Data Protection Act Contract Job Trends in London

Data Protection Act (DPA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Protection Act in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection Act over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 178 156
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Protection Act 314 175 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.42% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.97% 3.94% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 73 150
10th Percentile £212 £261 £217
25th Percentile £319 £356 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -11.43% -10.64%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £709 £687 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile £23.06 - -
25th Percentile £28.77 £28.21 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.87 £30.81 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% +10.65% -55.46%
75th Percentile £34.67 £33.40 £62.50
90th Percentile £37.12 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £27.75 £28.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.01% +2.98% -26.67%

All Generic Skills
London

Data Protection Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,319 4,441 5,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.49% 35.92% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,039 3,008 4,141
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £445 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 78 150
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.02 £17.64
Median hourly rate £34.62 £35.20 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +35.37% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.00 £50.31 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.11 £69.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £34.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +30.43% +7.43% +42.83%

Data Protection Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Protection Act job vacancy trend in London

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection Act in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection Act in London

Data Protection Act
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 Protection Act within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. 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
South London -9 6 £525 -
West London -24 2 £200 -41.18%
Central London -17 1 £613 +22.50% 1
Data Protection Act
England

Data Protection Act
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 7 (2.23%) Confluence
2 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.27%) SAS
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.64%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Drupal
5 2 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 37 (11.78%) Azure
2 32 (10.19%) AWS
3 17 (5.41%) Snowflake
4 14 (4.46%) GCP
5 11 (3.50%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.87%) SaaS
8 8 (2.55%) GitHub
9 7 (2.23%) Figma
10 5 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.59%) Serverless
11 4 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.27%) IaaS
11 4 (1.27%) PaaS
11 4 (1.27%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.78%) MPLS
2 12 (3.82%) Firewall
3 7 (2.23%) Network Security
4 6 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.59%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.59%) LAN
6 4 (1.27%) SDH
6 4 (1.27%) VLAN
6 4 (1.27%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.96%) VoIP
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.64%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.64%) SNMP
8 2 (0.64%) VPN
8 2 (0.64%) Wireless
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.18%) Power BI
2 9 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.55%) Metadata
3 8 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.91%) Tableau
6 5 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.27%) Pinecone
7 4 (1.27%) Weaviate
8 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.64%) Big Data
9 2 (0.64%) KDB
9 2 (0.64%) MySQL
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.01%) JIRA
2 11 (3.50%) SpecFlow
3 9 (2.87%) Git
4 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.64%) Gradle
5 2 (0.64%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.64%) JUnit
5 2 (0.64%) Maven
5 2 (0.64%) Postman
5 2 (0.64%) Storybook
6 1 (0.32%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) NUnit
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.32%) TestNG
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 84 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 81 (25.80%) Finance
3 47 (14.97%) Banking
4 28 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.60%) Front Office
6 16 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.18%) Marketing
7 10 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.23%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Legal
11 5 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.27%) Billing
13 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.96%) French Language
13 3 (0.96%) Publishing
13 3 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (13.06%) Analyst
2 39 (12.42%) Developer
3 36 (11.46%) Architect
4 31 (9.87%) Senior
5 27 (8.60%) Business Analyst
6 18 (5.73%) Lead
7 16 (5.10%) Consultant
7 16 (5.10%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.78%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.14%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.82%) Tester
11 11 (3.50%) Automation Tester
11 11 (3.50%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.23%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.23%) Python Developer
12 7 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (1.91%) Senior Manager
14 5 (1.59%) Data Analyst
14 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.46%) React
2 13 (4.14%) REST
3 11 (3.50%) Playwright
4 9 (2.87%) Spring
5 8 (2.55%) .NET
6 6 (1.91%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.91%) Kafka
6 6 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.91%) RESTful
6 6 (1.91%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.59%) JSON
7 5 (1.59%) Middleware
7 5 (1.59%) OAuth
7 5 (1.59%) Vue
8 4 (1.27%) HTML
8 4 (1.27%) XML
9 3 (0.96%) HTML5
9 3 (0.96%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (4.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.78%) Derivative
3 14 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.14%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.18%) Equities
6 10 (3.18%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.91%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (1.91%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.27%) BYOD
11 4 (1.27%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.50%) Windows
2 8 (2.55%) Android
2 8 (2.55%) Linux
3 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Rocky
5 1 (0.32%) Solaris
5 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 73 (23.25%) Agile
3 61 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 56 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (13.69%) AI
6 37 (11.78%) Analytics
6 37 (11.78%) Migration
7 31 (9.87%) Roadmaps
8 30 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (9.24%) DevOps
10 28 (8.92%) CI/CD
10 28 (8.92%) Test Automation
11 26 (8.28%) Decision-Making
11 26 (8.28%) Project Management
12 22 (7.01%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (6.37%) Validation
14 19 (6.05%) Project Delivery
14 19 (6.05%) Risk Management
15 17 (5.41%) Asset Management
15 17 (5.41%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.47%) Python
2 41 (13.06%) Java
3 40 (12.74%) SQL
4 23 (7.32%) C#
5 18 (5.73%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.18%) C++
8 6 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.27%) Bash
11 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.96%) Scala
12 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.96%) Degree
4 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.59%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.59%) PMP
6 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.64%) CCNP
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.32%) MCSA
9 1 (0.32%) MCSE
9 1 (0.32%) OCP
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.37%) QA
2 13 (4.14%) GDPR
3 9 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.55%) PMO
4 8 (2.55%) SLA
5 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.27%) NIST
7 3 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.96%) IFRS
7 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.64%) Basel III
8 2 (0.64%) GAAP
8 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.64%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 11 (3.50%) Docker
2 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.87%) Terraform
3 8 (2.55%) Ansible
4 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.96%) Grafana
6 2 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.64%) Control-M
6 2 (0.64%) Packer
6 2 (0.64%) QRadar
7 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.32%) SCCM
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.41%) Oracle
3 13 (4.14%) Cisco
4 12 (3.82%) Databricks
5 8 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.55%) Workday
6 7 (2.23%) ADVA
6 7 (2.23%) Nokia
7 6 (1.91%) Adobe
8 5 (1.59%) Citrix
8 5 (1.59%) Murex
8 5 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.27%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.27%) F5
9 4 (1.27%) Informatica
9 4 (1.27%) SAP
10 3 (0.96%) Aruba
10 3 (0.96%) Google
10 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.64%) Dynatrace