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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 115 226
Rank change year-on-year -32 +111 +29
Contract jobs citing GDPR 828 651 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 2.35% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.34% 13.66% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 405 210
10th Percentile £351 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% +4.43% -7.54%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £738 £676
UK median daily rate £554 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +5.52% +4.95% -6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 38 23
10th Percentile £14.62 £14.64 £18.70
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.47 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £30.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.98% +45.12%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.43 £29.38
90th Percentile - £89.01 £34.15
UK median hourly rate £28.40 £17.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +67.07% -38.18% +45.12%

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 8,010 4,764 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.21% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,117 3,104 2,750
10th Percentile £340 £283 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £609 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 226 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.97
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.87 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +13.65% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £28.18 £26.68
% change year-on-year +37.40% +5.62% -25.37%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -14 389 £575 - 698
South East -34 153 £575 +15.00% 176
North of England -37 113 £500 -1.38% 131
North West -16 70 £525 +3.14% 80
Midlands -51 61 £475 +11.90% 98
South West -38 51 £475 +18.75% 85
East of England +9 49 £613 +16.67% 77
West Midlands -35 41 £450 -10.00% 65
Yorkshire -55 29 £471 -7.20% 33
East Midlands -30 20 £538 +29.52% 34
North East -34 13 £463 -14.94% 18
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 34 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.29%) Confluence
3 15 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.57%) Apache
5 12 (1.45%) CMS
5 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.60%) IIS
7 2 (0.24%) Drupal
7 2 (0.24%) Mendix
7 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.12%) Luigi
8 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 28 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.97%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.72%) iTrent
6 5 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.60%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.60%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 287 (34.66%) Azure
2 196 (23.67%) AWS
3 108 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 92 (11.11%) GCP
5 55 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (6.40%) Entra ID
6 53 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (5.92%) SaaS
8 46 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 36 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (4.35%) GitHub
9 36 (4.35%) Snowflake
10 31 (3.74%) Serverless
11 29 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.66%) Power Automate
15 21 (2.54%) dbt
16 19 (2.29%) Collibra
16 19 (2.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.83%) Firewall
2 39 (4.71%) Network Security
3 16 (1.93%) VPN
4 13 (1.57%) 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%) 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
10 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.96%) Power BI
2 54 (6.52%) Metadata
3 48 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.93%) Tableau
8 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.33%) Big Data
9 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.21%) Looker
11 7 (0.85%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.72%) GIS
12 6 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.23%) JIRA
2 14 (1.69%) Git
3 12 (1.45%) GitLab
4 10 (1.21%) Postman
4 10 (1.21%) Selenium
5 9 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.09%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.48%) ERwin
7 4 (0.48%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.36%) Protractor
9 2 (0.24%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 277 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 243 (29.35%) Finance
3 151 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (15.70%) Public Sector
5 94 (11.35%) Legal
6 41 (4.95%) Marketing
7 40 (4.83%) Banking
7 40 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (4.59%) Retail
9 34 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.99%) Local Government
11 29 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.81%) Military
14 14 (1.69%) Law
14 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.21%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 148 (17.87%) Architect
2 117 (14.13%) Lead
3 88 (10.63%) Analyst
4 75 (9.06%) Senior
5 51 (6.16%) Project Manager
6 45 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (5.07%) Data Engineer
8 37 (4.47%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.23%) Consultant
10 33 (3.99%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.99%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.38%) Security Manager
12 26 (3.14%) Security Architect
13 25 (3.02%) Administrator
14 23 (2.78%) Security Engineer
15 21 (2.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.17%) Senior Manager
17 16 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
17 16 (1.93%) Technical Architect
18 15 (1.81%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.59%) REST
2 29 (3.50%) OAuth
3 28 (3.38%) Kafka
4 26 (3.14%) LDAP
4 26 (3.14%) SAML
5 23 (2.78%) OpenID
6 22 (2.66%) Middleware
7 19 (2.29%) JSON
8 16 (1.93%) .NET
9 15 (1.81%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.81%) PySpark
9 15 (1.81%) SOAP
10 13 (1.57%) HTML
11 9 (1.09%) Gherkin
12 8 (0.97%) CSS
12 8 (0.97%) JDBC
12 8 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.97%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.13%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.43%) Security Posture
4 39 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 26 (3.14%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (2.05%) Freedom of Information
12 17 (2.05%) NHS
13 16 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
15 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
16 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
17 10 (1.21%) BYOD
17 10 (1.21%) CSOC
17 10 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.26%) Windows
2 19 (2.29%) Linux
3 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.24%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (25.85%) Data Protection
3 208 (25.12%) Data Governance
4 182 (21.98%) Agile
5 169 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
6 166 (20.05%) Analytics
7 161 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 159 (19.20%) Migration
9 144 (17.39%) AI
10 135 (16.30%) DevOps
11 132 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (15.82%) CI/CD
13 130 (15.70%) Data Modelling
14 114 (13.77%) Roadmaps
15 112 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
17 105 (12.68%) Information Security
18 100 (12.08%) Risk Management
19 99 (11.96%) Validation
20 95 (11.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 153 (18.48%) SQL
2 107 (12.92%) Python
3 49 (5.92%) PowerShell
4 35 (4.23%) Java
5 25 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.78%) C#
7 16 (1.93%) Bash
8 11 (1.33%) Bicep
9 10 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.85%) Go
11 7 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.36%) R
13 3 (0.36%) Ruby
13 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 152 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 119 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.27%) CISSP
4 66 (7.97%) Degree
5 65 (7.85%) CISM
6 27 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.02%) PMP
8 24 (2.90%) PMI Certification
9 22 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.57%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.33%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.09%) CISA
16 8 (0.97%) CEH
16 8 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (21.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (16.43%) Data Quality
3 115 (13.89%) NIST
4 68 (8.21%) PCI DSS
5 61 (7.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (4.59%) NCSC
7 36 (4.35%) QA
8 33 (3.99%) Accessibility
9 32 (3.86%) SOC 2
10 31 (3.74%) GRC
10 31 (3.74%) HIPAA
11 27 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 20 (2.42%) WCAG
13 17 (2.05%) PERC
14 15 (1.81%) PMO
15 13 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (1.45%) Solvency II
17 9 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.72%) HL7
System Software
1 61 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.90%) Docker
3 2 (0.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (6.28%) Terraform
2 46 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (1.81%) Grafana
5 11 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.97%) Ansible
7 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.72%) CASB
9 5 (0.60%) PingFederate
9 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) Istio
10 4 (0.48%) Rancher
11 3 (0.36%) QRadar
12 2 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.12%) Argo
13 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
13 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 211 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.00%) Databricks
3 56 (6.76%) Oracle
4 54 (6.52%) SAP
5 47 (5.68%) Salesforce
6 42 (5.07%) Google
7 34 (4.11%) Workday
8 30 (3.62%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.54%) CyberArk
10 17 (2.05%) Adobe
11 15 (1.81%) IFS
12 12 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 12 (1.45%) Splunk
13 11 (1.33%) Informatica
14 9 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
15 8 (0.97%) NEC
16 6 (0.72%) Ping Identity
16 6 (0.72%) Tealium
16 6 (0.72%) Varonis
17 5 (0.60%) Cribl.io
1,225 GDPR jobs in England