GDPR Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 104 138
Rank change year-on-year +22 +34 +15
Contract jobs citing GDPR 29 29 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 1.05% 0.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.84% 7.55% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 17
10th Percentile £255 £388 £358
25th Percentile £381 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £650
90th Percentile £557 £550 -
England median daily rate £529 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - - £10.88
25th Percentile - £11.06 £10.93
Median hourly rate £31.76 £11.54 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +175.22% +4.91% -46.79%
75th Percentile - £16.88 £12.35
90th Percentile - £19.79 £13.16
England median hourly rate £27.64 £24.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +15.17% -2.04% -4.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the Midlands

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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 GDPR within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +12 22 £475 - 81
East Midlands +12 7 £346 -23.22% 35
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (10.34%) R Markdown
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Akamai
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
1 2 (6.90%) NetBeans
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Legal
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Project Officer
5 1 (3.45%) Compliance Officer
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (3.45%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Digital
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Digital Transformation
5 1 (3.45%) Head of IT Security
5 1 (3.45%) Information Security Advisor
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Data Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) PMO Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Shiny
2 2 (6.90%) POSIX
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) Play Framework
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
3 1 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Agile
2 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
2 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
3 5 (17.24%) Project Management
3 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
3 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.79%) Data Collection
4 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
5 3 (10.34%) Change Management
5 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Data Security
5 3 (10.34%) ERP
5 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
5 3 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) R
3 2 (6.90%) C
3 2 (6.90%) C++
3 2 (6.90%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) CISSP
3 3 (10.34%) CEH
4 2 (6.90%) CISA
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) GIAC
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CITP
5 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) MCP
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
5 1 (3.45%) SANS
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.24%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
4 3 (10.34%) WCAG
5 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (6.90%) MISRA
5 2 (6.90%) MISRA C
5 2 (6.90%) QA
5 2 (6.90%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.45%) GRC
6 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.45%) IEC 61508
6 1 (3.45%) ISO 14001
6 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (3.45%) MiFID
6 1 (3.45%) NEBOSH
6 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) QNX
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Workday
3 1 (3.45%) F5
3 1 (3.45%) Imperva
3 1 (3.45%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce