GDPR Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring GDPR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing GDPR 7 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.03% 5.43% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.46% 30.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £426 £341 -
25th Percentile - £366 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% - -
75th Percentile £550 £459 -
90th Percentile £708 £484 -
North East median daily rate £466 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +12.97% +3.13% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.37 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £13.49 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% - -
75th Percentile £13.61 £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.49 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.69% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 74 40 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.45% 18.10% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 14
10th Percentile £300 £246 £402
25th Percentile £419 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £366 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% -22.85% -17.07%
75th Percentile £534 £500 £501
90th Percentile £571 £650 £606
North East median daily rate £475 £385 £430
% change year-on-year +23.38% -10.36% -24.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £25.82 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +228.13% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 £16.50 £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year +228.13% -4.48% -25.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GDPR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

GDPR job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GDPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GDPR

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Tyne and Wear

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GDPR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GDPR

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -19 6 £466 +12.97% 2
Sunderland - 1 - -
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North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service Representative
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of IT
2 1 (14.29%) Head of IT Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Service Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Key Management
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Workday