GDPR Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GDPR skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 120 136
Rank change year-on-year +50 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing GDPR 48 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.46% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.21% 5.71% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 11 14
10th Percentile £249 £205 £374
25th Percentile £338 £210 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -33.33% +4.36%
75th Percentile £519 £544 £647
90th Percentile £538 £650 £665
England median daily rate £525 £501 £575
% change year-on-year +4.90% -12.96% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £35.32 - -
25th Percentile £44.81 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.30 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £21.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year +61.90% +21.74% -28.87%

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 393 333 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.13% 13.13% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 160 276
10th Percentile £235 £245 £350
25th Percentile £356 £428 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £652
90th Percentile £706 £690 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 58 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.24 £33.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.87 £50.31
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +4.87% +23.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £83.40
90th Percentile £73.50 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.93 £40.05
% change year-on-year -4.21% -15.28% +78.00%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR

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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 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GDPR

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in the South West over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 September 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 +9 13 £400 - 23
Somerset +10 12 £300 -57.14% 11
Wiltshire +9 8 £425 +21.43% 5
Devon - 7 £520 - 3
Gloucestershire - 7 £350 - 7
Dorset - 1 - - 5
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England

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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 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.42%) ShareGate
6 4 (8.33%) GCP
7 3 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.25%) SaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) PABX
2 3 (6.25%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) Impala
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) Applications Support
3 10 (20.83%) Senior Applications Support
4 7 (14.58%) Applications Support Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Support Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Support Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support
6 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Support Officer
7 3 (6.25%) Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Security Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Database Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) OAuth
2 6 (12.50%) LDAP
2 6 (12.50%) OpenID
2 6 (12.50%) SAML
3 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.08%) JWT
5 1 (2.08%) NLTK
5 1 (2.08%) Node.js
5 1 (2.08%) REST
5 1 (2.08%) RESTful
5 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.08%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.58%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (10.42%) Smartphone
4 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (4.17%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (4.17%) Replication
6 2 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 10 (20.83%) Logistics
3 9 (18.75%) Information Security
4 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.42%) Change Management
6 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.42%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
6 5 (10.42%) Migration
6 5 (10.42%) RBAC
6 5 (10.42%) Security Operations
6 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
6 5 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) SQL
2 10 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.42%) Python
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) CISM
3 6 (12.50%) CISSP
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CISA
5 2 (4.17%) MCSE
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.50%) NIST
3 5 (10.42%) SLA
4 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (4.17%) COBIT
6 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
6 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
7 1 (2.08%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.25%) SCCM
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) PingFederate
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.25%) Ping Identity
4 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) Varonis