Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Protection
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 13 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.97% 2.71% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.05% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £283 £203 £397
25th Percentile £316 £310 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £484 £600 £558
90th Percentile £494 £617 £628
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.23 -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +203.10% +16.67% -70.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 584 394 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.62% 89.14% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 228 237
10th Percentile £268 £312 £265
25th Percentile £358 £374 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £550
90th Percentile £686 £643 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +10.71% +61.12%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £70.55 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Cheshire

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Knutsford -20 7 £430 -28.33% 2
Chester -5 3 £450 -
Crewe - 1 £325 - 3
Data Protection
North West

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
1 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Alation
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) SSH
2 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Fiddler
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Malware Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Governance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (38.46%) Tandem
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 5 (38.46%) Cryptography
3 5 (38.46%) Information Security
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Key Management
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Attestation
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Release Management
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Gemalto
2 3 (23.08%) Thales
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Workday