GDPR Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 131 147
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 +63
Contract jobs citing GDPR 78 46 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.98% 1.06% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.98% 7.80% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 27 37
10th Percentile £354 £283 £308
25th Percentile £455 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +2.88% -7.43%
75th Percentile £604 £558 -
90th Percentile £671 £620 £611
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.95% -9.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £13.46 £19.20 £16.81
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £32.44 £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.02% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.04 £28.61 £20.19
90th Percentile £75.74 £31.97 £25.13
England median hourly rate £31.63 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +26.50% +31.58% -24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 601 590 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.29% 13.61% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 335 453
10th Percentile £268 £313 £300
25th Percentile £367 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £582 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £649
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 52 50
10th Percentile £13.90 - £16.58
25th Percentile - £10.95 £19.06
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.54 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +91.90% -64.22% +40.22%
75th Percentile £35.16 £18.50 £44.31
90th Percentile £71.32 £43.69 £53.62
England median hourly rate £31.64 £25.77 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.80% -39.38% +72.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Yorkshire +17 41 £507 +0.40% 48
North West -3 33 £525 +5.00% 105
North East 0 4 £544 +31.82% 17
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) SAS
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) CICS
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Magento
1 1 (1.28%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.28%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.28%) SAP QM
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.77%) Azure
2 23 (29.49%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) GCP
4 6 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.13%) Serverless
6 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.85%) GitHub
6 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) Firewall
2 6 (7.69%) Network Security
2 6 (7.69%) Wireless
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (3.85%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.56%) SSL
4 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (1.28%) GPRS
5 1 (1.28%) LAN
5 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.85%) Power BI
2 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.56%) Big Data
3 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.28%) DB2
4 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.28%) QlikView
4 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (24.36%) JIRA
2 6 (7.69%) Postman
2 6 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 3 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.56%) GitLab
5 1 (1.28%) ERwin
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (35.90%) Finance
3 21 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.41%) Banking
6 4 (5.13%) Automotive
6 4 (5.13%) Marketing
7 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.56%) Retail
9 1 (1.28%) Advertising
9 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Analyst
2 9 (11.54%) Architect
2 9 (11.54%) Incident Manager
3 6 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 5 (6.41%) Business Analyst
4 5 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (6.41%) Test Analyst
5 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (5.13%) Lead
5 4 (5.13%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Programme Director
6 3 (3.85%) Senior
7 2 (2.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.56%) SailPoint
1 2 (2.56%) Spring
1 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.28%) Flask
2 1 (1.28%) ISPF
2 1 (1.28%) LDAP
2 1 (1.28%) Node.js
2 1 (1.28%) OAuth
2 1 (1.28%) PySpark
2 1 (1.28%) SAML
2 1 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.28%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.28%) PMI
4 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (21.79%) Cloud Security
4 16 (20.51%) Incident Response
4 16 (20.51%) Mentoring
5 13 (16.67%) Agile
5 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 11 (14.10%) Incident Management
8 10 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (12.82%) Customer Service
8 10 (12.82%) ITSM
9 9 (11.54%) Backlog Management
9 9 (11.54%) Data Privacy
9 9 (11.54%) Data Protection
9 9 (11.54%) DevSecOps
9 9 (11.54%) Risk Management
9 9 (11.54%) Scrum
9 9 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.41%) Python
1 5 (6.41%) SQL
2 2 (2.56%) Java
2 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.28%) Bash
3 1 (1.28%) COBOL
3 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.28%) JCL
3 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) CISM
1 8 (10.26%) CISSP
2 6 (7.69%) CISMP
2 6 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 6 (7.69%) GSEC
2 6 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 5 (6.41%) Degree
4 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.56%) CBAP
5 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) CRISC
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (17.95%) NIST
2 14 (17.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (11.54%) PCI DSS
4 8 (10.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (7.69%) SLA
6 5 (6.41%) SOC 2
7 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
8 3 (3.85%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
10 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.28%) GMP
10 1 (1.28%) GRC
10 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
10 1 (1.28%) NCSC
10 1 (1.28%) PMO
10 1 (1.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (1.28%) RACF
2 1 (1.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (7.69%) SmoothWall
2 4 (5.13%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Grafana
4 2 (2.56%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.28%) Nessus
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.23%) Google
3 11 (14.10%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 6 (7.69%) Thycotic
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) SAP
6 2 (2.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe
7 1 (1.28%) Apple
7 1 (1.28%) Criteo
7 1 (1.28%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle
7 1 (1.28%) Qualys
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.28%) Workday