GDPR Contract Job Trends in Devon

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 2.96% - 2.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.25% - 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £353 - £410
25th Percentile £456 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £450
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £532 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £325 £525
% change year-on-year +46.15% -38.10% -4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 16 21 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 9.47% 8.50% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 15
10th Percentile £387 £200 £350
25th Percentile £425 £435 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +2.15% +167.63%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £500
90th Percentile £730 £581 £502
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £23.35 £14.54
25th Percentile - £28.62 £17.20
Median hourly rate - £39.92 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.45% -
75th Percentile - £53.71 £30.20
90th Percentile - £60.48 £35.33
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £70.91
% change year-on-year -50.37% -4.80% +31.31%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

GDPR job vacancy trend in Devon

GDPR
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Devon over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Devon

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Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Devon region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Exeter - 3 £520 - 4
Plymouth - 1 £525 - 1
GDPR
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Database Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Database Security
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCSE
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk