GDPR Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 217 216
Rank change year-on-year +80 -1 +37
Contract jobs citing GDPR 256 179 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.04% 1.00% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.85% 7.17% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 116 216
10th Percentile £356 £363 £410
25th Percentile £489 £414 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.76% +3.48%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £697
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
England median daily rate £529 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - - £40.40
25th Percentile - £11.95 £48.50
Median hourly rate £15.26 £12.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.08% -80.47% +132.73%
75th Percentile - £17.00 £66.00
90th Percentile - £28.66 -
England median hourly rate £27.64 £24.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +15.17% -2.04% -4.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,992 2,495 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 13.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,770 2,546
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 62 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £12.70 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.73 £81.25
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +18 42 £640 -5.19% 41
South London - 4 £488 - 8
West London +9 3 - - 42
East London +7 1 £600 +50.00% 8
GDPR
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 16 (6.25%) Confluence
2 15 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.52%) Apache
5 6 (2.34%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.95%) SAS
7 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.78%) Drupal
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.73%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.95%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.17%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.78%) CiviCRM
2 2 (0.78%) iTrent
2 2 (0.78%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (37.11%) Azure
2 61 (23.83%) AWS
3 38 (14.84%) GCP
4 34 (13.28%) Power Platform
5 17 (6.64%) Entra ID
6 16 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (5.47%) SaaS
8 13 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.69%) Serverless
10 11 (4.30%) GitHub
11 10 (3.91%) Collibra
11 10 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.52%) IaaS
13 8 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.73%) PaaS
15 6 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.34%) Nutanix
15 6 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.47%) Firewall
2 10 (3.91%) DNS
2 10 (3.91%) Network Security
3 9 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.34%) SSH
5 4 (1.56%) HTTP
6 3 (1.17%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.17%) NAS
6 3 (1.17%) SAN
6 3 (1.17%) VPN
7 2 (0.78%) SMTP
7 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.39%) DHCP
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) Skype
8 1 (0.39%) VLAN
8 1 (0.39%) VSAN
8 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) Power BI
2 20 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.64%) Tableau
4 14 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (5.08%) Metadata
6 8 (3.13%) Apache Hive
6 8 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 6 (2.34%) Big Data
7 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.34%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.56%) QlikView
9 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (10.16%) JIRA
2 17 (6.64%) Git
3 8 (3.13%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.73%) Subversion
5 6 (2.34%) RStudio
6 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.56%) ERwin
8 2 (0.78%) GitLab
9 1 (0.39%) JMeter
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Postman
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) Serena SBM
9 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.05%) Finance
3 49 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.50%) Banking
5 25 (9.77%) Legal
6 23 (8.98%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.25%) Marketing
8 11 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.52%) Law
10 8 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.34%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.95%) Police
13 5 (1.95%) Retail
14 4 (1.56%) Advertising
14 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.56%) Local Government
14 4 (1.56%) Music Industry
15 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 52 (20.31%) Architect
2 48 (18.75%) Analyst
3 28 (10.94%) Lead
4 24 (9.38%) Senior
5 20 (7.81%) Security Architect
6 18 (7.03%) Consultant
7 14 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.47%) Data Architect
8 13 (5.08%) Data Analyst
8 13 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.52%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.52%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.13%) Administrator
11 8 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Security Analyst
12 7 (2.73%) Azure Architect
12 7 (2.73%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.34%) IT Analyst
13 6 (2.34%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.47%) SailPoint
2 13 (5.08%) REST
3 10 (3.91%) PySpark
4 9 (3.52%) JSON
4 9 (3.52%) Kafka
5 7 (2.73%) pydantic
5 7 (2.73%) YAML
6 6 (2.34%) LDAP
7 5 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.95%) OAuth
7 5 (1.95%) SAML
8 4 (1.56%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.56%) Middleware
8 4 (1.56%) SOAP
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (1.17%) CSS
9 3 (1.17%) HTML
9 3 (1.17%) Node.js
9 3 (1.17%) OpenID
10 2 (0.78%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.47%) Security Posture
3 13 (5.08%) Reference Data
4 12 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.69%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.91%) Insider Threat
7 9 (3.52%) Clustering
7 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.52%) Replication
8 7 (2.73%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.73%) Social Media
9 6 (2.34%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.33%) Linux
2 19 (7.42%) Windows
3 10 (3.91%) Solaris
4 8 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.17%) AIX
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.39%) Unix
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (22.27%) Data Governance
3 53 (20.70%) Data Protection
4 51 (19.92%) Analytics
5 49 (19.14%) Risk Management
6 45 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (16.02%) Agile
7 41 (16.02%) Data Security
8 40 (15.63%) Project Management
9 39 (15.23%) DevOps
10 36 (14.06%) Incident Response
10 36 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (13.28%) Data Privacy
11 34 (13.28%) Information Security
12 31 (12.11%) Migration
13 30 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (11.33%) Decision-Making
15 28 (10.94%) Cloud Security
15 28 (10.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.27%) Python
2 45 (17.58%) SQL
3 27 (10.55%) PowerShell
4 25 (9.77%) Bash
5 10 (3.91%) Java
6 8 (3.13%) Perl
6 8 (3.13%) Scala
6 8 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.34%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.95%) Bicep
9 4 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.56%) R
10 3 (1.17%) BeanShell
10 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.78%) C#
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (15.63%) CISSP
2 33 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.72%) CISM
4 29 (11.33%) SC Cleared
5 28 (10.94%) Degree
6 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (3.91%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.52%) CISA
10 8 (3.13%) CEH
11 7 (2.73%) CRISC
12 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.34%) FFIEC
13 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
14 4 (1.56%) Azure Certification
15 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (1.17%) CBAP
15 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (1.17%) PMP
16 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (26.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (23.83%) NIST
3 46 (17.97%) HIPAA
4 38 (14.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 31 (12.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 25 (9.77%) Data Quality
6 25 (9.77%) PCI DSS
7 18 (7.03%) SOC 2
8 12 (4.69%) Accessibility
9 8 (3.13%) GRC
10 7 (2.73%) EU AI Act
11 6 (2.34%) PMO
11 6 (2.34%) QA
12 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (1.17%) COBIT
14 3 (1.17%) COSO
14 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (1.17%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 22 (8.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.13%) Docker
3 8 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.78%) NFS
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.78%) Veritas File System
5 2 (0.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.39%) HDFS
6 1 (0.39%) IAG
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (7.03%) Terraform
2 14 (5.47%) Ansible
3 11 (4.30%) CASB
4 9 (3.52%) Kubernetes
5 7 (2.73%) QRadar
6 6 (2.34%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.34%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.34%) Tivoli
6 6 (2.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (1.95%) Grafana
8 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.78%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.39%) Control-M
10 1 (0.39%) Netcool
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 62 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) CyberArk
2 19 (7.42%) Google
3 15 (5.86%) Oracle
4 14 (5.47%) Informatica
4 14 (5.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.08%) SAP
5 13 (5.08%) VMware
6 12 (4.69%) Databricks
6 12 (4.69%) Splunk
7 10 (3.91%) IBM
8 9 (3.52%) Qualys
9 8 (3.13%) Adobe
9 8 (3.13%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.73%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (2.73%) EMC
10 7 (2.73%) Okta
11 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.34%) SaltStack
12 4 (1.56%) Cisco