GDPR Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing GDPR 36 9 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.19% 1.21% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.40% 7.96% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 4
10th Percentile £420 £500 £434
25th Percentile £528 £503 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £474
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +10.82% -3.32%
75th Percentile £766 £554 £494
90th Percentile £775 £594 -
South East median daily rate £550 £513 £460
% change year-on-year +7.32% +11.41% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.71
25th Percentile - - £15.11
Median hourly rate - - £15.85
75th Percentile - - £16.64
90th Percentile - - £17.08
South East median hourly rate £16.00 - £27.50

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 250 113 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.19% 15.19% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 80 85
10th Percentile £290 £200 £363
25th Percentile £450 £332 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £535
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -5.37% +14.19%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £600
90th Percentile £738 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 19
10th Percentile £13.82 £21.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.83 £18.32
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.21% -34.24% -21.05%
75th Percentile £52.58 £26.58 £54.38
90th Percentile £80.92 £41.10 £60.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £46.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.59% +68.36% -12.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Hampshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GDPR

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Portsmouth - 12 £425 - 3
Southampton -1 8 £563 - 1
Andover - 7 £750 - 1
Basingstoke - 6 £575 - 2
Havant -12 1 £625 +11.61%
Farnborough -14 1 £550 -12.28% 1
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.78%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 11 (30.56%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Network Security
2 6 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (2.78%) DMZ
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.78%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Retail
3 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Law
4 5 (13.89%) Legal
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Lead
2 9 (25.00%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Consultant
4 5 (13.89%) Commercial Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Security Consultant
5 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Data Migration Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Developer
7 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Migration Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.78%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) CSS
1 1 (2.78%) HTML
1 1 (2.78%) Laravel
1 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.67%) BYOD
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Data Protection
2 17 (47.22%) Change Management
3 14 (38.89%) Migration
3 14 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
4 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 12 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (33.33%) Validation
5 11 (30.56%) Cloud Security
5 11 (30.56%) ERP
5 11 (30.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (30.56%) Scenario Testing
6 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (27.78%) Security Operations
7 7 (19.44%) Information Governance
7 7 (19.44%) OWASP
7 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
7 7 (19.44%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.78%) PHP
1 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
1 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) CISM
2 8 (22.22%) CISSP
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) Degree
4 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) OCP
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) NCSC
2 7 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (19.44%) NIST
2 7 (19.44%) PCI DSS
3 6 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) GRC
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.78%) JSP 440
4 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.78%) systemd
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) IFS
2 4 (11.11%) Sparx
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) NEC
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce