Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 23 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.04% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.85% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £405 £438 £549
25th Percentile £427 £453 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £514 £737
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -30.35% +28.22%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £849
90th Percentile £600 £624 -
England median daily rate £550 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -2.65% -0.88% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 828 1,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.83% 91.09% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 517 916
10th Percentile £306 £247 £259
25th Percentile £403 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £662
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 31 54
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £11.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% +27.00%
75th Percentile £55.75 £31.45 £22.56
90th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Privacy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in Yorkshire

Data Privacy
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 Data Privacy within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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 -42 18 £445 -6.71% 5
West Yorkshire -16 4 £519 -3.49% 14
North Yorkshire -8 1 £600 +9.09% 1
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
1 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Cohesity
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Financial Institution
4 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
1 7 (30.43%) Middleware
1 7 (30.43%) OpenTelemetry
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (39.13%) Application Security
3 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) DevSecOps
3 9 (39.13%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
3 9 (39.13%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
5 7 (30.43%) Business Development
5 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
5 7 (30.43%) Contract Negotiation
5 7 (30.43%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 7 (30.43%) Critical Thinking
5 7 (30.43%) Feasibility Study
5 7 (30.43%) GAP Analysis
5 7 (30.43%) IT Strategy
5 7 (30.43%) Network Load Balancing
5 7 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) Rust
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) GDPR
2 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.70%) PSD2
4 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 7 (30.43%) Kiali
2 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Commvault
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat