Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 108 135
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 11 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.72% 0.47% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.53% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £449 £372 £406
25th Percentile £469 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +13.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £602
90th Percentile £650 £764 £661
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +160.45% +4.76% +20.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Privacy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,342 1,511 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.48% 89.67% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 894 1,334
10th Percentile £238 £230 £250
25th Percentile £398 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 55
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £32.66 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in Scotland

Data Privacy
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Privacy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Edinburgh +7 6 £550 -21.43% 5
Glasgow +1 5 £550 +8.59% 1
Data Privacy
UK

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe XD
2 1 (9.09%) InDesign
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
2 1 (9.09%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Figma
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Designer
3 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Flask
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) Hugging Face
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) LangChain
2 2 (18.18%) LangGraph
2 2 (18.18%) Loki
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Animation
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) e-Learning
2 1 (9.09%) Graphic Design
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Governance
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) AI
4 3 (27.27%) API Integration
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) Data Security
4 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Distributed Cache
5 2 (18.18%) GitOps
5 2 (18.18%) LLM
5 2 (18.18%) ModelOps
5 2 (18.18%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe