Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in England

Data Protection Act (DPA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 169 164
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 547 413 571
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.54% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.92% 4.71% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 186 314
10th Percentile £225 £273 £213
25th Percentile £363 £386 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £600
90th Percentile £660 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £26.60 £20.00 £19.39
25th Percentile £27.13 £21.63 £24.67
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -38.75% +125.35%
75th Percentile £36.78 £24.75 £44.02
90th Percentile £41.60 £28.26 £44.54
UK median hourly rate £27.75 £24.50 £32.56
% change year-on-year +13.27% -24.75% +80.88%

All Generic Skills
England

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,119 8,765 11,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.62% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,266 7,694
10th Percentile £281 £275 £259
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.27% -2.12% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 253 571
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.13 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% +8.77% +46.38%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.02 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.01 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +46.38%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in England

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in England

Data Protection Act
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection Act within the England region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
London +36 298 £505 +1.00% 16
North of England -32 116 £450 -10.00% 13
Yorkshire -27 57 £450 -16.28% 7
South East -17 54 £325 -30.67% 19
North West -23 45 £450 -10.00% 4
Midlands -32 32 £450 -12.20% 9
West Midlands -23 30 £450 -12.20% 2
South West +4 20 £525 +7.69% 13
East of England -5 17 £475 +1.33% 6
North East -20 14 £250 -44.44% 2
East Midlands -22 2 - - 7
Data Protection Act
UK

Data Protection Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 26 (4.75%) Confluence
2 8 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.28%) CMS
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.10%) Apache
5 5 (0.91%) CICS
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.73%) nginx
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Drupal
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Luigi
9 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.55%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.55%) Sketch
6 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.37%) InVision
7 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) Blender
8 1 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.73%) VisionPLUS
4 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 69 (12.61%) AWS
2 51 (9.32%) Azure
3 25 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 23 (4.20%) GCP
5 21 (3.84%) Snowflake
6 20 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (3.66%) GitHub
6 20 (3.66%) Serverless
7 17 (3.11%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.56%) SaaS
10 12 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.10%) Figma
13 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.11%) Firewall
2 14 (2.56%) MPLS
3 9 (1.65%) LAN
4 8 (1.46%) Network Security
5 7 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.10%) BGP
6 6 (1.10%) VPN
6 6 (1.10%) WAN
7 5 (0.91%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.91%) SSH
7 5 (0.91%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.73%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.73%) Wireless
9 3 (0.55%) HTTP
9 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.55%) VLAN
10 2 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.39%) Power BI
2 18 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.46%) Tableau
7 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.28%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (0.91%) Metadata
9 4 (0.73%) Big Data
9 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.55%) MySQL
10 3 (0.55%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.04%) JIRA
2 12 (2.19%) Git
2 12 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.46%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.73%) ChangeMan
6 4 (0.73%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.73%) Gradle
6 4 (0.73%) JUnit
6 4 (0.73%) Maven
7 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.37%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.37%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) Postman
9 1 (0.18%) PyCharm
General
1 150 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.21%) Finance
3 70 (12.80%) Banking
4 59 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.29%) Legal
8 17 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.93%) Front Office
10 11 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.65%) Marketing
13 8 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.28%) Publishing
15 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.91%) Back Office
16 5 (0.91%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.73%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 77 (14.08%) Developer
2 71 (12.98%) Analyst
3 38 (6.95%) Architect
4 35 (6.40%) Business Analyst
4 35 (6.40%) Project Manager
5 30 (5.48%) Lead
6 27 (4.94%) Senior
7 24 (4.39%) Consultant
8 17 (3.11%) Network Engineer
9 16 (2.93%) Software Engineer
9 16 (2.93%) Support Engineer
10 14 (2.56%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.38%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (2.01%) Data Engineer
12 11 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.01%) Tester
13 10 (1.83%) Python Developer
14 8 (1.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 8 (1.46%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.94%) React
2 20 (3.66%) REST
3 16 (2.93%) OAuth
3 16 (2.93%) RESTful
4 12 (2.19%) HTML
5 11 (2.01%) .NET
5 11 (2.01%) Spring
6 10 (1.83%) LangChain
6 10 (1.83%) Playwright
6 10 (1.83%) SAML
7 9 (1.65%) XML
8 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.46%) Kafka
8 8 (1.46%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.28%) JSON
9 7 (1.28%) PySpark
10 6 (1.10%) CrewAI
10 6 (1.10%) LDAP
10 6 (1.10%) Middleware
10 6 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.02%) Onboarding
2 15 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.19%) Derivative
5 11 (2.01%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
6 9 (1.65%) Equities
7 8 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.10%) Freedom of Information Act
9 6 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.91%) Replication
11 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.40%) Linux
2 27 (4.94%) Windows
3 9 (1.65%) Unix
3 9 (1.65%) zOS
4 6 (1.10%) Android
4 6 (1.10%) Solaris
5 5 (0.91%) AIX
6 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.55%) VMS
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 99 (18.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (16.27%) Agile
4 88 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (11.33%) Migration
6 61 (11.15%) AI
7 51 (9.32%) Project Management
8 50 (9.14%) CI/CD
8 50 (9.14%) DevOps
9 43 (7.86%) Analytics
10 41 (7.50%) Software Engineering
11 39 (7.13%) Roadmaps
12 33 (6.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (5.85%) Decision-Making
14 30 (5.48%) LLM
14 30 (5.48%) Machine Learning
15 28 (5.12%) Business Analysis
16 27 (4.94%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (4.94%) Computer Science
16 27 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 113 (20.66%) Python
2 83 (15.17%) SQL
3 44 (8.04%) Java
4 37 (6.76%) C#
5 31 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.29%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.29%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.11%) C++
8 10 (1.83%) Bash
9 8 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.91%) COBOL
10 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.91%) Scala
11 4 (0.73%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) Go
12 3 (0.55%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.18%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 55 (10.05%) Degree
2 37 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.65%) MCP
7 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.10%) PMP
9 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.73%) CISSP
10 3 (0.55%) CCNP
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) CCIE
11 2 (0.37%) ISEB
11 2 (0.37%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.37%) MBA
11 2 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.94%) GDPR
2 22 (4.02%) QA
3 15 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.83%) PMO
6 9 (1.65%) NIST
7 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.73%) SLA
10 3 (0.55%) IFRS
10 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.37%) Basel III
11 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.37%) GAAP
11 2 (0.37%) GRC
11 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (3.84%) Docker
2 16 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) KVM
5 2 (0.37%) NFS
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.84%) Terraform
3 13 (2.38%) Ansible
4 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.73%) CA Endevor
5 4 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.55%) Control-M
6 3 (0.55%) PingFederate
6 3 (0.55%) Puppet
6 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.37%) Grafana
7 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.37%) SCCM
7 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.18%) SCOM
8 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 42 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.39%) Cisco
3 18 (3.29%) Oracle
4 16 (2.93%) Databricks
4 16 (2.93%) Google
5 12 (2.19%) SAP
5 12 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.83%) F5
8 9 (1.65%) Adobe
9 8 (1.46%) Nokia
9 8 (1.46%) VMware
10 7 (1.28%) Workday
11 6 (1.10%) ADVA
11 6 (1.10%) Citrix
11 6 (1.10%) Informatica
11 6 (1.10%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.10%) Juniper
12 5 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (0.91%) Foundry
70 Data Protection Act jobs in England