GDPR Contracts in Scotland

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -10
Contract jobs citing GDPR 9 45 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 1.60% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.22% 7.94% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 38 17
10th Percentile £249 £415 £158
25th Percentile £288 £440 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +14.29% +20.69%
75th Percentile £483 £628 £575
90th Percentile £524 £775 £585
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 405 567 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.65% 20.14% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 475 516
10th Percentile £183 £208 £216
25th Percentile £313 £400 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +2.41%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £606 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 14
10th Percentile £15.32 £16.41 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.18 £19.28 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.27 £34.74 £35.22
Median % change year-on-year -47.41% -1.35% +46.73%
75th Percentile £51.28 £49.24 £43.25
90th Percentile £60.75 £51.94 £52.03
UK median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.56% +27.27% +30.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Scotland

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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 GDPR within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -10 5 £325 -31.58% 14
Edinburgh +41 3 £483 -19.03% 9
Aberdeen - 1 - - 5
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) GIS
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Information Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PostGIS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Data Security
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISM
2 3 (33.33%) CISA
2 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) COBIT
3 1 (11.11%) GRC
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) Workday
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OneTrust