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

 6 months to
29 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 102 215
Rank change year-on-year -82 +113 +45
Contract jobs citing GDPR 740 722 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 2.62% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.97% 15.11% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 467 217
10th Percentile £306 £350 £314
25th Percentile £450 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.90% -12.96%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.75% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 15
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +61.90% +21.74%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £30.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £54.07
UK median hourly rate £22.64 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +33.15% -19.05% +21.74%

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 8,248 4,777 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 17.34% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,171 3,120 2,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £718 £763
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 228 202
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.88 £17.77 £16.38
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -15.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.93 £80.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -23.61%

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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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -58 356 £575 +0.88% 823
South East -65 113 £575 +15.00% 217
North of England -66 90 £483 -4.83% 236
Midlands -45 73 £450 +0.67% 139
South West -30 57 £475 +18.75% 83
West Midlands -24 52 £430 -18.19% 77
North West -30 50 £496 +8.42% 127
East of England -4 45 £525 - 72
Yorkshire -56 31 £471 -14.45% 85
East Midlands -38 21 £538 +25.15% 62
North East -36 8 £463 -15.22% 26
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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 39 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.62%) CMS
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.49%) IIS
4 9 (1.22%) Apache
5 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 36 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 39 (5.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.08%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.95%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.81%) iTrent
6 5 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.54%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.54%) Workfront
8 2 (0.27%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 248 (33.51%) Azure
2 136 (18.38%) AWS
3 89 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 69 (9.32%) GCP
5 60 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (6.08%) SaaS
8 43 (5.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 39 (5.27%) Entra ID
10 35 (4.73%) Serverless
11 31 (4.19%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.92%) Power Automate
13 27 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (3.65%) GitHub
14 22 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (2.84%) Azure Functions
16 19 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.57%) OCI
17 17 (2.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.78%) Firewall
2 26 (3.51%) Network Security
3 18 (2.43%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.35%) VPN
5 7 (0.95%) SMS
6 5 (0.68%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.68%) SSL
6 5 (0.68%) X.509
7 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.41%) DNS
8 3 (0.41%) FTP
8 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.41%) IPsec
8 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.27%) LAN
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.27%) WAN
9 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.46%) Power BI
2 49 (6.62%) Metadata
3 36 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 35 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.76%) BigQuery
7 12 (1.62%) Tableau
8 11 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.22%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.08%) Looker
12 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.81%) Big Data
13 6 (0.81%) GIS
13 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (3.11%) Git
2 15 (2.03%) JIRA
2 15 (2.03%) Postman
3 13 (1.76%) GitLab
4 11 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 11 (1.49%) Selenium
4 11 (1.49%) WebDriver
5 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.41%) ERwin
7 3 (0.41%) Protractor
8 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.27%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) LSMW
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 278 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 180 (24.32%) Finance
3 135 (18.24%) Public Sector
4 134 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (11.62%) Legal
6 41 (5.54%) Local Government
7 39 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.86%) Marketing
9 35 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (3.92%) Banking
10 29 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (3.92%) Retail
11 21 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.30%) Military
14 15 (2.03%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.76%) Law
16 10 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 129 (17.43%) Architect
2 112 (15.14%) Lead
3 89 (12.03%) Analyst
4 76 (10.27%) Senior
5 40 (5.41%) Administrator
6 36 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (4.73%) Project Manager
8 33 (4.46%) Data Analyst
9 31 (4.19%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.78%) Consultant
12 26 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.11%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.97%) Developer
15 20 (2.70%) Security Manager
16 19 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (2.30%) Coordinator
18 16 (2.16%) Security Engineer
19 14 (1.89%) Information Officer
20 13 (1.76%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.54%) REST
1 41 (5.54%) Terraform
2 24 (3.24%) OAuth
3 23 (3.11%) JSON
4 22 (2.97%) SAML
5 21 (2.84%) LDAP
6 17 (2.30%) OpenID
7 16 (2.16%) Kafka
8 15 (2.03%) SOAP
9 14 (1.89%) XML
10 13 (1.76%) XSLT
11 12 (1.62%) .NET
11 12 (1.62%) OAuth2
11 12 (1.62%) PySpark
11 12 (1.62%) SailPoint
12 11 (1.49%) Gherkin
12 11 (1.49%) Middleware
13 9 (1.22%) JDBC
14 8 (1.08%) HTML
15 7 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.89%) Management Information System
2 46 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
4 36 (4.86%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.05%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.78%) Data Structures
7 27 (3.65%) Freedom of Information
8 26 (3.51%) Product Ownership
9 25 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (2.70%) NHS
11 20 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
11 20 (2.70%) Taxonomies
12 15 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.62%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.62%) Freedom of Information Act
14 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.70%) Windows
2 16 (2.16%) Linux
3 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 207 (27.97%) Data Protection
3 201 (27.16%) Data Governance
4 155 (20.95%) Analytics
5 152 (20.54%) Agile
6 144 (19.46%) AI
7 140 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 132 (17.84%) Cybersecurity
9 125 (16.89%) Migration
10 119 (16.08%) Data Modelling
11 118 (15.95%) Information Security
12 116 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (14.86%) DevOps
14 109 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (14.46%) Roadmaps
16 104 (14.05%) Decision-Making
17 98 (13.24%) CI/CD
18 91 (12.30%) Risk Management
19 83 (11.22%) CRM
19 83 (11.22%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.41%) SQL
2 78 (10.54%) Python
3 33 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 32 (4.32%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.05%) Java
6 29 (3.92%) C#
7 13 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.22%) Bicep
10 8 (1.08%) Bash
11 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.81%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.41%) Go
14 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.27%) VBA
15 1 (0.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 146 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.00%) Degree
4 67 (9.05%) CISSP
5 53 (7.16%) CISM
6 29 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (2.43%) PMP
10 17 (2.30%) PMI Certification
11 15 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.89%) CISA
13 11 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.49%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.35%) CCSP
15 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.22%) CRISC
16 7 (0.95%) CEH
16 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (19.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (16.89%) Data Quality
3 85 (11.49%) NIST
4 55 (7.43%) PCI DSS
5 43 (5.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (5.14%) GRC
7 37 (5.00%) Accessibility
8 36 (4.86%) NCSC
8 36 (4.86%) QA
9 28 (3.78%) WCAG
10 23 (3.11%) HIPAA
11 22 (2.97%) SOC 2
12 20 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (2.03%) PERC
14 12 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (1.22%) Solvency II
17 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (1.08%) PMO
18 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 47 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.49%) Docker
3 5 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.49%) CASB
4 8 (1.08%) Ansible
4 8 (1.08%) Grafana
5 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.27%) Argo
8 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.27%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.27%) QRadar
8 2 (0.27%) systemd
9 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 217 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.76%) Oracle
2 50 (6.76%) SAP
3 47 (6.35%) Databricks
4 42 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 37 (5.00%) Google
6 29 (3.92%) Workday
7 24 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.57%) Adobe
9 17 (2.30%) Splunk
10 14 (1.89%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 9 (1.22%) Cisco
12 9 (1.22%) Informatica
13 8 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.08%) IFS
13 8 (1.08%) NEC
14 7 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.95%) F5
15 6 (0.81%) Foundry
1,603 GDPR jobs in England