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

 6 months to
27 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 104 224
Rank change year-on-year -70 +120 +38
Contract jobs citing GDPR 745 725 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.60% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.02% 15.04% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 468 218
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £416 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +4.23% -12.57%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £507
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.55% -7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 37 15
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £17.17 £16.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +61.90% +17.48%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £30.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £54.07
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +17.48%

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 8,255 4,820 4,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 17.26% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,146 2,521
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% -2.60%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £638
90th Percentile £714 £716 £756
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 229 208
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -48 357 £575 +0.44% 874
South East -62 117 £575 +15.00% 262
North of England -57 90 £483 -4.83% 245
Midlands -40 73 £450 +0.67% 143
South West -24 57 £475 +18.75% 88
West Midlands -26 52 £430 -18.19% 83
North West -31 51 £500 +9.29% 126
East of England +3 45 £525 - 74
Yorkshire -63 30 £471 -14.45% 97
East Midlands -34 21 £538 +25.15% 60
North East -33 8 £463 -15.22% 23
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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 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.61%) CMS
3 11 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.34%) IIS
5 9 (1.21%) Apache
6 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.94%) Confluence
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) 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
Applications
1 36 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (5.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.07%) NEC Housing
3 8 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.94%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.81%) iTrent
6 5 (0.67%) 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 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 251 (33.69%) Azure
2 139 (18.66%) AWS
3 90 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 72 (9.66%) GCP
5 60 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (6.04%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (6.04%) SaaS
8 43 (5.77%) Entra ID
8 43 (5.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 35 (4.70%) Serverless
10 31 (4.16%) Snowflake
11 29 (3.89%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (3.62%) GitHub
13 22 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.82%) Azure Functions
15 19 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.55%) OCI
16 17 (2.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.76%) Firewall
2 27 (3.62%) Network Security
3 18 (2.42%) Cisco IPT
4 10 (1.34%) VPN
5 8 (1.07%) SSL
6 7 (0.94%) SMS
7 5 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.67%) X.509
8 4 (0.54%) DNS
8 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.40%) FTP
9 3 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.40%) IPsec
9 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.27%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.53%) Power BI
2 52 (6.98%) Metadata
3 36 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 35 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.16%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.74%) BigQuery
7 12 (1.61%) Tableau
8 11 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.21%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.07%) Looker
12 7 (0.94%) 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 (3.09%) Git
2 18 (2.42%) JIRA
3 15 (2.01%) Postman
4 13 (1.74%) GitLab
5 11 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.48%) Selenium
5 11 (1.48%) WebDriver
6 9 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.40%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Protractor
9 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.27%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 278 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 184 (24.70%) Finance
3 135 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (18.12%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.68%) Legal
5 41 (5.50%) Local Government
6 39 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.83%) Marketing
8 35 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (4.16%) Retail
10 30 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (3.89%) Banking
12 21 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 17 (2.28%) Military
15 15 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.88%) Law
17 11 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 128 (17.18%) Architect
2 114 (15.30%) Lead
3 87 (11.68%) Analyst
4 76 (10.20%) Senior
5 40 (5.37%) Administrator
6 36 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (4.70%) Project Manager
8 32 (4.30%) Data Analyst
9 31 (4.16%) Data Engineer
10 30 (4.03%) Consultant
11 29 (3.89%) Data Architect
12 26 (3.49%) Business Analyst
13 22 (2.95%) Developer
13 22 (2.95%) Security Architect
14 20 (2.68%) Security Manager
15 19 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.28%) Coordinator
17 16 (2.15%) Security Engineer
18 13 (1.74%) Information Officer
18 13 (1.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.50%) REST
1 41 (5.50%) Terraform
2 28 (3.76%) OAuth
3 26 (3.49%) SAML
4 25 (3.36%) LDAP
5 23 (3.09%) JSON
6 21 (2.82%) OpenID
7 16 (2.15%) Kafka
8 15 (2.01%) OAuth2
8 15 (2.01%) SOAP
9 14 (1.88%) XML
10 13 (1.74%) XSLT
11 12 (1.61%) .NET
11 12 (1.61%) PySpark
11 12 (1.61%) SailPoint
12 11 (1.48%) Gherkin
12 11 (1.48%) Middleware
13 9 (1.21%) JDBC
14 8 (1.07%) HTML
15 7 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.81%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 43 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
4 36 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.16%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 26 (3.49%) Product Ownership
8 25 (3.36%) Freedom of Information
8 25 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (3.22%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (2.82%) NHS
11 20 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
11 20 (2.68%) Taxonomies
12 15 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.61%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.61%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.48%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.55%) Windows
2 15 (2.01%) Linux
3 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) 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
1 221 (29.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 211 (28.32%) Data Protection
3 202 (27.11%) Data Governance
4 155 (20.81%) Analytics
5 154 (20.67%) Agile
6 144 (19.33%) AI
7 143 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 133 (17.85%) Cybersecurity
9 129 (17.32%) Migration
10 119 (15.97%) Data Modelling
11 118 (15.84%) Information Security
12 117 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (15.30%) DevOps
14 109 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (14.50%) Roadmaps
16 104 (13.96%) Decision-Making
17 99 (13.29%) CI/CD
18 94 (12.62%) Risk Management
19 83 (11.14%) Data Management
20 82 (11.01%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.30%) SQL
2 78 (10.47%) Python
3 33 (4.43%) Java
3 33 (4.43%) JavaScript
3 33 (4.43%) PowerShell
4 29 (3.89%) C#
5 13 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.21%) Bicep
8 8 (1.07%) Bash
9 7 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.81%) BeanShell
10 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.40%) Go
12 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.27%) R
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 145 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.93%) Degree
4 69 (9.26%) CISSP
5 55 (7.38%) CISM
6 29 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 26 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (2.42%) PMP
10 17 (2.28%) PMI Certification
11 14 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.74%) CISA
13 11 (1.48%) ISTQB
14 10 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.21%) CCSP
15 9 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (1.21%) CRISC
16 7 (0.94%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (19.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (16.78%) Data Quality
3 86 (11.54%) NIST
4 55 (7.38%) PCI DSS
5 44 (5.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (4.97%) Accessibility
6 37 (4.97%) GRC
7 36 (4.83%) NCSC
7 36 (4.83%) QA
8 28 (3.76%) WCAG
9 23 (3.09%) HIPAA
10 22 (2.95%) SOC 2
11 20 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (2.01%) PERC
13 12 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (1.21%) Solvency II
16 8 (1.07%) PMO
17 7 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 51 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.48%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.34%) CASB
4 9 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.07%) Ansible
5 8 (1.07%) Grafana
6 7 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.67%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.54%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.27%) QRadar
10 2 (0.27%) 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
1 218 (29.26%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.71%) Oracle
2 50 (6.71%) SAP
3 47 (6.31%) Databricks
4 42 (5.64%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.97%) Google
6 29 (3.89%) Workday
7 26 (3.49%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.55%) Adobe
9 16 (2.15%) Splunk
10 14 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 9 (1.21%) IFS
12 9 (1.21%) Informatica
13 8 (1.07%) Cisco
13 8 (1.07%) NEC
14 7 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.94%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.81%) Civica
1,674 GDPR jobs in England