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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 109 151
Rank change year-on-year +11 +42 -71
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 28 28 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.47% 1.17% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.29% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 27
10th Percentile £232 £419 £394
25th Percentile £375 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £623 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +8.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £683
90th Percentile £756 £928 £845
London median daily rate £518 £538 £588
% change year-on-year -3.72% -8.51% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
London median hourly rate £30.81 £25.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.22% -60.00% +56.25%

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 1,782 2,175 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 90.93% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%

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 31 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 31 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 +8 25 £588 -6.00% 21
City of Westminster +3 1 - - 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 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Trello
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Google Sheets
5 1 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) SAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Law
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Police
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Back Office
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Local Government
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) IT Support
3 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Business Information Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Business Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Information Manager
4 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JPA
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) Spring
2 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) iPad
3 2 (7.14%) iPhone
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Reinsurance
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (17.86%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Agile
3 3 (10.71%) Analytics
3 3 (10.71%) Change Management
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
3 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
3 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Information Governance
3 3 (10.71%) Information Management
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (10.71%) Time Management
4 2 (7.14%) Business Case
4 2 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Bicep
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) CASB
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Apple
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Civica
3 1 (3.57%) DocuSign
3 1 (3.57%) F5
3 1 (3.57%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) OneTrust
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) Progress
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) VMware