GDPR Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 246 251
Rank change year-on-year +50 +5 +31
Contract jobs citing GDPR 448 526 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.09% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.74% 8.19% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 358 459
10th Percentile £325 £406 £350
25th Percentile £405 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £755 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.46% +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 16 11
10th Percentile £11.42 £12.35 £16.05
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.21 £18.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.26% -0.65%
75th Percentile £28.52 £37.38 £27.63
90th Percentile £34.21 £65.50 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £19.00 £25.54
% change year-on-year +21.05% -25.61% +1.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -7 177 £525 -12.50% 182
South East +12 88 £475 -22.13% 141
North of England +46 73 £525 +16.67% 107
North West +33 55 £525 +16.67% 57
South West +43 49 £650 +35.42% 56
East of England +20 31 £410 -15.90% 46
Midlands +23 28 £475 -20.83% 111
West Midlands +21 23 £475 -20.83% 54
Yorkshire +17 14 £507 +9.62% 41
East Midlands +14 5 £450 -2.70% 56
North East +10 3 - - 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (4.02%) Confluence
2 14 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.89%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.89%) nginx
3 4 (0.89%) SAS
4 3 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 38 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.90%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.89%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.89%) FastStats
3 4 (0.89%) Unica
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.67%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.22%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 76 (16.96%) Azure
2 41 (9.15%) AWS
3 31 (6.92%) Power Platform
4 26 (5.80%) GCP
5 20 (4.46%) SaaS
6 15 (3.35%) IaaS
7 13 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (2.68%) Collibra
9 9 (2.01%) PaaS
10 8 (1.79%) Nutanix
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.56%) Serverless
12 6 (1.34%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.34%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.12%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.15%) Firewall
2 20 (4.46%) Network Security
3 19 (4.24%) DNS
4 13 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.46%) DHCP
6 8 (1.79%) SAN
7 6 (1.34%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.34%) NAS
7 6 (1.34%) VLAN
8 5 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.89%) CTI
9 4 (0.89%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.89%) IPsec
9 4 (0.89%) VoIP
9 4 (0.89%) WAN
10 3 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.67%) VPN
10 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.45%) Internet
11 2 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.03%) Metadata
2 25 (5.58%) Power BI
3 23 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.68%) MySQL
6 8 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.12%) Tableau
9 4 (0.89%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.89%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.89%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.89%) Parquet
10 3 (0.67%) Big Data
10 3 (0.67%) DB2
10 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.67%) OLTP
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (4.46%) ERwin
2 17 (3.79%) JIRA
3 13 (2.90%) Git
4 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.56%) Eclipse
5 7 (1.56%) PyCharm
5 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (1.34%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.45%) Subversion
9 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 106 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.98%) Finance
3 83 (18.53%) Legal
4 78 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.83%) Public Sector
6 52 (11.61%) Manufacturing
7 47 (10.49%) Marketing
8 35 (7.81%) Law
9 31 (6.92%) Telecoms
10 29 (6.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 27 (6.03%) Retail
12 22 (4.91%) Banking
13 16 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (3.35%) Police
15 13 (2.90%) Electronics
16 10 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (2.23%) Local Government
17 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 93 (20.76%) Analyst
2 92 (20.54%) Architect
3 37 (8.26%) Data Architect
3 37 (8.26%) Senior
4 36 (8.04%) Consultant
5 35 (7.81%) Business Analyst
6 31 (6.92%) Lead
7 28 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 28 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
8 26 (5.80%) Security Architect
9 24 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.35%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
11 14 (3.13%) Security Consultant
12 13 (2.90%) Administrator
12 13 (2.90%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (2.90%) Data Consultant
12 13 (2.90%) Developer
13 12 (2.68%) Governance Manager
13 12 (2.68%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.13%) JSON
2 10 (2.23%) HTML
3 9 (2.01%) JSON Schema
4 8 (1.79%) CSS
4 8 (1.79%) XML
5 7 (1.56%) LDAP
5 7 (1.56%) YAML
6 6 (1.34%) Node.js
6 6 (1.34%) REST
7 5 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.12%) OAuth
7 5 (1.12%) RESTful
8 4 (0.89%) .NET
8 4 (0.89%) Apache Avro
8 4 (0.89%) Kafka
8 4 (0.89%) Middleware
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.89%) Swagger
8 4 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 45 (10.04%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (4.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.35%) CSOC
6 13 (2.90%) Freedom of Information
6 13 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.68%) Wiki
8 11 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.79%) CESG
10 8 (1.79%) Replication
11 7 (1.56%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.56%) Clustering
11 7 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.12%) Freedom of Information Act
13 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.48%) Linux
2 26 (5.80%) Windows
3 10 (2.23%) Mac OS X
4 9 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.79%) Solaris
6 6 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.12%) Unix
7 5 (1.12%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.89%) CentOS
8 4 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.67%) zOS
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (29.46%) Data Protection
2 93 (20.76%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (18.53%) Information Security
4 77 (17.19%) Data Governance
5 63 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (13.39%) Data Modelling
7 58 (12.95%) Data Privacy
8 56 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (11.61%) Agile
11 46 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (9.60%) DevOps
12 43 (9.60%) Migration
12 43 (9.60%) Risk Management
13 42 (9.38%) Data Management
14 39 (8.71%) Analytics
15 38 (8.48%) Incident Response
15 38 (8.48%) Security Operations
16 37 (8.26%) Data Security
16 37 (8.26%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.59%) SQL
2 29 (6.47%) Python
3 19 (4.24%) Java
4 13 (2.90%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.01%) C#
7 8 (1.79%) Bash
8 7 (1.56%) Groovy
9 5 (1.12%) PHP
10 4 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.89%) VBScript
11 3 (0.67%) COBOL
11 3 (0.67%) REXX
12 2 (0.45%) C++
12 2 (0.45%) Perl
12 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.17%) Degree
3 36 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.47%) CISSP
5 21 (4.69%) CISM
6 19 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.35%) CISA
7 15 (3.35%) ISACA
8 12 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 12 (2.68%) IIBA
9 9 (2.01%) CEH
9 9 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.01%) SSCP
10 8 (1.79%) CISMP
10 8 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.56%) ISEB
12 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 66 (14.73%) NIST
2 43 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.60%) HIPAA
3 38 (8.48%) PCI DSS
4 24 (5.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 20 (4.46%) GxP
6 19 (4.24%) Good Clinical Practice
7 18 (4.02%) NCSC
8 15 (3.35%) QA
9 12 (2.68%) COBIT
10 10 (2.23%) GRC
10 10 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (1.34%) SOC 2
13 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (1.12%) SLA
14 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.89%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.45%) ISA99
System Software
1 15 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.68%) Docker
4 4 (0.89%) XenApp
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.45%) vSphere
6 1 (0.22%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.22%) Snort
6 1 (0.22%) vCloud
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.13%) Ansible
2 14 (3.13%) Terraform
3 6 (1.34%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.34%) Netcool
3 6 (1.34%) Tivoli
3 6 (1.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.89%) SCCM
5 3 (0.67%) CA Service Virtualization
6 2 (0.45%) Ambari
6 2 (0.45%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.45%) Oozie
6 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.45%) SELinux
6 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) Avamar
7 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.22%) Kibana
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 87 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.38%) Oracle
3 40 (8.93%) SAP
4 30 (6.70%) Google
5 20 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.13%) VMware
7 13 (2.90%) Cisco
8 12 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.68%) Sparx
8 12 (2.68%) Splunk
9 9 (2.01%) Informatica
9 9 (2.01%) OneTrust
9 9 (2.01%) Workday
10 8 (1.79%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.56%) EMC
11 7 (1.56%) HP
11 7 (1.56%) IBM
11 7 (1.56%) Qualys
12 6 (1.34%) Adobe
12 6 (1.34%) Citrix
760 GDPR jobs Nationwide