Data Privacy Contracts in England

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Privacy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Privacy over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 390 464
Rank change year-on-year +35 +74 +140
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 116 147 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.47% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 86 106
10th Percentile £428 £270 £438
25th Percentile £512 £400 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £552 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £623 £738 £700
90th Percentile £723 £788 £835
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £18.60 £21.14 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.17 £21.73 £19.15
Median hourly rate £20.11 £23.00 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +15.29% -51.93%
75th Percentile £21.06 £67.50 £20.90
90th Percentile £21.62 £81.00 £21.26
UK median hourly rate £20.11 £23.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.29% -51.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in England

Data Privacy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Privacy in England

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in England

Data Privacy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Privacy in England

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London +67 73 £575 +15.00% 337
North of England -7 13 £520 -23.00% 287
South East +32 10 £625 +131.48% 399
Midlands +7 8 £492 +3.58% 233
North West +1 8 £563 -16.59% 134
East Midlands +10 7 £492 -59.00% 94
East of England +28 5 £538 - 176
Yorkshire 0 5 £520 -8.82% 121
South West +38 2 £475 -1.30% 134
West Midlands +7 1 £431 +20.98% 124
Data Privacy
UK

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Apache
2 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) CA PPM
1 4 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (3.45%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.72%) SAP PLM
2 2 (1.72%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.86%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.86%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.86%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.86%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.86%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.86%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.86%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.72%) Azure
2 24 (20.69%) AWS
3 19 (16.38%) GCP
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.17%) Collibra
6 5 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.31%) GitHub
6 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.45%) Alation
8 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.59%) Figma
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.59%) SaaS
8 3 (2.59%) Veeva
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.72%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.72%) Serverless
9 2 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) Network Security
2 6 (5.17%) VPN
3 5 (4.31%) 4G
3 5 (4.31%) DHCP
3 5 (4.31%) DNS
3 5 (4.31%) LAN
3 5 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.31%) WAN
3 5 (4.31%) Wireless
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.86%) GPRS
4 1 (0.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.34%) Big Data
2 9 (7.76%) Power BI
3 7 (6.03%) Tableau
4 6 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.31%) Metadata
6 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.72%) MySQL
8 2 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.86%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.86%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.86%) DB2
9 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Git
2 5 (4.31%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.45%) ERwin
3 4 (3.45%) Gradle
3 4 (3.45%) HP UFT
3 4 (3.45%) IntelliJ
3 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.45%) JUnit
3 4 (3.45%) Maven
3 4 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (1.72%) GitLab
4 2 (1.72%) Storybook
4 2 (1.72%) Vite
4 2 (1.72%) webpack
5 1 (0.86%) LSMW
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Finance
3 23 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.21%) Marketing
5 11 (9.48%) Legal
6 8 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Banking
7 6 (5.17%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.45%) Arabic Language
9 4 (3.45%) Czech Language
9 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.59%) Retail
11 2 (1.72%) Automotive
11 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.72%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (18.10%) Analyst
1 21 (18.10%) Architect
2 18 (15.52%) Lead
3 14 (12.07%) Senior
4 12 (10.34%) Consultant
5 10 (8.62%) Data Analyst
5 10 (8.62%) Project Manager
6 9 (7.76%) Security Architect
7 7 (6.03%) Data Consultant
7 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Developer
10 4 (3.45%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.45%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Remote Support Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Solutions Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Kafka
2 4 (3.45%) OAuth
3 3 (2.59%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.59%) REST
3 3 (2.59%) RESTful
3 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.72%) CSS
4 2 (1.72%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.72%) HTML
4 2 (1.72%) JWT
4 2 (1.72%) LDAP
4 2 (1.72%) PySpark
4 2 (1.72%) React
4 2 (1.72%) Redux
4 2 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.72%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.86%) Laravel
5 1 (0.86%) Middleware
5 1 (0.86%) SAML
5 1 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Insider Threat
2 7 (6.03%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.59%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) IoT
6 2 (1.72%) LIMS
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (25.00%) Analytics
3 28 (24.14%) Data Governance
4 24 (20.69%) Data Security
5 23 (19.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 23 (19.83%) Data Management
6 19 (16.38%) Data Modelling
7 18 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (14.66%) Data Protection
8 17 (14.66%) Machine Learning
9 16 (13.79%) Agile
9 16 (13.79%) Data Analysis
10 14 (12.07%) ETL
10 14 (12.07%) Risk Management
10 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (11.21%) Information Security
11 13 (11.21%) Roadmaps
12 12 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.93%) SQL
2 13 (11.21%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) Java
4 5 (4.31%) R
5 3 (2.59%) Bash
6 2 (1.72%) Go
6 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.86%) ABAP
7 1 (0.86%) C
7 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.86%) Scala
7 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) CISSP
2 12 (10.34%) CISM
2 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.59%) CCNA
5 3 (2.59%) CCNP
5 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.72%) PMP
6 2 (1.72%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) CISA
7 1 (0.86%) CRISC
7 1 (0.86%) ISEB
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (44.83%) GDPR
2 24 (20.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 17 (14.66%) Accessibility
4 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
5 12 (10.34%) HIPAA
6 8 (6.90%) NIST
6 8 (6.90%) SOC 2
7 7 (6.03%) QA
8 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (1.72%) COBIT
9 2 (1.72%) COSO
9 2 (1.72%) GRC
9 2 (1.72%) GxP
9 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.72%) PMO
9 2 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.72%) WCAG
10 1 (0.86%) COPPA
10 1 (0.86%) ITGC
10 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) CASB
2 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 4 (3.45%) Terraform
5 3 (2.59%) Ansible
5 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.72%) Kibana
6 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.72%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.48%) SAP
3 9 (7.76%) Google
4 7 (6.03%) Oracle
5 4 (3.45%) Broadcom
5 4 (3.45%) Siemens
6 3 (2.59%) Informatica
6 3 (2.59%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.72%) Databricks
7 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.72%) Splunk
8 1 (0.86%) Concur
8 1 (0.86%) Criteo
8 1 (0.86%) LabVantage
8 1 (0.86%) LabWare
8 1 (0.86%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Talend
8 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media