Data Protection Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Protection/Privacy Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Protection/Privacy Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £398 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 454 505
Rank change year-on-year +67 +51 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Specialist 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.009% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £293 £455 -
25th Percentile £338 £500 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £600 £338
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% +77.78% +11.11%
75th Percentile £445 £700 £406
90th Percentile £491 £745 £418
UK median daily rate £375 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,146 22,670 29,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 15,894 20,753
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 1,166 1,488
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.46 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Data Protection Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Protection Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection Specialist in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection Specialist in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Specialist in the UK excluding London

Data Protection Specialist
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 Data Protection Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Yorkshire - 1 £514 -
Midlands - 1 £420 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £420 -
Scotland - 1 £275 -
North of England - 1 £514 -
Data Protection Specialist
UK

Data Protection Specialist Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Data Protection Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Protection Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Avamar
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN

Data Protection Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Avamar
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas