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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 154 183
Rank change year-on-year +47 +29 +67
Contract jobs citing GDPR 900 457 475
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 1.88% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.18% 11.88% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 277 257
10th Percentile £366 £345 £308
25th Percentile £450 £438 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £534 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.75% +6.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 46
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.56 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.10 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +15.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £31.94 £31.76 £28.52
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -12.02% +19.54% -6.12%

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 6,827 3,848 5,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 15.83% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 2,467 3,348
10th Percentile £340 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £602 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 160 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.14
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.00% -47.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.08 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £32.18 £34.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.72% +64.29% -44.37%

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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

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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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +16 431 £550 -4.35% 132
South East +26 178 £550 +7.32% 109
North of England +3 129 £550 +4.76% 73
Midlands -16 79 £475 +3.04% 70
North West -3 59 £513 -2.38% 45
Yorkshire -16 59 £550 +4.76% 19
West Midlands -36 44 £492 +3.58% 42
South West -22 40 £500 +25.00% 23
East Midlands -10 35 £450 +30.25% 28
East of England -29 29 £625 +19.05% 34
North East -5 12 £466 +0.76% 9
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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 44 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (4.00%) Confluence
4 33 (3.67%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.56%) Apache
6 18 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.89%) TPMS
8 7 (0.78%) SAS
9 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.44%) Appian
10 4 (0.44%) Camunda
11 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.11%) Drupal
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Moodle
13 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.89%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.56%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Actimize
7 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 342 (38.00%) Azure
2 257 (28.56%) AWS
3 144 (16.00%) GCP
4 127 (14.11%) Power Platform
5 86 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 58 (6.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 44 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (4.22%) SaaS
11 37 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (3.89%) Collibra
13 28 (3.11%) Amazon S3
13 28 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (3.11%) OneDrive
14 26 (2.89%) Snowflake
15 24 (2.67%) GitHub
16 23 (2.56%) Serverless
17 20 (2.22%) dbt
18 19 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.56%) Firewall
2 37 (4.11%) Network Security
3 25 (2.78%) DNS
4 22 (2.44%) VPN
5 21 (2.33%) DHCP
6 15 (1.67%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.67%) SSL
7 14 (1.56%) Cisco IPT
7 14 (1.56%) Wireless
8 10 (1.11%) SMS
9 8 (0.89%) SNMP
9 8 (0.89%) SSH
10 6 (0.67%) HTTP
10 6 (0.67%) WAN
11 5 (0.56%) LAN
11 5 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.44%) NGFW
13 3 (0.33%) IPv4
13 3 (0.33%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (13.00%) Power BI
2 60 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 52 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.33%) Metadata
5 25 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.56%) Tableau
7 20 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.78%) Mixpanel
11 16 (1.78%) OLAP
11 16 (1.78%) OLTP
12 13 (1.44%) Big Data
13 12 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (5.56%) JIRA
2 30 (3.33%) Git
3 18 (2.00%) Burp Suite
4 17 (1.89%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.78%) GitLab
6 10 (1.11%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) ERwin
7 6 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (0.44%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.44%) Postman
8 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 346 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 288 (32.00%) Finance
3 156 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (15.44%) Legal
5 101 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 71 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (6.33%) Marketing
8 55 (6.11%) Banking
9 34 (3.78%) Retail
10 21 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.89%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.89%) Law
12 17 (1.89%) Local Government
12 17 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.22%) Electronics
16 9 (1.00%) Billing
17 8 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (17.78%) Architect
2 105 (11.67%) Lead
3 101 (11.22%) Analyst
4 57 (6.33%) Project Manager
5 55 (6.11%) Consultant
6 54 (6.00%) Senior
7 52 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 51 (5.67%) Data Engineer
9 43 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.00%) Security Engineer
11 30 (3.33%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.78%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 25 (2.78%) Security Architect
13 24 (2.67%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.56%) Administrator
14 23 (2.56%) Security Manager
15 22 (2.44%) Developer
16 19 (2.11%) Principal Engineer
17 18 (2.00%) Migration Manager
18 17 (1.89%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.22%) LDAP
2 44 (4.89%) Kafka
3 43 (4.78%) REST
4 37 (4.11%) OAuth
5 34 (3.78%) Middleware
6 33 (3.67%) SAML
7 21 (2.33%) PySpark
8 18 (2.00%) Great Expectations
9 17 (1.89%) HTML
9 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.89%) OpenID
9 17 (1.89%) SOAP
10 16 (1.78%) .NET
10 16 (1.78%) JSON
11 15 (1.67%) CSS
12 13 (1.44%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (1.00%) J2EE
14 9 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
14 9 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.89%) Management Information System
3 49 (5.44%) Security Posture
4 44 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 38 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
11 20 (2.22%) Replication
12 17 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.78%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
15 13 (1.44%) NHS
16 12 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.22%) BYOD
18 10 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.00%) Windows
2 32 (3.56%) Linux
3 27 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.33%) Android
6 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (25.44%) Data Protection
2 225 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 207 (23.00%) Agile
4 199 (22.11%) Data Governance
5 168 (18.67%) Migration
6 167 (18.56%) CI/CD
6 167 (18.56%) Cybersecurity
7 161 (17.89%) Analytics
7 161 (17.89%) DevOps
8 150 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 138 (15.33%) Data Modelling
10 136 (15.11%) Business Intelligence
11 123 (13.67%) AI
12 122 (13.56%) Roadmaps
12 122 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 110 (12.22%) Risk Management
14 107 (11.89%) Validation
15 105 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (11.33%) ETL
17 100 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 182 (20.22%) SQL
2 158 (17.56%) Python
3 107 (11.89%) PowerShell
4 41 (4.56%) Java
5 33 (3.67%) C#
6 26 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.56%) Bash
8 14 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.00%) Bicep
10 8 (0.89%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.78%) R
12 6 (0.67%) Go
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 123 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 99 (11.00%) Degree
4 96 (10.67%) CISSP
5 75 (8.33%) CISM
6 42 (4.67%) PMI Certification
7 39 (4.33%) PMP
8 28 (3.11%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 17 (1.89%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.78%) CHECK Team Member
13 16 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.56%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.56%) Cyber Scheme
15 13 (1.44%) IIBA
15 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.33%) Postgraduate
17 11 (1.22%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (25.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (17.67%) NIST
3 119 (13.22%) Data Quality
4 109 (12.11%) PCI DSS
5 76 (8.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 43 (4.78%) QA
7 37 (4.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 37 (4.11%) GRC
8 33 (3.67%) SOC 2
9 30 (3.33%) HIPAA
10 24 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (2.67%) PERC
11 23 (2.56%) PMO
12 22 (2.44%) NCSC
13 19 (2.11%) MiFID
14 17 (1.89%) Accessibility
15 13 (1.44%) FINRA
16 11 (1.22%) Solvency II
17 9 (1.00%) COBIT
17 9 (1.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 84 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.11%) Docker
3 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (7.56%) Terraform
2 60 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.78%) Nmap
6 12 (1.33%) Grafana
7 10 (1.11%) Ansible
8 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.89%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.44%) Istio
10 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.44%) QRadar
10 4 (0.44%) Rancher
11 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 222 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.67%) Google
3 62 (6.89%) Databricks
4 49 (5.44%) ServiceNow
5 47 (5.22%) CyberArk
6 44 (4.89%) Salesforce
7 42 (4.67%) SAP
8 41 (4.56%) Oracle
9 30 (3.33%) Workday
10 26 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
11 23 (2.56%) Adobe
12 20 (2.22%) Okta
13 19 (2.11%) Informatica
13 19 (2.11%) Splunk
14 15 (1.67%) Tealium
15 13 (1.44%) OneTrust
16 12 (1.33%) IFS
17 9 (1.00%) MuleSoft
17 9 (1.00%) VMware
18 8 (0.89%) NEC
394 GDPR jobs in England