Data Protection Contracts in England

Data Protection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Protection over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 102 97
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +223
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 926 1,232 1,920
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.51% 2.44% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.70% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 820 1,398
10th Percentile £225 £288 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +19.44%
75th Percentile £600 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 13 28
10th Percentile £12.40 £19.21 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.06 £22.13 £17.30
Median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +147.06% -1.16%
75th Percentile £27.67 £66.00 £59.59
90th Percentile £41.40 - £71.78
UK median hourly rate £20.25 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -61.43% +162.50% -6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in England

Data Protection
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +30 451 £538 -6.52% 116
North of England -4 161 £525 +16.67% 53
South East +13 130 £425 -17.07% 66
North West -12 113 £525 +23.53% 34
South West +52 74 £525 -11.95% 31
Midlands -25 55 £425 -5.56% 35
East of England +35 49 £430 -16.10% 22
West Midlands -4 48 £425 -10.53% 23
Yorkshire +9 43 £525 +5.00% 16
North East +20 9 - - 4
East Midlands 0 7 £538 +65.38% 12
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.08%) Confluence
4 5 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.43%) govService
5 4 (0.43%) SAS
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.11%) Mule
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.22%) Mingle
6 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) Endur
3 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (0.22%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 109 (11.77%) Azure
2 78 (8.42%) AWS
3 45 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.67%) Power Platform
5 23 (2.48%) GCP
6 20 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.16%) Taleo
7 19 (2.05%) SaaS
8 16 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (1.62%) Amazon S3
9 15 (1.62%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.30%) Azure Stack
11 11 (1.19%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.08%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.08%) WhatsApp
13 9 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.13%) WAN
2 24 (2.59%) DNS
2 24 (2.59%) LAN
2 24 (2.59%) SAN
3 23 (2.48%) Firewall
4 22 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (1.84%) DHCP
6 14 (1.51%) MPLS
6 14 (1.51%) Network Security
7 13 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.40%) VPN
8 12 (1.30%) VLAN
8 12 (1.30%) VoIP
9 11 (1.19%) PBX
9 11 (1.19%) Wireless
10 9 (0.97%) HTTP
11 7 (0.76%) 5G
12 6 (0.65%) Internet
12 6 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.92%) Power BI
4 18 (1.94%) Big Data
4 18 (1.94%) Metadata
5 16 (1.73%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.97%) Tableau
9 7 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.76%) MySQL
9 7 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.43%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (3.67%) Git
2 32 (3.46%) JIRA
3 16 (1.73%) ERwin
3 16 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.54%) XCTest
7 4 (0.43%) Postman
7 4 (0.43%) Selenium
8 3 (0.32%) GitLab
8 3 (0.32%) JUnit
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.32%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 215 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 119 (12.85%) Finance
3 116 (12.53%) Legal
4 96 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 51 (5.51%) Banking
7 48 (5.18%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.89%) Marketing
9 34 (3.67%) Manufacturing
10 32 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.92%) Police
12 23 (2.48%) Law
13 21 (2.27%) Aerospace
14 20 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.94%) Local Government
16 17 (1.84%) Retail
17 16 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.19%) Electronics
19 8 (0.86%) Billing
20 7 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (13.50%) Architect
2 103 (11.12%) Analyst
3 78 (8.42%) Developer
4 69 (7.45%) Lead
5 60 (6.48%) Project Manager
6 55 (5.94%) Consultant
7 45 (4.86%) Senior
8 36 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 29 (3.13%) Administrator
9 29 (3.13%) Business Analyst
9 29 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 27 (2.92%) Network Engineer
11 21 (2.27%) Support Engineer
12 20 (2.16%) IT Support
13 17 (1.84%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (1.73%) Data Consultant
14 16 (1.73%) IT Analyst
15 15 (1.62%) Data Engineer
15 15 (1.62%) Data Manager
15 15 (1.62%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.70%) XML
2 24 (2.59%) JSON
3 22 (2.38%) REST
4 15 (1.62%) Kafka
5 13 (1.40%) CSS
6 12 (1.30%) HTML
7 10 (1.08%) .NET
7 10 (1.08%) Node.js
8 8 (0.86%) Spring
9 7 (0.76%) RESTful
9 7 (0.76%) SwiftUI
9 7 (0.76%) YAML
10 6 (0.65%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.65%) React
11 5 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.54%) SOAP
12 4 (0.43%) ADO
12 4 (0.43%) Middleware
12 4 (0.43%) PySpark
12 4 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 469 (50.65%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (5.18%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.56%) Freedom of Information
4 29 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.13%) Replication
5 28 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.94%) Freedom of Information Act
7 13 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.30%) Clustering
8 12 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.19%) Wiki
10 10 (1.08%) Blog
10 10 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 9 (0.97%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.86%) Derivative
12 8 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.40%) Windows
2 74 (7.99%) Linux
3 20 (2.16%) Unix
4 19 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.76%) Solaris
8 5 (0.54%) AIX
9 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.32%) Android
10 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
10 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (12.85%) Agile
2 96 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
4 76 (8.21%) Project Management
5 75 (8.10%) Information Security
6 74 (7.99%) Analytics
7 70 (7.56%) Decision-Making
8 68 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 63 (6.80%) Value Proposition
10 62 (6.70%) Migration
11 59 (6.37%) Change Management
11 59 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (6.37%) Data Governance
11 59 (6.37%) Data Modelling
12 54 (5.83%) DevOps
13 46 (4.97%) Roadmaps
14 45 (4.86%) Data Management
15 44 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (4.75%) CI/CD
15 44 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 85 (9.18%) Python
1 85 (9.18%) SQL
2 48 (5.18%) Java
3 41 (4.43%) PowerShell
4 27 (2.92%) C#
5 22 (2.38%) Bash
6 18 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.62%) C++
8 10 (1.08%) Perl
8 10 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.08%) Scala
8 10 (1.08%) Swift
9 8 (0.86%) PHP
9 8 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.43%) X++
13 3 (0.32%) C
13 3 (0.32%) F#
14 2 (0.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 102 (11.02%) Degree
3 73 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.13%) CISSP
6 26 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.70%) CISM
8 18 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.30%) IIBA
10 11 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.65%) ISEB
13 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.65%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.54%) CISA
15 4 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.43%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (14.36%) GDPR
2 56 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (4.86%) QA
5 39 (4.21%) NIST
6 15 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.30%) Good Clinical Practice
7 12 (1.30%) GxP
8 11 (1.19%) NCSC
9 10 (1.08%) GRC
10 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.97%) SLA
11 7 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.54%) PMO
13 4 (0.43%) COBIT
13 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.32%) IASME
System Software
1 62 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.38%) Docker
4 10 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.86%) vSphere
7 6 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.32%) SRDF
10 2 (0.22%) NFS
11 1 (0.11%) Snort
11 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 35 (3.78%) Terraform
2 34 (3.67%) Ansible
3 26 (2.81%) NetBackup
4 23 (2.48%) SCCM
5 19 (2.05%) Kubernetes
6 14 (1.51%) vCenter Server
7 12 (1.30%) Puppet
8 10 (1.08%) Nagios
9 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) Grafana
11 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.32%) EMC TimeFinder
13 2 (0.22%) Ambari
13 2 (0.22%) Graylog
13 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.22%) Nessus
13 2 (0.22%) Oozie
Vendors
1 133 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.70%) VMware
3 49 (5.29%) Cisco
4 47 (5.08%) SAP
5 33 (3.56%) Oracle
6 31 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.84%) Google
8 15 (1.62%) Veritas
9 14 (1.51%) Sparx
10 13 (1.40%) Dell
11 10 (1.08%) OneTrust
11 10 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.97%) Apple
12 9 (0.97%) IBM
12 9 (0.97%) NetApp
12 9 (0.97%) Splunk
13 8 (0.86%) EMC
13 8 (0.86%) Hitachi
13 8 (0.86%) Juniper
13 8 (0.86%) Palo Alto