Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Data Protection
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 66.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -7.10% +1.67% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dumfries and Galloway

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 Dumfries and Galloway.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway 66.67% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - -
75th Percentile £475 £469 -
90th Percentile £490 - -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -0.54% - -2.63%

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware