GDPR Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 259 259
Rank change year-on-year +48 0 +35
Contract jobs citing GDPR 482 567 956
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.01% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.04% 7.48% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 395 565
10th Percentile £304 £406 £350
25th Percentile £405 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.29% +8.60%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £755 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 13
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.35 £16.09
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.21 £17.91
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.26% +4.52%
75th Percentile £28.75 £33.63 £28.75
90th Percentile £34.21 £65.50 £41.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £18.95 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.93% -15.78% -10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,992 7,585 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,156 7,966
10th Percentile £280 £289 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £454
% change year-on-year -2.26% +7.17% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 244 308
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.20 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £69.44 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +6.41%

GDPR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDPR within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +41 436 £500 -9.09% 692
UK excluding London +55 268 £475 -9.52% 530
London -1 172 £525 -12.50% 202
Work from Home +65 171 £500 -9.09% 257
South East +11 88 £475 -26.92% 159
North of England +39 68 £500 +11.11% 105
North West +31 51 £500 +11.11% 58
South West +39 48 £650 +34.02% 66
East of England +17 31 £410 -18.00% 46
Midlands +18 29 £475 -13.64% 118
West Midlands +9 23 £475 -20.83% 64
Yorkshire +21 13 £505 +12.22% 37
Scotland +10 11 £483 -3.40% 33
East Midlands +12 6 £463 - 52
North East +11 3 - - 11
Wales - 1 - - 20

GDPR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (4.15%) Confluence
2 14 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) CICS
3 5 (1.04%) SAS
4 4 (0.83%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.83%) nginx
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
7 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 40 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.90%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.07%) Chatbot
5 7 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.83%) FastStats
3 4 (0.83%) Unica
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 91 (18.88%) Azure
2 50 (10.37%) AWS
3 33 (6.85%) GCP
4 29 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.94%) SaaS
6 16 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (2.90%) IaaS
7 14 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.28%) Collibra
8 11 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.87%) Serverless
10 8 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.66%) PaaS
10 8 (1.66%) Twilio
11 7 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.45%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (9.75%) Firewall
2 22 (4.56%) Network Security
3 19 (3.94%) DNS
4 15 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.28%) DHCP
6 8 (1.66%) CTI
6 8 (1.66%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.66%) SAN
6 8 (1.66%) VoIP
7 7 (1.45%) WAN
8 6 (1.24%) Cisco IPT
8 6 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.04%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.04%) NAS
9 5 (1.04%) VLAN
10 4 (0.83%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.83%) Internet
10 4 (0.83%) Intranet
10 4 (0.83%) IPsec
10 4 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.19%) Power BI
2 24 (4.98%) Metadata
3 23 (4.77%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.49%) MySQL
6 8 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.45%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.24%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.24%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.24%) Tableau
9 5 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.04%) DB2
9 5 (1.04%) OLTP
9 5 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.83%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.83%) Parquet
11 3 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (3.94%) JIRA
2 14 (2.90%) ERwin
2 14 (2.90%) Git
3 9 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.45%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.45%) PyCharm
4 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.04%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
7 3 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 124 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 101 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (19.09%) Finance
4 91 (18.88%) Legal
5 47 (9.75%) Manufacturing
5 47 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 39 (8.09%) Law
7 38 (7.88%) Marketing
8 27 (5.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.60%) Telecoms
9 26 (5.39%) Banking
9 26 (5.39%) Retail
10 25 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.28%) Local Government
14 9 (1.87%) Police
15 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.04%) Electronics
17 3 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 99 (20.54%) Analyst
2 95 (19.71%) Architect
3 35 (7.26%) Business Analyst
3 35 (7.26%) Consultant
3 35 (7.26%) Senior
4 31 (6.43%) Data Analyst
4 31 (6.43%) Data Architect
4 31 (6.43%) Lead
5 29 (6.02%) SOC Analyst
6 28 (5.81%) Security Architect
6 28 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.32%) Security Consultant
8 15 (3.11%) Data Manager
8 15 (3.11%) Developer
9 13 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
9 13 (2.70%) Governance Manager
9 13 (2.70%) Project Manager
10 11 (2.28%) Administrator
10 11 (2.28%) Coordinator
11 10 (2.07%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.90%) JSON
2 10 (2.07%) HTML
3 9 (1.87%) JSON Schema
4 8 (1.66%) CSS
4 8 (1.66%) Middleware
4 8 (1.66%) RESTful
4 8 (1.66%) Web Services
4 8 (1.66%) XML
5 7 (1.45%) OAuth
5 7 (1.45%) YAML
6 6 (1.24%) LDAP
6 6 (1.24%) Node.js
6 6 (1.24%) REST
7 5 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.04%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.04%) gRPC
7 5 (1.04%) JWT
7 5 (1.04%) OpenAPI
7 5 (1.04%) Swagger
8 4 (0.83%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.94%) Management Information System
2 43 (8.92%) Data Protection Act
3 23 (4.77%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.11%) CSOC
5 15 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.11%) Freedom of Information
5 15 (3.11%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.66%) CESG
9 8 (1.66%) IVR
10 7 (1.45%) Replication
11 6 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.24%) Clustering
11 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.24%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.13%) Linux
2 32 (6.64%) Windows
3 11 (2.28%) Mac OS X
3 11 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.45%) Solaris
5 5 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (1.04%) Unix
5 5 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.04%) zOS
6 4 (0.83%) CentOS
6 4 (0.83%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) pSOS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (28.63%) Data Protection
2 95 (19.71%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (17.22%) Information Security
4 76 (15.77%) Data Governance
5 75 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (14.73%) Data Privacy
8 63 (13.07%) Agile
9 58 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (11.62%) Data Modelling
11 55 (11.41%) DevOps
12 51 (10.58%) Risk Management
13 47 (9.75%) Analytics
13 47 (9.75%) Incident Response
14 45 (9.34%) Security Operations
15 43 (8.92%) Migration
15 43 (8.92%) Project Management
16 42 (8.71%) Data Security
16 42 (8.71%) Vulnerability Management
17 41 (8.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.88%) SQL
2 32 (6.64%) Python
3 22 (4.56%) Java
4 15 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.28%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.66%) C#
7 7 (1.45%) Bash
7 7 (1.45%) Groovy
8 5 (1.04%) COBOL
8 5 (1.04%) PHP
8 5 (1.04%) REXX
9 4 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.83%) VBScript
10 3 (0.62%) C++
10 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.41%) Perl
11 2 (0.41%) R
11 2 (0.41%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (15.77%) Degree
2 63 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.30%) CISSP
4 38 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.81%) CISM
6 20 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.73%) CISA
8 16 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.11%) ISACA
9 15 (3.11%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 12 (2.49%) IIBA
12 11 (2.28%) CEH
13 10 (2.07%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.07%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.87%) SSCP
15 8 (1.66%) CISMP
16 6 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (15.98%) NIST
3 54 (11.20%) HIPAA
4 52 (10.79%) PCI DSS
5 42 (8.71%) Data Quality
6 30 (6.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 21 (4.36%) GxP
8 19 (3.94%) Good Clinical Practice
8 19 (3.94%) NCSC
9 16 (3.32%) QA
10 14 (2.90%) COBIT
11 13 (2.70%) GRC
12 11 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (2.28%) SOC 2
13 8 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (1.24%) PSD2
15 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (1.04%) SLA
16 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
16 4 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.70%) Docker
2 13 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.83%) Snort
3 4 (0.83%) XenApp
4 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) vCloud
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.11%) Terraform
3 14 (2.90%) Ansible
4 6 (1.24%) SCCM
5 5 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (1.04%) Netcool
5 5 (1.04%) Tivoli
5 5 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.83%) Kibana
6 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.41%) Ambari
7 2 (0.41%) CASB
7 2 (0.41%) CEMLI
7 2 (0.41%) Grafana
7 2 (0.41%) Oozie
7 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.41%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.41%) SELinux
8 1 (0.21%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.92%) Oracle
3 41 (8.51%) Google
4 37 (7.68%) SAP
5 22 (4.56%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.32%) Cisco
7 14 (2.90%) Splunk
7 14 (2.90%) VMware
8 13 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.28%) Workday
10 10 (2.07%) OneTrust
11 9 (1.87%) Informatica
12 8 (1.66%) Avaya
12 8 (1.66%) Genesys
12 8 (1.66%) Qualys
13 7 (1.45%) Citrix
13 7 (1.45%) CyberArk
14 6 (1.24%) EMC
14 6 (1.24%) Facebook
14 6 (1.24%) Sparx
791 GDPR jobs Nationwide