Data Privacy Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Privacy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Privacy over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 113 143
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 19 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.55% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.65% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +15.90% -
75th Percentile £638 - £653
90th Percentile £775 - £681
South East median daily rate £525 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -27.59% +16.00% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.23% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,544 2,001 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.18% 84.82% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,128 1,746
10th Percentile £305 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -2.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £623
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 113 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.33% +10.15% +170.27%
75th Percentile £53.63 £66.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the Thames Valley

Data Privacy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Privacy in the Thames Valley

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in the Thames Valley

Data Privacy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Privacy in the Thames Valley

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire +13 12 £625 +10.62% 9
Buckinghamshire - 4 £425 - 5
Oxfordshire - 3 £525 - 7
Data Privacy
South East

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) ChatGPT
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.26%) Collibra
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Network Security
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Legal
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Data Scientist
2 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
2 4 (21.05%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Coordinator
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Hugging Face
1 4 (21.05%) NumPy
1 4 (21.05%) Pandas
1 4 (21.05%) PyTorch
1 4 (21.05%) scikit-learn
2 3 (15.79%) Prophet
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Security Posture
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) SIEM
2 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Data Security
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
2 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) A/B Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
3 4 (21.05%) Data Science
3 4 (21.05%) Forensic Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Information Security
3 4 (21.05%) LLM
3 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
3 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (21.05%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CISSP
2 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) CFCE
3 4 (21.05%) GCFA
3 4 (21.05%) GCIA
3 4 (21.05%) GCIH
4 3 (15.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.79%) CCSP
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.79%) GIAC
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (73.68%) GDPR
2 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (42.11%) NIST
3 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
3 4 (21.05%) PSD2
4 3 (15.79%) HIPAA
5 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) ArcSight
2 4 (21.05%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (21.05%) LogRhythm
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) Sage
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Intel
4 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Talend
4 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media