GDPR Contracts in Edinburgh

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 106
Rank change year-on-year +7 +37 +12
Contract jobs citing GDPR 5 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.52% 1.44% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £265 £575
25th Percentile £231 £347 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £233 £483 £600
Median % change year-on-year -51.86% -19.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £234 £524 £775
90th Percentile - £549 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £404 £500
% change year-on-year +23.76% -19.20% +11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 142 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.72% 25.52% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 280
10th Percentile £184 £219 £224
25th Percentile £354 £348 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.88% +13.82%
75th Percentile £534 £571 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.14 £51.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -63.49% +13.51%
75th Percentile £38.79 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Edinburgh

GDPR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Edinburgh

GDPR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in Edinburgh

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) OLAP
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (60.00%) Line Management
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PERC
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat