GDPR Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 198 266
Rank change year-on-year +39 +68 -12
Contract jobs citing GDPR 531 520 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 1.19% 1.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.65% 8.32% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 289 402
10th Percentile £336 £304 £406
25th Percentile £448 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £615 £650
90th Percentile £751 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 48 12
10th Percentile £15.34 £11.06 £11.27
25th Percentile £17.29 £11.95 £16.55
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile £33.55 £28.07 £49.65
90th Percentile £86.88 £34.21 £65.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.35 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +9.40% +31.58% -21.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +38 466 £529 +5.80% 908
London +86 253 £575 +9.52% 416
UK excluding London -3 207 £500 +4.17% 519
Work from Home +7 160 £550 +6.28% 472
South East -5 62 £525 +10.53% 146
North of England +1 46 £525 - 146
South West +27 30 £400 -40.74% 53
Midlands +25 29 £461 -2.95% 99
North West -18 29 £525 - 92
East of England +25 22 £525 +28.05% 33
West Midlands +15 22 £475 - 71
Yorkshire +18 15 £525 +23.53% 51
Scotland +14 14 £500 +23.76% 33
East Midlands +12 7 £346 -23.22% 27
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 8
Wales +5 2 £350 -6.67% 11
North East -1 2 £463 - 4

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.39%) Confluence
3 15 (2.82%) Apache
4 14 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.32%) SAS
7 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.94%) CMS
9 3 (0.56%) R Markdown
9 3 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.56%) WordPress
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) SAP HR
2 5 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.75%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.75%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.56%) iTrent
4 3 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.56%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.38%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 175 (32.96%) Azure
2 120 (22.60%) AWS
3 63 (11.86%) GCP
4 59 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 40 (7.53%) Entra ID
6 25 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.14%) SaaS
8 19 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (3.39%) GitHub
9 18 (3.39%) Snowflake
10 17 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (2.82%) Serverless
12 13 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (2.07%) Collibra
15 10 (1.88%) IaaS
15 10 (1.88%) PaaS
15 10 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.08%) Network Security
2 26 (4.90%) Firewall
3 15 (2.82%) DNS
4 11 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (1.13%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (1.13%) SSH
6 6 (1.13%) SSL
7 5 (0.94%) DHCP
7 5 (0.94%) VPN
7 5 (0.94%) Wireless
8 4 (0.75%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.75%) HTTP
9 3 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.56%) NAS
9 3 (0.56%) SAN
9 3 (0.56%) X.509
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.38%) Intranet
10 2 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.17%) Power BI
2 40 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.71%) Tableau
5 21 (3.95%) Metadata
6 16 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (3.01%) Big Data
7 13 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.51%) Apache Hive
10 8 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.13%) QlikView
12 6 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (6.59%) JIRA
2 20 (3.77%) Git
3 9 (1.69%) Subversion
4 8 (1.51%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.13%) RStudio
7 5 (0.94%) ERwin
8 3 (0.56%) GitLab
8 3 (0.56%) Postman
9 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.38%) Gradle
9 2 (0.38%) JMeter
9 2 (0.38%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.38%) NetBeans
9 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
10 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 188 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 113 (21.28%) Finance
3 99 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.23%) Legal
5 45 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.53%) Banking
7 26 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.71%) Marketing
9 17 (3.20%) Law
10 15 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.88%) Local Government
13 9 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.69%) Retail
14 8 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.32%) Automotive
15 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.13%) Advertising
16 6 (1.13%) Police
17 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (17.70%) Architect
2 88 (16.57%) Analyst
3 52 (9.79%) Senior
4 43 (8.10%) Consultant
5 38 (7.16%) Lead
6 31 (5.84%) Security Architect
7 29 (5.46%) Data Engineer
8 26 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 25 (4.71%) Data Architect
10 22 (4.14%) Data Analyst
11 20 (3.77%) Administrator
12 19 (3.58%) Security Consultant
13 16 (3.01%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.82%) Developer
14 15 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.45%) Applications Support
15 13 (2.45%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (2.45%) Senior Applications Support
16 11 (2.07%) Senior Architect
17 10 (1.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.21%) SailPoint
2 18 (3.39%) SAML
3 17 (3.20%) Kafka
3 17 (3.20%) OAuth
3 17 (3.20%) REST
4 15 (2.82%) PySpark
5 14 (2.64%) OpenID
6 10 (1.88%) LDAP
7 9 (1.69%) JSON
8 7 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.32%) pydantic
8 7 (1.32%) YAML
9 6 (1.13%) React
9 6 (1.13%) Spring
9 6 (1.13%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.94%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.94%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.94%) Middleware
10 5 (0.94%) Node.js
10 5 (0.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.04%) Management Information System
2 29 (5.46%) Security Posture
3 27 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.39%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.82%) Replication
9 13 (2.45%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.45%) Reference Data
10 12 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.26%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
10 12 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.88%) Insider Threat
12 9 (1.69%) Clustering
12 9 (1.69%) Social Media
13 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.91%) Linux
2 29 (5.46%) Windows
3 12 (2.26%) Solaris
3 12 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.75%) AIX
6 4 (0.75%) Unix
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) CentOS
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 95 (17.89%) Data Governance
4 90 (16.95%) Risk Management
5 80 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
6 76 (14.31%) Data Security
7 75 (14.12%) Analytics
7 75 (14.12%) Information Security
8 74 (13.94%) Project Management
8 74 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (13.56%) Agile
10 66 (12.43%) Migration
11 63 (11.86%) DevOps
12 59 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (10.73%) Identity Access Management
13 57 (10.73%) Incident Response
14 55 (10.36%) Data Management
15 54 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (9.98%) Regulatory Compliance
17 51 (9.60%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 101 (19.02%) Python
1 101 (19.02%) SQL
2 47 (8.85%) PowerShell
3 37 (6.97%) Bash
4 25 (4.71%) Java
5 12 (2.26%) Scala
6 11 (2.07%) Perl
6 11 (2.07%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.07%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.51%) R
8 6 (1.13%) Bicep
8 6 (1.13%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.94%) C
9 5 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.75%) C++
10 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.56%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.56%) C#
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 2 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (14.31%) CISSP
2 66 (12.43%) Degree
3 64 (12.05%) Security Cleared
4 57 (10.73%) SC Cleared
5 54 (10.17%) CISM
6 19 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.20%) CEH
7 17 (3.20%) CISA
8 16 (3.01%) AWS Certification
9 15 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (2.64%) CRISC
11 12 (2.26%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.69%) Master's Degree
13 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.13%) FFIEC
14 6 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.13%) PMP
15 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (21.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (19.96%) NIST
3 99 (18.64%) HIPAA
4 71 (13.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 66 (12.43%) PCI DSS
6 56 (10.55%) Data Quality
7 37 (6.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 31 (5.84%) SOC 2
9 22 (4.14%) Accessibility
10 16 (3.01%) GRC
11 12 (2.26%) QA
12 11 (2.07%) COBIT
13 9 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (1.51%) PMO
15 7 (1.32%) EU AI Act
15 7 (1.32%) NIST 800
15 7 (1.32%) SLA
16 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.75%) PERC
System Software
1 42 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.82%) Docker
3 11 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.75%) vSphere
7 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.38%) NFS
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.38%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) HDFS
9 1 (0.19%) IAG
9 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (4.71%) Terraform
2 19 (3.58%) Ansible
2 19 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (2.64%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.26%) CASB
5 8 (1.51%) QRadar
5 8 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (1.32%) Grafana
7 6 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.13%) Tivoli
7 6 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (0.94%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.75%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.38%) Nessus
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) SELinux
11 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.40%) Google
3 32 (6.03%) SAP
4 26 (4.90%) CyberArk
5 23 (4.33%) Oracle
6 21 (3.95%) Okta
7 19 (3.58%) Informatica
8 18 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 16 (3.01%) Splunk
10 15 (2.82%) VMware
11 13 (2.45%) Databricks
11 13 (2.45%) Salesforce
12 12 (2.26%) IBM
12 12 (2.26%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.07%) Qualys
14 9 (1.69%) Adobe
14 9 (1.69%) Ping Identity
15 8 (1.51%) BeyondTrust
16 7 (1.32%) Cisco
16 7 (1.32%) EMC
1,077 GDPR jobs Nationwide