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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 85 92
Rank change year-on-year -34 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 23 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.93% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.52% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 6
10th Percentile £409 £463 £557
25th Percentile £430 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £628
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -17.17% +9.13%
75th Percentile £661 - £809
90th Percentile £675 £574 £849
England median daily rate £552 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.25% +3.64% -4.35%

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 2,144 964 1,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.80% 92.34% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 594 864
10th Percentile £318 £257 £275
25th Percentile £408 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £582
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 38 66
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.86 £11.30
25th Percentile £17.35 £17.27 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.43 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.11 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -41 22 £460 -11.50% 3
West Yorkshire -18 1 £370 -17.78% 5
North Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
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
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Actimize
1 1 (4.35%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) Apple Pay
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Google Pay
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
1 4 (17.39%) Metadata
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
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Financial Institution
3 3 (13.04%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Data Manager
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Risk Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Manager
4 2 (8.70%) HR Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Architect
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
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
1 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (52.17%) Process Improvement
2 8 (34.78%) Business Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Conflict Resolution
2 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (34.78%) GAP Analysis
2 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
2 8 (34.78%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (30.43%) API Design
3 7 (30.43%) Business Development
3 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
3 7 (30.43%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
3 7 (30.43%) Network Load Balancing
3 7 (30.43%) Software Delivery
3 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) Rust
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) PERC
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Grafana
1 7 (30.43%) Kiali
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
1 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Splunk
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) FIS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) TSYS