GDPR Contracts in Yorkshire

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

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +40
Contract jobs citing GDPR 41 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.76% 0.78% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.27% 6.45% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 5
10th Percentile £389 £164 £246
25th Percentile £463 £246 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +12.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £576 £542 £600
90th Percentile £640 £600 £623
England median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.43% -8.59% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.76 - -
Median hourly rate £33.11 - -
75th Percentile £34.46 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 252 186 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.95% 12.09% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 112 145
10th Percentile £235 £263 £231
25th Percentile £319 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -1.67% +13.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 7
10th Percentile £17.48 - £13.16
25th Percentile - - £15.44
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%
75th Percentile - £16.67 £35.86
90th Percentile £23.28 £33.51 £50.24
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +74.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Yorkshire +2 18 £507 +0.20% 14
West Yorkshire -1 10 £500 +188.70% 29
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 4
North Yorkshire - 6 - - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (2.44%) CICS
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) GCP
4 6 (14.63%) Google Workspace
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.32%) AWS KMS
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.32%) Serverless
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
2 6 (14.63%) Wireless
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) Network Security
3 2 (4.88%) SSL
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.44%) DB2
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (2.44%) QlikView
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) JIRA
2 6 (14.63%) Postman
2 6 (14.63%) SoapUI
3 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) Git
4 2 (4.88%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (43.90%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.88%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Incident Manager
3 6 (14.63%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Support Technician
4 5 (12.20%) Test Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Programme Director
7 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Junior
7 2 (4.88%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) Chief Information Security Officer
8 1 (2.44%) Chief Security Officer
8 1 (2.44%) Information Security Officer
8 1 (2.44%) Security Officer
8 1 (2.44%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.44%) ISPF
2 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
1 6 (14.63%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Cloud Security
1 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (29.27%) Incident Response
3 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.95%) DevSecOps
4 9 (21.95%) Incident Management
5 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.07%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) Backlog Management
6 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
6 7 (17.07%) ITIL
6 7 (17.07%) ITSM
7 6 (14.63%) ISMS
7 6 (14.63%) Kanban
7 6 (14.63%) Privileged Access Management
7 6 (14.63%) Scrum
7 6 (14.63%) Security Testing
7 6 (14.63%) Software Testing
7 6 (14.63%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) COBOL
4 1 (2.44%) JCL
4 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) CISM
1 7 (17.07%) CISSP
2 6 (14.63%) CISMP
2 6 (14.63%) DBS Check
2 6 (14.63%) GSEC
2 6 (14.63%) ISTQB
3 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (31.71%) NIST
3 8 (19.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (14.63%) PCI DSS
4 6 (14.63%) SLA
5 5 (12.20%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.44%) GRC
7 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (2.44%) RACF
2 1 (2.44%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) SmoothWall
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Kustomize
4 2 (4.88%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (29.27%) Google
3 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (14.63%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (14.63%) CyberArk
4 6 (14.63%) Thycotic
5 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe
6 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.44%) Qualys