GDPR Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 102 120 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing GDPR 14 9 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.41% 1.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.93% 2.16% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 37
10th Percentile £280 £249 £415
25th Percentile £406 £288 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £404 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -19.20% +11.42%
75th Percentile £550 £483 £638
90th Percentile £855 £524 £775
UK median daily rate £537 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £25.46 - -
25th Percentile £25.79 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +19.54% -6.12% -5.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 284 417 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.48% 18.81% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 479
10th Percentile £192 £191 £213
25th Percentile £363 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £610 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 3
10th Percentile £18.53 £15.32 £26.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £16.18 £34.30
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%
75th Percentile £49.19 £51.28 £50.74
90th Percentile £75.28 £60.75 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Glasgow +5 7 £500 +53.85% 15
Edinburgh +7 5 £233 -51.86% 10
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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 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) OLAP
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Mockito
2 1 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Camel
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OpenID
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Data Security
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Line Management
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
4 3 (21.43%) Data Privacy
4 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) PERC
2 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Okta
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Talend