Data Protection Contracts in Glasgow

Data Protection
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 53 58
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 53 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.93% 2.82% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 3.05% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 21
10th Percentile £305 £177 £425
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +17.89%
75th Percentile £544 £623 £631
90th Percentile £550 - £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £455 £488
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.77% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
Scotland median hourly rate - - £56.53
% change year-on-year - - +182.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 786 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.46% 92.47% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 501 601
10th Percentile £306 £275 £350
25th Percentile £399 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £601 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 38 31
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.11 -
25th Percentile £16.79 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £27.88 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +95.63% -61.93%
75th Percentile £45.08 £50.55 £29.38
90th Percentile £75.24 £66.25 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £19.34 £16.25
% change year-on-year +8.30% +18.98% -56.59%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Glasgow

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Glasgow

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Glasgow

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Glasgow

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (3.77%) Jupyter
1 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.77%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) Azure
1 13 (24.53%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (20.75%) OpenShift
3 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
4 9 (16.98%) AWS
5 7 (13.21%) Cohesity
6 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.77%) GCP
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) NAS
1 10 (18.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.77%) MySQL
2 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) DB2
3 1 (1.89%) KDB
3 1 (1.89%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Git
2 12 (22.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.32%) Maven
4 3 (5.66%) JIRA
4 3 (5.66%) JUnit
4 3 (5.66%) Xcode
5 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 2 (3.77%) Gradle
5 2 (3.77%) Mercurial
5 2 (3.77%) Mockito
5 2 (3.77%) Subversion
6 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 27 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (41.51%) Finance
3 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Developer
2 7 (13.21%) Python Developer
3 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
3 5 (9.43%) NetBackup Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Build and Release Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Build Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Linux Build Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Linux Scripter
4 4 (7.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (7.55%) Release Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) Spring
2 4 (7.55%) RESTful
3 3 (5.66%) JPA
3 3 (5.66%) Kafka
3 3 (5.66%) React
3 3 (5.66%) SwiftUI
3 3 (5.66%) UIKit
4 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.77%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.77%) JDBC
4 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.77%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) SPFx
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.77%) Spring MVC
4 2 (3.77%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) DOM
5 1 (1.89%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.89%) JMS
5 1 (1.89%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 24 (45.28%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) iPad
3 3 (5.66%) iPhone
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Equities
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) Unix
2 14 (26.42%) Windows
3 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.66%) Android
4 3 (5.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.19%) Agile
4 13 (24.53%) Decision-Making
5 11 (20.75%) SDLC
6 10 (18.87%) Data Deduplication
7 9 (16.98%) Observability
8 8 (15.09%) DevOps
8 8 (15.09%) Scrum
9 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.32%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (11.32%) Security Hardening
10 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
11 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis
11 5 (9.43%) Investment Management
11 5 (9.43%) MVC
11 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
11 5 (9.43%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 11 (20.75%) Java
3 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.43%) Perl
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.55%) SQL
6 3 (5.66%) Objective-C
6 3 (5.66%) Swift
7 2 (3.77%) Groovy
7 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.77%) R
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) C++
8 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (26.42%) NetBackup
3 10 (18.87%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Veritas
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) Netskope
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.89%) Spotify
5 1 (1.89%) Sybase
5 1 (1.89%) Symantec