Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 68 63 108
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 11.00% 8.84% 10.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.62% 10.24% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 38
10th Percentile £150 £156 £214
25th Percentile £224 £282 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £379 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -15.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £456 £476 £538
90th Percentile £553 £541 £577
Scotland median daily rate £413 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -10.81% - -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.00 £27.35 £19.50
% change year-on-year -41.50% +40.26% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 615 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.66% 86.26% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 314 566
10th Percentile £263 £230 £200
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £546 £533 £539
90th Percentile £608 £609 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 9
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -32.60% +85.19%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.23 £19.75
% change year-on-year -13.91% +17.63% +5.33%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Protection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) AWS
2 12 (17.65%) Azure
3 7 (10.29%) GCP
4 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.94%) Lucidchart
4 2 (2.94%) OCI
4 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
1 1 (1.47%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) Data Mining
2 2 (2.94%) MySQL
2 2 (2.94%) Tableau
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) git-flow
4 1 (1.47%) Capybara
4 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.47%) Postman
4 1 (1.47%) Selenium
4 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.35%) Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Local Government
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Analyst
2 13 (19.12%) Business Analyst
3 7 (10.29%) Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Information Officer
5 5 (7.35%) Information Governance Officer
5 5 (7.35%) Lead
6 4 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Data Protection Officer
6 4 (5.88%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.88%) Senior
6 4 (5.88%) Support Officer
7 3 (4.41%) Product Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Product Business Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Junior
9 1 (1.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) RESTful
1 3 (4.41%) Spring
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) React
2 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.47%) CSS
3 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) Next.js
3 1 (1.47%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.47%) Playwright
3 1 (1.47%) pytest
3 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.47%) WireMock
3 1 (1.47%) XML
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (76.47%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (10.29%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) NHS
6 2 (2.94%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Tandem
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Unix
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) Agile
2 12 (17.65%) Migration
3 11 (16.18%) DevOps
3 11 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (14.71%) Information Governance
5 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis
5 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.76%) Business Analysis
6 8 (11.76%) Impact Assessments
6 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.82%) Microservices
8 6 (8.82%) Project Management
8 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.35%) Data Sharing
9 5 (7.35%) Validation
10 4 (5.88%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.88%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) SQL
2 10 (14.71%) Java
2 10 (14.71%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) Perl
4 2 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) BeanShell
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Ruby
5 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) HND
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AAT
4 1 (1.47%) ACCA
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) CCDP
4 1 (1.47%) CCIE
4 1 (1.47%) CCNP
4 1 (1.47%) CIMA
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.47%) ISEB
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) PhD
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) GDPR
2 7 (10.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (8.82%) QA
4 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.47%) PMO
6 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) ISA Server
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Oracle
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) Apple
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) Delphix
4 1 (1.47%) dotdigital
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.47%) Sage
4 1 (1.47%) Xero