Data Protection Contracts in Bedfordshire

Data Protection
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 2 16 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.27% 6.50% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 7.51% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.46%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +28.05% -13.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £18.00 £44.53
% change year-on-year - -59.58% -33.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 213 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.27% 86.59% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 118
10th Percentile £463 £303 £208
25th Percentile £500 £406 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £633
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Bedfordshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Bedfordshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Bedfordshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Luton -12 2 £525 - 7
Data Protection
East of England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) X.509
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft