GDPR Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 217 219
Rank change year-on-year +54 +2 +42
Contract jobs citing GDPR 276 254 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.08% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.10% 7.29% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 180 222
10th Percentile £272 £400 £333
25th Percentile £405 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £555 £650 £593
90th Percentile £700 £726 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 7
10th Percentile £11.04 £11.54 £15.44
25th Percentile £11.77 £15.21 £16.15
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.90 £24.24
Median % change year-on-year +32.28% -22.03% -4.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £21.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £34.21 £41.62 £33.71
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +2.97%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,034 3,482 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.81% 14.84% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,787 2,340 3,050
10th Percentile £250 £220 £203
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +6.50% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £571
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 188 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.66 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.06 £31.89 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -43.37% +51.54% -0.05%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.46 £44.69
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

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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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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
South East +17 88 £475 -20.83% 131
North of England +48 73 £525 +16.67% 102
North West +30 56 £525 +16.67% 50
South West +48 49 £650 +35.42% 46
East of England +17 33 £410 -18.00% 46
Midlands +33 29 £475 -20.83% 106
West Midlands +19 24 £475 -20.83% 51
Yorkshire +21 13 £475 +2.70% 42
Scotland +11 10 £404 -17.13% 31
East Midlands +25 5 £450 -2.70% 54
North East +12 3 - - 13
Wales +20 2 £375 +63.04% 23
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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 9 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.90%) Confluence
3 4 (1.45%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.45%) nginx
3 4 (1.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
Applications
1 23 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (1.45%) FastStats
3 4 (1.45%) Unica
4 3 (1.09%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.88%) Power Platform
2 17 (6.16%) Azure
3 11 (3.99%) AWS
4 7 (2.54%) Serverless
5 6 (2.17%) Collibra
6 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.81%) GCP
6 5 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.45%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.45%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.09%) OCI
8 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.09%) ShareGate
8 3 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.97%) Firewall
2 16 (5.80%) Network Security
3 12 (4.35%) DNS
4 6 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.81%) DHCP
6 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.45%) IPsec
7 3 (1.09%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (1.09%) Intranet
7 3 (1.09%) VPN
7 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.72%) Internet
8 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.72%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.72%) SAN
8 2 (0.72%) WAN
9 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.43%) Metadata
2 13 (4.71%) Power BI
3 6 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.45%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.45%) MySQL
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.72%) GIS
6 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.54%) JIRA
2 6 (2.17%) Eclipse
2 6 (2.17%) PyCharm
3 4 (1.45%) ERwin
4 3 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.72%) Git
5 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) Subversion
6 1 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 65 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.20%) Legal
3 42 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (15.22%) Manufacturing
4 38 (13.77%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.59%) Finance
6 27 (9.78%) Marketing
7 25 (9.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (7.25%) Law
9 17 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (5.43%) Telecoms
12 14 (5.07%) Police
13 9 (3.26%) Retail
14 7 (2.54%) Local Government
15 4 (1.45%) Electronics
15 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.09%) Back Office
16 3 (1.09%) Banking
16 3 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 68 (24.64%) Analyst
2 32 (11.59%) Consultant
3 28 (10.14%) Architect
4 26 (9.42%) Business Analyst
4 26 (9.42%) SOC Analyst
5 23 (8.33%) Lead
6 20 (7.25%) Data Analyst
7 19 (6.88%) Senior
8 13 (4.71%) Data Consultant
9 12 (4.35%) Data Protection Consultant
9 12 (4.35%) Developer
10 11 (3.99%) Data Business Analyst
10 11 (3.99%) Data Manager
10 11 (3.99%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.62%) Business Manager
11 10 (3.62%) Coordinator
11 10 (3.62%) Security Consultant
12 9 (3.26%) Business Development Manager
12 9 (3.26%) Development Manager
13 8 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.90%) CSS
1 8 (2.90%) HTML
2 7 (2.54%) XML
3 5 (1.81%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.81%) JSON
3 5 (1.81%) Node.js
4 4 (1.45%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.45%) YAML
5 3 (1.09%) .NET
5 3 (1.09%) jQuery
5 3 (1.09%) SOAP
5 3 (1.09%) SPFx
6 2 (0.72%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.36%) React
7 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.49%) Management Information System
2 29 (10.51%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (6.16%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (5.43%) CSOC
5 13 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.99%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.90%) CESG
8 7 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.45%) SCADA
10 4 (1.45%) Smart Meter
10 4 (1.45%) Wiki
11 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.09%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.14%) Linux
2 15 (5.43%) Windows
3 10 (3.62%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.81%) Unix
4 5 (1.81%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.45%) CentOS
5 4 (1.45%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.72%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.61%) Data Protection
2 67 (24.28%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (22.46%) Information Security
4 44 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 36 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (10.87%) Data Privacy
7 30 (10.87%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 30 (10.87%) Risk Management
8 29 (10.51%) Security Operations
9 27 (9.78%) ITIL
10 24 (8.70%) Data Modelling
10 24 (8.70%) Incident Response
11 23 (8.33%) Project Management
12 21 (7.61%) Analytics
12 21 (7.61%) Vulnerability Management
13 19 (6.88%) Threat Intelligence
14 18 (6.52%) Lean Six Sigma
14 18 (6.52%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.80%) Python
2 15 (5.43%) SQL
3 12 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.26%) Java
5 7 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.17%) Groovy
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
7 4 (1.45%) VBScript
8 3 (1.09%) C#
9 2 (0.72%) Bash
9 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.72%) Perl
9 2 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.36%) ABAP
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) R
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) VB
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.30%) Degree
3 28 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.88%) CISSP
6 18 (6.52%) CISM
7 15 (5.43%) ISACA
8 12 (4.35%) CISA
8 12 (4.35%) IIBA
9 10 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (3.26%) SSCP
11 8 (2.90%) CEH
11 8 (2.90%) CISMP
12 7 (2.54%) ISEB
13 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
15 3 (1.09%) HNC
15 3 (1.09%) NVQ Level 4
15 3 (1.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.30%) NIST
2 39 (14.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.51%) HIPAA
4 19 (6.88%) GxP
5 18 (6.52%) Good Clinical Practice
6 17 (6.16%) NCSC
6 17 (6.16%) PCI DSS
7 14 (5.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 12 (4.35%) Data Quality
9 11 (3.99%) COBIT
10 8 (2.90%) QA
11 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (1.09%) GRC
12 3 (1.09%) PMO
13 2 (0.72%) ISA99
13 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.72%) SLA
14 1 (0.36%) COSO
System Software
1 9 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.45%) XenApp
3 2 (0.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.36%) Snort
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (2.17%) Ansible
1 6 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.17%) Terraform
2 4 (1.45%) SCCM
3 2 (0.72%) CEMLI
3 2 (0.72%) Grafana
3 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (0.72%) SELinux
4 1 (0.36%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.42%) SAP
3 14 (5.07%) Google
4 13 (4.71%) Oracle
5 8 (2.90%) OneTrust
6 6 (2.17%) Ariba
6 6 (2.17%) Facebook
7 5 (1.81%) Citrix
7 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.81%) Symantec
7 5 (1.81%) VMware
8 4 (1.45%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.45%) Adobe
8 4 (1.45%) Ivanti
8 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.45%) Snapchat
8 4 (1.45%) Sparx
8 4 (1.45%) Workday
9 3 (1.09%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (1.09%) Splunk
698 GDPR jobs Nationwide