GDPR Contracts in the South East

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 96 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 -1
Contract jobs citing GDPR 62 109 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 1.96% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.16% 13.24% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 71
10th Percentile £348 £269 £440
25th Percentile £450 £304 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £534 £700
90th Percentile £638 £605 £838
England median daily rate £529 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.64 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.17% +14.29% -17.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 510 823 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.93% 14.83% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 434 556
10th Percentile £200 £231 £200
25th Percentile £363 £360 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £578
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 66 42
10th Percentile £21.32 £10.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.82 £18.75
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -8.33% +42.69%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £51.14
90th Percentile £77.27 £65.00 £67.42
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the South East

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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 GDPR within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +10 46 £550 +14.58% 75
Berkshire +6 37 £550 +9.45% 52
Hampshire +24 11 £538 +13.46% 43
Oxfordshire +11 6 £525 +16.67% 23
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £350 -24.73% 10
West Sussex +16 4 £510 +7.37% 11
Kent - 3 £500 - 15
Surrey +2 1 £450 +46.34% 28
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England

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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 2 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.61%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) Network Security
2 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 6 (9.68%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.23%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (3.23%) DHCP
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.06%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.45%) Metadata
4 2 (3.23%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.23%) NewSQL
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
1 2 (3.23%) Git
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
1 2 (3.23%) Metasploit
1 2 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.06%) Legal
5 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Billing
7 2 (3.23%) Law
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Automotive
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Architect
2 7 (11.29%) Administrator
2 7 (11.29%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Consultant
3 6 (9.68%) Head of Architecture
3 6 (9.68%) Head of Security
4 5 (8.06%) Head of Strategy
4 5 (8.06%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Change Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Security Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Penetration Tester
7 2 (3.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Web Services
2 1 (1.61%) FHIR
2 1 (1.61%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) NHS
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) Replication
5 2 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.61%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.61%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Solaris
2 2 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.42%) Data Protection
3 16 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (25.81%) Information Security
3 16 (25.81%) Risk Management
4 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
4 12 (19.35%) Data Management
5 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (16.13%) Data Security
5 10 (16.13%) OWASP
5 10 (16.13%) Regulatory Compliance
5 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
5 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.52%) Incident Response
6 9 (14.52%) Project Management
7 8 (12.90%) ITIL
7 8 (12.90%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Security Operations
8 7 (11.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 13 (20.97%) SQL
3 8 (12.90%) Bash
4 4 (6.45%) Java
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.23%) C
5 2 (3.23%) C++
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.23%) Ruby
5 2 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.61%) R
6 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) CISSP
2 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Degree
4 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.68%) Master's Degree
6 5 (8.06%) CISM
7 4 (6.45%) CISA
7 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.23%) CEH
9 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.23%) GCIH
9 2 (3.23%) GIAC
9 2 (3.23%) GPEN
9 2 (3.23%) GWAPT
9 2 (3.23%) ISACA
9 2 (3.23%) OSCE
9 2 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) NIST
2 14 (22.58%) HIPAA
3 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (12.90%) COBIT
5 7 (11.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 2 (3.23%) QA
6 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.61%) GRC
7 1 (1.61%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.61%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.23%) vSphere
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Ansible
1 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (3.23%) SELinux
2 1 (1.61%) CASB
2 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.23%) Symantec
3 2 (3.23%) Veritas
3 2 (3.23%) VMware
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe
4 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.61%) Forcepoint
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) SAP
4 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Talend