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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 112 227
Rank change year-on-year -59 +115 +23
Contract jobs citing GDPR 768 679 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.48% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.40% 14.36% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 423 206
10th Percentile £313 £356 £356
25th Percentile £450 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £733 £750 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.05% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 36 13
10th Percentile £14.76 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.17 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +36.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £33.93
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.19 £60.79
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -32.00% +35.14%

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 8,170 4,727 4,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.28% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,149 3,078 2,559
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £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 578 228 215
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.96 £15.22
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £31.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.43% -12.66%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £64.24
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.09% -22.54%

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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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -40 363 £566 -1.65% 1,088
South East -49 124 £591 +18.25% 238
North of England -54 97 £492 -2.96% 292
Midlands -44 74 £450 +0.67% 161
North West -20 58 £525 +17.38% 173
West Midlands -30 54 £430 -18.10% 99
South West -38 53 £475 +18.75% 125
East of England 0 50 £550 +4.76% 95
Yorkshire -50 28 £471 -13.27% 87
East Midlands -30 20 £537 +25.23% 62
North East -31 10 £463 -26.00% 32
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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 40 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.56%) CMS
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.30%) Apache
4 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.04%) IIS
6 7 (0.91%) Confluence
7 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) Drupal
9 2 (0.26%) Mendix
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 31 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.04%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.78%) iTrent
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.52%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.52%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.39%) Workfront
8 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 258 (33.59%) Azure
2 158 (20.57%) AWS
3 99 (12.89%) Power Platform
4 77 (10.03%) GCP
5 59 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (6.77%) Entra ID
8 46 (5.99%) SaaS
9 44 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (5.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 39 (5.08%) Serverless
11 29 (3.78%) Power Automate
11 29 (3.78%) Snowflake
12 28 (3.65%) GitHub
13 25 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (2.73%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.60%) OCI
17 18 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
17 18 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.04%) Firewall
2 27 (3.52%) Network Security
3 18 (2.34%) Cisco IPT
4 12 (1.56%) VPN
5 8 (1.04%) SSL
6 7 (0.91%) SMS
7 5 (0.65%) DNS
7 5 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.65%) X.509
8 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.39%) FTP
9 3 (0.39%) HTTP
9 3 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.39%) IPsec
9 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.39%) WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) LAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.42%) Power BI
2 49 (6.38%) Metadata
3 36 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 35 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.82%) Tableau
7 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.17%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.04%) Big Data
11 8 (1.04%) Looker
11 8 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.91%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.99%) Git
2 21 (2.73%) JIRA
3 14 (1.82%) Postman
4 13 (1.69%) GitLab
5 10 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.30%) Selenium
5 10 (1.30%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) Protractor
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) ERwin
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.26%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.13%) Newman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 284 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 197 (25.65%) Finance
3 135 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (17.45%) Public Sector
5 86 (11.20%) Legal
6 39 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (4.95%) Local Government
8 37 (4.82%) Marketing
9 35 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (4.17%) Retail
12 31 (4.04%) Banking
13 22 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.47%) Military
15 14 (1.82%) Law
15 14 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.91%) Advertising
18 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (17.06%) Architect
2 122 (15.89%) Lead
3 85 (11.07%) Analyst
4 71 (9.24%) Senior
5 38 (4.95%) Project Manager
5 38 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (4.69%) Data Engineer
7 32 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 31 (4.04%) Administrator
8 31 (4.04%) Consultant
9 29 (3.78%) Business Analyst
10 26 (3.39%) Data Architect
11 24 (3.13%) Security Architect
12 22 (2.86%) Developer
13 21 (2.73%) Security Manager
14 17 (2.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 17 (2.21%) Security Engineer
15 16 (2.08%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
16 14 (1.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.86%) Terraform
2 44 (5.73%) REST
3 31 (4.04%) OAuth
4 29 (3.78%) SAML
5 28 (3.65%) JSON
6 27 (3.52%) LDAP
7 24 (3.13%) OpenID
8 18 (2.34%) SOAP
9 17 (2.21%) Kafka
10 16 (2.08%) OAuth2
11 15 (1.95%) XML
12 14 (1.82%) PySpark
13 13 (1.69%) XSLT
14 12 (1.56%) JDBC
14 12 (1.56%) SailPoint
15 11 (1.43%) .NET
15 11 (1.43%) HTML
16 10 (1.30%) Gherkin
16 10 (1.30%) Middleware
17 8 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 39 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 39 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.04%) Security Posture
5 30 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
8 21 (2.73%) NHS
9 20 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.34%) Taxonomies
11 15 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
12 14 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.73%) Windows
2 15 (1.95%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (28.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 203 (26.43%) Data Protection
3 197 (25.65%) Data Governance
4 159 (20.70%) Agile
5 153 (19.92%) Analytics
6 147 (19.14%) AI
6 147 (19.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 144 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
8 134 (17.45%) Migration
9 118 (15.36%) DevOps
9 118 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (15.23%) Data Modelling
11 113 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (14.58%) Information Security
13 109 (14.19%) CI/CD
14 108 (14.06%) Roadmaps
15 101 (13.15%) Decision-Making
16 98 (12.76%) Risk Management
17 84 (10.94%) Validation
18 83 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 125 (16.28%) SQL
2 89 (11.59%) Python
3 40 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 36 (4.69%) Java
5 35 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 29 (3.78%) C#
7 12 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.43%) Bash
9 10 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.17%) Bicep
11 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.78%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.39%) Go
13 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.39%) R
13 3 (0.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.11%) CISSP
4 66 (8.59%) Degree
5 53 (6.90%) CISM
6 30 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 26 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.08%) PMI Certification
10 16 (2.08%) PMP
11 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.43%) ISTQB
13 10 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.30%) CISA
14 8 (1.04%) CCSP
15 7 (0.91%) CEH
16 6 (0.78%) GCIH
16 6 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (20.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 123 (16.02%) Data Quality
3 90 (11.72%) NIST
4 57 (7.42%) PCI DSS
5 54 (7.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.82%) Accessibility
6 37 (4.82%) NCSC
7 36 (4.69%) GRC
8 35 (4.56%) QA
9 28 (3.65%) HIPAA
9 28 (3.65%) WCAG
10 24 (3.13%) SOC 2
11 22 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (2.08%) PERC
13 15 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (1.43%) PMO
16 10 (1.30%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (7.16%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.82%) Docker
3 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 10 (1.30%) Grafana
4 9 (1.17%) CASB
5 8 (1.04%) Ansible
6 7 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.39%) QRadar
10 2 (0.26%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.26%) systemd
11 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.13%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 214 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.03%) SAP
3 53 (6.90%) Oracle
4 45 (5.86%) Databricks
5 44 (5.73%) Salesforce
6 37 (4.82%) Google
7 30 (3.91%) Workday
8 28 (3.65%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.34%) Adobe
10 17 (2.21%) CyberArk
11 16 (2.08%) Splunk
12 12 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 11 (1.43%) IFS
14 10 (1.30%) Informatica
15 8 (1.04%) Cisco
15 8 (1.04%) NEC
16 7 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
16 7 (0.91%) Ping Identity
17 6 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
17 6 (0.78%) Okta
1,966 GDPR jobs in England