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

 6 months to
26 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 162 172
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 +74
Contract jobs citing GDPR 890 418 506
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 1.62% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.43% 10.83% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 239 259
10th Percentile £350 £302 £324
25th Percentile £425 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £503
% change year-on-year -2.14% +4.48% -8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 38
10th Percentile £13.81 - £11.06
25th Percentile £24.52 £15.50 £11.95
Median hourly rate £28.55 £17.74 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year +60.98% +5.10% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.45 £31.76 £25.00
90th Percentile £64.05 £32.96 £31.26
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £20.19 £16.88
% change year-on-year +41.41% +19.64% -25.61%

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 6,169 3,859 5,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 14.98% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 2,332 3,478
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £602 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 147 323
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £14.52
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +21.04% -25.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £76.34 £71.62
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.11 £25.06
% change year-on-year -8.65% +20.14% -22.90%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +60 432 £548 -0.45% 94
South East +35 157 £500 -4.76% 71
North of England -6 116 £550 +15.79% 68
Midlands +2 88 £475 - 57
Yorkshire -9 71 £558 +6.29% 16
South West +15 59 £475 +69.64% 23
West Midlands -22 47 £500 +5.26% 37
East Midlands +2 41 £447 -5.89% 20
North West -23 38 £483 +1.58% 43
East of England -21 20 £544 +8.80% 23
North East -16 7 £466 +0.76% 9
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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 47 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (4.38%) Confluence
4 25 (2.81%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.70%) Apache
6 13 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (1.24%) TPMS
8 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.79%) SAS
9 6 (0.67%) Appian
9 6 (0.67%) Camunda
10 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 46 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 356 (40.00%) Azure
2 256 (28.76%) AWS
3 137 (15.39%) GCP
4 100 (11.24%) Power Platform
5 97 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 57 (6.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 46 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.38%) SaaS
11 36 (4.04%) Amazon S3
12 32 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (3.48%) OneDrive
14 30 (3.37%) Collibra
15 27 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.92%) Serverless
17 22 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
18 21 (2.36%) GitHub
19 16 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
19 16 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.74%) Firewall
2 40 (4.49%) Network Security
3 31 (3.48%) DNS
4 25 (2.81%) VPN
5 24 (2.70%) DHCP
6 18 (2.02%) Kerberos
6 18 (2.02%) SSL
7 17 (1.91%) Wireless
8 14 (1.57%) Cisco IPT
9 11 (1.24%) SMS
9 11 (1.24%) SNMP
9 11 (1.24%) SSH
9 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.01%) LAN
10 9 (1.01%) WAN
11 8 (0.90%) PABX
11 8 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.90%) WLAN
12 7 (0.79%) BGP
12 7 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.11%) Power BI
2 61 (6.85%) Data Lake
3 41 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (4.16%) Metadata
5 21 (2.36%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.13%) Tableau
7 16 (1.80%) Mixpanel
8 15 (1.69%) OLAP
8 15 (1.69%) OLTP
9 13 (1.46%) Big Data
10 11 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (5.39%) JIRA
2 26 (2.92%) Git
3 18 (2.02%) GitLab
4 17 (1.91%) Metasploit
5 16 (1.80%) Burp Suite
6 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) Postman
7 6 (0.67%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.34%) Subversion
9 2 (0.22%) Ant
9 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) Locust
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 401 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 249 (27.98%) Finance
3 139 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.15%) Legal
5 103 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 83 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
7 62 (6.97%) Marketing
8 50 (5.62%) Banking
9 22 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.02%) Law
10 18 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.57%) Electronics
13 14 (1.57%) Retail
14 13 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.24%) Military
16 8 (0.90%) Local Government
17 7 (0.79%) Billing
17 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 162 (18.20%) Architect
2 109 (12.25%) Analyst
3 83 (9.33%) Lead
4 64 (7.19%) Consultant
5 56 (6.29%) Senior
6 51 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (5.28%) Business Analyst
7 47 (5.28%) Data Engineer
8 43 (4.83%) Security Engineer
9 37 (4.16%) Project Manager
10 28 (3.15%) Security Architect
11 27 (3.03%) Developer
12 25 (2.81%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 24 (2.70%) Administrator
13 24 (2.70%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.70%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.02%) Security Analyst
15 15 (1.69%) Penetration Tester
15 15 (1.69%) Tester
16 14 (1.57%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.07%) LDAP
2 52 (5.84%) OAuth
3 49 (5.51%) REST
4 45 (5.06%) SAML
5 32 (3.60%) Kafka
6 28 (3.15%) Middleware
7 27 (3.03%) OpenID
8 23 (2.58%) OAuth2
9 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (2.02%) .NET
10 18 (2.02%) SOAP
11 17 (1.91%) Great Expectations
11 17 (1.91%) HTML
11 17 (1.91%) PySpark
12 15 (1.69%) CSS
12 15 (1.69%) RESTful
13 13 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.12%) GraphQL
14 10 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
15 9 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 53 (5.96%) Management Information System
4 49 (5.51%) Security Posture
5 40 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 28 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.81%) Replication
10 18 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
12 15 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.69%) NHS
13 13 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
17 9 (1.01%) AI Agents
17 9 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.67%) Windows
2 44 (4.94%) Linux
3 20 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.45%) Solaris
8 3 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.22%) Unix
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (25.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 193 (21.69%) Agile
3 191 (21.46%) Data Protection
4 187 (21.01%) Data Governance
5 168 (18.88%) DevOps
6 166 (18.65%) Cybersecurity
7 157 (17.64%) CI/CD
8 151 (16.97%) Migration
9 150 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 149 (16.74%) Analytics
11 135 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 126 (14.16%) Data Modelling
13 120 (13.48%) Roadmaps
14 115 (12.92%) Data Privacy
15 111 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
15 111 (12.47%) Risk Management
16 107 (12.02%) AI
17 104 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (11.46%) Information Security
19 101 (11.35%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 159 (17.87%) Python
2 150 (16.85%) SQL
3 127 (14.27%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.93%) Java
5 29 (3.26%) C#
6 27 (3.03%) Bash
7 25 (2.81%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.01%) Bicep
11 8 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.79%) R
13 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.45%) Go
14 4 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 165 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 137 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 114 (12.81%) Degree
4 109 (12.25%) CISSP
5 75 (8.43%) CISM
6 36 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.82%) AWS Certification
9 31 (3.48%) PMI Certification
10 28 (3.15%) PMP
11 27 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.47%) Master's Degree
13 21 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.69%) CCSP
15 15 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
16 14 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
17 13 (1.46%) CISA
17 13 (1.46%) CREST Certified
17 13 (1.46%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (27.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 180 (20.22%) NIST
3 111 (12.47%) PCI DSS
4 99 (11.12%) Data Quality
5 76 (8.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 52 (5.84%) HIPAA
7 49 (5.51%) QA
8 46 (5.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (3.71%) GRC
11 27 (3.03%) SOC 2
12 24 (2.70%) NCSC
13 19 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (2.13%) PMO
13 19 (2.13%) SLA
14 18 (2.02%) MiFID
14 18 (2.02%) PERC
15 13 (1.46%) FINRA
15 13 (1.46%) PSD2
16 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 97 (10.90%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.71%) Docker
3 18 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) NFS
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.22%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) NDS
7 1 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 75 (8.43%) Terraform
2 52 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
3 48 (5.39%) Kubernetes
4 24 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.25%) Ansible
6 19 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (1.91%) SCCM
8 15 (1.69%) Nmap
9 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.79%) QRadar
10 6 (0.67%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.56%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.56%) Grafana
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.63%) Google
3 54 (6.07%) Salesforce
4 53 (5.96%) CyberArk
4 53 (5.96%) Databricks
5 43 (4.83%) ServiceNow
6 42 (4.72%) Oracle
7 33 (3.71%) SAP
8 30 (3.37%) BeyondTrust
9 29 (3.26%) Splunk
10 23 (2.58%) Workday
11 22 (2.47%) Adobe
12 20 (2.25%) Okta
12 20 (2.25%) VMware
13 19 (2.13%) Informatica
14 15 (1.69%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.69%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.46%) Cisco
15 13 (1.46%) OneTrust
15 13 (1.46%) Tealium
309 GDPR jobs in England