Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Data Protection
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.93% 2.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 4.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £751 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.42% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £751 -
% change year-on-year -33.42% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 22 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 78.50% 61.11% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 13 20
10th Percentile £425 £156 £105
25th Percentile £503 £200 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.11% -33.93%
75th Percentile £691 £519 £500
90th Percentile £750 £600 £578
Suffolk median daily rate £525 £300 £463
% change year-on-year +75.00% -35.14% -28.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £16.41 - £19.38
25th Percentile £19.00 - £22.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +139.32% +60.01%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £35.94
90th Percentile - - £39.73
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year -70.00% +139.32% +88.71%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2