Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Data Protection
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 11.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.42 £40.46 -
% change year-on-year -44.59% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 46 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 88.46% 92.00% 82.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 37 40
10th Percentile £500 £468 £548
25th Percentile £588 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £619
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.09% +20.68%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £695
90th Percentile - £720 £850
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 0
10th Percentile £42.50 £20.99 -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +151.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.59 - -
90th Percentile £72.54 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +18.70% -4.88% -12.07%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Data Protection

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administration Assistant
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) NHS
3 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
1 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Entry
1 3 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Records Management
1 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam