Data Protection Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 73 138 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.89% 10.92% 9.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 11.50% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 71 110
10th Percentile £201 £269 £369
25th Percentile £314 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £569
90th Percentile £646 £613 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £56.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +182.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 1,200 1,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.33% 94.94% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 853 1,230
10th Percentile £221 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £471
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 16
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.59 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
% change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) AWS
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.37%) Akamai
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) Datadog
7 1 (1.37%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
1 4 (5.48%) VSAN
2 3 (4.11%) DHCP
2 3 (4.11%) Intranet
3 1 (1.37%) Broadband
3 1 (1.37%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.37%) Big Data
2 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.37%) Looker
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.37%) Power BI
2 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Maven
4 1 (1.37%) Capybara
4 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.37%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Gradle
4 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.37%) JUnit
4 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 17 (23.29%) Finance
2 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.37%) Law
5 1 (1.37%) Publishing
5 1 (1.37%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (15.07%) Analyst
2 10 (13.70%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Pega Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) User Researcher
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Migration Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) Spring
2 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.11%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) CSS
4 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 2 (2.74%) React
4 2 (2.74%) XML
5 1 (1.37%) .NET
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Camel
5 1 (1.37%) J2EE
5 1 (1.37%) Java EE
5 1 (1.37%) Kafka
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) Node.js
5 1 (1.37%) SAML
5 1 (1.37%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.37%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (1.37%) Web Services
5 1 (1.37%) WebKit
5 1 (1.37%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 56 (76.71%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.48%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) DataPower
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Agile
2 10 (13.70%) Migration
3 9 (12.33%) Value Proposition
4 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
6 6 (8.22%) Business Analysis
7 5 (6.85%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.85%) Data Migration
7 5 (6.85%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (6.85%) Scrum
8 4 (5.48%) Capacity Management
8 4 (5.48%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (5.48%) Data Mapping
8 4 (5.48%) DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (5.48%) Kanban
8 4 (5.48%) Service Design
8 4 (5.48%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (5.48%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.59%) Java
1 7 (9.59%) SQL
2 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.11%) Perl
3 3 (4.11%) Python
4 1 (1.37%) Bicep
4 1 (1.37%) C#
4 1 (1.37%) Ruby
4 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.37%) CCSP
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) vSphere
3 3 (4.11%) Docker
4 1 (1.37%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) vCenter Server
1 4 (5.48%) VxRail
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) CASB
3 1 (1.37%) Kibana
3 1 (1.37%) Puppet
3 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Dell
4 3 (4.11%) Pega
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco
5 2 (2.74%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix
6 1 (1.37%) Foundry
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) IDERA
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) Teradata
6 1 (1.37%) Tripwire