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 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 173 245 228
Rank change year-on-year +72 -17 +68
Contract jobs citing GDPR 185 244 521
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 0.99% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.69% 8.14% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 172 324
10th Percentile £348 £400 £327
25th Percentile £425 £448 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £603
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.46% +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile - £17.50 £21.70
25th Percentile £11.00 £18.70 £22.37
Median hourly rate £14.92 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.27% +9.09% -1.52%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £27.53 £66.00 £71.50
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
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 2,129 2,996 5,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.16% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,179 4,143
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.28% +6.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 66 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -10.56% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

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

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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 16 May 2024.

GDPR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 16 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 (7.03%) Confluence
2 7 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.16%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.16%) nginx
4 3 (1.62%) SAS
5 2 (1.08%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.32%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.62%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.62%) FastStats
2 3 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.62%) Unica
3 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.54%) Azure
2 19 (10.27%) AWS
3 18 (9.73%) GCP
4 12 (6.49%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (5.95%) SaaS
6 7 (3.78%) IaaS
6 7 (3.78%) Nutanix
7 6 (3.24%) PaaS
7 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.24%) Rubrik
8 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.70%) Collibra
8 5 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.16%) Oracle CX
9 4 (2.16%) Twilio
10 3 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.62%) OCI
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.65%) DNS
1 16 (8.65%) Firewall
2 15 (8.11%) TCP/IP
3 11 (5.95%) DHCP
4 6 (3.24%) Kerberos
4 6 (3.24%) NAS
4 6 (3.24%) SAN
4 6 (3.24%) VLAN
5 4 (2.16%) CTI
5 4 (2.16%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.16%) IPsec
5 4 (2.16%) tcpdump
5 4 (2.16%) VoIP
5 4 (2.16%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.62%) Network Security
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.27%) Metadata
2 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.78%) MySQL
3 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.16%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.16%) Couchbase
4 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.16%) Tableau
5 3 (1.62%) Power BI
5 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) DB2
6 2 (1.08%) OLTP
7 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.54%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.57%) ERwin
2 12 (6.49%) JIRA
3 9 (4.86%) Git
4 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.24%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.16%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 46 (24.86%) Finance
1 46 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (20.54%) Legal
4 24 (12.97%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.81%) Retail
6 19 (10.27%) Marketing
7 18 (9.73%) Telecoms
8 17 (9.19%) Manufacturing
9 16 (8.65%) Law
10 13 (7.03%) Electronics
11 10 (5.41%) Banking
12 8 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (3.78%) Police
14 3 (1.62%) Automotive
15 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.08%) Local Government
15 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 45 (24.32%) Architect
2 20 (10.81%) Consultant
3 19 (10.27%) Data Architect
4 17 (9.19%) Analyst
5 14 (7.57%) Data Consultant
5 14 (7.57%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (7.57%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.95%) Data Protection Consultant
6 11 (5.95%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 10 (5.41%) Senior
8 7 (3.78%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.24%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.24%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Security Architect
10 5 (2.70%) Governance Analyst
10 5 (2.70%) Lead
10 5 (2.70%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.70%) Security Consultant
10 5 (2.70%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) JSON
2 6 (3.24%) LDAP
3 4 (2.16%) JSON Schema
3 4 (2.16%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.16%) Middleware
3 4 (2.16%) OLE
3 4 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.16%) RESTful
3 4 (2.16%) Web Services
3 4 (2.16%) YAML
4 3 (1.62%) .NET
4 3 (1.62%) REST
5 2 (1.08%) CSS
5 2 (1.08%) FIDO
5 2 (1.08%) gRPC
5 2 (1.08%) HTML
5 2 (1.08%) JWT
5 2 (1.08%) OAuth
5 2 (1.08%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.97%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (9.19%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.49%) Wiki
4 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.78%) Clustering
4 7 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.24%) Replication
6 5 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.16%) IVR
7 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.16%) YARA
8 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.62%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.08%) Contactless
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.73%) Linux
2 15 (8.11%) Windows
3 7 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.78%) Solaris
3 7 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.24%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (2.16%) CentOS
5 4 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.16%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.08%) zOS
7 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.14%) Data Protection
2 41 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (21.62%) Data Governance
4 37 (20.00%) Agile
5 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.38%) Data Privacy
7 33 (17.84%) Data Management
8 32 (17.30%) Data Modelling
9 28 (15.14%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (14.59%) DevOps
10 27 (14.59%) Information Security
11 24 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (11.89%) Data Strategy
12 22 (11.89%) Migration
13 18 (9.73%) Data Security
13 18 (9.73%) Project Management
14 16 (8.65%) CRM
15 15 (8.11%) Physical Data Model
16 14 (7.57%) Data Flow Diagram
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.65%) SQL
2 15 (8.11%) Python
3 10 (5.41%) Java
3 10 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.86%) C#
5 7 (3.78%) Bash
6 4 (2.16%) PHP
6 4 (2.16%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.16%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.16%) VBScript
7 3 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.08%) C++
8 2 (1.08%) COBOL
8 2 (1.08%) REXX
9 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.54%) Ruby
9 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (14.05%) Degree
2 20 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.03%) CISSP
4 8 (4.32%) CISM
5 7 (3.78%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.16%) CISA
9 3 (1.62%) CRISC
10 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.08%) CIPD
10 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.54%) PMP
11 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.59%) Data Quality
2 26 (14.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (12.97%) NIST
4 17 (9.19%) PCI DSS
5 16 (8.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (7.57%) HIPAA
7 8 (4.32%) QA
7 8 (4.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.78%) GRC
9 6 (3.24%) PSD2
9 6 (3.24%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.62%) COBIT
10 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (1.08%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (1.08%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (1.08%) COSO
11 2 (1.08%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.54%) COPPA
12 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 10 (5.41%) Docker
2 9 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.16%) Snort
3 4 (2.16%) XenApp
4 1 (0.54%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.03%) Terraform
3 11 (5.95%) Ansible
4 6 (3.24%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (3.24%) Netcool
4 6 (3.24%) Tivoli
4 6 (3.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (2.16%) Kibana
5 4 (2.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.54%) SELinux
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.97%) Oracle
3 19 (10.27%) Google
3 19 (10.27%) SAP
4 12 (6.49%) Sparx
5 11 (5.95%) Splunk
6 10 (5.41%) Cisco
7 9 (4.86%) VMware
8 8 (4.32%) OneTrust
8 8 (4.32%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.78%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.78%) HP
9 7 (3.78%) IBM
10 6 (3.24%) Dell
10 6 (3.24%) EMC
10 6 (3.24%) Isilon
10 6 (3.24%) Qualys
10 6 (3.24%) Serena
10 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.70%) Symantec