Data Protection Contracts in Lancashire

Data Protection
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 6 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.43% 13.85% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 17.53% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 15
10th Percentile £400 - £140
25th Percentile £427 - £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £403
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +49.07% +54.81%
75th Percentile £741 - £503
90th Percentile £788 - £550
North West median daily rate £438 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 2
10th Percentile - £11.77 £21.34
25th Percentile - - £21.47
Median hourly rate - £16.06 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year - -28.22% +115.14%
75th Percentile - - £23.41
90th Percentile - - £23.61
North West median hourly rate £24.50 £16.06 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.55% -28.62% +116.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Lancashire

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Lancashire

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Lancashire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Lancashire

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Lancashire

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Preston -10 6 £558 - 11
Data Protection
North West

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
General
1 6 (100.00%) Legal
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Test Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) SFIA
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) APMG
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft