Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Protection
South East > Buckinghamshire

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 11 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.65% 2.07% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.45% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £392 - £118
25th Percentile £453 £463 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £663 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% +55.88% -30.61%
75th Percentile £500 £875 £538
90th Percentile £566 - £640
South East median daily rate £506 £506 £495
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 - -
Median hourly rate £15.25 - -
75th Percentile £15.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £20.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +3.55% -17.28% -33.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 355 326 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 85.54% 84.24% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 232 405
10th Percentile £210 £221 £275
25th Percentile £343 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £613
90th Percentile £635 £656 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 9 18
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.58 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.91 £18.70 £16.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% +60.00% +34.92%
75th Percentile £28.50 £38.00 £24.00
90th Percentile £29.61 £54.50 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Buckinghamshire

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Milton Keynes +9 8 £490 +3.16% 11
Marlow - 1 - -
Data Protection
South East

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (9.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
General
1 5 (45.45%) Law
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP WordPress Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS3
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (36.36%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Privacy
3 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Process Management
5 2 (18.18%) Records Management
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) Personalization
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) SnapMirror
1 1 (9.09%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) NetApp
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) VMware