Privacy Engineering Contract Job Trends

Privacy Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Privacy Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Privacy Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £424 - -
90th Percentile £432 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privacy Engineering 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

Privacy Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Privacy Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Privacy Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Privacy Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Privacy Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Privacy Engineering

Privacy Engineering
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Privacy Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 16 October 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
London - 4 £420 - 2
England - 4 £420 - 2

Privacy Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 4 (100.00%) JAX
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Differential Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Federated Learning
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google