GDPR Contract Job Trends in Somerset

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 7.61% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £225 £625
% change year-on-year +111.11% -64.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60.15 - -
25th Percentile £60.38 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.38 - -
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 - £17.46

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 34 26 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.26% 15.95% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 14
10th Percentile - £450 £340
25th Percentile £263 £544 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £491 £631 £603
90th Percentile £565 £673 £621
South West median daily rate £523 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.60% -9.09% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £60.15 - -
25th Percentile £60.38 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 £13.26 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +363.80% -73.48% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.38 - -
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
South West median hourly rate £39.47 £65.00 £73.31
% change year-on-year -39.28% -11.34% +89.55%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

GDPR job vacancy trend in Somerset

GDPR
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing GDPR

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Somerset over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Somerset

GDPR
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yeovil - 12 £275 -
GDPR
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (53.33%) ShareGate
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (33.33%) OneDrive
5 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) PABX
2 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Metadata
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Desktop Support
1 7 (46.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Migration Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Exchange Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) LDAP
1 3 (20.00%) OAuth
1 3 (20.00%) OpenID
1 3 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Smartphone
2 6 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 7 (46.67%) Change Management
3 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) Information Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Data Discovery
6 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) RBAC
6 3 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
7 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow