GDPR Contracts

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GDPR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GDPR over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 264 257
Rank change year-on-year +67 -7 +30
Contract jobs citing GDPR 523 597 984
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.00% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.42% 7.47% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 397 575
10th Percentile £306 £406 £325
25th Percentile £405 £450 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -4.65% +1.00% +13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 11
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.27 £16.05
25th Percentile £11.95 £16.55 £19.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -5.77% +1.96%
75th Percentile £28.07 £49.65 £28.75
90th Percentile £34.21 £65.90 £44.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £24.24
% change year-on-year +31.58% -21.62% -4.94%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GDPR is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,212 7,992 11,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 5,491 8,030
10th Percentile £297 £275 £292
25th Percentile £405 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 225 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +86 481 £500 -9.09% 579
UK excluding London +98 307 £482 -4.65% 450
Work from Home +106 218 £518 -5.91% 212
London -12 174 £525 -11.02% 175
South East +53 125 £475 -20.83% 127
North of England +56 74 £525 +16.67% 106
North West +37 58 £525 +16.67% 63
South West +55 48 £675 +42.11% 40
East of England +30 30 £410 -18.00% 57
Midlands +21 27 £475 -20.83% 87
West Midlands +26 22 £488 -18.75% 48
Yorkshire +21 12 £425 -8.11% 35
Scotland -2 9 £404 -19.20% 40
East Midlands +20 5 £450 +5.88% 38
North East +19 3 - - 10
Wales +17 2 £375 +63.04% 13

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (4.40%) Confluence
2 14 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.96%) CICS
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.76%) nginx
4 4 (0.76%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 41 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.87%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.76%) FastStats
3 4 (0.76%) Unica
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.57%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.19%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.38%) Azure
2 60 (11.47%) SaaS
3 55 (10.52%) IaaS
4 50 (9.56%) PaaS
5 37 (7.07%) AWS
6 28 (5.35%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.63%) GCP
8 12 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.10%) Collibra
10 10 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (1.91%) Nutanix
11 9 (1.72%) Serverless
12 8 (1.53%) Rubrik
13 7 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.15%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.96%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.80%) Firewall
2 39 (7.46%) 5G
2 39 (7.46%) Broadband
3 23 (4.40%) Network Security
4 21 (4.02%) DNS
5 18 (3.44%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.49%) DHCP
7 10 (1.91%) SAN
8 9 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.53%) Kerberos
9 8 (1.53%) NAS
9 8 (1.53%) VLAN
10 6 (1.15%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.76%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.76%) IPsec
11 4 (0.76%) tcpdump
11 4 (0.76%) WAN
11 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.57%) Internet
12 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.74%) Metadata
2 23 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.21%) Power BI
4 13 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.29%) MySQL
6 7 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.34%) Apache Hive
6 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.34%) Tableau
7 6 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.15%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.96%) DB2
8 5 (0.96%) OLTP
8 5 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.76%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.76%) Parquet
10 3 (0.57%) Big Data
10 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.02%) JIRA
2 19 (3.63%) ERwin
3 12 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.10%) Git
5 8 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.34%) Eclipse
6 7 (1.34%) PyCharm
6 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.76%) IDA Disassembler
8 3 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.38%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.38%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
General
1 105 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.83%) Finance
3 86 (16.44%) Legal
4 83 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (14.53%) Law
6 63 (12.05%) Public Sector
7 62 (11.85%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (10.90%) Manufacturing
9 47 (8.99%) Marketing
10 29 (5.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 28 (5.35%) Telecoms
12 20 (3.82%) Banking
13 19 (3.63%) Police
13 19 (3.63%) Retail
14 17 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (3.06%) Electronics
16 10 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.53%) Local Government
18 4 (0.76%) Automotive
18 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (18.36%) Analyst
2 90 (17.21%) Architect
3 43 (8.22%) Consultant
4 41 (7.84%) Security Specialist
5 40 (7.65%) Senior
6 39 (7.46%) Penetration Tester
6 39 (7.46%) Security Penetration Tester
6 39 (7.46%) Security Tester
6 39 (7.46%) Tester
6 39 (7.46%) Testing Specialist
7 37 (7.07%) Data Architect
8 36 (6.88%) Lead
9 35 (6.69%) Business Analyst
10 28 (5.35%) SOC Analyst
11 27 (5.16%) Data Analyst
12 26 (4.97%) Security Architect
13 18 (3.44%) Data Manager
14 17 (3.25%) Data Consultant
14 17 (3.25%) Developer
15 16 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.46%) Web Services
2 14 (2.68%) JSON
3 13 (2.49%) HTML
4 10 (1.91%) CSS
5 9 (1.72%) JSON Schema
5 9 (1.72%) LDAP
5 9 (1.72%) XML
6 7 (1.34%) YAML
7 6 (1.15%) Node.js
7 6 (1.15%) REST
8 5 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.76%) .NET
9 4 (0.76%) Apache Avro
9 4 (0.76%) Kafka
9 4 (0.76%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.76%) OLE
9 4 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.57%) jQuery
10 3 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.85%) Management Information System
2 47 (8.99%) Data Protection Act
3 41 (7.84%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.87%) CSOC
8 14 (2.68%) Freedom of Information
9 13 (2.49%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (2.10%) Wiki
12 10 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.91%) Replication
13 9 (1.72%) Clustering
14 8 (1.53%) CESG
15 7 (1.34%) Cloud Native
15 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.22%) Linux
2 32 (6.12%) Windows
3 12 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.91%) Mac OS X
4 10 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.91%) Solaris
5 8 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.96%) Unix
6 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.96%) zOS
7 4 (0.76%) CentOS
7 4 (0.76%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (29.06%) Data Protection
2 145 (27.72%) Cybersecurity
3 102 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (17.78%) Information Security
5 83 (15.87%) Data Governance
6 75 (14.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 64 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (10.90%) Data Modelling
10 55 (10.52%) Agile
11 54 (10.33%) Penetration Testing
12 53 (10.13%) Data Privacy
12 53 (10.13%) Risk Management
13 50 (9.56%) Application Security
13 50 (9.56%) Data Security
13 50 (9.56%) OWASP
14 47 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (8.80%) Data Management
16 44 (8.41%) DevOps
17 43 (8.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (6.50%) SQL
2 27 (5.16%) Python
3 17 (3.25%) Java
4 15 (2.87%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.91%) Bash
6 9 (1.72%) C#
7 7 (1.34%) Groovy
8 5 (0.96%) COBOL
8 5 (0.96%) PHP
8 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.96%) REXX
9 4 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.76%) VBScript
10 2 (0.38%) C++
10 2 (0.38%) Perl
10 2 (0.38%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.81%) Degree
3 41 (7.84%) GIAC
3 41 (7.84%) SANS
4 39 (7.46%) CREST Certified
4 39 (7.46%) GPEN
4 39 (7.46%) OSCP
4 39 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 35 (6.69%) CISSP
6 28 (5.35%) CISM
7 21 (4.02%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.63%) CISA
9 16 (3.06%) ISACA
10 12 (2.29%) IIBA
11 10 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (1.72%) CEH
12 9 (1.72%) SSCP
13 8 (1.53%) CISMP
13 8 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (14.53%) PCI DSS
2 73 (13.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (13.19%) NIST
4 58 (11.09%) NCSC
5 47 (8.99%) Data Quality
6 39 (7.46%) HIPAA
7 32 (6.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 21 (4.02%) GxP
9 19 (3.63%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (2.68%) QA
11 13 (2.49%) COBIT
11 13 (2.49%) GRC
11 13 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (1.15%) PSD2
14 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.96%) PMO
14 5 (0.96%) SLA
15 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
16 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.91%) Docker
4 4 (0.76%) Snort
4 4 (0.76%) XenApp
5 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.19%) vCloud
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (3.25%) Ansible
1 17 (3.25%) Terraform
2 14 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.53%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (1.53%) Netcool
3 8 (1.53%) Tivoli
3 8 (1.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (1.34%) CA Service Virtualization
5 4 (0.76%) Kibana
5 4 (0.76%) SCCM
6 2 (0.38%) Ambari
6 2 (0.38%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.38%) Grafana
6 2 (0.38%) Oozie
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.38%) SELinux
6 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.19%) Avamar
7 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 83 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.80%) SAP
3 45 (8.60%) Oracle
4 39 (7.46%) Virgin Media
5 24 (4.59%) Google
6 19 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.25%) VMware
8 16 (3.06%) Splunk
9 14 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.29%) OneTrust
11 11 (2.10%) Cisco
11 11 (2.10%) CyberArk
11 11 (2.10%) Sparx
12 10 (1.91%) Workday
13 9 (1.72%) EMC
13 9 (1.72%) HP
13 9 (1.72%) Qualys
14 8 (1.53%) Dell
14 8 (1.53%) IBM
14 8 (1.53%) Isilon
666 GDPR jobs Nationwide