Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Durham

Data Protection
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 10.00% 7.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% 8.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £363 - -
90th Percentile £378 - -
North East median daily rate £394 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -7.35% +6.25% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 49 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 73.33% 89.09% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 34
10th Percentile £159 £423 -
25th Percentile £204 £454 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.67% +17.06% -5.56%
75th Percentile £524 £589 £525
90th Percentile £560 £750 £588
North East median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £18.46 £17.30 -
25th Percentile £20.20 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.11 £26.50 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +71.41% -
75th Percentile £26.01 £28.14 -
90th Percentile £27.75 £29.12 -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +52.16% +8.57% -22.22%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Durham

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

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

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Robotics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mechatronics
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Data Protection jobs