Data Protection Contracts in the South East

Data Protection
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 90 68
Rank change year-on-year +16 -22 +106
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 136 137 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.45% 2.37% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.65% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 95 206
10th Percentile £180 £225 £297
25th Percentile £270 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.21% +17.22%
75th Percentile £500 £631 £634
90th Percentile £538 £675 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 6
10th Percentile £17.98 - £15.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £51.25 £30.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% -14.46% +6.74%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.10 - £74.32
England median hourly rate £21.00 £48.52 £22.50
% change year-on-year -56.71% +115.62% -2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,694 5,167 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.65% 89.46% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 3,590 4,710
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 223 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in the South East

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Thames Valley +6 96 £438 -10.26% 60
Berkshire -1 66 £450 -5.26% 15
Buckinghamshire +13 18 £525 +5.00% 39
Hampshire -3 18 £400 -31.18% 16
Oxfordshire +13 12 £180 -58.86% 6
Surrey +24 11 £500 -41.18% 19
West Sussex +13 9 £450 -25.00% 4
Kent 0 1 £400 +255.56% 4
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.47%) Confluence
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.65%) Azure
2 11 (8.09%) AWS
3 9 (6.62%) Power Automate
4 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.15%) PaaS
5 7 (5.15%) PowerApps
6 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.41%) SaaS
7 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.68%) Smartsheet
8 4 (2.94%) Azure API Management
8 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.21%) IaaS
10 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) Firewall
1 6 (4.41%) Network Security
2 5 (3.68%) MPLS
2 5 (3.68%) VPN
2 5 (3.68%) WAN
3 4 (2.94%) Internet
4 3 (2.21%) NAS
4 3 (2.21%) SAN
4 3 (2.21%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.47%) BGP
5 2 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.47%) GGSN
5 2 (1.47%) Intranet
5 2 (1.47%) PBX
5 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.47%) VoIP
6 1 (0.74%) DMZ
6 1 (0.74%) LAN
6 1 (0.74%) SDH
6 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.68%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.21%) MySQL
5 2 (1.47%) Metadata
5 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.47%) Power BI
5 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) JIRA
2 6 (4.41%) Git
3 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 33 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.06%) Legal
3 19 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.24%) Marketing
5 11 (8.09%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.88%) Finance
7 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.41%) Law
8 6 (4.41%) Police
9 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Banking
10 3 (2.21%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.47%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.47%) Automotive
11 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.74%) French Language
12 1 (0.74%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.74%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (8.82%) Project Manager
2 11 (8.09%) Architect
2 11 (8.09%) Developer
3 9 (6.62%) Administrator
3 9 (6.62%) Business Development Manager
3 9 (6.62%) Business Manager
3 9 (6.62%) Development Manager
4 7 (5.15%) Network Engineer
5 6 (4.41%) Business Process Trainer
5 6 (4.41%) IT Trainer
5 6 (4.41%) Junior
5 6 (4.41%) Junior Project Manager
5 6 (4.41%) Lead
5 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.41%) Trainer
6 5 (3.68%) Analyst
6 5 (3.68%) HR Manager
7 4 (2.94%) C# Developer
7 4 (2.94%) Consultant
7 4 (2.94%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.68%) JSON
1 5 (3.68%) XML
2 4 (2.94%) .NET
2 4 (2.94%) ADO
2 4 (2.94%) CSS
2 4 (2.94%) HTML
3 3 (2.21%) Web Services
4 2 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.47%) jQuery
4 2 (1.47%) SPFx
5 1 (0.74%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.74%) Node.js
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth
5 1 (0.74%) OpenID
5 1 (0.74%) React
5 1 (0.74%) RESTful
5 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (56.62%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.41%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.68%) Life Science
4 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.21%) PKI
5 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.47%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Linux
2 9 (6.62%) Windows
3 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Solaris
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.44%) Project Management
2 17 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (11.76%) Value Proposition
4 15 (11.03%) DevOps
5 14 (10.29%) Agile
5 14 (10.29%) Data Privacy
6 13 (9.56%) Information Security
7 11 (8.09%) Digital Marketing
7 11 (8.09%) Migration
7 11 (8.09%) Scrum
8 10 (7.35%) Data Mapping
9 9 (6.62%) Business Development
9 9 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (6.62%) Decision-Making
10 8 (5.88%) Analytics
10 8 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.88%) Data Management
10 8 (5.88%) Impact Assessments
10 8 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.24%) C#
2 16 (11.76%) SQL
3 9 (6.62%) Python
4 7 (5.15%) Java
5 6 (4.41%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.94%) X++
8 3 (2.21%) Bash
8 3 (2.21%) F#
8 3 (2.21%) PHP
8 3 (2.21%) Ruby
9 2 (1.47%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) Degree
3 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.41%) ISEB
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CISM
7 2 (1.47%) CISSP
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CCIE
8 1 (0.74%) CCNP
8 1 (0.74%) CEH
8 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.21%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) GxP
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) PMO
3 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.21%) Docker
4 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.74%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Ansible
2 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.21%) Terraform
3 2 (1.47%) Grafana
3 2 (1.47%) Graylog
3 2 (1.47%) Nagios
3 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Avamar
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.74%) Nessus
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.29%) VMware
3 13 (9.56%) Cisco
4 7 (5.15%) OneTrust
5 4 (2.94%) Dell
5 4 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.21%) Juniper
7 2 (1.47%) EMC
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle
7 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.47%) Sage
7 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.47%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) Aruba
8 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.74%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow