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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 256 260
Rank change year-on-year +62 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing GDPR 495 596 960
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.04% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.17% 7.81% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 408 561
10th Percentile £321 £408 £338
25th Percentile £405 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £711 £750 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -4.36% +1.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 16 12
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.35 £16.07
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.21 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £19.00 £25.54
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -25.61% +1.16%
75th Percentile £28.07 £37.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £34.21 £65.50 £42.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £18.90 £23.37
% change year-on-year +32.28% -19.13% -7.45%

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 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

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 15 May 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

GDPR
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GDPR over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GDPR in the UK

GDPR
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 15 May 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 +47 449 £500 -9.09% 638
UK excluding London +59 272 £483 -4.36% 506
Work from Home +68 185 £510 -7.27% 219
London -2 178 £525 -12.50% 182
South East +16 88 £475 -21.49% 141
North of England +40 73 £525 +16.67% 107
North West +32 55 £525 +16.67% 57
South West +51 49 £650 +35.42% 56
East of England +19 31 £410 -15.90% 46
Midlands +28 28 £475 -20.83% 111
West Midlands +14 23 £475 -20.83% 54
Yorkshire +23 14 £507 +9.62% 41
Scotland +17 9 £404 -19.20% 35
East Midlands +16 5 £450 -2.70% 56
North East +11 3 - - 12
Wales +24 2 £375 +63.04% 24

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 21 (4.24%) Confluence
2 15 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) CICS
4 4 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) nginx
4 4 (0.81%) SAS
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 43 (8.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.02%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.81%) FastStats
3 4 (0.81%) Unica
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.61%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 86 (17.37%) Azure
2 47 (9.49%) AWS
3 31 (6.26%) GCP
3 31 (6.26%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.04%) SaaS
5 17 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
6 15 (3.03%) IaaS
7 14 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.42%) Collibra
9 9 (1.82%) PaaS
10 8 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.62%) Nutanix
10 8 (1.62%) Serverless
10 8 (1.62%) Twilio
11 7 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.21%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.21%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.89%) Firewall
2 21 (4.24%) Network Security
3 19 (3.84%) DNS
4 16 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.22%) DHCP
6 8 (1.62%) CTI
6 8 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.62%) SAN
6 8 (1.62%) VoIP
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco IPT
7 6 (1.21%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.21%) NAS
7 6 (1.21%) VLAN
8 4 (0.81%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.81%) IPsec
8 4 (0.81%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.81%) WAN
8 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.61%) Intranet
9 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.46%) Metadata
2 25 (5.05%) Power BI
3 23 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.42%) MySQL
6 8 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.62%) Tableau
7 7 (1.41%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.21%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.01%) DB2
9 5 (1.01%) OLTP
9 5 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.81%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.81%) Parquet
11 3 (0.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (4.04%) ERwin
1 20 (4.04%) JIRA
2 13 (2.63%) Git
3 10 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.41%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.41%) PyCharm
4 7 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.21%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.81%) IDA Disassembler
7 3 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
General
1 121 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 99 (20.00%) Finance
3 96 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (18.38%) Legal
5 58 (11.72%) Public Sector
6 55 (11.11%) Manufacturing
7 48 (9.70%) Marketing
8 38 (7.68%) Law
9 35 (7.07%) Telecoms
10 31 (6.26%) Retail
11 29 (5.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 25 (5.05%) Banking
13 23 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (3.03%) Electronics
15 15 (3.03%) Police
16 10 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (2.02%) Local Government
17 6 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 101 (20.40%) Architect
2 98 (19.80%) Analyst
3 41 (8.28%) Consultant
4 38 (7.68%) Data Architect
4 38 (7.68%) Senior
5 37 (7.47%) Business Analyst
6 33 (6.67%) Lead
7 29 (5.86%) Data Analyst
7 29 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (5.66%) SOC Analyst
9 27 (5.45%) Security Architect
10 16 (3.23%) Developer
11 15 (3.03%) Data Consultant
11 15 (3.03%) Data Manager
11 15 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
11 15 (3.03%) Security Consultant
12 13 (2.63%) Administrator
12 13 (2.63%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (2.63%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.42%) Data Protection Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.83%) JSON
2 12 (2.42%) HTML
3 10 (2.02%) CSS
4 9 (1.82%) JSON Schema
4 9 (1.82%) XML
5 8 (1.62%) Middleware
5 8 (1.62%) Web Services
6 7 (1.41%) LDAP
6 7 (1.41%) RESTful
6 7 (1.41%) YAML
7 6 (1.21%) Node.js
7 6 (1.21%) OAuth
7 6 (1.21%) REST
8 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.81%) Apache Avro
9 4 (0.81%) JWT
9 4 (0.81%) Kafka
9 4 (0.81%) OpenAPI
9 4 (0.81%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.13%) Management Information System
2 46 (9.29%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (4.24%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.03%) CSOC
6 14 (2.83%) Freedom of Information
7 13 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.42%) Wiki
9 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.62%) CESG
11 8 (1.62%) IVR
11 8 (1.62%) Replication
12 7 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.41%) Clustering
13 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.21%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.28%) Linux
2 29 (5.86%) Windows
3 10 (2.02%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.62%) Solaris
6 6 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.01%) Unix
7 5 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.01%) zOS
8 4 (0.81%) CentOS
8 4 (0.81%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (30.51%) Data Protection
2 99 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 85 (17.17%) Information Security
4 82 (16.57%) Data Governance
5 72 (14.55%) Data Privacy
5 72 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 71 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (13.33%) Agile
8 63 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (12.32%) Data Modelling
10 54 (10.91%) DevOps
11 52 (10.51%) Risk Management
12 48 (9.70%) Data Management
13 47 (9.49%) Analytics
13 47 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (9.29%) Data Security
15 45 (9.09%) Migration
16 43 (8.69%) Project Management
17 42 (8.48%) Incident Response
18 41 (8.28%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.27%) SQL
2 30 (6.06%) Python
3 21 (4.24%) Java
4 15 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.82%) C#
7 8 (1.62%) Bash
8 7 (1.41%) Groovy
9 5 (1.01%) COBOL
9 5 (1.01%) PHP
9 5 (1.01%) REXX
10 4 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.81%) VBScript
11 2 (0.40%) C++
11 2 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.40%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (15.15%) Degree
2 68 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.27%) CISSP
3 36 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.05%) CISM
5 19 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.43%) CISA
7 15 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.03%) ISACA
7 15 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 12 (2.42%) IIBA
9 10 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.82%) CEH
10 9 (1.82%) SSCP
11 8 (1.62%) CISMP
12 7 (1.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.75%) NIST
2 71 (14.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (10.30%) HIPAA
4 49 (9.90%) PCI DSS
5 48 (9.70%) Data Quality
6 32 (6.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 21 (4.24%) GxP
8 19 (3.84%) Good Clinical Practice
9 18 (3.64%) NCSC
10 15 (3.03%) QA
11 13 (2.63%) GRC
12 12 (2.42%) COBIT
13 11 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (2.22%) SOC 2
14 8 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (1.21%) PSD2
16 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (1.01%) SLA
17 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
17 4 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.42%) Docker
4 4 (0.81%) Snort
4 4 (0.81%) XenApp
5 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.40%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.20%) vCloud
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.83%) Ansible
2 14 (2.83%) Terraform
3 6 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.21%) Netcool
3 6 (1.21%) Tivoli
3 6 (1.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.81%) Kibana
4 4 (0.81%) SCCM
5 3 (0.61%) CA Service Virtualization
6 2 (0.40%) Ambari
6 2 (0.40%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.40%) Grafana
6 2 (0.40%) Oozie
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.40%) SELinux
6 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Avamar
7 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.09%) Oracle
3 44 (8.89%) SAP
4 38 (7.68%) Google
5 22 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.43%) Cisco
7 15 (3.03%) Splunk
8 14 (2.83%) VMware
9 12 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.42%) Sparx
10 11 (2.22%) Workday
11 10 (2.02%) OneTrust
12 9 (1.82%) Informatica
13 8 (1.62%) Avaya
13 8 (1.62%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.62%) Genesys
14 7 (1.41%) EMC
14 7 (1.41%) HP
14 7 (1.41%) IBM
14 7 (1.41%) Qualys