Data Protection Contracts in Berkshire

Data Protection
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 57 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 33 67 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.90% 3.40% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.91% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 35
10th Percentile £300 £200 £225
25th Percentile £450 £270 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -12.88%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £556
90th Percentile £588 £538 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £51.75 -
South East median hourly rate £15.25 £26.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year -41.90% -37.50% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,061 1,713 1,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.23% 87.04% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 852 1,010
10th Percentile £325 £265 £331
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.70 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.46 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +1.82% +182.74%
75th Percentile £79.30 £71.75 £74.39
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year -48.08% -6.95% +126.89%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Berkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Berkshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Berkshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Berkshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Reading +19 14 £550 +62.96% 13
Bracknell -5 5 £300 -29.41% 2
Slough -3 3 £550 - 9
Wokingham -7 1 £450 -5.26% 1
Thatcham - 1 £600 -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 2
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.09%) SonarCloud
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
2 4 (12.12%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) BGP
3 2 (6.06%) Ethernet
3 2 (6.06%) HTTP
3 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.03%) MPLS
4 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.03%) Power Query
3 1 (3.03%) Sisense
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Snyk
2 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.03%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Aviation
4 1 (3.03%) French Language
4 1 (3.03%) Games
4 1 (3.03%) Italian Language
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Compliance Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Compliance Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Data Compliance Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Product Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Security Compliance Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Security Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) OAuth
1 3 (9.09%) Web Services
2 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) MDX
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (63.64%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) CCTV
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.18%) Project Management
2 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) Business Analysis
4 4 (12.12%) Data Mapping
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (12.12%) OWASP
4 4 (12.12%) Product Management
4 4 (12.12%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (12.12%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 3 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
5 3 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) C
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) OSCP
3 2 (6.06%) SANS
4 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) CCSK
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CEH
4 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.03%) GIAC
4 1 (3.03%) GPEN
4 1 (3.03%) GWAPT
4 1 (3.03%) OSCE
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.03%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) PMO
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Cisco
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Meraki
4 1 (3.03%) Ariba
4 1 (3.03%) Aruba
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) HP
4 1 (3.03%) Juniper
4 1 (3.03%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.03%) Okta
4 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.03%) SAP