Data Privacy Contract Job Trends in London

Data Privacy (including Information Privacy)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Privacy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 323 313
Rank change year-on-year +96 -10 +144
Contract jobs citing Data Privacy 157 60 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.44% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 36 59
10th Percentile £374 £351 £400
25th Percentile £463 £447 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £507 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -11.91% -10.68%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £650
90th Percentile £850 £594 £775
England median daily rate £550 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +160.45% +4.76% +33.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Privacy 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Data Privacy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Privacy job vacancy trend in London

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Privacy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Privacy in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Privacy in London

Data Privacy
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Privacy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Privacy within the London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Central London +12 19 £738 +34.09% 11
West London - 11 £603 - 6
Data Privacy
England

Data Privacy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (6.37%) Apache
2 8 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.82%) Appian
3 6 (3.82%) Camunda
4 5 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.18%) Confluence
5 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.64%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.64%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.64%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.27%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.27%) SAP GTS
3 2 (1.27%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.27%) SAP SCM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP SRM
3 2 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.64%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.64%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.64%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.64%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (24.20%) Azure
2 30 (19.11%) AWS
3 24 (15.29%) GCP
4 20 (12.74%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.01%) GitHub
6 10 (6.37%) Collibra
7 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.82%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Figma
10 5 (3.18%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.18%) Serverless
11 4 (2.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.55%) SaaS
11 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.55%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (2.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.73%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
2 3 (1.91%) Network Security
3 2 (1.27%) LAN
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) 4G
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.64%) HTTP
4 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
4 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) WAN
4 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.74%) Power BI
2 10 (6.37%) BigQuery
3 9 (5.73%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.73%) Tableau
4 8 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.10%) Metadata
5 7 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (4.46%) Mixpanel
5 7 (4.46%) OLAP
5 7 (4.46%) OLTP
6 5 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.91%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.27%) Looker
8 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.27%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.64%) Big Data
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.64%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.55%) GitLab
2 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (1.27%) Charles Proxy
3 2 (1.27%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) Ant
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) Snyk
General
1 69 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.39%) Finance
3 29 (18.47%) Legal
4 24 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (12.74%) Marketing
6 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
7 12 (7.64%) Banking
8 8 (5.10%) Billing
9 6 (3.82%) Electronics
9 6 (3.82%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.82%) Law
9 6 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Retail
12 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Publishing
12 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (17.20%) Analyst
2 18 (11.46%) Senior
3 16 (10.19%) Business Analyst
3 16 (10.19%) Lead
4 13 (8.28%) Consultant
5 12 (7.64%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.37%) Architect
6 10 (6.37%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Product Manager
9 7 (4.46%) Designer
10 6 (3.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Solutions Designer
11 5 (3.18%) Data Manager
11 5 (3.18%) Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.28%) Kafka
2 8 (5.10%) LangChain
2 8 (5.10%) Node.js
2 8 (5.10%) PyTorch
2 8 (5.10%) TensorFlow
3 7 (4.46%) Great Expectations
3 7 (4.46%) React
3 7 (4.46%) REST
4 5 (3.18%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.18%) RESTful
5 4 (2.55%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.55%) HTML
5 4 (2.55%) NestJS
5 4 (2.55%) OAuth
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.91%) Faiss
6 3 (1.91%) Jest
6 3 (1.91%) Next.js
6 3 (1.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.46%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.46%) Social Media
5 6 (3.82%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.55%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.91%) Blog
8 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.91%) IoT
8 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.27%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.91%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.67%) Agile
2 49 (31.21%) AI
3 42 (26.75%) Data Governance
4 38 (24.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (23.57%) Analytics
6 32 (20.38%) Data Modelling
7 30 (19.11%) CI/CD
8 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (17.83%) Machine Learning
10 27 (17.20%) Data Protection
10 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (16.56%) DevOps
12 24 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (15.29%) LLM
13 23 (14.65%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (14.65%) Roadmaps
14 20 (12.74%) Validation
15 19 (12.10%) User Experience
16 18 (11.46%) CRM
16 18 (11.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.84%) Python
2 32 (20.38%) SQL
3 10 (6.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.73%) C#
5 7 (4.46%) Java
6 5 (3.18%) R
6 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.91%) C++
7 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Go
9 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.64%) Korn
9 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.83%) Degree
2 10 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.82%) CISM
4 6 (3.82%) CISSP
4 6 (3.82%) MCP
5 5 (3.18%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.18%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.18%) PMP
6 4 (2.55%) CISA
6 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) CCNA
7 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.27%) ACCA
8 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.27%) CCNP
8 2 (1.27%) CIMA
8 2 (1.27%) CRISC
8 2 (1.27%) OCA
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (54.14%) GDPR
2 25 (15.92%) Data Quality
3 16 (10.19%) Accessibility
3 16 (10.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 16 (10.19%) QA
4 11 (7.01%) NIST
5 10 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (4.46%) PERC
6 7 (4.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (3.18%) EU AI Act
8 4 (2.55%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.55%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.91%) IFRS
9 3 (1.91%) MiFID
10 2 (1.27%) GRC
10 2 (1.27%) GxP
10 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 2 (1.27%) WCAG
11 1 (0.64%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 9 (5.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Terraform
2 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (1.27%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.64%) EnCase
5 1 (0.64%) FTK
5 1 (0.64%) Grafana
5 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (13.38%) Google
2 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.83%) SAP
4 11 (7.01%) Databricks
4 11 (7.01%) OneTrust
5 6 (3.82%) Adobe
5 6 (3.82%) Oracle
5 6 (3.82%) Pega
5 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.18%) Informatica
6 5 (3.18%) Tealium
7 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.91%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) Workday
9 2 (1.27%) Apple
9 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.27%) Facebook
9 2 (1.27%) Foundry