GDPR Contracts in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring GDPR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDPR over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 62
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing GDPR 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.69% 0.51% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% 2.78% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £230
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -56.19%
UK median daily rate £537 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.54% +9.52% -19.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

GDPR 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 28 72 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.62% 18.32% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 53
10th Percentile £167 £144 £250
25th Percentile £185 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% +2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £550
90th Percentile £511 £667 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - £12.26 -
25th Percentile - £14.15 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £15.61 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +42.93% -14.34%
75th Percentile - £16.98 £33.75
90th Percentile - £19.07 £47.25
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.80 £36.25
% change year-on-year +67.05% -42.61% +29.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Wales +7 2 £350 -6.67% 17
GDPR
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Linode
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat