GDPR Contract Job Trends in Essex

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 14 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +1
Contract jobs citing GDPR 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.35% 6.33% 0.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% 35.71% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £318 £550
Median % change year-on-year +68.14% -42.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £553 £377 -
90th Percentile - £478 -
East of England median daily rate £625 £525 £410
% change year-on-year +19.05% +28.05% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £24.19 £17.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.90% -28.80% -23.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 36 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 16.14% 17.72% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 7
10th Percentile - £314 £340
25th Percentile £363 £315 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £363 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.66% -34.09% +87.78%
75th Percentile £545 £438 £613
90th Percentile £590 £497 £642
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £410
% change year-on-year -4.55% +34.15% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £12.81 £30.50 -
25th Percentile £12.88 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.30 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.99% - -
75th Percentile £16.81 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £51.50 £34.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £33.32 £15.79
% change year-on-year -44.48% +111.02% -9.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

GDPR job vacancy trend in Essex

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Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GDPR

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GDPR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GDPR

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Essex region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Basildon -6 2 £535 +69.84% 1
Colchester - 1 - - 1
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MaxDB
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase ASE
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Payroll Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis Support
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Support
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (33.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Post-Merger Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Security
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PgMP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cadence
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase