Data Protection Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Data Protection/Privacy Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Data Protection/Privacy Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Protection Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 236 99 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.52% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 87 85
10th Percentile £313 £328 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £378 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% -30.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £535 £506 £582
90th Percentile £621 £604 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £30.90 £22.50
% change year-on-year -26.05% +37.33% +12.50%

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 25 February 2026, Data Protection Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Data Protection Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum

Data Protection Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis