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

 6 months to
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 140 214
Rank change year-on-year +15 +74 +26
Contract jobs citing GDPR 874 498 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.02% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.07% 12.37% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 305 232
10th Percentile £363 £358 £304
25th Percentile £450 £430 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.33% -10.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £741 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 22 48
10th Percentile £14.60 - £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.13 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +13.28% +31.58%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £82.20 £72.27 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +11.92% -5.06% +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 7,242 4,026 5,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.90% 16.30% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,685 2,589 3,176
10th Percentile £346 £268 £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 £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 173 384
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.16 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £32.50 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +34.91% -43.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.32 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.80
% change year-on-year +13.35% +33.45% -36.53%

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

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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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 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 +10 420 £550 -4.35% 266
South East +14 160 £575 +9.52% 150
North of England -4 132 £550 +4.76% 96
North West -3 67 £530 +0.95% 64
Midlands -41 67 £492 +14.42% 75
Yorkshire -26 55 £550 +9.24% 26
South West -15 47 £500 +25.00% 43
West Midlands -49 41 £492 +3.58% 37
East of England -17 36 £575 +10.15% 38
East Midlands -16 26 £484 +21.06% 39
North East -25 11 £463 -14.94% 7
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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 51 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.55%) Confluence
4 26 (2.97%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.29%) Apache
6 14 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.14%) CMS
8 7 (0.80%) SAS
9 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.57%) IIS
9 5 (0.57%) TPMS
10 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.49%) NEC Housing
3 9 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
10 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 302 (34.55%) Azure
2 209 (23.91%) AWS
3 127 (14.53%) Power Platform
4 105 (12.01%) GCP
5 73 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (4.92%) SaaS
9 37 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (3.66%) GitHub
12 30 (3.43%) Snowflake
13 29 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.09%) OneDrive
16 26 (2.97%) Collibra
17 24 (2.75%) Serverless
18 19 (2.17%) dbt
19 17 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.15%) Firewall
2 32 (3.66%) Network Security
3 21 (2.40%) DNS
4 18 (2.06%) VPN
5 16 (1.83%) DHCP
6 14 (1.60%) Kerberos
7 13 (1.49%) SMS
7 13 (1.49%) SSL
8 8 (0.92%) Wireless
9 7 (0.80%) HTTP
10 6 (0.69%) WAN
11 5 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.57%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.57%) LAN
11 5 (0.57%) SNMP
11 5 (0.57%) SSH
11 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.46%) NGFW
13 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.81%) Power BI
2 52 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (5.84%) Data Lake
3 51 (5.84%) Metadata
4 26 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.29%) Tableau
7 18 (2.06%) BigQuery
8 14 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.37%) Mixpanel
10 12 (1.37%) OLTP
11 11 (1.26%) OLAP
12 10 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.03%) Big Data
14 8 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.80%) Looker
15 7 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (5.03%) JIRA
2 22 (2.52%) Git
3 10 (1.14%) Burp Suite
4 9 (1.03%) Metasploit
5 8 (0.92%) GitLab
6 6 (0.69%) ERwin
6 6 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.23%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 298 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 285 (32.61%) Finance
3 150 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (13.16%) Legal
4 115 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (5.26%) Marketing
7 45 (5.15%) Banking
8 34 (3.89%) Retail
9 24 (2.75%) Local Government
10 21 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.83%) Law
14 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.26%) Military
16 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 157 (17.96%) Architect
2 104 (11.90%) Lead
3 90 (10.30%) Analyst
4 66 (7.55%) Senior
5 59 (6.75%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 41 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (4.58%) Consultant
10 32 (3.66%) Data Analyst
11 30 (3.43%) Security Manager
12 29 (3.32%) Security Engineer
13 25 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 24 (2.75%) Data Architect
14 24 (2.75%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.52%) Developer
16 21 (2.40%) Administrator
16 21 (2.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.06%) Principal Engineer
18 17 (1.95%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.15%) REST
2 41 (4.69%) LDAP
3 38 (4.35%) OAuth
3 38 (4.35%) SAML
4 35 (4.00%) Kafka
5 29 (3.32%) Middleware
6 21 (2.40%) OpenID
7 20 (2.29%) JSON
8 19 (2.17%) .NET
8 19 (2.17%) PySpark
9 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.83%) SOAP
11 15 (1.72%) CSS
11 15 (1.72%) HTML
12 14 (1.60%) Great Expectations
12 14 (1.60%) OAuth2
13 9 (1.03%) J2EE
13 9 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (0.92%) SailPoint
14 8 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.98%) Cloud Native
1 61 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 45 (5.15%) Security Posture
3 44 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (2.17%) Replication
9 18 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.83%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.83%) NHS
11 15 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
13 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.14%) BYOD
14 10 (1.14%) Clustering
14 10 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.44%) Windows
2 24 (2.75%) Linux
3 21 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (25.97%) Data Protection
2 210 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 195 (22.31%) Agile
4 192 (21.97%) Data Governance
5 177 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
6 174 (19.91%) Migration
7 160 (18.31%) DevOps
8 157 (17.96%) Analytics
9 152 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 138 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 129 (14.76%) Business Intelligence
12 128 (14.65%) Data Modelling
13 126 (14.42%) AI
14 121 (13.84%) Roadmaps
14 121 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 110 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (12.47%) Validation
17 98 (11.21%) Information Security
18 97 (11.10%) Risk Management
19 96 (10.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.68%) SQL
2 127 (14.53%) Python
3 79 (9.04%) PowerShell
4 45 (5.15%) Java
5 29 (3.32%) C#
6 23 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.60%) Bash
8 12 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.03%) Bicep
9 9 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.69%) Go
11 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Ruby
14 2 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 161 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.53%) Degree
4 85 (9.73%) CISSP
5 67 (7.67%) CISM
6 39 (4.46%) PMI Certification
7 38 (4.35%) PMP
8 23 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.52%) DV Cleared
10 20 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.49%) IIBA
14 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.26%) CRISC
16 9 (1.03%) CISA
17 8 (0.92%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 133 (15.22%) NIST
4 89 (10.18%) PCI DSS
5 73 (8.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 39 (4.46%) GRC
7 35 (4.00%) NCSC
8 32 (3.66%) QA
9 31 (3.55%) SOC 2
10 30 (3.43%) HIPAA
11 26 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 22 (2.52%) PMO
14 20 (2.29%) Accessibility
15 16 (1.83%) MiFID
16 14 (1.60%) Solvency II
17 13 (1.49%) FINRA
18 11 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (1.26%) WCAG
19 9 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.66%) Docker
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (6.41%) Terraform
2 53 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 39 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.49%) Grafana
6 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.92%) Nmap
8 5 (0.57%) Ansible
8 5 (0.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.46%) Istio
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) CASB
10 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.23%) QRadar
10 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 218 (24.94%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.21%) Databricks
3 52 (5.95%) Google
4 46 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 46 (5.26%) SAP
5 45 (5.15%) Oracle
6 39 (4.46%) ServiceNow
7 31 (3.55%) CyberArk
7 31 (3.55%) Workday
8 18 (2.06%) Okta
9 15 (1.72%) Splunk
10 14 (1.60%) Adobe
10 14 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
10 14 (1.60%) Informatica
11 13 (1.49%) IFS
11 13 (1.49%) NEC
12 10 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.80%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.69%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.69%) Varonis
615 GDPR jobs in England