Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 91 104
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 7 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.54% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £504 - £330
25th Percentile £509 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -19.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £369 £475
90th Percentile £593 - £490
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.06
25th Percentile - - £19.60
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £43.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +62.22% +105.95% +33.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Privacy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,166 1,253 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.42% 81.52% 87.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 458 884
10th Percentile £200 £200 £221
25th Percentile £379 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £627
90th Percentile £686 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 383 366
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £64.06 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the East of England

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Hertfordshire +7 2 £550 +51.72%
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 4
Suffolk +7 1 - - 2
Essex - 1 £525 - 2
Norfolk - 1 £525 -
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco IPT
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Data Governance Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) FIDO
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) EU AI Act
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Foundry
3 1 (14.29%) OneTrust
3 1 (14.29%) Workday