Data Protection Contracts in Bristol

Data Protection
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 48 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 20 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.93% 2.79% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.36% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 22
10th Percentile - £500 £516
25th Percentile £363 £513 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -10.34% +45.00%
75th Percentile - £750 £814
90th Percentile £531 £798 £835
South West median daily rate £400 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -38.46% +0.78% +35.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.28
25th Percentile - - £15.33
Median hourly rate - - £15.80
75th Percentile - - £41.10
90th Percentile - - £56.04
South West median hourly rate £27.64 £12.50 £15.80
% change year-on-year +121.12% -20.89% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 627 803 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.94% 82.95% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 434 652
10th Percentile £235 £260 £308
25th Percentile £361 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £638
90th Percentile £641 £717 £712
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 189 116
10th Percentile £12.82 £43.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £32.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.93% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £67.13 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.38 £80.00 £84.38
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Bristol

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Bristol

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Bristol over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Bristol

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Bristol

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Applications Support
1 14 (70.00%) Senior
1 14 (70.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Senior Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Support Officer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (70.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Logistics
2 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security
4 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (75.00%) GDPR
2 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Citrix
1 1 (5.00%) IBM