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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 151 181
Rank change year-on-year +44 +30 +73
Contract jobs citing GDPR 902 450 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 1.83% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.39% 11.65% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 272 258
10th Percentile £370 £335 £308
25th Percentile £450 £434 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £527 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 48
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.56 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.19 £27.64 £22.37
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +23.59% +17.71%
75th Percentile £33.29 £31.76 £28.07
90th Percentile £61.20 £48.68 £34.21
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £27.50 £22.37
% change year-on-year -12.02% +22.94% +17.71%

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 6,736 3,863 5,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 15.70% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,393 2,475 3,383
10th Percentile £340 £269 £301
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £605 £630 £638
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 158 347
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.74 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +66.67% -50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.92 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.80% +68.29% -47.16%

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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

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +28 434 £550 -4.14% 154
South East +30 180 £525 +2.44% 149
North of England +10 127 £550 +4.76% 87
Midlands -9 79 £475 +3.04% 74
Yorkshire -7 59 £550 +4.76% 26
North West -5 58 £500 -4.76% 53
West Midlands -33 46 £492 +3.58% 45
South West -23 38 £500 +25.00% 39
East Midlands -8 33 £447 +29.38% 29
East of England -27 28 £625 +19.05% 57
North East -6 11 £466 +0.76% 8
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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 44 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.99%) Confluence
4 34 (3.77%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.77%) Apache
6 17 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.89%) TPMS
8 7 (0.78%) SAS
9 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.44%) Appian
10 4 (0.44%) Camunda
11 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.11%) Drupal
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Moodle
13 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.11%) R Markdown
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Actimize
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 347 (38.47%) Azure
2 261 (28.94%) AWS
3 146 (16.19%) GCP
4 130 (14.41%) Power Platform
5 86 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (8.54%) Entra ID
7 59 (6.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 47 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 40 (4.43%) SaaS
10 36 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (3.88%) Collibra
12 31 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 29 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (3.10%) OneDrive
15 26 (2.88%) GitHub
16 25 (2.77%) Snowflake
17 23 (2.55%) Serverless
18 19 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
19 18 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.54%) Firewall
2 37 (4.10%) Network Security
3 25 (2.77%) DNS
4 22 (2.44%) VPN
5 21 (2.33%) DHCP
6 15 (1.66%) Cisco IPT
6 15 (1.66%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.66%) SSL
7 14 (1.55%) Wireless
8 10 (1.11%) SMS
9 8 (0.89%) SNMP
9 8 (0.89%) SSH
10 6 (0.67%) HTTP
10 6 (0.67%) WAN
11 5 (0.55%) LAN
11 5 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.44%) NGFW
13 3 (0.33%) IPv4
13 3 (0.33%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (13.30%) Power BI
2 61 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 53 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.32%) Metadata
5 26 (2.88%) BigQuery
6 24 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.66%) Tableau
7 21 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.88%) Mixpanel
10 17 (1.88%) OLAP
10 17 (1.88%) OLTP
11 14 (1.55%) Big Data
12 12 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (5.65%) JIRA
2 28 (3.10%) Git
3 18 (2.00%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.00%) GitLab
4 17 (1.88%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.78%) ERwin
6 7 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
7 4 (0.44%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.44%) Postman
7 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) TestRail
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 347 (38.47%) Social Skills
2 285 (31.60%) Finance
3 156 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (15.19%) Legal
5 104 (11.53%) Public Sector
6 74 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (6.21%) Marketing
8 54 (5.99%) Banking
9 32 (3.55%) Retail
10 21 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.11%) Law
12 18 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.88%) Local Government
13 17 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.77%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.22%) Electronics
18 9 (1.00%) Military
19 7 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 160 (17.74%) Architect
2 107 (11.86%) Lead
3 101 (11.20%) Analyst
4 55 (6.10%) Consultant
4 55 (6.10%) Project Manager
5 54 (5.99%) Senior
6 53 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 50 (5.54%) Data Engineer
8 44 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.99%) Security Engineer
10 28 (3.10%) Data Analyst
11 25 (2.77%) Data Architect
11 25 (2.77%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 25 (2.77%) Security Architect
12 24 (2.66%) Administrator
13 22 (2.44%) Developer
13 22 (2.44%) Security Manager
14 20 (2.22%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (2.00%) Migration Manager
16 17 (1.88%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.32%) LDAP
2 44 (4.88%) Kafka
3 39 (4.32%) REST
4 38 (4.21%) OAuth
5 35 (3.88%) Middleware
6 34 (3.77%) SAML
7 20 (2.22%) PySpark
8 19 (2.11%) Great Expectations
9 18 (2.00%) OpenID
10 17 (1.88%) HTML
10 17 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 17 (1.88%) SOAP
11 16 (1.77%) .NET
11 16 (1.77%) JSON
12 15 (1.66%) CSS
13 13 (1.44%) OAuth2
14 11 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
16 9 (1.00%) J2EE
17 7 (0.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 50 (5.54%) Security Posture
4 44 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 37 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
11 20 (2.22%) Replication
12 17 (1.88%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.77%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.44%) Freedom of Information
14 13 (1.44%) NHS
15 12 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.22%) BYOD
17 10 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (9.09%) Windows
2 33 (3.66%) Linux
3 27 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.33%) Android
6 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Solaris
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (25.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 229 (25.39%) Data Protection
3 206 (22.84%) Agile
4 203 (22.51%) Data Governance
5 167 (18.51%) CI/CD
6 165 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
6 165 (18.29%) Migration
7 164 (18.18%) DevOps
8 163 (18.07%) Analytics
9 151 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (15.41%) Business Intelligence
11 135 (14.97%) Data Modelling
12 125 (13.86%) AI
13 123 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 122 (13.53%) Roadmaps
15 111 (12.31%) Validation
16 110 (12.20%) Risk Management
17 105 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (11.53%) Data Privacy
18 104 (11.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 183 (20.29%) SQL
2 157 (17.41%) Python
3 108 (11.97%) PowerShell
4 40 (4.43%) Java
5 34 (3.77%) C#
6 24 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.55%) Bash
8 14 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (1.00%) Bicep
9 9 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.78%) R
12 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.67%) Go
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) Perl
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.86%) CISSP
3 98 (10.86%) Degree
4 74 (8.20%) CISM
5 41 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 38 (4.21%) PMP
7 28 (3.10%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (2.22%) AWS Certification
11 18 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (1.77%) CHECK Team Member
13 15 (1.66%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.55%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.55%) Cyber Scheme
15 12 (1.33%) IIBA
16 11 (1.22%) CRISC
16 11 (1.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (25.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (17.85%) NIST
3 118 (13.08%) Data Quality
4 106 (11.75%) PCI DSS
5 77 (8.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 46 (5.10%) QA
7 38 (4.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 36 (3.99%) GRC
9 33 (3.66%) SOC 2
10 31 (3.44%) HIPAA
11 25 (2.77%) PERC
12 24 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 23 (2.55%) NCSC
13 23 (2.55%) PMO
14 18 (2.00%) MiFID
15 17 (1.88%) Accessibility
16 13 (1.44%) FINRA
17 12 (1.33%) Solvency II
18 9 (1.00%) COBIT
18 9 (1.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 85 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.99%) Docker
3 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (7.87%) Terraform
2 61 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.43%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.77%) Nmap
6 12 (1.33%) Grafana
7 10 (1.11%) Ansible
8 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.89%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.44%) Istio
10 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.44%) QRadar
10 4 (0.44%) Rancher
11 3 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 222 (24.61%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.76%) Google
3 64 (7.10%) Databricks
4 50 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 48 (5.32%) CyberArk
6 43 (4.77%) Oracle
7 42 (4.66%) Salesforce
8 40 (4.43%) SAP
9 32 (3.55%) Workday
10 26 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
11 23 (2.55%) Adobe
12 20 (2.22%) Okta
12 20 (2.22%) Splunk
13 19 (2.11%) Informatica
14 15 (1.66%) Tealium
15 13 (1.44%) OneTrust
16 12 (1.33%) IFS
17 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
18 9 (1.00%) VMware
19 8 (0.89%) Fortinet