GDPR Contracts in Reading

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 44 68 65
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing GDPR 16 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 1.93% 2.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.39% 12.99% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £286 £419 £465
25th Percentile £425 £429 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -15.81% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £469 £616
90th Percentile £554 £476 £684
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £480 £485
% change year-on-year +14.58% -1.03% -11.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 92 177 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.41% 14.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 85 77
10th Percentile £308 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +7.36%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 - £723
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile - - £31.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +221.43%
75th Percentile - - £60.38
90th Percentile - - £69.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Network Security
2 6 (37.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 2 (12.50%) Metasploit
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Head of Architecture
1 6 (37.50%) Head of Security
2 5 (31.25%) Head of Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) FHIR
2 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Information Security
2 9 (56.25%) OWASP
3 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
3 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
4 6 (37.50%) Data Protection
5 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
6 4 (25.00%) Budgeting
6 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (18.75%) Application Security
7 3 (18.75%) Data Mapping
7 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
7 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Security Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) C++
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Ruby
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) GPEN
1 2 (12.50%) GWAPT
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 2 (12.50%) OSCE
1 2 (12.50%) OSCP
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ISACA
2 1 (6.25%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) COBIT
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI