GDPR Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring GDPR skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.30% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £245 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
South West median daily rate £400 £375 £563
% change year-on-year +6.67% -33.33% +4.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 61 57 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.07% 12.95% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 23
10th Percentile £225 £278 £266
25th Percentile £325 £391 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £635
90th Percentile £700 £662 £765
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - - £61.81
25th Percentile - £28.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -34.05% +42.94%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £83.72
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -52.14% +4.87% +23.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Gloucester - 3 £350 - 2
Cheltenham - 3 - - 1
GDPR
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Impala
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) LDAP
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) OpenID
2 2 (28.57%) SAML
3 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (14.29%) NLTK
3 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
3 1 (14.29%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Information Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (14.29%) NIST
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) PingFederate
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Ping Identity
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Okta