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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 96 101
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +203
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 906 1,234 1,893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.48% 2.51% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.79% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 809 1,354
10th Percentile £243 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 16 25
10th Percentile £12.43 £15.33 £12.71
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.05 £20.00
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 £57.38
90th Percentile £43.58 £66.00 £76.19
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 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £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 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +26 449 £550 -4.35% 159
North of England -12 154 £525 +20.00% 80
South East +14 132 £450 -10.00% 115
North West -15 107 £550 +29.41% 45
South West +34 69 £525 -14.63% 29
Midlands -25 53 £425 -8.11% 96
West Midlands -18 46 £425 -10.53% 35
East of England +18 44 £410 -13.68% 47
Yorkshire +10 42 £525 +5.00% 29
North East +15 9 - - 9
East Midlands -1 7 £538 +43.33% 61
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 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.21%) Confluence
4 5 (0.55%) Apache
4 5 (0.55%) SAS
5 4 (0.44%) govService
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.11%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) Mingle
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.43%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 4 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
1 102 (11.26%) Azure
2 78 (8.61%) AWS
3 39 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 21 (2.32%) SaaS
6 20 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.21%) GCP
6 20 (2.21%) Taleo
7 16 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.66%) Amazon S3
8 15 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.32%) Azure Stack
9 12 (1.32%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.10%) PaaS
11 10 (1.10%) WhatsApp
12 9 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.09%) WAN
2 24 (2.65%) DNS
2 24 (2.65%) LAN
2 24 (2.65%) SAN
3 23 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (2.32%) Firewall
5 17 (1.88%) DHCP
6 16 (1.77%) Network Security
7 14 (1.55%) MPLS
7 14 (1.55%) VPN
8 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 12 (1.32%) VoIP
10 11 (1.21%) PBX
10 11 (1.21%) VLAN
11 9 (0.99%) HTTP
12 8 (0.88%) 5G
12 8 (0.88%) Wireless
13 7 (0.77%) Intranet
14 6 (0.66%) Internet
14 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.20%) Power BI
4 19 (2.10%) Metadata
5 18 (1.99%) Big Data
6 14 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 11 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.10%) Tableau
10 8 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.66%) MySQL
13 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.55%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.44%) KDB
Development Applications
1 34 (3.75%) Git
2 31 (3.42%) JIRA
3 17 (1.88%) ERwin
4 15 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 6 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.55%) XCTest
8 4 (0.44%) 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
1 207 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 117 (12.91%) Finance
3 116 (12.80%) Legal
4 102 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.41%) Banking
7 48 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 38 (4.19%) Marketing
9 35 (3.86%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.98%) Police
11 24 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.54%) Law
13 22 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (2.32%) Aerospace
15 19 (2.10%) Local Government
15 19 (2.10%) Retail
16 15 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.32%) Electronics
18 9 (0.99%) Games
19 7 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (14.24%) Architect
2 101 (11.15%) Analyst
3 78 (8.61%) Developer
4 69 (7.62%) Lead
5 56 (6.18%) Consultant
6 54 (5.96%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.53%) Senior
8 38 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.64%) Business Analyst
10 30 (3.31%) Administrator
10 30 (3.31%) Data Architect
11 26 (2.87%) Network Engineer
12 20 (2.21%) Support Engineer
13 18 (1.99%) Data Consultant
13 18 (1.99%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (1.77%) IT Analyst
14 16 (1.77%) IT Support
14 16 (1.77%) Security Architect
14 16 (1.77%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.66%) Data Protection Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.65%) JSON
1 24 (2.65%) XML
2 22 (2.43%) REST
3 13 (1.43%) Kafka
4 10 (1.10%) .NET
5 9 (0.99%) CSS
6 8 (0.88%) HTML
6 8 (0.88%) Node.js
6 8 (0.88%) React
6 8 (0.88%) Spring
7 7 (0.77%) SwiftUI
7 7 (0.77%) YAML
8 6 (0.66%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.66%) RESTful
9 5 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.55%) Web Services
10 4 (0.44%) ADO
10 4 (0.44%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.44%) PySpark
10 4 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 453 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 49 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.42%) Freedom of Information
4 29 (3.20%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.20%) Replication
5 26 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.99%) Freedom of Information Act
8 15 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.32%) Clustering
10 12 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.32%) Wiki
11 11 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.10%) Blog
13 9 (0.99%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.88%) Derivative
14 8 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.16%) Windows
2 69 (7.62%) Linux
3 21 (2.32%) Unix
4 19 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.77%) Solaris
8 5 (0.55%) AIX
9 3 (0.33%) Android
9 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.33%) VMS
9 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
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
1 126 (13.91%) Agile
2 94 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
4 77 (8.50%) Project Management
5 76 (8.39%) Information Security
6 74 (8.17%) Decision-Making
7 73 (8.06%) Analytics
8 71 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (6.84%) Migration
9 62 (6.84%) Value Proposition
10 60 (6.62%) Data Modelling
11 58 (6.40%) Data Governance
12 56 (6.18%) Change Management
13 53 (5.85%) DevOps
14 48 (5.30%) Roadmaps
15 45 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
15 45 (4.97%) CI/CD
15 45 (4.97%) Risk Management
16 44 (4.86%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 86 (9.49%) Python
2 77 (8.50%) SQL
3 49 (5.41%) Java
4 39 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 27 (2.98%) C#
6 23 (2.54%) Bash
7 19 (2.10%) C++
8 12 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.21%) Perl
10 10 (1.10%) Swift
11 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.99%) Scala
12 8 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.77%) PHP
13 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.44%) C
15 4 (0.44%) X++
16 3 (0.33%) F#
16 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 103 (11.37%) Degree
3 70 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.20%) CISSP
6 26 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.76%) CISM
8 17 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.32%) IIBA
10 11 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.66%) ISEB
13 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.66%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.55%) CISA
15 4 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.44%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (15.45%) GDPR
2 56 (6.18%) Data Quality
3 55 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (4.97%) QA
5 39 (4.30%) NIST
6 15 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.43%) GxP
8 12 (1.32%) Good Clinical Practice
9 11 (1.21%) GRC
9 11 (1.21%) NCSC
10 9 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.99%) SLA
11 7 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.55%) PMO
14 4 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.44%) COBIT
14 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.65%) Docker
4 10 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.88%) vSphere
7 7 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.44%) 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%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 34 (3.75%) Ansible
1 34 (3.75%) Terraform
2 26 (2.87%) NetBackup
3 21 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.32%) SCCM
4 14 (1.55%) vCenter Server
5 12 (1.32%) Puppet
6 10 (1.10%) Nagios
7 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.44%) Grafana
9 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.33%) EMC TimeFinder
11 2 (0.22%) Ambari
11 2 (0.22%) Graylog
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.22%) Nessus
11 2 (0.22%) Oozie
Vendors
1 117 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.18%) VMware
3 49 (5.41%) Cisco
4 48 (5.30%) SAP
5 35 (3.86%) Oracle
6 31 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.66%) Google
7 15 (1.66%) Sparx
7 15 (1.66%) Veritas
8 13 (1.43%) Dell
9 11 (1.21%) OneTrust
10 10 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.10%) Splunk
11 9 (0.99%) IBM
11 9 (0.99%) NetApp
12 8 (0.88%) Apple
12 8 (0.88%) EMC
12 8 (0.88%) Hitachi
12 8 (0.88%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.77%) Aruba