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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 30 53
Rank change year-on-year -41 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 3 29 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.52% 7.27% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 8.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -26.07% +47.37%
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £518 £700
% change year-on-year +0.43% -26.07% +47.37%

All Process and 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 551 354 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.49% 88.72% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 185 252
10th Percentile £291 £361 £400
25th Percentile £382 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £592
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.24% +12.67%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £688
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Data Privacy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Data Privacy 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 3 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 3 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA