GDPR Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 164 242
Rank change year-on-year +60 +78 -13
Contract jobs citing GDPR 440 216 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.69% 1.66% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.32% 11.06% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 126 103
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £429 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -2.87%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £23.91 - -
25th Percentile £26.52 - £11.95
Median hourly rate £28.55 £15.26 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.09% +22.08% -80.47%
75th Percentile £75.38 - £17.00
90th Percentile £94.25 - £21.12
England median hourly rate £25.50 £19.21 £19.49
% change year-on-year +32.78% -1.44% -27.83%

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 3,072 1,953 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.81% 15.05% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,042 1,289 1,752
10th Percentile £350 £311 £363
25th Percentile £424 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £790 £787
England median daily rate £510 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -4.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.07 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.72 £22.75 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.02 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% +51.18% -38.81%
75th Percentile £57.13 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £93.75 £57.93
England median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £24.99
% change year-on-year -20.71% +30.08% -37.93%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GDPR job vacancy trend in London

GDPR
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GDPR

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 March 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
Central London +26 68 £600 +5.26% 29
West London +4 22 £603 +50.63% 14
South London -11 8 £500 -4.76% 5
East London - 3 £656 - 6
North London - 1 - -
GDPR
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 26 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.00%) Confluence
3 21 (4.77%) Apache
4 12 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.36%) Appian
7 6 (1.36%) Camunda
8 4 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.68%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.23%) Actimize
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 195 (44.32%) Azure
2 120 (27.27%) AWS
3 79 (17.95%) Power Platform
4 68 (15.45%) GCP
5 44 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 34 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (6.36%) Collibra
7 28 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 25 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (5.23%) SaaS
10 22 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 18 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (4.09%) dbt
12 17 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (3.64%) Snowflake
14 15 (3.41%) Serverless
15 14 (3.18%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (2.95%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.23%) Firewall
1 23 (5.23%) Network Security
2 19 (4.32%) DNS
3 18 (4.09%) DHCP
4 14 (3.18%) Cisco IPT
4 14 (3.18%) Kerberos
4 14 (3.18%) VPN
5 10 (2.27%) SMS
6 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.68%) LAN
7 3 (0.68%) WAN
8 2 (0.45%) Intranet
8 2 (0.45%) IPv4
8 2 (0.45%) IPv6
8 2 (0.45%) NGFW
8 2 (0.45%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.45%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) Internet
9 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (16.36%) Power BI
2 55 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 35 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (7.05%) Metadata
5 24 (5.45%) BigQuery
6 20 (4.55%) Tableau
7 18 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.09%) Mixpanel
8 17 (3.86%) OLAP
8 17 (3.86%) OLTP
9 13 (2.95%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.27%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.05%) Big Data
12 8 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.82%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.59%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.36%) Looker
15 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.55%) JIRA
2 19 (4.32%) Git
3 12 (2.73%) GitLab
4 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.14%) ERwin
5 5 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.91%) Postman
6 4 (0.91%) Selenium
7 3 (0.68%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.45%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.45%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.23%) Ant
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Maven
9 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 187 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 150 (34.09%) Finance
3 86 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 50 (11.36%) Legal
6 42 (9.55%) Marketing
7 36 (8.18%) Banking
8 16 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.18%) Electronics
10 13 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.59%) Billing
13 7 (1.59%) Law
14 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.14%) Local Government
16 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (16.14%) Architect
2 55 (12.50%) Lead
3 43 (9.77%) Analyst
4 36 (8.18%) Data Engineer
5 34 (7.73%) Consultant
5 34 (7.73%) Security Engineer
5 34 (7.73%) Senior
6 29 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (6.36%) Project Manager
8 22 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.09%) Security Architect
10 17 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (3.41%) Principal Data Engineer
12 14 (3.18%) Developer
13 12 (2.73%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.73%) Data Architect
13 12 (2.73%) Migration Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Migration Project Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Technical Leader
14 11 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.95%) Kafka
2 24 (5.45%) Middleware
3 20 (4.55%) OAuth
3 20 (4.55%) REST
3 20 (4.55%) SAML
4 18 (4.09%) Great Expectations
5 15 (3.41%) LDAP
6 14 (3.18%) PySpark
7 12 (2.73%) .NET
8 10 (2.27%) Spark Streaming
9 9 (2.05%) HTML
10 8 (1.82%) SOAP
11 7 (1.59%) CSS
11 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (1.36%) OpenID
12 6 (1.36%) RESTful
13 4 (0.91%) GraphQL
13 4 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.91%) SailPoint
13 4 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 20 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.09%) Replication
6 16 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.41%) Marketing Technology
8 13 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.95%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
10 8 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.14%) BYOD
12 5 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.82%) Windows
2 20 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.68%) Linux
4 2 (0.45%) Android
4 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (27.95%) Agile
2 116 (26.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (25.23%) Data Governance
4 107 (24.32%) Analytics
5 87 (19.77%) Data Modelling
5 87 (19.77%) DevOps
6 86 (19.55%) Business Intelligence
6 86 (19.55%) Data Protection
7 85 (19.32%) CI/CD
8 76 (17.27%) AI
8 76 (17.27%) Data Privacy
9 72 (16.36%) Data Engineering
10 70 (15.91%) ETL
11 67 (15.23%) Migration
12 64 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (13.64%) Cloud Security
14 58 (13.18%) Cybersecurity
15 56 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (11.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (23.18%) SQL
2 84 (19.09%) Python
3 44 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 30 (6.82%) C#
5 24 (5.45%) Java
6 14 (3.18%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.14%) R
7 5 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.68%) Bash
8 3 (0.68%) Bicep
9 2 (0.45%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.23%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) SOQL
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.41%) Degree
3 57 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 47 (10.68%) CISSP
5 32 (7.27%) CISM
6 26 (5.91%) PMI Certification
7 24 (5.45%) PMP
8 22 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (4.55%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (3.86%) Master's Degree
11 14 (3.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (2.50%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.05%) CRISC
13 9 (2.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 7 (1.59%) CCSP
15 7 (1.59%) CISA
16 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (21.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (16.82%) Data Quality
3 68 (15.45%) NIST
4 46 (10.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 41 (9.32%) PCI DSS
6 27 (6.14%) HIPAA
7 25 (5.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 25 (5.68%) QA
8 17 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (3.64%) PERC
10 14 (3.18%) GRC
11 12 (2.73%) SOC 2
12 11 (2.50%) Solvency II
13 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
14 8 (1.82%) NCSC
15 7 (1.59%) COBIT
15 7 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (1.36%) SLA
17 5 (1.14%) MiFID
17 5 (1.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.77%) Docker
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 44 (10.00%) Terraform
2 26 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.14%) Ansible
7 4 (0.91%) QRadar
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
8 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) CASB
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.23%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 109 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.23%) Google
3 43 (9.77%) Databricks
4 30 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.59%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.77%) Workday
7 18 (4.09%) Okta
7 18 (4.09%) SAP
8 17 (3.86%) CyberArk
9 16 (3.64%) Adobe
9 16 (3.64%) Informatica
10 13 (2.95%) Tealium
11 9 (2.05%) MuleSoft
11 9 (2.05%) OneTrust
12 7 (1.59%) mParticle
12 7 (1.59%) Oracle
12 7 (1.59%) Qualys
12 7 (1.59%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.36%) Cisco
13 6 (1.36%) Pega