GDPR Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 250 248
Rank change year-on-year +67 -2 +36
Contract jobs citing GDPR 475 531 826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.28% 1.05% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.03% 7.88% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 349 477
10th Percentile £308 £400 £331
25th Percentile £405 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 12 10
10th Percentile £11.42 £11.27 £15.90
25th Percentile £11.95 £16.55 £17.78
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.50 £25.54
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -4.08% +0.17%
75th Percentile £28.52 £49.65 £28.19
90th Percentile £34.21 £65.90 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £24.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -6.12% -5.77% +1.96%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,258 6,740 9,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.22% 13.35% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 4,585 6,397
10th Percentile £300 £276 £288
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.94 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in England

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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 GDPR within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 -5 174 £525 -11.76% 183
South East +44 119 £475 -20.83% 134
North of England +54 74 £525 +16.67% 111
North West +43 58 £525 +16.67% 67
South West +49 48 £675 +42.11% 41
East of England +19 30 £410 -15.90% 59
Midlands +25 27 £475 -20.83% 93
West Midlands +27 22 £488 -18.75% 50
Yorkshire +24 12 £425 -8.11% 36
East Midlands +21 5 £450 +5.88% 42
North East +20 3 - - 10
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UK

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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 20 (4.21%) Confluence
2 13 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.84%) nginx
3 4 (0.84%) SAS
4 3 (0.63%) CICS
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.84%) FastStats
3 4 (0.84%) Unica
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.63%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.89%) Azure
2 54 (11.37%) SaaS
3 49 (10.32%) IaaS
4 44 (9.26%) PaaS
5 36 (7.58%) AWS
6 28 (5.89%) Power Platform
7 19 (4.00%) GCP
8 12 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.32%) Collibra
10 10 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.11%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.68%) Rubrik
11 8 (1.68%) Serverless
12 6 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.26%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.05%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 43 (9.05%) Firewall
2 33 (6.95%) 5G
2 33 (6.95%) Broadband
3 22 (4.63%) Network Security
4 21 (4.42%) DNS
5 15 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.74%) DHCP
7 10 (2.11%) SAN
8 8 (1.68%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.68%) NAS
8 8 (1.68%) VLAN
9 6 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.84%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.84%) IPsec
10 4 (0.84%) WAN
11 3 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.63%) Internet
11 3 (0.63%) VPN
11 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.26%) Metadata
2 23 (4.84%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.63%) Power BI
4 13 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.53%) MySQL
6 7 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.84%) Apache Hive
8 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.84%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.84%) Parquet
8 4 (0.84%) Tableau
9 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 3 (0.63%) DB2
9 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.63%) OLTP
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (4.00%) ERwin
2 18 (3.79%) JIRA
3 11 (2.32%) Git
4 10 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.68%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.47%) Eclipse
6 7 (1.47%) PyCharm
6 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.21%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 92 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 87 (18.32%) Finance
3 79 (16.63%) Legal
4 67 (14.11%) Law
5 66 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (12.21%) Public Sector
7 54 (11.37%) Manufacturing
8 50 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (9.68%) Marketing
10 29 (6.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 28 (5.89%) Telecoms
12 19 (4.00%) Police
12 19 (4.00%) Retail
13 18 (3.79%) Banking
14 15 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (2.95%) Electronics
16 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.68%) Local Government
18 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 91 (19.16%) Analyst
2 86 (18.11%) Architect
3 39 (8.21%) Senior
4 38 (8.00%) Consultant
5 36 (7.58%) Data Architect
6 35 (7.37%) Security Specialist
7 34 (7.16%) Lead
8 33 (6.95%) Business Analyst
8 33 (6.95%) Penetration Tester
8 33 (6.95%) Security Penetration Tester
8 33 (6.95%) Security Tester
8 33 (6.95%) Tester
8 33 (6.95%) Testing Specialist
9 28 (5.89%) SOC Analyst
10 27 (5.68%) Data Analyst
11 26 (5.47%) Security Architect
12 17 (3.58%) Data Manager
13 16 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.16%) Data Consultant
15 14 (2.95%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.95%) Web Services
2 14 (2.95%) JSON
3 11 (2.32%) HTML
4 9 (1.89%) JSON Schema
4 9 (1.89%) LDAP
5 8 (1.68%) CSS
5 8 (1.68%) XML
6 7 (1.47%) YAML
7 6 (1.26%) Node.js
7 6 (1.26%) REST
8 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.84%) .NET
9 4 (0.84%) Apache Avro
9 4 (0.84%) Kafka
9 4 (0.84%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.63%) jQuery
10 3 (0.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 45 (9.47%) Data Protection Act
3 35 (7.37%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.42%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (3.79%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.16%) CSOC
8 13 (2.74%) Freedom of Information
8 13 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 12 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.32%) Wiki
11 10 (2.11%) Replication
12 9 (1.89%) Clustering
12 9 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.68%) CESG
14 7 (1.47%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.05%) Freedom of Information Act
15 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.84%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.42%) Linux
2 29 (6.11%) Windows
3 12 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.11%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.11%) Solaris
5 8 (1.68%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (1.05%) Unix
6 5 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.84%) CentOS
7 4 (0.84%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.63%) zOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (28.00%) Data Protection
2 132 (27.79%) Cybersecurity
3 90 (18.95%) Information Security
4 83 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (16.21%) Data Governance
6 66 (13.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 56 (11.79%) Data Modelling
7 56 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (9.47%) Agile
10 45 (9.47%) Penetration Testing
11 44 (9.26%) Application Security
11 44 (9.26%) OWASP
11 44 (9.26%) Risk Management
12 43 (9.05%) Data Privacy
13 41 (8.63%) Data Security
13 41 (8.63%) Migration
14 40 (8.42%) Data Management
15 39 (8.21%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.53%) SQL
2 25 (5.26%) Python
3 15 (3.16%) Java
3 15 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.11%) Bash
6 9 (1.89%) C#
7 7 (1.47%) Groovy
8 5 (1.05%) PHP
9 4 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.84%) VBScript
10 3 (0.63%) COBOL
10 3 (0.63%) REXX
11 2 (0.42%) C++
11 2 (0.42%) Perl
11 2 (0.42%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.16%) Degree
3 39 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.37%) GIAC
4 35 (7.37%) SANS
5 33 (6.95%) CREST Certified
5 33 (6.95%) GPEN
5 33 (6.95%) OSCP
6 29 (6.11%) CISSP
7 23 (4.84%) CISM
8 21 (4.42%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.37%) CISA
9 16 (3.37%) ISACA
10 12 (2.53%) IIBA
11 10 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (1.89%) CEH
12 9 (1.89%) SSCP
13 8 (1.68%) CISMP
14 7 (1.47%) ISEB
15 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (14.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (13.47%) PCI DSS
3 62 (13.05%) NIST
4 52 (10.95%) NCSC
5 42 (8.84%) Data Quality
6 36 (7.58%) HIPAA
7 23 (4.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 20 (4.21%) GxP
9 19 (4.00%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (2.95%) QA
11 12 (2.53%) COBIT
11 12 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (1.89%) GRC
13 8 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (1.05%) PMO
14 5 (1.05%) SLA
15 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
16 3 (0.63%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.11%) Docker
4 4 (0.84%) XenApp
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.21%) Snort
6 1 (0.21%) vCloud
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (3.58%) Ansible
1 17 (3.58%) Terraform
2 14 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (1.68%) Netcool
3 8 (1.68%) Tivoli
3 8 (1.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (1.47%) CA Service Virtualization
5 4 (0.84%) SCCM
6 2 (0.42%) Ambari
6 2 (0.42%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.42%) Oozie
6 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.42%) SELinux
6 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Avamar
7 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.21%) Kibana
7 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 80 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.84%) SAP
3 41 (8.63%) Oracle
4 33 (6.95%) Virgin Media
5 21 (4.42%) Google
6 17 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.58%) VMware
7 14 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.74%) Splunk
9 11 (2.32%) Cisco
9 11 (2.32%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.32%) Sparx
10 10 (2.11%) OneTrust
11 9 (1.89%) EMC
11 9 (1.89%) HP
11 9 (1.89%) Qualys
12 8 (1.68%) Dell
12 8 (1.68%) IBM
12 8 (1.68%) Informatica
12 8 (1.68%) Isilon