GDPR Contracts in South Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.05% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Wales median daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.08 - -
Wales median hourly rate £13.08 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 40 71 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.27% 20.46% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 35
10th Percentile £181 £156 £267
25th Percentile £313 £223 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.19%
75th Percentile £501 £544 £575
90th Percentile £525 £639 £613
Wales median daily rate £393 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.70% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile - £15.57 -
25th Percentile - £18.14 -
Median hourly rate £13.08 £22.00 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -40.55% +101.47% -12.61%
75th Percentile - £37.18 £34.95
90th Percentile £14.23 £48.75 £48.88
Wales median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £10.92
% change year-on-year -52.44% +151.83% -14.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Cardiff - 7 £350 - 10
Newport - 1 - - 5
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) ISMS
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (25.00%) CISMP
2 2 (25.00%) GSEC
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft