Data Protection Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 38 73 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.08% 8.88% 10.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 10.20% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 69
10th Percentile £246 £204 £269
25th Percentile £309 £281 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £538
90th Percentile £533 £646 £603
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £56.53
% change year-on-year - - +182.63%

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 597 716 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.52% 87.10% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 422 817
10th Percentile £240 £219 £243
25th Percentile £406 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £573 £545
90th Percentile £625 £662 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -27.24%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £45.80 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +2.05% +20.00% -56.59%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Edinburgh

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) Camunda
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.89%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.63%) Asana
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.63%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 2 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.63%) DNS
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Banking
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (7.89%) Analyst
1 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
1 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) Administrator
2 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
2 2 (5.26%) Communications Officer
2 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) Data Manager
2 2 (5.26%) Developer
2 2 (5.26%) Information Governance Specialist
2 2 (5.26%) Information Specialist
2 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Data Administrator
3 1 (2.63%) DBA
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Security Manager
3 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (2.63%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Spring
2 2 (5.26%) LDAP
2 2 (5.26%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (81.58%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Blog
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.26%) Social Media
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) PropTech
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Agile
2 7 (18.42%) Migration
3 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
4 4 (10.53%) Project Management
4 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.26%) Coaching
6 2 (5.26%) Data Encryption
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Fintech
6 2 (5.26%) Microservices
6 2 (5.26%) Qualitative Analysis
6 2 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) R
5 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) CCNA
3 2 (5.26%) CCNP
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) CCDP
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) CRISC
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) VMware
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.26%) Informatica
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Pega
3 2 (5.26%) Teradata
3 2 (5.26%) Twitter
4 1 (2.63%) Blue Coat
4 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) Fiserv
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.63%) Symantec