Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -52 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 6 22 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.81% 5.06% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 5.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 0
10th Percentile £403 £463 -
25th Percentile £404 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% - -
75th Percentile £453 £550 -
90th Percentile £481 £622 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £518 £613
% change year-on-year -9.42% -15.51% +28.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 391 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.82% 89.89% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 202 233
10th Percentile £306 £220 £353
25th Percentile £388 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +9.51%
75th Percentile £538 £583 £650
90th Percentile £640 £652 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £495 £510
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 4
10th Percentile £14.54 - £18.95
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -45.98% +47.29%
75th Percentile £22.01 £16.68 £35.94
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £44.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% +15.24%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Sheffield -46 6 £405 -21.36% 6
Data Privacy
Yorkshire

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Cohesity
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) API Development
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
2 1 (16.67%) LLM
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Commvault
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat