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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 98 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 +59 -81
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 31 29 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 1.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.46% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 16
10th Percentile £213 £491 £420
25th Percentile £437 £513 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £725 £730 £683
90th Percentile £752 £898 £825
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
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 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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 3 May 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 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Trello
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) IaaS
4 2 (6.45%) PaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Google Sheets
5 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DHCP
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) Intranet
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
2 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Law
3 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Police
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Billing
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.23%) Local Government
7 1 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Analyst
1 4 (12.90%) Architect
1 4 (12.90%) IT Support
2 3 (9.68%) Data Manager
2 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
2 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Business Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Change Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Information Manager
3 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Support Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.45%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) JPA
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) SPFx
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) iPad
3 2 (6.45%) iPhone
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Reinsurance
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 5 (16.13%) Linux
3 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (16.13%) Analytics
2 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (16.13%) Information Management
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
3 4 (12.90%) Information Governance
3 4 (12.90%) Information Security
3 4 (12.90%) Migration
3 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
3 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.68%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
4 3 (9.68%) Project Management
4 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (9.68%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Bicep
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.23%) CCSP
2 1 (3.23%) CISA
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.23%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) CASB
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Apple
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.45%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Civica
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) OneTrust
3 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.23%) Progress
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow