Data Protection Contracts in Leeds

Data Protection
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 46 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 14 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.42% 2.65% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.14% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 14
10th Percentile £375 £152 £199
25th Percentile £405 £164 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -17.05%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £534
90th Percentile £569 £569 £581
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.76 - -
Median hourly rate £33.11 - -
75th Percentile £34.46 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 523 605 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 90.33% 84.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 399 706
10th Percentile £299 £350 £355
25th Percentile £391 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £625 £650 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £22.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +59.63% -25.03% -7.50%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in Leeds

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
1 3 (21.43%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (7.14%) QlikView
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Health
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Business Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Floorwalker
3 1 (7.14%) Information Governance Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Information Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) IT Floorwalker
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) NetBackup Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
2 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (21.43%) Use Case
2 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
3 2 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 2 (14.29%) Kanban
3 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Time Management
3 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
2 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Veritas
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.14%) SAP