Data Protection Contracts in Central London

Data Protection
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 87 104 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +49 -75
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 37 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 1.27% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.40% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 18
10th Percentile £219 £465 £384
25th Percentile £375 £513 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £677
90th Percentile £751 £882 £805
London median daily rate £500 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -8.05% -5.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
London median hourly rate £30.40 £24.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.84% -60.40% +86.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Central London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Central London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Central London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Central London

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +9 31 £513 -18.00% 18
City of Westminster +2 2 - - 1
Camden +2 2 - -
Lambeth - 1 £240 -
Data Protection
London

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.70%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.11%) Trello
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (2.70%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.41%) IaaS
4 2 (5.41%) PaaS
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DHCP
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Intranet
2 1 (2.70%) SAN
2 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Law
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Police
6 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.41%) Legal
7 2 (5.41%) Local Government
8 1 (2.70%) Back Office
8 1 (2.70%) Billing
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) IT Support
3 3 (8.11%) Data Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Information Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Business Information Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) IT Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.41%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) JPA
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) SPFx
2 1 (2.70%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (13.51%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) iPad
4 2 (5.41%) iPhone
4 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
3 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (13.51%) Analytics
2 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (13.51%) Information Management
2 5 (13.51%) Information Security
2 5 (13.51%) Migration
3 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (10.81%) Data Governance
3 4 (10.81%) Information Governance
3 4 (10.81%) Project Management
3 4 (10.81%) Risk Management
3 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.11%) Agile
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
4 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
4 3 (8.11%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
4 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Bicep
2 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.70%) CCSP
2 1 (2.70%) CISA
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.70%) CISM
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.70%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) CASB
2 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Apple
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Civica
3 1 (2.70%) DocuSign
3 1 (2.70%) F5
3 1 (2.70%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.70%) OneTrust
3 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.70%) Progress
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow