Data Privacy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 327 407
Rank change year-on-year +41 +80 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 50 72 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.41% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 39
10th Percentile £426 £270 £420
25th Percentile £447 £319 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% -3.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £694 £738
90th Percentile £669 £793 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £19.84 £21.14 -
25th Percentile £22.27 £21.73 £18.70
Median hourly rate £27.35 £23.00 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% +21.69% -
75th Percentile £28.38 £67.50 £19.10
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £18.90
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.69% -72.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy in the UK excluding London

Data Privacy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Privacy in the UK excluding London

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in the UK excluding London

Data Privacy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Privacy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Privacy in the UK excluding London

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +6 16 £520 -20.04% 264
South East +38 14 £613 +126.85% 315
North West +12 10 £563 -13.38% 111
Yorkshire +1 6 £520 -17.17% 127
Midlands +18 5 £491 -12.64% 313
Scotland +12 5 £475 +29.69% 19
Wales - 5 £475 - 10
East of England +31 4 £520 +6.67% 19
East Midlands +10 4 £550 -54.17% 176
South West +43 2 £475 - 15
West Midlands +11 1 £431 +20.98% 133
Data Privacy
UK

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (8.00%) GitHub
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) Collibra
5 1 (2.00%) Figma
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) GPRS
1 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) Big Data
3 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) OLAP
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (8.00%) Gradle
2 4 (8.00%) HP UFT
2 4 (8.00%) IntelliJ
2 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) JUnit
2 4 (8.00%) Maven
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.00%) Storybook
3 1 (2.00%) Vite
3 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (18.00%) Finance
5 8 (16.00%) Legal
5 8 (16.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (12.00%) Marketing
7 4 (8.00%) Law
8 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.00%) Automotive
9 2 (4.00%) Digital Health
9 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Banking
10 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Local Government
10 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Consultant
3 5 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Data Protection Officer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
3 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Principal Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.00%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Migration Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) React
2 1 (2.00%) Redux
2 1 (2.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.00%) Analytics
3 12 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (24.00%) Data Protection
4 8 (16.00%) Agile
4 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
4 8 (16.00%) Impact Assessments
4 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 8 (16.00%) Workflow
5 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (14.00%) Data Management
6 6 (12.00%) B2C
6 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) Case Management
6 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (12.00%) Data Security
6 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) R
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) ISEB
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.00%) CITP
3 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.00%) CISSP
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) CISA
5 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) CISM
6 1 (2.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.00%) CRISC
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) GDPR
2 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (8.00%) QA
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.00%) COBIT
6 1 (2.00%) COSO
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (2.00%) ITGC
6 1 (2.00%) NIST
6 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) CASB
1 1 (2.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Forcepoint
4 1 (2.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.00%) Okta
4 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Pega
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.00%) Talend
4 1 (2.00%) Virgin Media