Data Privacy Contracts in the South East

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Privacy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Privacy 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 137 169 204
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 25 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 7
10th Percentile £400 £268 £350
25th Percentile £409 £344 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £645 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% +3.20% +12.36%
75th Percentile £656 £803 £669
90th Percentile £873 £1,013 £693
England median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £23.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +205.04% +9.52% -49.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,120 4,282 5,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.15% 82.76% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 2,574 3,496
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 362 242
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £20.56 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.99 £55.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.05% +10.08% +100.00%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the South East

Data Privacy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Privacy in the South East

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the South East over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in the South East

Data Privacy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Privacy in the South East

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Thames Valley +24 17 £513 +22.75% 16
Berkshire +11 11 £613 +46.71% 9
Surrey +20 4 £380 -23.23% 3
Buckinghamshire - 4 £425 - 2
Hampshire +30 2 £913 +14.06% 11
Kent - 2 £400 - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £650 - 6
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) ChatGPT
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 3 (12.00%) Collibra
5 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) OCI
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Big Data
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (32.00%) Legal
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Advertising
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Data Scientist
3 4 (16.00%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Head of Digital
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Head of Networks
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Operations Director
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (16.00%) NumPy
1 4 (16.00%) Pandas
1 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (12.00%) Prophet
3 2 (8.00%) DAO
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) SIEM
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (24.00%) Risk Management
2 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 5 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (16.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CISSP
2 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) CFCE
3 4 (16.00%) GCFA
3 4 (16.00%) GCIA
3 4 (16.00%) GCIH
4 3 (12.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (12.00%) CCSP
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (12.00%) GIAC
5 1 (4.00%) CIPD
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (72.00%) GDPR
2 8 (32.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (32.00%) NIST
3 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (12.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (12.00%) PSD2
5 2 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (4.00%) GRC
6 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) ArcSight
2 4 (16.00%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (16.00%) LogRhythm
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
3 3 (12.00%) Sage
4 2 (8.00%) Informatica
4 2 (8.00%) OneTrust
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Criteo
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Intel
5 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.00%) Talend
5 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media
5 1 (4.00%) Workday