GDPR Contracts in Bedfordshire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing GDPR 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.31% 0.48% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.38% 3.85% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.84%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £29.51 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +18.04% +19.05% -52.84%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 65 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 28.02% 12.44% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 25
10th Percentile £222 £356 £339
25th Percentile £500 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +18.92%
75th Percentile £638 £558 £600
90th Percentile £650 £580 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 1
10th Percentile £40.43 £35.17 -
25th Percentile £80.63 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% +18.18% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £94.05 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £17.84
% change year-on-year +31.83% +34.57% -16.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Luton -4 9 £525 - 4
GDPR
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) X.509
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Design Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
1 7 (70.00%) Impact Analysis
2 6 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 5 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Key Management
5 2 (20.00%) RBAC
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
6 1 (10.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (90.00%) NIST
2 6 (60.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (20.00%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (10.00%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) mParticle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler