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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 73 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 +25 +21
Contract jobs citing GDPR 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.11% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.00% 1.57% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £278 £265 -
25th Percentile £347 £347 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £483 £584
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -17.29% +41.58%
75th Percentile £479 £524 £595
90th Percentile £484 £549 £598
Scotland median daily rate £488 £404 £500
% change year-on-year +20.67% -19.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 - -

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 140 191 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.22% 23.35% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 120 258
10th Percentile £195 £212 £211
25th Percentile £375 £305 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.20% +6.61%
75th Percentile £500 £560 £545
90th Percentile £576 £650 £596
Scotland median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.74% -7.79% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £20.10 £17.42 -
25th Percentile £22.43 £18.27 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.19 £60.75 -
90th Percentile £61.68 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.36 £18.27 £18.13
% change year-on-year +27.85% +0.80% -51.58%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Edinburgh

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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

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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 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Architect
3 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
2 3 (42.86%) Line Management
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Design Sprint
4 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Usability Testing
4 1 (14.29%) User Research
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) PERC
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat