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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 186 202
Rank change year-on-year +89 +16 +80
Contract jobs citing GDPR 846 394 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.68% 1.40% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.49% 9.85% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 213 234
10th Percentile £331 £301 £338
25th Percentile £416 £382 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -0.10% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 6
10th Percentile £16.50 - £15.40
25th Percentile £33.00 £15.50 £16.34
Median hourly rate £40.46 £16.19 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year +149.95% -6.73% -35.72%
75th Percentile £70.16 £21.17 £19.08
90th Percentile £89.63 £24.10 £23.07
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £16.75 £17.36
% change year-on-year +102.99% -3.49% -56.36%

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 5,463 4,002 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 14.18% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,326 3,534
10th Percentile £313 £265 £325
25th Percentile £406 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 160 217
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.70 £14.11
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.27 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.67 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -11.12% +46.59%
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.17
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +44.47%

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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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +73 403 £550 +4.76% 290
South East +53 181 £500 -5.66% 410
North of England -6 98 £505 +6.39% 321
Midlands +7 75 £475 -5.00% 295
Yorkshire -2 56 £550 +4.76% 139
South West +30 50 £475 +111.11% 158
West Midlands -5 38 £520 +6.67% 160
East Midlands +9 37 £447 -18.73% 118
North West -14 36 £436 -3.11% 159
East of England -18 14 £553 +10.60% 218
North East -12 6 £466 +12.97% 23
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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 30 (3.55%) Confluence
2 29 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.89%) Apache
6 15 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.95%) TPMS
8 6 (0.71%) Appian
8 6 (0.71%) Camunda
8 6 (0.71%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.35%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 54 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.12%) Actimize
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
6 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 327 (38.65%) Azure
2 245 (28.96%) AWS
3 135 (15.96%) GCP
4 84 (9.93%) Power Platform
5 81 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (9.10%) Entra ID
7 37 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 37 (4.37%) SaaS
8 35 (4.14%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.66%) Serverless
12 27 (3.19%) Collibra
13 25 (2.96%) GitHub
14 24 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
15 21 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (2.48%) OCI
16 20 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.57%) Firewall
2 42 (4.96%) Network Security
3 32 (3.78%) VPN
4 29 (3.43%) DNS
5 21 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.13%) Wireless
7 15 (1.77%) DHCP
7 15 (1.77%) SSL
8 12 (1.42%) Cisco IPT
9 9 (1.06%) LAN
9 9 (1.06%) WAN
10 8 (0.95%) PABX
10 8 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.95%) SNMP
10 8 (0.95%) SSH
10 8 (0.95%) WLAN
11 7 (0.83%) SMS
12 6 (0.71%) BGP
12 6 (0.71%) OSPF
13 5 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.98%) Power BI
2 48 (5.67%) Data Lake
3 39 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.37%) Metadata
5 19 (2.25%) Tableau
6 18 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.89%) Big Data
9 15 (1.77%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.65%) SQL Server
11 13 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.42%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.06%) Mixpanel
14 9 (1.06%) OLAP
14 9 (1.06%) OLTP
14 9 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 8 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (7.33%) JIRA
2 22 (2.60%) Git
3 18 (2.13%) GitLab
4 12 (1.42%) Metasploit
5 11 (1.30%) Burp Suite
6 10 (1.18%) Postman
7 7 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.71%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.59%) Subversion
10 4 (0.47%) ERwin
10 4 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.47%) Selenium
10 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.24%) JMeter
11 2 (0.24%) Locust
11 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.24%) Snyk
General
1 402 (47.52%) Social Skills
2 227 (26.83%) Finance
3 128 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.41%) Legal
5 90 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 71 (8.39%) Marketing
7 63 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (6.38%) Banking
9 27 (3.19%) Law
10 19 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.77%) Electronics
13 15 (1.77%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.42%) Retail
15 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.18%) Local Government
17 8 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 146 (17.26%) Architect
2 125 (14.78%) Analyst
3 95 (11.23%) Lead
4 62 (7.33%) Consultant
5 51 (6.03%) Business Analyst
6 50 (5.91%) Senior
7 41 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.14%) Security Architect
10 30 (3.55%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 29 (3.43%) Security Engineer
12 23 (2.72%) Administrator
13 20 (2.36%) Developer
14 19 (2.25%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.25%) Security Analyst
15 17 (2.01%) Salesforce Architect
16 16 (1.89%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (1.77%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.65%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.67%) REST
2 40 (4.73%) LDAP
2 40 (4.73%) OAuth
3 33 (3.90%) SAML
4 27 (3.19%) Kafka
5 25 (2.96%) OpenID
6 23 (2.72%) Middleware
6 23 (2.72%) SOAP
7 20 (2.36%) OAuth2
8 17 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.65%) HTML
9 14 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (1.54%) RESTful
10 13 (1.54%) Visualforce
11 12 (1.42%) PySpark
12 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.18%) scikit-learn
14 9 (1.06%) Great Expectations
14 9 (1.06%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.06%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 52 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 51 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 51 (6.03%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.14%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 17 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
11 14 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.54%) NHS
12 13 (1.54%) Replication
13 12 (1.42%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.34%) Windows
2 37 (4.37%) Linux
3 20 (2.36%) Mac OS
4 17 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.71%) Solaris
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Unix
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 196 (23.17%) Agile
3 183 (21.63%) Data Protection
4 178 (21.04%) Data Governance
4 178 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
5 152 (17.97%) Cybersecurity
6 151 (17.85%) DevOps
7 149 (17.61%) CI/CD
8 144 (17.02%) Data Privacy
9 138 (16.31%) Analytics
10 135 (15.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 130 (15.37%) Data Modelling
12 120 (14.18%) Migration
13 118 (13.95%) Roadmaps
14 100 (11.82%) Information Security
14 100 (11.82%) Risk Management
15 98 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
16 97 (11.47%) Incident Response
17 95 (11.23%) AI
17 95 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 144 (17.02%) Python
2 128 (15.13%) SQL
3 107 (12.65%) PowerShell
4 30 (3.55%) Bash
5 27 (3.19%) Java
6 17 (2.01%) C#
6 17 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.54%) Apex Code
7 13 (1.54%) Bicep
8 12 (1.42%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.18%) R
10 7 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.71%) Perl
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 137 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.13%) CISSP
3 115 (13.59%) Degree
4 104 (12.29%) SC Cleared
5 84 (9.93%) CISM
6 43 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 40 (4.73%) AWS Certification
8 39 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (3.31%) Master's Degree
10 25 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.60%) PMI Certification
13 20 (2.36%) CISA
14 19 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (2.13%) PMP
16 17 (2.01%) CCSP
17 16 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
18 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
19 11 (1.30%) CHECK Team Member
20 10 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (30.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (21.51%) NIST
3 96 (11.35%) PCI DSS
4 89 (10.52%) Data Quality
5 64 (7.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 58 (6.86%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 46 (5.44%) QA
9 41 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (2.60%) SOC 2
11 20 (2.36%) PERC
12 19 (2.25%) Accessibility
13 18 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (2.13%) GRC
13 18 (2.13%) PSD2
14 16 (1.89%) NCSC
15 13 (1.54%) EU AI Act
15 13 (1.54%) SLA
16 12 (1.42%) PMO
17 9 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 83 (9.81%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (3.31%) Docker
4 8 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) NFS
6 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) NDS
8 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 69 (8.16%) Terraform
2 38 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.14%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (2.72%) SCCM
6 21 (2.48%) Ansible
7 16 (1.89%) QRadar
8 11 (1.30%) Nmap
9 6 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.71%) PingFederate
9 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.47%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.45%) Salesforce
3 58 (6.86%) Google
4 48 (5.67%) CyberArk
4 48 (5.67%) Oracle
5 41 (4.85%) Databricks
6 40 (4.73%) ServiceNow
7 39 (4.61%) SAP
8 36 (4.26%) Splunk
9 32 (3.78%) VMware
10 30 (3.55%) BeyondTrust
11 21 (2.48%) Workday
12 20 (2.36%) Citrix
13 19 (2.25%) Informatica
14 18 (2.13%) Adobe
15 17 (2.01%) Cisco
15 17 (2.01%) OneTrust
16 16 (1.89%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.89%) Palo Alto
17 13 (1.54%) Tealium
1,634 GDPR jobs in England