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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 97 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +199
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 920 1,242 1,908
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.49% 2.49% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.76% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 817 1,367
10th Percentile £229 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 16 27
10th Percentile £12.43 £15.33 £12.87
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.05 £18.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £48.52 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.71% +115.62% -2.17%
75th Percentile £28.07 £64.88 £61.81
90th Percentile £43.58 £66.00 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +162.50% -13.04%

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 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
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% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +22 447 £550 -4.35% 173
North of England -8 157 £525 +18.31% 85
South East +20 136 £450 -10.00% 97
North West -11 110 £538 +26.47% 46
South West +46 74 £525 -14.63% 34
Midlands -26 54 £425 -8.11% 64
East of England +33 47 £410 -15.90% 47
West Midlands -16 47 £425 -10.53% 31
Yorkshire +3 42 £525 +5.00% 32
North East +17 9 - - 10
East Midlands -2 7 £538 +43.33% 33
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 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 28 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (0.54%) Apache
3 5 (0.54%) SAS
4 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.43%) govService
5 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.11%) CMS
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.11%) Mule
6 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 62 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.22%) Mingle
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.41%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) Endur
3 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.33%) 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
1 107 (11.63%) Azure
2 78 (8.48%) AWS
3 42 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.91%) Power Platform
5 21 (2.28%) GCP
5 21 (2.28%) SaaS
6 20 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.17%) Taleo
7 16 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 15 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.30%) Azure Stack
9 12 (1.30%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.09%) PaaS
12 9 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.04%) WAN
2 24 (2.61%) DNS
2 24 (2.61%) LAN
2 24 (2.61%) SAN
3 23 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.39%) Firewall
5 17 (1.85%) DHCP
6 16 (1.74%) Network Security
7 14 (1.52%) MPLS
7 14 (1.52%) VPN
8 13 (1.41%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.30%) VoIP
10 11 (1.20%) PBX
10 11 (1.20%) VLAN
11 9 (0.98%) HTTP
11 9 (0.98%) Wireless
12 8 (0.87%) 5G
13 7 (0.76%) Intranet
14 6 (0.65%) Internet
14 6 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
1 39 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.04%) Power BI
3 19 (2.07%) Metadata
4 18 (1.96%) Big Data
5 14 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.98%) Tableau
9 8 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.65%) MySQL
12 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.43%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (3.70%) Git
2 31 (3.37%) JIRA
3 17 (1.85%) ERwin
4 15 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.65%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.54%) XCTest
8 4 (0.43%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) GitLab
9 3 (0.33%) JUnit
9 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.22%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.22%) JMeter
10 2 (0.22%) Liquibase
General
1 214 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 116 (12.61%) Finance
3 115 (12.50%) Legal
4 101 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.33%) Banking
6 49 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 37 (4.02%) Marketing
8 35 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.93%) Police
11 23 (2.50%) Law
12 22 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (2.28%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.96%) Local Government
14 18 (1.96%) Retail
15 16 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.30%) Electronics
17 8 (0.87%) Games
18 7 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (14.02%) Architect
2 101 (10.98%) Analyst
3 75 (8.15%) Developer
4 69 (7.50%) Lead
5 59 (6.41%) Project Manager
6 54 (5.87%) Consultant
7 43 (4.67%) Senior
8 38 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.48%) Business Analyst
10 30 (3.26%) Administrator
10 30 (3.26%) Data Architect
11 26 (2.83%) Network Engineer
12 22 (2.39%) Support Engineer
13 18 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
13 18 (1.96%) IT Support
14 16 (1.74%) Data Consultant
14 16 (1.74%) Security Architect
14 16 (1.74%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.63%) Data Engineer
15 15 (1.63%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.72%) XML
2 24 (2.61%) JSON
3 22 (2.39%) REST
4 15 (1.63%) Kafka
5 11 (1.20%) .NET
6 10 (1.09%) CSS
7 9 (0.98%) HTML
8 8 (0.87%) Node.js
8 8 (0.87%) RESTful
8 8 (0.87%) Spring
9 7 (0.76%) React
9 7 (0.76%) SwiftUI
9 7 (0.76%) YAML
10 6 (0.65%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.54%) SOAP
11 5 (0.54%) Web Services
12 4 (0.43%) ADO
12 4 (0.43%) FastAPI
12 4 (0.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 470 (51.09%) Data Protection Act
2 48 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.37%) Freedom of Information
4 29 (3.15%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.15%) Replication
5 27 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.07%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.96%) Freedom of Information Act
8 14 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.30%) Clustering
9 12 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.30%) Wiki
10 11 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.09%) Blog
12 9 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 9 (0.98%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.87%) Derivative
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.24%) Windows
2 76 (8.26%) Linux
3 21 (2.28%) Unix
4 19 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.76%) Solaris
8 5 (0.54%) AIX
9 3 (0.33%) Android
9 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.33%) VMS
9 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (13.26%) Agile
2 95 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
4 82 (8.91%) Project Management
5 75 (8.15%) Information Security
6 73 (7.93%) Decision-Making
7 72 (7.83%) Analytics
8 67 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 65 (7.07%) Value Proposition
10 62 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (6.74%) Migration
11 60 (6.52%) Data Modelling
12 59 (6.41%) Data Governance
13 57 (6.20%) Change Management
14 53 (5.76%) DevOps
15 49 (5.33%) Roadmaps
16 45 (4.89%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (4.89%) CI/CD
17 44 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
17 44 (4.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (9.46%) Python
2 82 (8.91%) SQL
3 48 (5.22%) Java
4 41 (4.46%) PowerShell
5 28 (3.04%) C#
6 23 (2.50%) Bash
7 17 (1.85%) C++
8 13 (1.41%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.20%) Perl
10 10 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.09%) Scala
10 10 (1.09%) Swift
11 8 (0.87%) PHP
12 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.76%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.43%) C
14 4 (0.43%) X++
15 3 (0.33%) F#
15 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 131 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.98%) Degree
3 74 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.15%) CISSP
6 26 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.72%) CISM
8 17 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.30%) IIBA
10 11 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (0.98%) 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%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (14.89%) GDPR
2 55 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (4.89%) QA
5 39 (4.24%) NIST
6 15 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.41%) GxP
8 12 (1.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 11 (1.20%) NCSC
10 10 (1.09%) GRC
11 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.98%) SLA
12 7 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.54%) PMO
14 4 (0.43%) COBIT
14 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.33%) IASME
System Software
1 58 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 46 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.61%) Docker
4 10 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.87%) vSphere
7 7 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
11 2 (0.22%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Snort
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 35 (3.80%) Terraform
2 34 (3.70%) Ansible
3 26 (2.83%) NetBackup
4 21 (2.28%) Kubernetes
4 21 (2.28%) SCCM
5 14 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.30%) Puppet
7 10 (1.09%) Nagios
8 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.43%) Grafana
10 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.33%) EMC TimeFinder
12 2 (0.22%) Ambari
12 2 (0.22%) Graylog
12 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.22%) Nessus
12 2 (0.22%) Oozie
Vendors
1 128 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.85%) VMware
3 50 (5.43%) Cisco
4 48 (5.22%) SAP
5 35 (3.80%) Oracle
6 31 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.74%) Google
8 15 (1.63%) Sparx
8 15 (1.63%) Veritas
9 13 (1.41%) Dell
10 11 (1.20%) OneTrust
11 10 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.98%) IBM
12 9 (0.98%) NetApp
12 9 (0.98%) Splunk
13 8 (0.87%) Apple
13 8 (0.87%) EMC
13 8 (0.87%) Hitachi
13 8 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.76%) Juniper