50%) Lead
3 91 (10.57%) Analyst
4 63 (7.32%) Senior
5 58 (6.74%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.34%) Business Analyst
6 46 (5.34%) Data Engineer
7 41 (4.76%) Consultant
8 40 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.83%) Data Analyst
10 31 (3.60%) Security Engineer
11 27 (3.14%) Security Manager
12 25 (2.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.79%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.56%) Administrator
14 22 (2.56%) Developer
15 20 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 19 (2.21%) Data Architect
17 18 (2.09%) Principal Engineer
18 16 (1.86%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.34%) REST
2 43 (4.99%) LDAP
3 39 (4.53%) OAuth
4 37 (4.30%) SAML
5 36 (4.18%) Kafka
6 30 (3.48%) Middleware
7 20 (2.32%) OpenID
8 19 (2.21%) JSON
8 19 (2.21%) PySpark
9 18 (2.09%) .NET
10 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
11 16 (1.86%) CSS
11 16 (1.86%) HTML
11 16 (1.86%) SOAP
12 15 (1.74%) Great Expectations
13 14 (1.63%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (1.05%) J2EE
16 7 (0.81%) Node.js
16 7 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 35 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.09%) Replication
9 17 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
10 15 (1.74%) NHS
11 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
12 10 (1.16%) BYOD
12 10 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.48%) Windows
2 26 (3.02%) Linux
3 24 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (26.02%) Data Protection
2 201 (23.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 194 (22.53%) Agile
4 185 (21.49%) Data Governance
5 169 (19.63%) Cybersecurity
6 167 (19.40%) Migration
7 164 (19.05%) DevOps
8 157 (18.23%) Analytics
8 157 (18.23%) CI/CD
9 136 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
11 122 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 118 (13.70%) AI
12 118 (13.70%) Data Modelling
13 116 (13.47%) Roadmaps
14 109 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 105 (12.20%) Validation
16 98 (11.38%) Risk Management
17 96 (11.15%) Information Security
18 91 (10.57%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 175 (20.33%) SQL
2 133 (15.45%) Python
3 90 (10.45%) PowerShell
4 45 (5.23%) Java
5 31 (3.60%) C#
6 23 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.21%) Bash
8 13 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.05%) Bicep
9 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.70%) Go
10 6 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.58%) R
11 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 155 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.69%) Degree
4 84 (9.76%) CISSP
5 67 (7.78%) CISM
6 39 (4.53%) PMI Certification
7 37 (4.30%) PMP
8 26 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.51%) IIBA
14 11 (1.28%) CRISC
14 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (1.16%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.16%) CHECK Team Member
15 10 (1.16%) CREST Certified
15 10 (1.16%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (22.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (15.33%) NIST
3 126 (14.63%) Data Quality
4 91 (10.57%) PCI DSS
5 71 (8.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.41%) GRC
7 33 (3.83%) QA
8 32 (3.72%) NCSC
9 31 (3.60%) SOC 2
10 28 (3.25%) HIPAA
11 26 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (2.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 24 (2.79%) PMO
13 19 (2.21%) Accessibility
14 16 (1.86%) MiFID
15 13 (1.51%) FINRA
16 11 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (1.28%) Solvency II
17 10 (1.16%) PERC
17 10 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (8.71%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.83%) Docker
3 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (6.50%) Terraform
2 55 (6.39%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.51%) Grafana
5 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.16%) Nmap
7 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.58%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.58%) SCCM
9 4 (0.46%) Ansible
9 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.46%) Istio
9 4 (0.46%) QRadar
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 219 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.74%) Databricks
3 57 (6.62%) Google
4 46 (5.34%) Oracle
5 44 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 42 (4.88%) SAP
7 38 (4.41%) ServiceNow
8 32 (3.72%) CyberArk
8 32 (3.72%) Workday
9 19 (2.21%) Okta
10 15 (1.74%) BeyondTrust
11 14 (1.63%) Adobe
11 14 (1.63%) Splunk
12 13 (1.51%) IFS
12 13 (1.51%) Informatica
13 12 (1.39%) NEC
14 9 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.93%) Qualys
15 8 (0.93%) Varonis
16 7 (0.81%) VMware
642 GDPR jobs in England