GDPR Contracts in England

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 212 246
Rank change year-on-year +73 +34 +12
Contract jobs citing GDPR 512 417 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.05% 1.11% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.48% 8.27% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 233 340
10th Percentile £360 £304 £406
25th Percentile £430 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 48 20
10th Percentile - £11.56 £13.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £11.95 £16.27
Median hourly rate £27.64 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% +31.58% -24.26%
75th Percentile £34.31 £28.75 £21.88
90th Percentile £72.03 £34.21 £33.60
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £24.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.08% +26.32% -24.26%

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 4,102 5,040 6,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.42% 13.44% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,642 3,157 4,314
10th Percentile £268 £300 £304
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 385 236
10th Percentile £15.13 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.84 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.80 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% -40.97% +49.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.07 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.15 £70.00 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £31.70 £23.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +37.83% -38.67% +36.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in England.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in England.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 2025. 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 +111 252 £575 +9.52% 2,175
South East +21 64 £525 +10.53% 763
North of England +17 61 £525 +20.00% 711
Midlands +29 53 £415 -12.63% 450
South West +46 36 £400 -37.25% 305
West Midlands +17 31 £475 - 274
North West -9 30 £544 +20.83% 387
Yorkshire +16 28 £507 +192.74% 270
East of England +18 24 £522 +27.32% 341
East Midlands +23 22 £405 -12.43% 175
North East +2 3 £544 - 55
GDPR
UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.34%) Apache
3 9 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.56%) Confluence
4 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.78%) CMS
6 4 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.78%) SAS
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.39%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.37%) SAP HR
2 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.98%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (0.59%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.39%) iTrent
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 182 (35.55%) Azure
2 127 (24.80%) AWS
3 85 (16.60%) GCP
4 45 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 39 (7.62%) Entra ID
6 30 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (5.47%) SaaS
8 24 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 22 (4.30%) GitHub
10 21 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (3.71%) Serverless
12 18 (3.52%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.32%) IaaS
14 14 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.73%) Collibra
14 14 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.73%) PaaS
15 13 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 41 (8.01%) Firewall
2 25 (4.88%) Network Security
3 13 (2.54%) DNS
4 9 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (1.17%) VPN
6 6 (1.17%) Wireless
7 5 (0.98%) SSL
8 4 (0.78%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.78%) HTTP
8 4 (0.78%) SSH
9 3 (0.59%) DHCP
9 3 (0.59%) NAS
9 3 (0.59%) SAN
9 3 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.59%) X.509
10 2 (0.39%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.39%) SMTP
10 2 (0.39%) VLAN
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.59%) Power BI
2 26 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.49%) Metadata
4 22 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.32%) Tableau
7 16 (3.13%) Big Data
8 15 (2.93%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.15%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.95%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.76%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.17%) Apache Hive
14 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.98%) Looker
15 5 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.69%) JIRA
2 17 (3.32%) Git
3 12 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.56%) GitLab
5 6 (1.17%) ERwin
5 6 (1.17%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.17%) Subversion
6 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.78%) RStudio
8 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.39%) NetBeans
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.20%) JMeter
9 1 (0.20%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) Selenium
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 192 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 127 (24.80%) Finance
3 88 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.20%) Legal
5 38 (7.42%) Banking
6 35 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.30%) Marketing
8 20 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.54%) Retail
10 12 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.34%) Law
11 11 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.56%) Local Government
14 7 (1.37%) Automotive
14 7 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.37%) Police
15 6 (1.17%) Advertising
16 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (18.75%) Architect
2 88 (17.19%) Analyst
3 49 (9.57%) Senior
4 42 (8.20%) Lead
5 35 (6.84%) Security Architect
6 34 (6.64%) Consultant
7 23 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.30%) Administrator
8 22 (4.30%) Data Architect
8 22 (4.30%) Data Engineer
9 21 (4.10%) Data Analyst
9 21 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 17 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.93%) Azure Architect
13 14 (2.73%) Applications Support
13 14 (2.73%) Security Consultant
13 14 (2.73%) Senior Applications Support
14 13 (2.54%) Developer
14 13 (2.54%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.49%) SailPoint
2 22 (4.30%) OAuth
2 22 (4.30%) SAML
3 19 (3.71%) OpenID
4 17 (3.32%) Kafka
4 17 (3.32%) LDAP
5 14 (2.73%) PySpark
6 12 (2.34%) Spring
7 10 (1.95%) Hibernate
7 10 (1.95%) REST
8 9 (1.76%) Middleware
9 8 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.56%) Web Services
10 7 (1.37%) .NET
11 6 (1.17%) JSON
11 6 (1.17%) React
12 5 (0.98%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.98%) pydantic
12 5 (0.98%) YAML
13 4 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.40%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.86%) Security Posture
3 25 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (3.91%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.93%) Replication
9 14 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.95%) Freedom of Information
11 10 (1.95%) Insider Threat
11 10 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.95%) Reference Data
12 9 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.56%) NHS
13 8 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (1.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.23%) Windows
2 29 (5.66%) Linux
3 12 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.76%) Solaris
5 8 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.59%) AIX
7 3 (0.59%) Unix
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (21.29%) Data Protection
3 94 (18.36%) Data Governance
4 84 (16.41%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (15.04%) Analytics
6 69 (13.48%) DevOps
7 68 (13.28%) Identity Access Management
7 68 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 67 (13.09%) Agile
8 67 (13.09%) Risk Management
9 66 (12.89%) CI/CD
10 64 (12.50%) Information Security
11 63 (12.30%) Data Security
11 63 (12.30%) Migration
12 61 (11.91%) Cloud Security
13 60 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (10.94%) Project Management
15 54 (10.55%) Incident Response
15 54 (10.55%) Regulatory Compliance
16 52 (10.16%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.14%) SQL
2 93 (18.16%) Python
3 52 (10.16%) PowerShell
4 36 (7.03%) Bash
5 26 (5.08%) Java
6 11 (2.15%) Bicep
6 11 (2.15%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.56%) Perl
8 8 (1.56%) Scala
9 7 (1.37%) R
9 7 (1.37%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.78%) C
11 4 (0.78%) C#
12 3 (0.59%) C++
12 3 (0.59%) Go
12 3 (0.59%) Groovy
12 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (12.11%) CISSP
2 57 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 51 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 50 (9.77%) Degree
5 48 (9.38%) CISM
6 17 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.34%) PMP
10 10 (1.95%) CEH
11 9 (1.76%) CISA
11 9 (1.76%) CRISC
11 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.76%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.17%) GSEC
13 6 (1.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (22.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (19.34%) NIST
3 95 (18.55%) HIPAA
4 57 (11.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 52 (10.16%) PCI DSS
6 47 (9.18%) Data Quality
7 41 (8.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 26 (5.08%) SOC 2
9 19 (3.71%) GRC
10 11 (2.15%) Accessibility
11 10 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (1.76%) SLA
13 7 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.37%) EU AI Act
14 6 (1.17%) COBIT
14 6 (1.17%) NIST 800
14 6 (1.17%) QA
15 5 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.66%) Docker
3 9 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) HDFS
9 1 (0.20%) IAG
9 1 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.20%) RACF
9 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (7.81%) Terraform
2 30 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.52%) Ansible
4 13 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.34%) CASB
6 10 (1.95%) Grafana
7 9 (1.76%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 7 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.17%) Nessus
9 6 (1.17%) QRadar
9 6 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (1.17%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.98%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.98%) Tivoli
10 5 (0.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (0.59%) Puppet
12 2 (0.39%) Kibana
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.39%) SELinux
Vendors
1 116 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.84%) Google
3 30 (5.86%) Oracle
3 30 (5.86%) ServiceNow
4 27 (5.27%) SAP
5 20 (3.91%) CyberArk
6 18 (3.52%) Databricks
7 17 (3.32%) Informatica
8 16 (3.13%) IBM
8 16 (3.13%) Ping Identity
9 14 (2.73%) Okta
9 14 (2.73%) Splunk
10 13 (2.54%) Qualys
11 12 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 12 (2.34%) VMware
12 7 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.37%) Workday
13 6 (1.17%) Adobe
13 6 (1.17%) EMC
4,747 GDPR jobs in England