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 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 42 68 73
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing GDPR 23 25 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.91% 2.16% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.17% 17.36% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 12
10th Percentile £460 £419 £507
25th Percentile £506 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% -13.81% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £550
90th Percentile £733 £476 £664
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% +9.09%

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 120 144 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.41% 12.47% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 51 97
10th Percentile £394 £313 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £675 £711 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +12.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.15
25th Percentile - - £25.13
Median hourly rate - - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile - - £38.63
90th Percentile - - £42.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £23.00
% change year-on-year -3.05% +175.78% +9.52%

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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 27 July 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 3 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Boomi
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (8.70%) Data Hub
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (17.39%) Legal
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Security Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (17.39%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Implementation Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Implementation Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Project Implementation Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Google JAX
1 4 (17.39%) JAX
1 4 (17.39%) PyTorch
1 4 (17.39%) scikit-learn
1 4 (17.39%) TensorFlow
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) FHIR
3 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Security Posture
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) NHS
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Data Protection
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Information Security
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Security Architecture
3 7 (30.43%) SIEM
3 7 (30.43%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) Data Privacy
4 6 (26.09%) SDLC
5 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (21.74%) LLM
5 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
5 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
5 5 (21.74%) Secure Coding
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) C
4 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) R
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) CISSP
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) CFCE
3 4 (17.39%) GCFA
3 4 (17.39%) GCIA
3 4 (17.39%) GCIH
4 3 (13.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.04%) CCSP
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) GIAC
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.70%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) GPEN
6 1 (4.35%) GWAPT
6 1 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.35%) OSCE
6 1 (4.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (43.48%) NIST
3 4 (17.39%) EU AI Act
3 4 (17.39%) HIPAA
3 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
4 3 (13.04%) PSD2
4 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.35%) COBIT
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (4.35%) GRC
5 1 (4.35%) ISO 9001
5 1 (4.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) ArcSight
2 4 (17.39%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (17.39%) LogRhythm
2 4 (17.39%) Splunk
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.35%) Intel
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAI