Data Protection Contracts in the East of England

Data Protection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 61 62 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 16 49 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.69% 2.57% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.98% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 17
10th Percentile £340 £273 £212
25th Percentile £454 £405 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £638
90th Percentile £670 £586 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 4
10th Percentile - - £26.45
25th Percentile - £15.39 £38.07
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £53.77
Median % change year-on-year - -66.52% -20.18%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £64.88
90th Percentile - - £65.55
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 839 1,645 1,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.88% 86.13% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 709 1,065
10th Percentile £230 £206 £201
25th Percentile £406 £333 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 605 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the East of England

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Cambridgeshire +2 7 £600 +46.34% 12
Hertfordshire +18 5 £350 -22.65% 13
Bedfordshire -14 2 £525 - 4
Essex +15 1 £300 -45.45% 8
Suffolk - 1 £751 - 4
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) X.509
2 1 (6.25%) 4G
2 1 (6.25%) 5G
2 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MSI
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Head of IT
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Android Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Packager
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 2 (12.50%) AIX
2 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
2 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Coaching
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Security
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) Key Management
3 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) RBAC
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Application Packaging
4 1 (6.25%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (18.75%) SOC 2
3 2 (12.50%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (12.50%) GxP
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Ericsson
3 1 (6.25%) Nokia
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat