GDPR Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 163 228
Rank change year-on-year +36 +65 -19
Contract jobs citing GDPR 273 265 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.02% 1.24% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.05% 8.85% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 132 181
10th Percentile £323 £270 £400
25th Percentile £400 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £640 £645 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 39 17
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.05 £12.62
25th Percentile £14.93 £13.11 £15.21
Median hourly rate £17.80 £25.00 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% +32.28% -16.00%
75th Percentile £32.62 £28.75 £20.50
90th Percentile £70.16 £34.21 £24.90
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £24.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.08% +26.32% -24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,265 2,993 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.75% 14.01% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,694 2,192
10th Percentile £235 £243 £240
25th Percentile £363 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +5.98%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 366 207
10th Percentile £14.78 £10.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £31.70 £18.99 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.97% -49.37% +67.45%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.75 £63.49
90th Percentile £83.59 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £31.70 £23.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +37.83% -38.67% +36.36%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
South East +21 64 £525 +10.53% 646
North of England +17 61 £525 +20.00% 567
Midlands +29 53 £415 -12.63% 367
South West +46 36 £400 -37.25% 231
West Midlands +17 31 £475 - 235
North West -9 30 £544 +20.83% 318
Yorkshire +16 28 £507 +192.74% 204
East of England +18 24 £522 +27.32% 268
East Midlands +23 22 £405 -12.43% 131
Scotland +7 22 £485 -1.32% 145
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 40
Wales +9 5 £350 - 71
Channel Islands - 5 £725 -
North East +2 3 £544 - 46
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UK

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.83%) CMS
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.47%) Apache
3 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.10%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.10%) WordPress
5 2 (0.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.73%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.73%) R Markdown
5 2 (0.73%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.83%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.94%) Azure
2 56 (20.51%) AWS
3 38 (13.92%) GCP
4 21 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 16 (5.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (4.03%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.30%) GitHub
10 9 (3.30%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (2.93%) Serverless
12 7 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.20%) Collibra
13 6 (2.20%) Google Workspace
13 6 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.89%) Firewall
2 12 (4.40%) Network Security
3 8 (2.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.20%) SSL
4 6 (2.20%) Wireless
5 5 (1.83%) DNS
6 4 (1.47%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.47%) VPN
7 3 (1.10%) DHCP
7 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.73%) Intranet
8 2 (0.73%) WAN
8 2 (0.73%) X.509
9 1 (0.37%) BGP
9 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.37%) FTP
9 1 (0.37%) GPRS
9 1 (0.37%) IPsec
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.33%) Power BI
2 16 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.30%) Metadata
5 8 (2.93%) Tableau
6 6 (2.20%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.20%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.83%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.83%) GIS
7 5 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.47%) Big Data
8 4 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.47%) Looker
9 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (5.49%) JIRA
2 6 (2.20%) Git
3 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.73%) GitLab
4 2 (0.73%) NetBeans
4 2 (0.73%) Subversion
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) Toad
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.51%) Finance
3 48 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (5.13%) Legal
7 10 (3.66%) Banking
8 9 (3.30%) Local Government
8 9 (3.30%) Marketing
9 7 (2.56%) Automotive
10 6 (2.20%) Retail
11 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Law
13 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.73%) Advertising
14 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.73%) Military
14 2 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (23.44%) Analyst
2 39 (14.29%) Architect
3 24 (8.79%) Senior
4 18 (6.59%) Administrator
5 16 (5.86%) Consultant
6 14 (5.13%) Applications Support
6 14 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (5.13%) Senior Applications Support
7 13 (4.76%) Lead
8 12 (4.40%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.40%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) Security Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.30%) Senior Support Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.76%) LDAP
2 12 (4.40%) Spring
3 11 (4.03%) OAuth
4 10 (3.66%) OpenID
4 10 (3.66%) SAML
5 9 (3.30%) Hibernate
6 8 (2.93%) Kafka
7 5 (1.83%) PySpark
8 4 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.47%) React
8 4 (1.47%) Web Services
9 3 (1.10%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.10%) Middleware
9 3 (1.10%) NumPy
9 3 (1.10%) Pandas
9 3 (1.10%) REST
9 3 (1.10%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.73%) SailPoint
10 2 (0.73%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.09%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.23%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (6.23%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.03%) Freedom of Information
5 10 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.30%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.20%) IoT
8 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.20%) Replication
8 6 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.83%) SCADA
10 4 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.47%) NHS
10 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.33%) Windows
2 9 (3.30%) Linux
3 6 (2.20%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.10%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (26.37%) Data Protection
3 44 (16.12%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (12.82%) Agile
5 35 (12.82%) Data Governance
5 35 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (12.09%) Analytics
6 33 (12.09%) CI/CD
7 32 (11.72%) Data Security
7 32 (11.72%) Information Security
8 30 (10.99%) Migration
9 29 (10.62%) Identity Access Management
10 28 (10.26%) Incident Response
11 26 (9.52%) Cloud Security
12 25 (9.16%) RBAC
13 24 (8.79%) ETL
13 24 (8.79%) Mentoring
13 24 (8.79%) Risk Management
14 23 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.71%) SQL
2 38 (13.92%) Python
3 21 (7.69%) Java
4 16 (5.86%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.13%) Bash
6 7 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.10%) Bicep
9 3 (1.10%) C
9 3 (1.10%) C++
9 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.10%) Perl
9 3 (1.10%) R
9 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.73%) Scala
11 1 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) COBOL
11 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (14.29%) Degree
2 30 (10.99%) CISSP
3 22 (8.06%) CISM
4 12 (4.40%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.93%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.56%) CISMP
8 7 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.56%) GSEC
9 6 (2.20%) CISA
9 6 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.83%) CRISC
11 4 (1.47%) CEH
11 4 (1.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (1.47%) OSCP
11 4 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (16.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (15.38%) NIST
3 38 (13.92%) HIPAA
4 28 (10.26%) Data Quality
5 24 (8.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 22 (8.06%) PCI DSS
7 14 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 13 (4.76%) GRC
9 10 (3.66%) SLA
10 8 (2.93%) SOC 2
11 7 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (1.83%) Accessibility
12 5 (1.83%) NCSC
12 5 (1.83%) QA
13 4 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.47%) COBIT
14 3 (1.10%) AUTOSAR
14 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 14 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.73%) vSphere
3 1 (0.37%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.37%) RACF
3 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.03%) Terraform
3 9 (3.30%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 6 (2.20%) Ansible
4 6 (2.20%) SmoothWall
5 4 (1.47%) Grafana
6 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) Puppet
7 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.73%) SELinux
7 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) CASB
8 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.37%) Nessus
8 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 70 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.96%) Oracle
3 14 (5.13%) Google
4 11 (4.03%) IBM
4 11 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.66%) SAP
6 8 (2.93%) Ping Identity
7 7 (2.56%) Databricks
8 6 (2.20%) Informatica
8 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.83%) Splunk
10 4 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.47%) VMware
11 3 (1.10%) Cisco
11 3 (1.10%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.10%) Workday
12 2 (0.73%) Criteo
12 2 (0.73%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
2,303 GDPR jobs in the UK excluding London