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

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 137 192
Rank change year-on-year +18 +55 +50
Contract jobs citing GDPR 847 486 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.00% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.42% 12.52% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 296 256
10th Percentile £363 £361 £323
25th Percentile £450 £445 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £627
90th Percentile £738 £751 £720
UK median daily rate £540 £536 £500
% change year-on-year +0.75% +7.20% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 46
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.48 £11.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.26 £11.95
Median hourly rate £25.50 £27.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +15.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £55.00 £31.76 £28.52
90th Percentile £71.20 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.79 £23.00
% change year-on-year +11.92% -0.93% +21.05%

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 6,822 3,883 5,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.59% 15.99% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 2,505 3,287
10th Percentile £350 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £610 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 160 349
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.58 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.44 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +55.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.09 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year +4.55% +63.84% -39.84%

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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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +16 407 £550 -4.35% 175
South East +8 158 £563 +9.76% 139
North of England +1 124 £550 +4.76% 96
Midlands -29 73 £492 +11.95% 73
North West -10 62 £528 +0.48% 60
Yorkshire -23 51 £550 +3.77% 26
South West -21 44 £500 +25.00% 28
West Midlands -39 41 £492 +3.58% 42
East Midlands -6 32 £484 +16.62% 31
East of England -19 30 £625 +19.05% 36
North East -13 12 £588 +27.03% 10
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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 46 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.90%) Confluence
3 32 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (3.66%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.83%) Apache
6 16 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.83%) SAS
8 6 (0.71%) CMS
8 6 (0.71%) TPMS
9 5 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.35%) IIS
11 2 (0.24%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) Camunda
11 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Moodle
12 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.18%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.59%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.12%) Actimize
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.12%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 306 (36.13%) Azure
2 228 (26.92%) AWS
3 124 (14.64%) GCP
3 124 (14.64%) Power Platform
4 76 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (7.56%) Entra ID
6 51 (6.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 37 (4.37%) SaaS
8 36 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (3.78%) Collibra
12 29 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (3.19%) OneDrive
14 24 (2.83%) Amazon S3
14 24 (2.83%) Snowflake
15 23 (2.72%) GitHub
16 22 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (2.36%) Serverless
18 19 (2.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.02%) Firewall
2 31 (3.66%) Network Security
3 21 (2.48%) DNS
4 17 (2.01%) DHCP
4 17 (2.01%) VPN
5 15 (1.77%) Kerberos
6 14 (1.65%) Wireless
7 12 (1.42%) SMS
7 12 (1.42%) SSL
8 6 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
8 6 (0.71%) HTTP
8 6 (0.71%) SNMP
8 6 (0.71%) SSH
8 6 (0.71%) WAN
9 5 (0.59%) LAN
9 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.47%) NGFW
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.11%) Power BI
2 53 (6.26%) Data Lake
3 48 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.55%) Metadata
5 25 (2.95%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.72%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.36%) Tableau
9 17 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.89%) Mixpanel
10 16 (1.89%) OLAP
10 16 (1.89%) OLTP
11 13 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.42%) Big Data
13 11 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.94%) Looker
15 8 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (5.43%) JIRA
2 28 (3.31%) Git
3 18 (2.13%) Burp Suite
4 17 (2.01%) Metasploit
5 14 (1.65%) GitLab
6 9 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.71%) ERwin
7 6 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.47%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.47%) Postman
8 4 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.12%) Ant
11 1 (0.12%) AppScan
11 1 (0.12%) Maven
11 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 298 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 267 (31.52%) Finance
3 146 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.81%) Legal
5 99 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 65 (7.67%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (6.14%) Banking
7 52 (6.14%) Marketing
8 34 (4.01%) Retail
9 19 (2.24%) Law
9 19 (2.24%) Local Government
9 19 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.18%) Military
15 7 (0.83%) Billing
15 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 141 (16.65%) Architect
2 102 (12.04%) Lead
3 91 (10.74%) Analyst
4 58 (6.85%) Project Manager
5 54 (6.38%) Senior
6 49 (5.79%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 42 (4.96%) Consultant
9 36 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.90%) Security Engineer
11 31 (3.66%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.95%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.83%) Security Manager
14 23 (2.72%) Developer
15 21 (2.48%) Administrator
16 20 (2.36%) Data Architect
16 20 (2.36%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (2.24%) Security Architect
18 18 (2.13%) Migration Manager
19 17 (2.01%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.19%) REST
2 41 (4.84%) Kafka
3 40 (4.72%) LDAP
4 37 (4.37%) OAuth
5 34 (4.01%) SAML
6 30 (3.54%) Middleware
7 20 (2.36%) PySpark
8 18 (2.13%) Great Expectations
8 18 (2.13%) JSON
9 17 (2.01%) .NET
9 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (2.01%) OpenID
10 16 (1.89%) CSS
10 16 (1.89%) HTML
10 16 (1.89%) SOAP
11 11 (1.30%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.06%) J2EE
13 7 (0.83%) Node.js
13 7 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.31%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 29 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.36%) Replication
10 19 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
12 15 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
13 14 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.53%) NHS
15 11 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (1.18%) BYOD
16 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.56%) Windows
2 26 (3.07%) Linux
3 24 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (25.62%) Data Protection
2 202 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 201 (23.73%) Agile
4 177 (20.90%) Data Governance
5 165 (19.48%) Migration
6 161 (19.01%) Cybersecurity
7 160 (18.89%) DevOps
8 155 (18.30%) Analytics
9 150 (17.71%) CI/CD
10 134 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
11 129 (15.23%) Business Intelligence
12 126 (14.88%) Data Modelling
13 116 (13.70%) Roadmaps
14 114 (13.46%) AI
15 111 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 104 (12.28%) Validation
17 101 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (11.45%) Risk Management
19 96 (11.33%) Information Security
20 94 (11.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 177 (20.90%) SQL
2 141 (16.65%) Python
3 87 (10.27%) PowerShell
4 46 (5.43%) Java
5 34 (4.01%) C#
6 23 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.36%) Bash
8 12 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.06%) Bicep
9 9 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.71%) Go
10 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.59%) R
12 4 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.24%) PHP
14 2 (0.24%) Ruby
14 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 151 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.22%) Degree
4 82 (9.68%) CISSP
5 66 (7.79%) CISM
6 41 (4.84%) PMI Certification
7 39 (4.60%) PMP
8 23 (2.72%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (1.89%) CHECK Team Member
12 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.77%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.65%) CREST Certified
13 14 (1.65%) Cyber Scheme
14 13 (1.53%) IIBA
15 12 (1.42%) Postgraduate
16 10 (1.18%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (23.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (16.17%) NIST
3 117 (13.81%) Data Quality
4 100 (11.81%) PCI DSS
5 75 (8.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 41 (4.84%) QA
7 35 (4.13%) GRC
8 32 (3.78%) SOC 2
9 30 (3.54%) HIPAA
10 28 (3.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 25 (2.95%) NCSC
11 25 (2.95%) PMO
12 19 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (2.01%) MiFID
14 16 (1.89%) PERC
15 15 (1.77%) Accessibility
16 13 (1.53%) FINRA
17 11 (1.30%) Solvency II
18 9 (1.06%) EU AI Act
18 9 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.13%) Docker
3 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.73%) Terraform
3 41 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.89%) Nmap
6 13 (1.53%) Grafana
6 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.71%) Ansible
9 5 (0.59%) PingFederate
9 5 (0.59%) SCCM
10 4 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.47%) Istio
10 4 (0.47%) QRadar
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
11 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.24%) systemd
Vendors
1 204 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.20%) Google
3 57 (6.73%) Databricks
4 44 (5.19%) Oracle
5 42 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.96%) SAP
5 42 (4.96%) ServiceNow
6 36 (4.25%) CyberArk
7 30 (3.54%) Workday
8 20 (2.36%) Okta
9 18 (2.13%) Adobe
10 17 (2.01%) Splunk
11 16 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
12 15 (1.77%) Informatica
13 13 (1.53%) IFS
14 10 (1.18%) NEC
15 9 (1.06%) Tealium
16 8 (0.94%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 8 (0.94%) Varonis
494 GDPR jobs in England