GDPR Contracts with Work from Home Options

General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (GDPR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 239 233
Rank change year-on-year +64 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing GDPR 170 230 516
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.94% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.15% 7.62% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 168 327
10th Percentile £310 £400 £332
25th Percentile £411 £442 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +5.97%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £616
90th Percentile £708 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £542
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.57% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile - £17.50 £19.58
25th Percentile £11.00 £18.40 £21.53
Median hourly rate £15.40 £25.50 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year -39.61% -1.43% -7.36%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.25 £28.75
90th Percentile £27.84 £66.00 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £25.09
% change year-on-year +26.32% -24.26% +2.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,085 3,019 5,861
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.20% 12.31% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 2,195 4,169
10th Percentile £301 £332 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £620 £629 £606
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.95% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 68 131
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.50 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.97 £18.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £39.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% -11.01% +122.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.46 £54.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -40.00% +19.41% +39.57%

GDPR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GDPR trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GDPR.

GDPR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GDPR over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

GDPR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GDPR
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GDPR.

GDPR hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GDPR
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GDPR over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

GDPR hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GDPR
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 13 (7.65%) Confluence
2 7 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.35%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.35%) nginx
4 3 (1.76%) SAS
5 2 (1.18%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.35%) Chatbot
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.76%) FastStats
2 3 (1.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Unica
3 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.35%) Azure
2 19 (11.18%) AWS
3 18 (10.59%) GCP
4 12 (7.06%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (6.47%) SaaS
6 7 (4.12%) IaaS
6 7 (4.12%) Nutanix
7 6 (3.53%) PaaS
7 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.53%) Rubrik
8 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.35%) Collibra
9 4 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.35%) Oracle CX
9 4 (2.35%) Twilio
10 3 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.76%) OCI
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.41%) DNS
1 16 (9.41%) Firewall
2 15 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.47%) DHCP
4 6 (3.53%) Kerberos
4 6 (3.53%) NAS
4 6 (3.53%) SAN
4 6 (3.53%) VLAN
5 4 (2.35%) CTI
5 4 (2.35%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.35%) IPsec
5 4 (2.35%) tcpdump
5 4 (2.35%) VoIP
5 4 (2.35%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.76%) Network Security
7 2 (1.18%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.59%) Intranet
8 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) Metadata
2 10 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.12%) MySQL
4 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.35%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.35%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.35%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.35%) Tableau
6 3 (1.76%) Power BI
6 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.18%) DB2
7 2 (1.18%) OLTP
8 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (7.06%) JIRA
2 9 (5.29%) Git
3 8 (4.71%) ERwin
4 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.53%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.35%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.59%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 45 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (23.53%) Finance
3 38 (22.35%) Legal
4 17 (10.00%) Law
5 14 (8.24%) Retail
6 13 (7.65%) Marketing
7 12 (7.06%) Telecoms
8 11 (6.47%) Manufacturing
8 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
9 10 (5.88%) Banking
10 9 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.94%) Electronics
12 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.76%) Local Government
12 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Automotive
14 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Architect
2 17 (10.00%) Analyst
3 14 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (7.65%) Consultant
4 13 (7.65%) Data Architect
5 10 (5.88%) Senior
6 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (4.12%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.12%) Data Consultant
8 6 (3.53%) Coordinator
8 6 (3.53%) Data Analyst
8 6 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) Security Architect
9 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 5 (2.94%) Governance Analyst
9 5 (2.94%) Lead
9 5 (2.94%) Project Manager
9 5 (2.94%) Security Consultant
9 5 (2.94%) Security Manager
10 4 (2.35%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) JSON
2 6 (3.53%) LDAP
3 4 (2.35%) JSON Schema
3 4 (2.35%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.35%) Middleware
3 4 (2.35%) OLE
3 4 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.35%) RESTful
3 4 (2.35%) Web Services
3 4 (2.35%) YAML
4 3 (1.76%) .NET
4 3 (1.76%) REST
5 2 (1.18%) CSS
5 2 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.18%) gRPC
5 2 (1.18%) HTML
5 2 (1.18%) OAuth
5 2 (1.18%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Data Protection Act
1 18 (10.59%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.12%) Clustering
2 7 (4.12%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.53%) Replication
3 6 (3.53%) Wiki
4 4 (2.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.35%) IVR
4 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.35%) YARA
5 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.59%) Linux
2 15 (8.82%) Windows
3 7 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.12%) Solaris
3 7 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.53%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (2.35%) CentOS
5 4 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.35%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 37 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (20.00%) Agile
5 33 (19.41%) Data Governance
6 32 (18.82%) Data Privacy
7 27 (15.88%) DevOps
8 26 (15.29%) Data Management
9 25 (14.71%) Data Modelling
9 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (12.94%) Migration
11 21 (12.35%) Information Security
12 20 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (10.59%) Data Security
14 17 (10.00%) Project Management
15 16 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (9.41%) CRM
15 16 (9.41%) Data Strategy
16 14 (8.24%) Data Migration
17 13 (7.65%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.82%) Python
1 15 (8.82%) SQL
2 10 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.29%) Java
4 8 (4.71%) C#
5 7 (4.12%) Bash
6 4 (2.35%) PHP
6 4 (2.35%) VBScript
7 3 (1.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.18%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) COBOL
8 2 (1.18%) REXX
9 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.59%) Groovy
9 1 (0.59%) Perl
9 1 (0.59%) Ruby
9 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (15.29%) Degree
2 14 (8.24%) CISSP
3 13 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.29%) CISM
5 7 (4.12%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.94%) CISA
7 5 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.76%) CRISC
9 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.18%) CIPD
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CEH
10 1 (0.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (14.71%) NIST
3 21 (12.35%) Data Quality
4 18 (10.59%) PCI DSS
5 14 (8.24%) HIPAA
6 13 (7.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (5.29%) QA
8 8 (4.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (4.12%) GRC
10 6 (3.53%) PSD2
10 6 (3.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.76%) COBIT
11 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (1.18%) COSO
12 2 (1.18%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.59%) GxP
13 1 (0.59%) IFRS
13 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 10 (5.88%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.35%) Snort
3 4 (2.35%) XenApp
4 1 (0.59%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.65%) Terraform
3 11 (6.47%) Ansible
4 6 (3.53%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (3.53%) Netcool
4 6 (3.53%) Tivoli
4 6 (3.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (2.35%) Kibana
5 4 (2.35%) SCCM
6 1 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.59%) SELinux
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.53%) Oracle
3 19 (11.18%) Google
4 13 (7.65%) SAP
5 11 (6.47%) Splunk
6 10 (5.88%) Cisco
7 9 (5.29%) VMware
8 8 (4.71%) OneTrust
8 8 (4.71%) Salesforce
9 7 (4.12%) CyberArk
9 7 (4.12%) HP
9 7 (4.12%) IBM
10 6 (3.53%) Dell
10 6 (3.53%) EMC
10 6 (3.53%) Isilon
10 6 (3.53%) Qualys
10 6 (3.53%) Serena
10 6 (3.53%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.53%) Sparx
11 5 (2.94%) Symantec