Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 65 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 -21 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 14 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.33% 0.54% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.57% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £381 - £503
25th Percentile £430 - £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £557
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -6.69% -17.48%
75th Percentile £675 - £591
90th Percentile - - £630
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £520 £557
% change year-on-year -13.42% -6.69% -17.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 523 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 85.93% 94.75% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 348 200
10th Percentile £366 £289 £381
25th Percentile £432 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £464 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -9.73% -14.33%
75th Percentile £576 £546 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £461 £507
% change year-on-year +8.40% -9.02% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £15.00 £20.20
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -34.21%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in Sheffield

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Actimize
1 1 (7.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Apple Pay
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) Google Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 4 (28.57%) Metadata
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
2 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Legal
5 2 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Billing
6 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Data Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Risk Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Data Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) HR Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Payments Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 5 (35.71%) Process Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Active Listening
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Kanban
4 4 (28.57%) Metadata Management
4 4 (28.57%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 8583
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) PERC
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) FIS
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) TSYS