Data Privacy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Privacy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Privacy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 283 389
Rank change year-on-year +36 +106 +129
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 57 62 88
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 43 56
10th Percentile £431 £270 £475
25th Percentile £497 £400 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £700
90th Percentile £646 £680 £807
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £18.98 £56.19 -
25th Percentile £20.11 £58.50 £18.70
Median hourly rate £22.00 £67.33 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -67.33% +256.24% -72.00%
75th Percentile - £81.17 £19.10
90th Percentile - £86.47 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £18.90
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.69% -72.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Privacy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Privacy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Privacy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Privacy.

Data Privacy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Privacy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Privacy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Privacy
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Privacy.

Data Privacy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Privacy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) CA PPM
2 2 (3.51%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.75%) UltiPro
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.26%) Alation
6 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.26%) Collibra
6 3 (5.26%) Serverless
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.75%) Figma
8 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) VPN
3 3 (5.26%) 4G
3 3 (5.26%) DHCP
3 3 (5.26%) DNS
3 3 (5.26%) Firewall
3 3 (5.26%) LAN
3 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.26%) WAN
3 3 (5.26%) Wireless
4 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.02%) Tableau
3 3 (5.26%) Big Data
3 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.26%) Metadata
3 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.75%) DB2
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) ERwin
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Storybook
2 1 (1.75%) Vite
2 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.77%) Banking
5 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Arabic Language
6 4 (7.02%) Czech Language
7 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Legal
8 2 (3.51%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Automotive
9 1 (1.75%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Local Government
9 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Consultant
5 4 (7.02%) Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Remote Support Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (3.51%) CSS
2 2 (3.51%) HTML
2 2 (3.51%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.51%) PySpark
2 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.51%) SpaCy
2 2 (3.51%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.75%) FHIR
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.75%) React
3 1 (1.75%) Redux
3 1 (1.75%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) Web Services
3 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
1 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) NHS
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (28.07%) Data Management
3 15 (26.32%) Data Governance
4 12 (21.05%) Analytics
5 9 (15.79%) Agile
5 9 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 9 (15.79%) Migration
5 9 (15.79%) Validation
6 8 (14.04%) Data Science
6 8 (14.04%) Data Security
6 8 (14.04%) ETL
7 7 (12.28%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (12.28%) Computer Science
7 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
7 7 (12.28%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) SQL
3 3 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) C
5 1 (1.75%) C#
5 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) CCNA
3 3 (5.26%) CCNP
3 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.26%) CITP
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.51%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) CISA
5 1 (1.75%) CISM
5 1 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.75%) CRISC
5 1 (1.75%) ISEB
5 1 (1.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.82%) GDPR
2 10 (17.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (12.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.51%) COBIT
5 2 (3.51%) COSO
5 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.51%) NIST
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.75%) ITGC
6 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.75%) QA
6 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
1 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) CASB
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) Broadcom
3 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) Informatica
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) OneTrust
5 2 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 2 (3.51%) Workday
6 1 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) Cognos
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Delphix
6 1 (1.75%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.75%) Pega
6 1 (1.75%) Sparx
6 1 (1.75%) VMware