GDPR Contracts in the West Midlands

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 84 113
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +31
Contract jobs citing GDPR 32 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.92% 1.24% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.36% 8.24% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 8
10th Percentile £363 £299 £235
25th Percentile £400 £428 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £575
90th Percentile £595 £548 £590
England median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.43% -8.59% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Median hourly rate £40.46 £33.93 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year +19.25% +147.66% -
England median hourly rate £30.25 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +31.58% -24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 309 279 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.54% 15.08% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 182 210
10th Percentile £235 £250 £277
25th Percentile £357 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -4.31% +7.18%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £686 £756 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.18 £14.61
25th Percentile £18.35 £14.00 £23.22
Median hourly rate £29.09 £15.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.96% -42.18% +61.76%
75th Percentile £34.71 £51.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £59.63 £33.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +79.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Coventry - 10 £388 - 3
Warwickshire - 10 £500 - 10
Birmingham -7 5 £463 - 29
Herefordshire - 3 £400 -
Shropshire - 1 £350 - 2
GDPR
England

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) R Markdown
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) SAP PM
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Collibra
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.13%) Alation
7 1 (3.13%) dbt
7 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) BGP
3 1 (3.13%) DMVPN
3 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
3 1 (3.13%) IPsec
3 1 (3.13%) OSPF
3 1 (3.13%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.13%) VLAN
3 1 (3.13%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (15.63%) Delta Lake
1 5 (15.63%) GIS
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Automotive
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (9.38%) Lead
2 3 (9.38%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (9.38%) Product Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Senior
2 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (6.25%) Compliance Specialist
3 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Report Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Shiny
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) IoT
1 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
1 5 (15.63%) SCADA
2 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) PKI
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Infotainment
4 2 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.75%) Analytics
5 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (18.75%) Data Mapping
5 6 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 6 (18.75%) ETL
5 6 (18.75%) Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (18.75%) Validation
6 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) ERP
6 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.63%) Project Management
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) CEH
3 2 (6.25%) CISA
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (3.13%) MCP
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.50%) FIPS 140-2
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.25%) PERC
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
4 1 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.13%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.13%) GRC
4 1 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) SAP
3 6 (18.75%) Databricks
3 6 (18.75%) Informatica
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (6.25%) UiPath
4 2 (6.25%) Workday
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) Optimizely
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds