Data Protection Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Data Protection
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Data Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 12 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 6.00% 1.57% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 2.10% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £157 - £216
25th Percentile £264 £203 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £205 £238
Median % change year-on-year +79.88% -13.68% -68.33%
75th Percentile £438 £208 £247
90th Percentile £444 - £249
Merseyside median daily rate £338 £205 £238
% change year-on-year +64.63% -13.68% -68.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 143 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 90.00% 74.87% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 77 61
10th Percentile £134 £144 £220
25th Percentile £163 £165 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -18.42% -
75th Percentile £510 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £626 £638
Merseyside median daily rate £275 £400 £463
% change year-on-year -31.25% -13.51% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile - £12.65 £13.56
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.40 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.24 £19.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% +2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.40 £28.44
90th Percentile - £23.53 £45.80
Merseyside median hourly rate £30.95 £18.60 £18.75
% change year-on-year +66.43% -0.83% +6.78%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Data Protection job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Data Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in Liverpool over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in Liverpool

Data Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 4 (33.33%) Vertex AI
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Figma
4 1 (8.33%) Firebase
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Pinecone
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) LangChain
2 4 (33.33%) CrewAI
2 4 (33.33%) Streamlit
3 3 (25.00%) Gradio
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) Faiss
4 2 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 2 (16.67%) React
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) D3.js
5 1 (8.33%) Flask
5 1 (8.33%) Flutter
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) Material-UI
5 1 (8.33%) Next.js
5 1 (8.33%) Node.js
5 1 (8.33%) React Native
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (33.33%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (25.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (25.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) AI
1 5 (41.67%) Conversational UI
1 5 (41.67%) LLM
2 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 4 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
2 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 4 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
2 4 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (33.33%) Semantic Search
2 4 (33.33%) Use Case
2 4 (33.33%) User Experience
2 4 (33.33%) UX Design
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) API Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Netlify
2 1 (8.33%) OneTrust
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow