Data Protection Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Protection
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 12 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.26% 0.91% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.16% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 19
10th Percentile £244 £266 £286
25th Percentile £363 £366 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £538 £325
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +65.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £471 £572 £506
90th Percentile £513 £589 £570
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.76 - -
England median hourly rate £29.23 £21.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +39.19% -60.00% +147.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 456 604 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.04% 78.14% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 406 693
10th Percentile £200 £194 £213
25th Percentile £322 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £417 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -7.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £573
90th Percentile £588 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.20 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.18 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £31.41 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the East Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the East Midlands

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the East Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the East Midlands

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +13 6 £425 - 4
Leicestershire +8 2 £374 - 5
Northamptonshire - 2 £454 - 2
Lincolnshire +3 1 - - 1
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) NetBeans
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Data Governance Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Data Governance Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Specialist
1 2 (16.67%) Governance Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Junior
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing Automation Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Project Officer
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) POSIX
1 1 (8.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) AIX
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) DAMA
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Culture Change
3 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO 14001
3 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) MISRA
3 1 (8.33%) MISRA C
3 1 (8.33%) NEBOSH
3 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Marketo
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Perforce
1 1 (8.33%) QNX
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) Workday