GDPR Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 151 139
Rank change year-on-year +46 -12 -15
Contract jobs citing GDPR 49 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.54% 0.45% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.61% 4.00% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 23
10th Percentile £500 £417 £374
25th Percentile £563 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £700 £616 £520
90th Percentile - £639 £540
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £25.09
% change year-on-year +26.32% -24.26% +0.34%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 569 400 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.88% 11.28% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 286 294
10th Percentile £263 £225 £190
25th Percentile £408 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +7.97% +2.37%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £718 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 45 19
10th Percentile £12.43 £17.70 £46.19
25th Percentile £24.50 £50.00 £54.11
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -5.22% +37.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £69.92
90th Percentile £71.89 £83.40 £79.47
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.55 £28.81
% change year-on-year -41.63% +33.81% +37.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire +17 22 £700 +45.83% 11
Bristol +24 15 £625 +26.58% 6
Somerset - 5 £575 - 10
Dorset +6 4 - - 11
Gloucestershire -3 1 £700 +62.79% 2
Devon - 1 £318 - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (8.16%) Apache Solr
1 4 (8.16%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) GCP
2 2 (4.08%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.04%) AWS
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
1 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
1 4 (8.16%) IPsec
1 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Couchbase
1 4 (8.16%) MySQL
1 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (24.49%) Legal
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Manufacturing
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.16%) Finance
6 4 (8.16%) Law
7 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.08%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Analyst
1 16 (32.65%) SOC Analyst
2 13 (26.53%) Lead
3 12 (24.49%) Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Lead Architect
5 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Compliance Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Governance Manager
6 3 (6.12%) IT Governance Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Project Support Officer
8 1 (2.04%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.04%) Security Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) JSON
1 4 (8.16%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (8.16%) YAML
2 3 (6.12%) SOAP
2 3 (6.12%) XML
3 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.90%) Management Information System
2 17 (34.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (30.61%) CSOC
4 8 (16.33%) CESG
5 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.08%) Operational Technology
6 2 (4.08%) SCADA
7 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) CentOS
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Information Security
2 30 (61.22%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (59.18%) Security Operations
4 20 (40.82%) Incident Response
5 19 (38.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 18 (36.73%) Threat Intelligence
7 16 (32.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (32.65%) ITIL
8 11 (22.45%) Information Assurance
9 10 (20.41%) Use Case
10 9 (18.37%) Agile
10 9 (18.37%) Cyber Resilience
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.20%) Asset Management
12 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security
12 5 (10.20%) Configuration Management
12 5 (10.20%) Data Protection
12 5 (10.20%) Risk Assessment
13 4 (8.16%) DevOps
13 4 (8.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) PHP
2 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (4.08%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (59.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
3 12 (24.49%) CISSP
3 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
4 11 (22.45%) CISM
5 10 (20.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (16.33%) CEH
6 8 (16.33%) CISA
6 8 (16.33%) CISMP
6 8 (16.33%) ISACA
6 8 (16.33%) SSCP
7 2 (4.08%) Degree
7 2 (4.08%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.04%) CCNP
8 1 (2.04%) CCSP
8 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.82%) NIST
2 18 (36.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (32.65%) HIPAA
3 16 (32.65%) NCSC
4 12 (24.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (8.16%) QA
6 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (4.08%) COBIT
7 2 (4.08%) COSO
7 2 (4.08%) ISA99
7 2 (4.08%) NIST 800
7 2 (4.08%) SLA
8 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (2.04%) GRC
8 1 (2.04%) PMO
8 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Ansible
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk