GDPR Contracts in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 18 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.30% 1.24% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.57% 14.29% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £375 £494 -
25th Percentile £463 £496 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +12.44% -
75th Percentile £580 £515 -
90th Percentile £628 £516 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £339 £450
% change year-on-year +49.52% -24.65% +5.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 92 42 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.85% 8.66% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 28 35
10th Percentile £258 £235 £320
25th Percentile £362 £373 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £596 £622
90th Percentile £603 £640 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.04%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in South Yorkshire

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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 GDPR within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 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 +7 18 £507 +0.20% 7
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (5.56%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) Postman
2 6 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Incident Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Programme Director
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programmer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Services Director
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (5.56%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
3 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
5 7 (38.89%) Backlog Management
5 7 (38.89%) Decision-Making
5 7 (38.89%) ITSM
5 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
6 6 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (33.33%) API Testing
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (33.33%) Kanban
6 6 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
6 6 (33.33%) Scrum
6 6 (33.33%) Security Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Test Management
7 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) COBOL
1 1 (5.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISM
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
1 6 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (50.00%) NIST
2 8 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (5.56%) RACF
1 1 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
3 6 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
3 6 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 6 (33.33%) Google
3 6 (33.33%) Thycotic