GDPR Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 79 99
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing GDPR 20 31 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.04% 1.64% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 20.39% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 10
10th Percentile £316 - £344
25th Percentile £475 £405 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £488
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -15.90% -4.41%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £522
90th Percentile - £550 £555
England median daily rate £530 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £17.84 £20.20 £19.24
25th Percentile £17.91 - £20.05
Median hourly rate £18.01 £25.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -27.96% -23.70% -26.42%
75th Percentile £18.12 - £49.65
90th Percentile £18.18 - £58.86
England median hourly rate £29.00 £24.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +26.32% -24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 163 152 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.65% 8.04% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 87 172
10th Percentile £250 £240 £185
25th Percentile £450 £354 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £440
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -6.82% +3.17%
75th Percentile £650 £531 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £674
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 27
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.16 £12.40
25th Percentile £28.50 £14.48 £13.29
Median hourly rate £60.00 £15.79 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +279.99% -10.89% -13.56%
75th Percentile £75.00 £25.00 £49.14
90th Percentile £86.40 £38.55 £68.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -40.00% +28.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the East of England

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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 GDPR within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Bedfordshire +1 6 £525 - 13
Cambridgeshire -5 5 £600 +46.34% 30
Essex +14 4 £315 -42.73% 34
Hertfordshire +30 3 £530 - 36
Suffolk -7 2 £635 - 6
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Apache
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SAP CO
1 3 (15.00%) SAP FI
1 3 (15.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) GCP
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) dbt
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Vertex AI
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) X.509
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (20.00%) Tableau
3 3 (15.00%) Looker
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Head of IT
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Governance Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Quality Officer
4 1 (5.00%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
1 4 (20.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) NumPy
2 3 (15.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Life Science
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
1 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (30.00%) Data Management
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Change Management
3 5 (25.00%) Data Security
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (15.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) CISM
2 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (20.00%) NIST
3 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (10.00%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.00%) ITGC
5 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow