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 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 54 61 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +26
Contract jobs citing GDPR 38 11 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.84% 1.38% 1.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.59% 11.70% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 7 2
10th Percentile £445 £380 £363
25th Percentile £447 £513 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £607 £606
90th Percentile £775 £656 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £475
% change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% -6.86%

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 229 94 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.09% 11.81% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 69 86
10th Percentile £353 £250 £385
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.55% +7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £667
90th Percentile £725 £675 £671
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.63% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile £13.79 £16.80 £27.50
25th Percentile £14.97 £19.50 £30.31
Median hourly rate £26.35 £22.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% -60.00% +100.71%
75th Percentile £40.15 £24.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £47.61 £26.85 -
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £50.00 £52.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -5.32% +122.18%

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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 16 January 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 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
Havant - 8 £650 -
Fleet - 8 £447 -
Basingstoke - 7 £575 - 3
Andover - 6 £750 - 1
Southampton 0 4 £563 - 5
Eastleigh -3 1 £525 -
Farnborough -9 1 £550 -12.28%
GDPR
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) OCI
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.63%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
1 4 (10.53%) Network Security
2 3 (7.89%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (2.63%) DMZ
4 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Law
3 5 (13.16%) Legal
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Architect
1 7 (18.42%) Lead
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Commercial Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Data Migration Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Security Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
7 1 (2.63%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.63%) Report Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) LDAP
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth
1 1 (2.63%) OpenID
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) BYOD
3 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
1 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 12 (31.58%) Data Protection
3 10 (26.32%) Migration
3 10 (26.32%) Risk Management
4 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (18.42%) Agile
6 7 (18.42%) Data Migration
6 7 (18.42%) Security Operations
7 6 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
7 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 6 (15.79%) Information Security
7 6 (15.79%) OWASP
7 6 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) CISM
4 5 (13.16%) CISSP
5 4 (10.53%) Degree
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (5.26%) CEH
7 2 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.26%) OCP
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (28.95%) NIST
2 7 (18.42%) NCSC
3 5 (13.16%) PCI DSS
4 4 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (7.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.63%) GRC
7 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Avamar
2 1 (2.63%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.63%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.63%) systemd
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) CyberArk
3 4 (10.53%) Sparx
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.89%) VMware
5 2 (5.26%) Citrix
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) Workday
6 1 (2.63%) Dell
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.63%) Veeam