Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Data Protection
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 9 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 4.76% - 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% - 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £352 - £363
25th Percentile £411 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £418
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.48%
75th Percentile £534 - £438
90th Percentile £536 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -2.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 171 98 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 90.48% 89.09% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 66 138
10th Percentile £263 £363 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile £553 £566 £575
90th Percentile £692 £626 £646
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 - £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £52.59
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.28%
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Coventry

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Coventry over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Coventry

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) AutoCAD
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) MPLS
3 3 (33.33%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
4 2 (22.22%) IPv4
4 2 (22.22%) IPv6
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) OSPF
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
4 2 (22.22%) VXLAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) WLAN
5 1 (11.11%) 5G
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
4 1 (11.11%) CAD Technician
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
1 4 (44.44%) Network Design
2 3 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Network Management
3 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (22.22%) CCIE
4 2 (22.22%) CCIE Security
4 2 (22.22%) CCNP
4 2 (22.22%) CCSP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (22.22%) CISSP
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
5 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 2 (22.22%) Meraki
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
4 1 (11.11%) SAP