PERC Contract Job Trends in London

Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PERC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 368 408
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 +151
Contract jobs citing PERC 15 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.58% 0.096% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £619 - £478
25th Percentile £675 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £625 £510
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +22.55% -13.19%
75th Percentile £806 £638 £715
90th Percentile - - £759
England median daily rate £588 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +20.51% -4.41% -15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

PERC 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,580 2,082 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.10% 13.31% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 1,277 2,031
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% -1.78%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 28 45
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £32.71 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +25.38% +14.04%
75th Percentile £44.75 £79.60 £50.75
90th Percentile £69.87 £95.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -13.28% -21.09% +59.78%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PERC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PERC job vacancy trend in London

PERC
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PERC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PERC

PERC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PERC in London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PERC in London

PERC
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PERC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PERC

PERC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Looker
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 11 (73.33%) Legal
2 8 (53.33%) Electronics
3 5 (33.33%) Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Technology Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (53.33%) Data Protection
2 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven
3 7 (46.67%) Data Privacy
4 6 (40.00%) Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
6 4 (26.67%) Epics
6 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (26.67%) Privacy Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Release Train
6 4 (26.67%) SAFe Practitioner
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Adobe
1 4 (26.67%) mParticle
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
1 4 (26.67%) Tealium
2 2 (13.33%) OneTrust
3 1 (6.67%) Facebook
3 1 (6.67%) Google