Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Protection
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 24 25 43
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.31% 3.62% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.15% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 34
10th Percentile £328 £394 £206
25th Percentile £419 £440 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +16.54% +3.47%
75th Percentile £543 £616 £569
90th Percentile £588 £694 £619
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.46 - £17.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 602 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.26% 87.25% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 407 401
10th Percentile £224 £198 £275
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.50 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +254.30%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Protection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Birmingham

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) CICS
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
1 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) CA PPM
2 1 (4.17%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) ChangeMan
4 1 (4.17%) Deequ
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (4.17%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) REST
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 4 (16.67%) CRM
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps
2 4 (16.67%) Microservices
2 4 (16.67%) Migration
2 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Analytics
3 3 (12.50%) SDLC
3 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (8.33%) Change Management
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Data Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (8.33%) Use Case
4 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Scala
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (8.33%) Genesys
2 2 (8.33%) Isilon
3 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Pega
3 1 (4.17%) Planview
3 1 (4.17%) Xamarin