Data Protection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +150
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 288 486 923
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 2.04% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.27% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 308 652
10th Percentile £214 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £623
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 13
10th Percentile £17.81 £20.32 £16.93
25th Percentile £19.25 £35.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.75 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.86% +50.00% -42.15%
75th Percentile £27.76 £62.94 £57.38
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £75.51
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.84% +97.91% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,892 21,388 39,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 89.62% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 15,183 29,114
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 493 516
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.49 £14.94
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Data Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Protection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Data Protection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Protection.

Data Protection hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Protection over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Data Protection hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (2.08%) Confluence
1 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.69%) CMS
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.69%) SAS
3 1 (0.35%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.35%) Mule
3 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (0.69%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.69%) Lectora
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.43%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Relativity
3 1 (0.35%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.89%) Azure
2 25 (8.68%) AWS
3 12 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.82%) Azure Stack
5 9 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.13%) SaaS
6 8 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (2.43%) GCP
8 6 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.74%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.74%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.74%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.82%) Firewall
2 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.74%) VLAN
4 4 (1.39%) DNS
4 4 (1.39%) Intranet
4 4 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.39%) MPLS
4 4 (1.39%) Network Security
4 4 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (1.39%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.39%) VSAN
4 4 (1.39%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.04%) WAN
5 3 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.69%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 2 (0.69%) SWIFTNet
6 2 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (3.13%) Metadata
3 9 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.43%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Hive
6 4 (1.39%) Big Data
6 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.39%) Power BI
6 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.39%) Tableau
7 3 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.04%) QlikView
8 2 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.69%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.56%) JIRA
2 7 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.08%) Git
4 4 (1.39%) ERwin
4 4 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (15.28%) Public Sector
4 35 (12.15%) Finance
5 24 (8.33%) Legal
6 13 (4.51%) Banking
7 9 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.43%) Local Government
9 7 (2.43%) Marketing
9 7 (2.43%) Police
10 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Retail
11 4 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Electronics
12 3 (1.04%) Military
13 2 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 54 (18.75%) Architect
2 31 (10.76%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.72%) Developer
4 21 (7.29%) Analyst
5 17 (5.90%) Consultant
6 16 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 16 (5.56%) Senior
7 13 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.17%) Lead
9 9 (3.13%) Junior
10 8 (2.78%) Junior Project Manager
11 7 (2.43%) Data Consultant
11 7 (2.43%) Oracle Architect
11 7 (2.43%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (2.43%) Trainer
12 6 (2.08%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.08%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.08%) Information Officer
12 6 (2.08%) IT Trainer
12 6 (2.08%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.60%) XML
2 17 (5.90%) REST
3 16 (5.56%) JSON
4 8 (2.78%) HTML
4 8 (2.78%) Spring
5 7 (2.43%) CSS
6 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.39%) ADO
7 4 (1.39%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.39%) Node.js
7 4 (1.39%) OLE
7 4 (1.39%) RESTful
8 3 (1.04%) .NET
8 3 (1.04%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.04%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (1.04%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.69%) FIDO
9 2 (0.69%) J2EE
9 2 (0.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 126 (43.75%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (5.21%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.51%) Freedom of Information
4 12 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.17%) Replication
5 8 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.78%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.43%) Blog
6 7 (2.43%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (1.74%) Freedom of Information Act
8 5 (1.74%) Wiki
9 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.39%) Life Science
9 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.39%) NHS
9 4 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.39%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.29%) Windows
2 16 (5.56%) Linux
3 6 (2.08%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Android
5 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (17.71%) Agile
2 43 (14.93%) Project Management
3 36 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (9.38%) Analytics
5 27 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (9.03%) Value Proposition
7 25 (8.68%) Data Modelling
8 24 (8.33%) Change Management
8 24 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 24 (8.33%) Migration
9 23 (7.99%) Data Governance
9 23 (7.99%) DevOps
9 23 (7.99%) Microservices
10 22 (7.64%) Information Security
11 20 (6.94%) Data Privacy
12 19 (6.60%) Data Management
12 19 (6.60%) Impact Assessments
13 18 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (5.90%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.46%) SQL
2 17 (5.90%) Java
2 17 (5.90%) Python
3 12 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.78%) C#
5 7 (2.43%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.74%) Perl
7 4 (1.39%) C++
7 4 (1.39%) PHP
7 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.39%) X++
8 2 (0.69%) Bash
8 2 (0.69%) Bicep
8 2 (0.69%) C
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) COBOL
9 1 (0.35%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) Ruby
9 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (16.67%) Degree
2 34 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 32 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.08%) CISSP
4 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (1.39%) ISEB
7 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.04%) CCNP
7 3 (1.04%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CCNA
8 2 (0.69%) CIPD
8 2 (0.69%) CISM
8 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.69%) HND
8 2 (0.69%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.67%) GDPR
2 22 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.90%) NIST
4 11 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (1.74%) QA
8 4 (1.39%) PSD2
8 4 (1.39%) SLA
9 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.04%) GRC
9 3 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.04%) NCSC
10 2 (0.69%) COBIT
10 2 (0.69%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.69%) PMO
11 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.78%) Docker
3 7 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.39%) Snort
4 4 (1.39%) vSphere
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (2.78%) NetBackup
1 8 (2.78%) Terraform
2 7 (2.43%) Ansible
3 6 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.74%) Grafana
4 5 (1.74%) Puppet
5 4 (1.39%) Kibana
5 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.39%) VxRail
6 2 (0.69%) CASB
6 2 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.21%) Oracle
3 14 (4.86%) SAP
4 12 (4.17%) Cisco
5 8 (2.78%) Google
5 8 (2.78%) VMware
6 7 (2.43%) Veritas
7 6 (2.08%) OneTrust
8 5 (1.74%) Dell
8 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.39%) Informatica
9 4 (1.39%) Sparx
9 4 (1.39%) Splunk
10 3 (1.04%) Adobe
10 3 (1.04%) F5
10 3 (1.04%) IBM
10 3 (1.04%) Okta
11 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.69%) Nokia