Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 115 133
Rank change year-on-year -30 +18 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 15 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 0.30% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile £365 £287 £668
25th Percentile - £293 £699
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £774
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -58.01% +31.74%
75th Percentile £425 £356 £875
90th Percentile £538 £517 £920
England median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.46 - -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +160.45% +4.76% +33.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in the Midlands

Data Privacy
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Privacy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -29 11 £403 -12.97% 14
East Midlands -18 4 £400 +36.52% 2
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Ethereum
2 1 (6.67%) Hyperledger
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (6.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Automotive
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Compliance Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Information Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Blockchain Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Health and Safety Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) MACH
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Infotainment
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Security Management
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) AI Transformation
6 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (6.67%) Data Discovery
6 1 (6.67%) Facilities Management
6 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 2 (13.33%) PERC
3 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Axway
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
1 4 (26.67%) IBM Sterling
1 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (6.67%) Informatica
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Teradata