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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 166 177
Rank change year-on-year +69 +11 +76
Contract jobs citing GDPR 916 412 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 1.67% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.44% 10.88% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 246 253
10th Percentile £356 £303 £326
25th Percentile £445 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £735
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 45
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.38 £11.34
25th Percentile £16.79 £15.92 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.01 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.59% -7.64% -27.78%
75th Percentile £50.25 £31.76 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £32.96 £29.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £20.19 £19.50
% change year-on-year +26.30% +3.54% -14.04%

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 6,345 3,786 5,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 15.35% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,394 3,495
10th Percentile £335 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -4.27% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £702 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 155 356
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.24 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.48 £22.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +30.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.44
90th Percentile £79.26 £78.58 £67.44
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £31.88 £24.50
% change year-on-year -12.36% +30.12% -34.67%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +56 441 £550 -2.22% 183
South East +34 177 £500 - 119
North of England -10 120 £550 +10.00% 106
Midlands -12 82 £475 +7.34% 64
Yorkshire -9 67 £550 +4.76% 28
South West +18 57 £475 +69.64% 32
West Midlands -35 46 £500 +5.26% 35
North West -26 43 £510 +4.62% 70
East Midlands -6 36 £447 +14.32% 29
East of England -28 22 £553 +10.60% 36
North East -10 10 £466 +0.76% 9
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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 49 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.93%) Confluence
4 33 (3.60%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.84%) Apache
6 15 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.09%) TPMS
8 7 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.76%) SAS
9 6 (0.66%) Appian
9 6 (0.66%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) 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 47 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.33%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 358 (39.08%) Azure
2 272 (29.69%) AWS
3 146 (15.94%) GCP
4 113 (12.34%) Power Platform
5 91 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (9.17%) Entra ID
7 59 (6.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 48 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.26%) Amazon S3
11 35 (3.82%) Collibra
12 34 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (3.71%) SaaS
13 32 (3.49%) OneDrive
14 28 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (2.62%) Serverless
16 22 (2.40%) GitHub
17 21 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
18 19 (2.07%) dbt
19 18 (1.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 67 (7.31%) Firewall
2 46 (5.02%) Network Security
3 29 (3.17%) DNS
4 26 (2.84%) DHCP
5 25 (2.73%) VPN
6 18 (1.97%) Wireless
7 16 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
7 16 (1.75%) Kerberos
7 16 (1.75%) SSL
8 11 (1.20%) LAN
8 11 (1.20%) SMS
8 11 (1.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.09%) SNMP
9 10 (1.09%) SSH
10 9 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.87%) HTTP
11 8 (0.87%) IPv4
11 8 (0.87%) IPv6
11 8 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (11.24%) Power BI
2 69 (7.53%) Data Lake
3 51 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (4.91%) Metadata
5 26 (2.84%) BigQuery
6 24 (2.62%) Tableau
7 22 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 21 (2.29%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.97%) Mixpanel
11 17 (1.86%) OLAP
11 17 (1.86%) OLTP
12 16 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.75%) Big Data
13 13 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (0.87%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (4.69%) JIRA
2 27 (2.95%) Git
3 19 (2.07%) GitLab
4 18 (1.97%) Burp Suite
4 18 (1.97%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.55%) ERwin
6 5 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.44%) Postman
7 4 (0.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.33%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) AppScan
10 1 (0.11%) Maven
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 397 (43.34%) Social Skills
2 268 (29.26%) Finance
3 150 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.54%) Legal
5 111 (12.12%) Public Sector
6 83 (9.06%) Documentation Skills
7 60 (6.55%) Marketing
8 51 (5.57%) Banking
9 27 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.29%) Law
12 20 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.97%) Retail
14 14 (1.53%) Electronics
14 14 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.09%) Local Government
16 10 (1.09%) Military
17 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 172 (18.78%) Architect
2 103 (11.24%) Analyst
3 96 (10.48%) Lead
4 62 (6.77%) Consultant
5 61 (6.66%) Senior
6 53 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 49 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 47 (5.13%) Business Analyst
9 45 (4.91%) Project Manager
10 44 (4.80%) Security Engineer
11 31 (3.38%) Security Architect
12 29 (3.17%) Data Architect
13 27 (2.95%) Developer
14 26 (2.84%) Administrator
15 25 (2.73%) Microsoft 365 Architect
16 23 (2.51%) Data Analyst
17 18 (1.97%) Principal Engineer
18 16 (1.75%) Penetration Tester
18 16 (1.75%) Security Analyst
18 16 (1.75%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.57%) LDAP
2 41 (4.48%) Kafka
3 40 (4.37%) OAuth
4 39 (4.26%) SAML
5 37 (4.04%) REST
6 34 (3.71%) Middleware
7 23 (2.51%) OpenID
8 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (1.97%) .NET
9 18 (1.97%) Great Expectations
10 17 (1.86%) OAuth2
11 16 (1.75%) PySpark
12 15 (1.64%) HTML
12 15 (1.64%) RESTful
13 14 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (1.42%) CSS
14 13 (1.42%) SOAP
15 10 (1.09%) Spark Streaming
16 9 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
16 9 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 55 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 54 (5.90%) Security Posture
5 37 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (3.06%) Data Structures
9 27 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 21 (2.29%) Replication
12 18 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
13 15 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.31%) BYOD
14 12 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.31%) NHS
15 11 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
16 10 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (10.15%) Windows
2 40 (4.37%) Linux
3 24 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) Android
7 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.22%) Solaris
8 2 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (25.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 212 (23.14%) Data Protection
3 195 (21.29%) Data Governance
4 193 (21.07%) Agile
5 183 (19.98%) Cybersecurity
6 165 (18.01%) DevOps
7 164 (17.90%) Analytics
8 163 (17.79%) CI/CD
9 155 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (16.70%) Migration
11 136 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 134 (14.63%) Data Modelling
13 128 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
14 121 (13.21%) Roadmaps
15 117 (12.77%) Data Privacy
16 114 (12.45%) AI
17 113 (12.34%) Information Security
18 110 (12.01%) Risk Management
19 107 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
19 107 (11.68%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 165 (18.01%) SQL
2 160 (17.47%) Python
3 121 (13.21%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.82%) Java
5 32 (3.49%) C#
6 23 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.07%) Bash
8 14 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (0.98%) Bicep
10 8 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.76%) R
12 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.55%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.22%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) Rust
15 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 174 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 144 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 123 (13.43%) Degree
4 112 (12.23%) CISSP
5 79 (8.62%) CISM
6 37 (4.04%) PMI Certification
7 36 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 36 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.82%) AWS Certification
9 34 (3.71%) PMP
10 29 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (2.40%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.75%) CHECK Team Member
14 15 (1.64%) CCSP
15 14 (1.53%) CREST Certified
15 14 (1.53%) Cyber Scheme
15 14 (1.53%) DV Cleared
16 12 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (27.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 189 (20.63%) NIST
3 115 (12.55%) PCI DSS
4 114 (12.45%) Data Quality
5 70 (7.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 51 (5.57%) QA
7 46 (5.02%) HIPAA
8 45 (4.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (3.60%) GRC
11 29 (3.17%) SOC 2
12 24 (2.62%) NCSC
13 21 (2.29%) PERC
13 21 (2.29%) PMO
14 18 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (1.97%) MiFID
15 17 (1.86%) SLA
16 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
17 13 (1.42%) FINRA
17 13 (1.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 94 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.04%) Docker
3 13 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) NDS
7 1 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 76 (8.30%) Terraform
2 56 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 42 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (1.86%) Ansible
7 16 (1.75%) Nmap
8 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.20%) SCCM
9 9 (0.98%) Grafana
10 5 (0.55%) QRadar
11 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.33%) Istio
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.33%) Rancher
13 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 227 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.42%) Google
3 61 (6.66%) Databricks
4 54 (5.90%) CyberArk
5 46 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 42 (4.59%) Oracle
6 42 (4.59%) ServiceNow
7 33 (3.60%) SAP
8 31 (3.38%) BeyondTrust
9 26 (2.84%) Workday
10 24 (2.62%) Splunk
11 22 (2.40%) Adobe
12 21 (2.29%) Informatica
13 20 (2.18%) Okta
14 15 (1.64%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.64%) VMware
15 14 (1.53%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.53%) Tealium
16 13 (1.42%) Cisco
16 13 (1.42%) OneTrust