GDPR Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 75 101 119
Rank change year-on-year +26 +18 +55
Contract jobs citing GDPR 75 27 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.81% 1.01% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.30% 6.67% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 16 15
10th Percentile £359 £361 £195
25th Percentile £400 £450 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +25.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £500 £539 £568
90th Percentile £593 £600 £633
England median daily rate £525 £501 £575
% change year-on-year +4.90% -12.96% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £23.19 £13.78
25th Percentile - £27.22 £13.91
Median hourly rate £40.46 £33.93 £14.12
Median % change year-on-year +19.25% +140.30% -
75th Percentile - - £14.33
90th Percentile - - £14.46
England median hourly rate £34.00 £21.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year +61.90% +21.74% -28.87%

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 460 405 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.24% 15.13% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 246 285
10th Percentile £300 £236 £300
25th Percentile £369 £353 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £588
90th Percentile £650 £725 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 25
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.00 £12.98
25th Percentile £16.12 £13.33 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.04 £18.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.65% -32.38% +39.84%
75th Percentile £34.16 £49.06 £31.76
90th Percentile £40.46 £55.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.93 £40.05
% change year-on-year -4.21% -15.28% +78.00%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GDPR

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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 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GDPR

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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 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
East Midlands +30 43 £430 -28.42% 21
West Midlands -3 32 £525 +10.53% 43
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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 2 (2.67%) Confluence
1 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) SAP PM
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) AWS
2 25 (33.33%) Azure
3 21 (28.00%) GCP
4 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 9 (12.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 8 (10.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.00%) Collibra
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (5.33%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (4.00%) SaaS
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.67%) GitHub
10 2 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Firewall
2 4 (5.33%) Network Security
3 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.33%) BGP
4 1 (1.33%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.33%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.33%) IPsec
4 1 (1.33%) OSPF
4 1 (1.33%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.33%) VLAN
4 1 (1.33%) WAN
4 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (6.67%) Delta Lake
1 5 (6.67%) GIS
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.33%) Metadata
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) MLflow
General
1 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Marketing
5 8 (10.67%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.00%) Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Automotive
8 2 (2.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.67%) Retail
8 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.33%) Local Government
9 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Architect
2 16 (21.33%) Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 8 (10.67%) Security Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Identity Management Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Information Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Information Security Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Governance Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Product Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Programme Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) LDAP
1 14 (18.67%) OAuth
1 14 (18.67%) SAML
2 11 (14.67%) Hibernate
2 11 (14.67%) OpenID
2 11 (14.67%) Spring
3 8 (10.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (10.67%) Middleware
3 8 (10.67%) REST
3 8 (10.67%) SOAP
3 8 (10.67%) Visualforce
4 5 (6.67%) Kafka
5 2 (2.67%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (9.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.67%) IoT
4 5 (6.67%) SCADA
5 4 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
6 3 (4.00%) PKI
7 2 (2.67%) Infotainment
7 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) NHS
8 1 (1.33%) Replication
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Windows
2 6 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.00%) Roadmaps
3 19 (25.33%) Agile
4 17 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (21.33%) Data Governance
5 16 (21.33%) RBAC
6 15 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 15 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 15 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 15 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 15 (20.00%) Migration
6 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (18.67%) Information Security
8 13 (17.33%) CI/CD
8 13 (17.33%) Data Security
8 13 (17.33%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (17.33%) User Experience
9 11 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 10 (13.33%) Analytics
10 10 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) Java
2 12 (16.00%) SQL
3 10 (13.33%) Python
4 8 (10.67%) Apex Code
5 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.67%) Bash
6 5 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) Bicep
9 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.67%) CISSP
5 4 (5.33%) CISM
5 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) CISA
6 2 (2.67%) CRISC
6 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.33%) CCNP
7 1 (1.33%) CEH
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.33%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) GIAC
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) HIPAA
2 16 (21.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (18.67%) Data Quality
4 13 (17.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (9.33%) GRC
6 6 (8.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (5.33%) FIPS 140-2
7 4 (5.33%) NIST
7 4 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (5.33%) SLA
8 2 (2.67%) PERC
8 2 (2.67%) QA
9 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
9 1 (1.33%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.00%) SCCM
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.67%) Terraform
7 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) IBM
2 11 (14.67%) Oracle
2 11 (14.67%) Salesforce
3 10 (13.33%) Ping Identity
3 10 (13.33%) SAP
4 6 (8.00%) Citrix
4 6 (8.00%) Databricks
4 6 (8.00%) Informatica
4 6 (8.00%) VMware
5 5 (6.67%) Workday
6 2 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (2.67%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) UiPath
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) Google
7 1 (1.33%) Juniper
7 1 (1.33%) Remedy
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds