GDPR Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 81 109 153
Rank change year-on-year +28 +44 -6
Contract jobs citing GDPR 30 48 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.79% 1.50% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.68% 8.36% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 8
10th Percentile £363 £563 £415
25th Percentile £372 £609 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +42.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £700 £522
90th Percentile £619 £705 £580
England median daily rate £529 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £27.78 - -
25th Percentile £27.98 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.32 - £19.00
75th Percentile £28.66 - £25.25
90th Percentile £28.86 - £28.10
England median hourly rate £27.64 £24.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +15.17% -2.04% -4.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 281 574 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.94% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 336 296
10th Percentile £306 £263 £200
25th Percentile £400 £409 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +7.63%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 57 44
10th Percentile £36.50 £12.41 £17.65
25th Percentile £62.50 £14.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £79.81
90th Percentile £77.96 £72.53 £83.40
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +20 16 £400 -36.00% 23
Wiltshire +20 8 £550 -21.43% 4
Devon +15 3 £525 +65.05% 8
Somerset +2 3 £650 +13.04% 10
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.33%) dbt
3 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (6.67%) Law
2 2 (6.67%) Local Government
3 1 (3.33%) Advertising
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Police
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Applications Support
1 13 (43.33%) Senior
1 13 (43.33%) Senior Applications Support
2 10 (33.33%) Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Support Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Support Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Architect
4 6 (20.00%) Support Officer
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Hardware Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Information Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Information Security Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (6.67%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.33%) CESG
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Data Protection
2 13 (43.33%) Logistics
3 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
4 6 (20.00%) Data Security
5 5 (16.67%) Benchmarking
5 5 (16.67%) Cryptography
6 4 (13.33%) Key Management
7 3 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (6.67%) Analytics
8 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (6.67%) Information Governance
8 2 (6.67%) Information Security
8 2 (6.67%) Migration
8 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (3.33%) Configuration Management
9 1 (3.33%) Incident Management
9 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) CISM
1 2 (6.67%) CISSP
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) CEH
2 1 (3.33%) CISA
2 1 (3.33%) CISMP
2 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.33%) ISACA
2 1 (3.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) PCI DSS
2 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.67%) NIST
5 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.33%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Apple
1 1 (3.33%) Criteo
1 1 (3.33%) Databricks
1 1 (3.33%) Google
1 1 (3.33%) Splunk
1 1 (3.33%) Varonis