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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 62 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 14 45 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.14% 2.51% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.98% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 21
10th Percentile £335 £266 £223
25th Percentile £388 £358 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -13.68% -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £453 £588
90th Percentile £645 £573 £825
England median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - - £19.42
25th Percentile £30.61 £15.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.74 £21.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.26% +2.38% -68.82%
75th Percentile £34.86 £21.75 £64.50
90th Percentile - £24.63 £65.40
England median hourly rate £27.64 £21.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +31.62% -42.10% +55.20%

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 1,080 1,512 1,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.02% 84.19% 87.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 600 1,011
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £375 £312 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 563 362
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.67 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +89.48% +6.56%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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
Hertfordshire +3 6 £400 -11.11% 7
Cambridgeshire -1 3 £450 +9.76% 8
Essex +8 2 £300 -45.45% 9
Bedfordshire -7 2 £525 - 3
Suffolk - 1 £751 - 3
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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
1 2 (14.29%) X.509
2 1 (7.14%) 4G
2 1 (7.14%) 5G
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Applications Packager
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Electrical Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Project Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Risk Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (14.29%) Key Management
3 2 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (14.29%) RBAC
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.14%) Cost Management
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (7.14%) LLM
4 1 (7.14%) Observability
4 1 (7.14%) Product Requirements
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Register
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bicep
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) CEH
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CRISC
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) SOC 2
3 2 (14.29%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (14.29%) NIST 800
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.14%) GRC
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) EMC
2 1 (7.14%) Ericsson
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Nokia
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) VMware