Data Protection Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Protection
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 63
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 5 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.57% 1.67% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.85% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile - £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £453 £563
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% -19.56% +40.63%
75th Percentile - £581 £738
90th Percentile - £598 £768
East of England median daily rate £525 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +28.05% -13.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.24
25th Percentile - - £20.05
Median hourly rate - - £42.00
75th Percentile - - £64.88
90th Percentile - - £65.55
East of England median hourly rate - £18.00 £44.53
% change year-on-year - -59.58% -33.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 755 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.71% 89.99% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 278 366
10th Percentile £384 £239 £239
25th Percentile £446 £318 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £704 £763
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 315 156
10th Percentile £21.44 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £46.91 £40.00 £53.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Hertfordshire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Hertfordshire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Hertfordshire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Stevenage +30 3 £350 - 6
Hemel Hempstead +10 1 - - 10
Watford +4 1 - - 3
Data Protection
East of England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Electrical Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Coaching
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Security
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow