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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 25 45
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 2 25 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.31% 6.10% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 6.79% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -26.43% +47.37%
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £700
% change year-on-year -2.91% -26.43% +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 623 368 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.85% 89.76% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 189 215
10th Percentile £313 £248 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -9.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £657
90th Percentile £638 £651 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £518 £561
% change year-on-year -7.25% -7.75% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

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
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Commvault
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat