Data Protection Contracts in the City of London

Data Protection
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 97 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 -67
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 29 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.64% 1.23% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.35% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 24
10th Percentile £254 £421 £459
25th Percentile £494 £491 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -
75th Percentile £725 £638 £747
90th Percentile £753 £936 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -1.29% +1.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,653 1,927 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 91.07% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,337 2,114
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the City of London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the City of London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the City of London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the City of London

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Trello
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.45%) Google Sheets
6 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) BGP
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) MPLS
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Law
4 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (17.24%) Police
5 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
6 3 (10.34%) Legal
7 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 2 (6.90%) Marketing
8 1 (3.45%) Back Office
8 1 (3.45%) Billing
8 1 (3.45%) Local Government
8 1 (3.45%) Military
8 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Business Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Business Information Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Change Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Information Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.90%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.45%) CSS
2 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.45%) HTML
2 1 (3.45%) JPA
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) iPad
2 2 (6.90%) iPhone
2 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Reinsurance
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) CentOS
4 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
3 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
4 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
4 3 (10.34%) Data Security
4 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.34%) High Availability
4 3 (10.34%) Information Security
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Bicep
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.90%) PMP
3 1 (3.45%) CCIE
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.45%) JNCIE
3 1 (3.45%) JNCIP
3 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) CASB
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Apple
2 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Civica
3 1 (3.45%) F5
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.45%) Juniper
3 1 (3.45%) MobileIron
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) OneTrust
3 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) VMware