PERC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PERC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PERC over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 388 453
Rank change year-on-year +59 +65 +62
Contract jobs citing PERC 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.029% 0.008%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.19% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £370 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -45.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £390 £338 -
90th Percentile £396 - -
UK median daily rate £380 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -37.19% +21.00% +44.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

PERC 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,061 3,114 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 15.04% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,822 2,393
10th Percentile £211 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 307 183
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.00
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.61 £36.25
% change year-on-year +68.65% -43.16% +31.82%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PERC in the UK excluding London

PERC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PERC in the UK excluding London

PERC
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 PERC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland +14 4 £380 +16.92% 3
Midlands - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
PERC
UK

PERC
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 3 (60.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (20.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) WCAG
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google