PERC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PERC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing PERC 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.082% 0.055% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.47% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £457 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £484 - -
Central London median daily rate £465 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

PERC 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 423 335 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.30% 18.39% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 235 256
10th Percentile £369 £366 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -8.29%
75th Percentile £668 £702 £650
90th Percentile £773 £800 £770
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £19.23 £28.05 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 £37.13 £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £54.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -49.54% +164.50% -
75th Percentile £52.25 £72.75 £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 £82.35 £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £34.48 £23.40
% change year-on-year -20.24% +47.35% -6.40%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PERC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PERC job vacancy trend in the City of London

PERC
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PERC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PERC

PERC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Campaign Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Post-Campaign Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognizant
1 1 (50.00%) Pardot
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud