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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 320 373
Rank change year-on-year +36 +53 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 51 77 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 40 45
10th Percentile £400 £270 £450
25th Percentile £431 £334 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £552 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -8.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £800
90th Percentile £661 £755 £835
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £15.72 £21.14 £18.88
25th Percentile £16.66 £21.73 £19.15
Median hourly rate £18.22 £23.00 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +15.29% +5.56%
75th Percentile £23.30 £67.50 £20.90
90th Percentile £26.35 £81.00 £21.26
UK median hourly rate £20.11 £23.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.29% -47.84%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 -11 13 £520 -23.00% 372
South East +31 11 £613 +126.85% 502
Midlands +10 8 £492 +3.58% 318
North West -4 8 £563 -16.59% 169
Scotland +12 7 £400 +9.22% 79
East Midlands +10 7 £492 -59.00% 125
East of England +34 5 £538 - 248
Yorkshire 0 5 £520 -8.82% 159
Wales - 5 £475 - 41
South West +39 2 £425 -11.69% 187
West Midlands +10 1 £431 +20.98% 171
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 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.96%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) GCP
3 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.84%) GitHub
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.96%) Collibra
6 1 (1.96%) Figma
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.96%) OCI
6 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Big Data
1 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Tableau
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) Metadata
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) Cucumber
3 4 (7.84%) Gradle
3 4 (7.84%) HP UFT
3 4 (7.84%) IntelliJ
3 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.84%) JUnit
3 4 (7.84%) Maven
3 4 (7.84%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) Storybook
4 1 (1.96%) Vite
4 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (17.65%) Finance
5 5 (9.80%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.92%) Automotive
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Digital Health
7 2 (3.92%) Law
7 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Advertising
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Local Government
8 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Architect
2 12 (23.53%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Consultant
4 5 (9.80%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Excel Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Governance Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Migration Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Security Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
1 2 (3.92%) LDAP
1 2 (3.92%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.96%) CSS
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) PySpark
2 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.96%) React
2 1 (1.96%) Redux
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Life Science
5 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.49%) Analytics
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 10 (19.61%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 8 (15.69%) Cloud Security
5 8 (15.69%) Data Governance
6 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (13.73%) Workflow
7 6 (11.76%) Case Management
7 6 (11.76%) Data Analysis
7 6 (11.76%) Data Management
7 6 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 6 (11.76%) Project Management
7 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.80%) DevSecOps
8 5 (9.80%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 6 (11.76%) Java
2 6 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) R
4 1 (1.96%) ABAP
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.84%) CISSP
3 4 (7.84%) CITP
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) CIPD
5 1 (1.96%) CISA
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CRISC
5 1 (1.96%) HNC
5 1 (1.96%) HND
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB
5 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (39.22%) GDPR
2 6 (11.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
4 4 (7.84%) QA
5 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (5.88%) GRC
5 3 (5.88%) NIST
6 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.96%) COBIT
7 1 (1.96%) COSO
7 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.96%) ITGC
7 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.96%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Criteo
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Splunk
4 1 (1.96%) Talend
4 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.96%) Workday