GDPR Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 230 207
Rank change year-on-year +69 -23 +39
Contract jobs citing GDPR 268 239 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.04% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.99% 7.02% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 177 233
10th Percentile £270 £390 £350
25th Percentile £405 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £555 £650 £588
90th Percentile £680 £757 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 9
10th Percentile £11.05 £11.81 £15.74
25th Percentile £13.11 £15.21 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.95 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -15.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £27.88 £26.50
90th Percentile £34.21 £40.17 £30.11
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £19.00 £25.09
% change year-on-year +26.32% -24.26% +4.52%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,980 3,406 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.29% 14.86% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,222 3,087
10th Percentile £250 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 194 202
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £14.83
Median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.62 £48.56
90th Percentile £68.87 £77.50 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GDPR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +10 88 £475 -26.92% 165
North of England +45 68 £500 +11.11% 103
North West +26 51 £500 +11.11% 56
South West +43 48 £650 +34.02% 66
East of England +20 31 £410 -18.00% 46
Midlands +20 29 £475 -13.64% 114
West Midlands +10 23 £475 -20.83% 62
Yorkshire +24 13 £505 +12.22% 37
Scotland +14 11 £483 -3.40% 33
East Midlands +10 6 £463 - 50
North East +11 3 - - 11
Wales - 1 - - 20
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (2.99%) Confluence
1 8 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.87%) SAS
3 4 (1.49%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 24 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.49%) FastStats
2 4 (1.49%) Unica
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.75%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.96%) Azure
2 18 (6.72%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.60%) AWS
4 10 (3.73%) GCP
5 7 (2.61%) Serverless
6 6 (2.24%) Collibra
6 6 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.49%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.49%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.12%) OCI
9 3 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.75%) Oracle CX
10 2 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.58%) Firewall
2 16 (5.97%) Network Security
3 13 (4.85%) DNS
4 6 (2.24%) DHCP
4 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.49%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.49%) Intranet
5 4 (1.49%) IPsec
5 4 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.12%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (1.12%) SAN
6 3 (1.12%) VPN
6 3 (1.12%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.75%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.37%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.22%) Power BI
2 10 (3.73%) Metadata
3 6 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.49%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.49%) MySQL
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.75%) GIS
6 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.37%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.37%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Git
2 7 (2.61%) JIRA
3 6 (2.24%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.24%) PyCharm
4 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.75%) Subversion
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 69 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.15%) Legal
3 51 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.55%) Manufacturing
5 32 (11.94%) Public Sector
6 26 (9.70%) Finance
7 25 (9.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 24 (8.96%) Marketing
9 20 (7.46%) Law
10 16 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (4.48%) Telecoms
13 9 (3.36%) Local Government
14 7 (2.61%) Retail
15 6 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.87%) Police
17 4 (1.49%) Banking
18 3 (1.12%) Back Office
18 3 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
19 2 (0.75%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 70 (26.12%) Analyst
2 27 (10.07%) SOC Analyst
3 25 (9.33%) Business Analyst
4 23 (8.58%) Consultant
5 22 (8.21%) Architect
5 22 (8.21%) Data Analyst
5 22 (8.21%) Lead
6 19 (7.09%) Senior
7 12 (4.48%) Data Manager
8 11 (4.10%) Data Business Analyst
8 11 (4.10%) Developer
8 11 (4.10%) Security Consultant
9 10 (3.73%) Business Manager
9 10 (3.73%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.36%) Business Development Manager
10 9 (3.36%) Development Manager
10 9 (3.36%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.36%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.99%) Lead Architect
11 8 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.24%) CSS
1 6 (2.24%) HTML
1 6 (2.24%) OAuth
1 6 (2.24%) XML
2 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
2 5 (1.87%) GraphQL
2 5 (1.87%) gRPC
2 5 (1.87%) JSON
2 5 (1.87%) JWT
2 5 (1.87%) Node.js
2 5 (1.87%) OpenAPI
2 5 (1.87%) RESTful
2 5 (1.87%) Swagger
3 4 (1.49%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (1.49%) YAML
4 3 (1.12%) .NET
5 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.67%) Management Information System
2 29 (10.82%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.72%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (5.60%) CSOC
5 13 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.10%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.99%) CESG
7 8 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (1.49%) SCADA
10 4 (1.49%) Smart Meter
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.12%) IoT
11 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.19%) Linux
2 17 (6.34%) Windows
3 11 (4.10%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.87%) Unix
4 5 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.49%) CentOS
5 4 (1.49%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) pSOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.48%) Data Protection
2 58 (21.64%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (19.40%) Information Security
4 45 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.43%) Data Privacy
7 34 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (12.69%) Data Governance
8 32 (11.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 30 (11.19%) Risk Management
10 29 (10.82%) Security Operations
11 27 (10.07%) Incident Response
12 26 (9.70%) Data Modelling
12 26 (9.70%) ITIL
13 24 (8.96%) Project Management
14 23 (8.58%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (7.84%) Analytics
16 19 (7.09%) Threat Intelligence
17 18 (6.72%) Data Integration
17 18 (6.72%) Lean Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.21%) Python
2 16 (5.97%) SQL
3 15 (5.60%) Java
4 12 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.24%) Groovy
6 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.49%) PHP
7 4 (1.49%) VBScript
8 3 (1.12%) C#
9 2 (0.75%) Bash
9 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.75%) Perl
9 2 (0.75%) R
9 2 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.79%) Degree
3 28 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 19 (7.09%) CISSP
6 17 (6.34%) CISM
7 15 (5.60%) ISACA
8 12 (4.48%) IIBA
9 11 (4.10%) CISA
9 11 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (3.36%) SSCP
11 8 (2.99%) CEH
11 8 (2.99%) CISMP
12 6 (2.24%) ISEB
12 6 (2.24%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.12%) HNC
14 3 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (1.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.42%) NIST
2 39 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (12.69%) HIPAA
4 19 (7.09%) GxP
5 18 (6.72%) Good Clinical Practice
5 18 (6.72%) PCI DSS
6 17 (6.34%) NCSC
7 16 (5.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (4.10%) COBIT
9 10 (3.73%) QA
10 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.75%) COSO
14 2 (0.75%) GRC
14 2 (0.75%) ISA99
14 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.75%) SLA
15 1 (0.37%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.61%) Docker
3 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.49%) XenApp
5 2 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.37%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) Snort
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.24%) Ansible
2 6 (2.24%) Terraform
3 4 (1.49%) SCCM
4 2 (0.75%) CEMLI
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (0.75%) SELinux
5 1 (0.37%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) SCOM
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) SAP
3 19 (7.09%) Google
4 14 (5.22%) Oracle
5 7 (2.61%) OneTrust
6 6 (2.24%) Ariba
6 6 (2.24%) Citrix
6 6 (2.24%) Facebook
6 6 (2.24%) VMware
7 5 (1.87%) Adobe
7 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.87%) Symantec
8 4 (1.49%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.49%) Ivanti
8 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.49%) Snapchat
8 4 (1.49%) Splunk
8 4 (1.49%) Workday
9 3 (1.12%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
800 GDPR jobs Nationwide