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

 6 months to
16 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 184 200
Rank change year-on-year +84 +16 +68
Contract jobs citing GDPR 847 390 440
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 1.45% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.37% 10.08% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 215 236
10th Percentile £337 £301 £363
25th Percentile £425 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -1.14% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £678
90th Percentile £738 £700 £748
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 9
10th Percentile £16.50 - -
25th Percentile £22.10 £15.50 £11.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £16.13 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.85% -2.27% -38.89%
75th Percentile £58.50 £20.19 £19.47
90th Percentile £74.88 £21.90 £26.66
UK median hourly rate £29.10 £16.25 £15.52
% change year-on-year +79.05% +4.70% -46.19%

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 5,509 3,868 5,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.30% 14.35% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,261 3,427
10th Percentile £315 £265 £320
25th Percentile £408 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £614 £635 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 149 229
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.50 £17.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -9.09% +33.12%
75th Percentile £60.46 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £79.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% -10.77% +35.42%

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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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +87 417 £540 +2.86% 144
South East +45 169 £500 -7.41% 161
North of England +2 99 £550 +15.79% 80
Midlands +4 74 £475 -5.00% 66
Yorkshire -6 59 £558 +6.29% 28
South West +14 48 £475 +69.64% 30
West Midlands -13 41 £500 +5.26% 41
East Midlands -2 33 £437 -20.59% 25
North West -9 33 £450 - 44
East of England -20 17 £527 +5.30% 64
North East -17 7 £466 +9.65% 8
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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 41 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (4.01%) Confluence
4 20 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.01%) Apache
6 14 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.18%) TPMS
8 7 (0.83%) SAS
9 6 (0.71%) Appian
9 6 (0.71%) Camunda
10 5 (0.59%) CMS
11 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 326 (38.49%) Azure
2 244 (28.81%) AWS
3 133 (15.70%) GCP
4 85 (10.04%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (9.92%) Power Platform
6 78 (9.21%) Entra ID
7 45 (5.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 42 (4.96%) SaaS
9 37 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (3.66%) Amazon S3
12 29 (3.42%) Collibra
13 28 (3.31%) Serverless
14 26 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (2.95%) OneDrive
16 24 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
16 24 (2.83%) GitHub
16 24 (2.83%) OCI
17 17 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.44%) Firewall
2 41 (4.84%) Network Security
3 27 (3.19%) DNS
4 26 (3.07%) VPN
5 17 (2.01%) SSL
6 16 (1.89%) Wireless
7 15 (1.77%) DHCP
7 15 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.42%) Cisco IPT
9 10 (1.18%) SNMP
9 10 (1.18%) SSH
10 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
10 9 (1.06%) LAN
10 9 (1.06%) SMS
10 9 (1.06%) WAN
11 8 (0.94%) PABX
11 8 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.94%) WLAN
12 6 (0.71%) BGP
12 6 (0.71%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.74%) Power BI
2 51 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 40 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (4.72%) Metadata
4 19 (2.24%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.01%) Tableau
6 16 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.77%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.42%) Big Data
9 12 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.18%) Mixpanel
11 10 (1.18%) OLAP
11 10 (1.18%) OLTP
11 10 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 8 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (5.55%) JIRA
2 24 (2.83%) Git
3 21 (2.48%) GitLab
4 15 (1.77%) Metasploit
5 14 (1.65%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Postman
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
7 5 (0.59%) Subversion
8 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.35%) ERwin
9 3 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Locust
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.24%) Snyk
General
1 396 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 236 (27.86%) Finance
3 130 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.63%) Legal
5 94 (11.10%) Public Sector
6 75 (8.85%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (8.26%) Marketing
8 58 (6.85%) Banking
9 26 (3.07%) Law
10 21 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.77%) Electronics
15 14 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.42%) Retail
17 9 (1.06%) Local Government
17 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 142 (16.77%) Architect
2 114 (13.46%) Analyst
3 96 (11.33%) Lead
4 63 (7.44%) Consultant
5 51 (6.02%) Senior
6 50 (5.90%) Business Analyst
7 44 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 41 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (4.01%) Security Architect
10 33 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 33 (3.90%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 24 (2.83%) Developer
13 23 (2.72%) Administrator
14 19 (2.24%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.13%) Security Analyst
16 17 (2.01%) Microsoft 365 Architect
17 15 (1.77%) QA Engineer
18 14 (1.65%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.65%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.67%) REST
2 45 (5.31%) LDAP
2 45 (5.31%) OAuth
3 37 (4.37%) SAML
4 28 (3.31%) Kafka
5 26 (3.07%) OpenID
6 22 (2.60%) OAuth2
7 19 (2.24%) SOAP
8 17 (2.01%) HTML
8 17 (2.01%) Middleware
8 17 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 16 (1.89%) PySpark
10 11 (1.30%) CSS
10 11 (1.30%) RESTful
11 10 (1.18%) .NET
11 10 (1.18%) Great Expectations
11 10 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (0.94%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.85%) Onboarding
2 53 (6.26%) Cloud Native
3 49 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 48 (5.67%) Security Posture
5 37 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 34 (4.01%) Data Structures
7 27 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 17 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.01%) Replication
11 14 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
11 14 (1.65%) NHS
12 13 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
13 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 78 (9.21%) Windows
2 36 (4.25%) Linux
3 13 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.42%) Mac OS
4 12 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.71%) Solaris
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (25.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 193 (22.79%) Agile
3 181 (21.37%) Data Governance
4 180 (21.25%) Data Protection
5 160 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 154 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 149 (17.59%) DevOps
8 148 (17.47%) CI/CD
9 141 (16.65%) Analytics
10 132 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 131 (15.47%) Data Privacy
12 124 (14.64%) Data Modelling
13 123 (14.52%) Migration
14 109 (12.87%) Roadmaps
15 100 (11.81%) Information Security
16 97 (11.45%) Risk Management
17 94 (11.10%) Business Intelligence
17 94 (11.10%) Regulatory Compliance
18 92 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (10.86%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 144 (17.00%) Python
2 128 (15.11%) SQL
3 107 (12.63%) PowerShell
4 27 (3.19%) Bash
4 27 (3.19%) Java
5 20 (2.36%) C#
5 20 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.42%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.18%) Bicep
9 8 (0.94%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.71%) Perl
11 6 (0.71%) R
12 5 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) Rust
15 2 (0.24%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 151 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.29%) CISSP
3 120 (14.17%) SC Cleared
4 110 (12.99%) Degree
5 79 (9.33%) CISM
6 40 (4.72%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.60%) AWS Certification
8 32 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (2.83%) PMI Certification
10 23 (2.72%) Master's Degree
11 21 (2.48%) CISA
11 21 (2.48%) PMP
12 20 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (2.13%) CCSP
13 18 (2.13%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (1.65%) CHECK Team Member
16 12 (1.42%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (28.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (20.78%) NIST
3 104 (12.28%) PCI DSS
4 87 (10.27%) Data Quality
5 71 (8.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 52 (6.14%) HIPAA
7 48 (5.67%) QA
8 44 (5.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 38 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (2.60%) GRC
10 22 (2.60%) SOC 2
11 20 (2.36%) NCSC
12 19 (2.24%) PERC
12 19 (2.24%) PSD2
13 18 (2.13%) Accessibility
14 16 (1.89%) SLA
15 15 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (1.65%) MiFID
17 13 (1.53%) PMO
18 10 (1.18%) GLBA
System Software
1 87 (10.27%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.78%) Docker
3 23 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.47%) NFS
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) NDS
9 1 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 70 (8.26%) Terraform
2 40 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
3 39 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 25 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.48%) Ansible
6 19 (2.24%) SCCM
7 16 (1.89%) QRadar
8 14 (1.65%) Nmap
9 10 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.71%) PingFederate
10 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.59%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.47%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.24%) Grafana
14 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 202 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.73%) Salesforce
3 55 (6.49%) Google
4 48 (5.67%) Oracle
5 46 (5.43%) CyberArk
6 38 (4.49%) SAP
7 37 (4.37%) Databricks
8 36 (4.25%) ServiceNow
9 35 (4.13%) Splunk
10 26 (3.07%) BeyondTrust
10 26 (3.07%) VMware
11 21 (2.48%) Workday
12 20 (2.36%) Informatica
13 17 (2.01%) Adobe
13 17 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 17 (2.01%) OneTrust
14 14 (1.65%) Citrix
15 13 (1.53%) Cisco
15 13 (1.53%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.53%) Ping Identity
487 GDPR jobs in England