GDPR Contracts in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 64 75
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing GDPR 17 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.62% 0.71% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 6.19% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile £133 - £294
25th Percentile £375 £425 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% - +37.04%
75th Percentile £440 £491 £500
90th Percentile £483 £496 £505
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +16.00% +31.58% -24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 102 97 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.74% 11.45% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 64 74
10th Percentile £227 £200 £231
25th Percentile £350 £268 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £447 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +5.06% +9.68%
75th Percentile £463 £596 £558
90th Percentile £493 £623 £646
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 5
10th Percentile - £9.95 £24.70
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £31.76
Median hourly rate £18.20 £23.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% -52.51% +185.71%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.15 £65.00
90th Percentile £31.41 £35.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.90 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.35% -43.76% +54.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Northamptonshire +13 15 £430 -14.00% 24
Nottinghamshire +2 2 £70 -84.44% 19
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) GCP
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Security Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Governance Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Identity Management Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Information Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) LDAP
2 6 (35.29%) Hibernate
2 6 (35.29%) OAuth
2 6 (35.29%) OpenID
2 6 (35.29%) SAML
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) POSIX
4 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Visualforce
4 1 (5.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (35.29%) RBAC
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) DevSecOps
4 5 (29.41%) Information Security
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) ITSM
5 4 (23.53%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.76%) Biometrics
7 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Service Management
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C
2 2 (11.76%) C++
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CISM
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) CRISC
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) HIPAA
2 5 (29.41%) GRC
3 4 (23.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (11.76%) MISRA
4 2 (11.76%) MISRA C
4 2 (11.76%) NIST
4 2 (11.76%) QA
4 2 (11.76%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.88%) IEC 61508
5 1 (5.88%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) IBM
3 5 (29.41%) Ping Identity
4 2 (11.76%) QNX
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce